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Oh. I like how nobody is asking the obvious question.

About Bernard.

I expect they’ll get to that.

They changed the Silo 17 thing around a bit. I get why. In the books you were kinda left to work out the precise details of what actually happened out there right at the start. It was very heavily implied but never spelled out.

And I saw some people who read it and then completely missed the central point of WHY they were down there.

I suspect they’re gonna lay it on a bit more thickly here. Perhaps Troy will do some helpful exposition?

Assuming he works it out for himself. I assume he knows how the people sent out to clean die. No reason he wouldn’t.

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mild spoilers

Also I LOVE how much fan service/lamp shading there was in that ep;

“We could use a drone pilot” - TOO SOON

“Why would they need to kill a silo?”

The lift. Jesus Christ. If silo 1 found out about that … instant safeguard.

Bullet hole in very dangerous outside air mysteriously doesn’t kill when poor seals in the cleaning suits do.

I preferred the digger subplot in the book tho. The rationale worked much better.

Perfect end of season reveal would be switching to the “the voice”’s point of view as he utters those three words that he said to Lukas Kyle in the second book.

I think we’re gonna see the pez dispenser again.

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I had been taking it for granted that internal servers need IPv4 addresses.

But these days lots of them … don’t.

They just don’t.

Am increasingly experimenting with IPv6-only (as in no v4 capability at all), and it largely just works.

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There's a genuine trend of Big Pharma putting the Grouch'os mask onto amphetamine, hyping the result up as a next big thing that don't even "need" to be a controlled substance, getting a patent, and selling the "new" thing under a quickly invoked controlled substances regime for twenty more years. Methylphenidate is not one of these molecules. It was discovered in the 1940s, relatively independently from amphetamine chemistry, and was popularised as a medicine in its own right, in some parts even as an "ADD" medicine before amphetamine's usability for this became known. A classic story of a chemist making a molecule, trying it out on his wife, and naming it after her.
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FWIW, I'm pretty sure Elvanse's duration is dose-dependent. My last uptitration step was mostly to make sure that my evenings would be reliably covered when I take it in the morning.

AFAIU, its pharmacokinetic curve has three main components: the cleavage of the lysine dimesylate, which probably typically takes just one to two hours; the exponential decay curve of renal clearance after the amphetamine has become free in blood and gotten stocked up by the synapses, and some sort of effectiveness threshold. The exponential decay curve interacts with the effectiveness threshold in ways that are non-linear and can be non-intuitive to one who hasn't dabbled in calculus. But both components vary between people.

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This kind of sounds like your metabolism causes rapid swings, and the effectiveness threshold might be on the low side. Do you happen to know if taking, say, 30mg in the morning and 30mg in the aftrnoon, before the first dose runs out, might produce a friendlier curve in you?

Blood pressure of ADHD people going down on amphetamine is pretty common, AFAIK. The NT explanation is, it's because treating the ADHD reduces stress, but I kind of suspect that, at least in some forms of ADHD, the "paradoxical" effect of stimulants is directly applicable, kind of similarly to how RightHormones often directly improve a trans person's brain functions and happiness.

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@Riley S. Faelan Yeah. It's definitely not due to lower stress. I *HAVE* lower stress, but different stimulants affect me differently in terms of blood pressure.

Caffeine - mild effect on ADHD, blood pressure goes up.

Amphetamine - huge effect on ADHD, blood pressure goes "standing up is now FAFO"

Ephedrine - effect on ADHD comparable to caffeine. Blood pressure *craters*

That last one must utterly piss off anaesthetists.

I've tried splitting my Elvanse dose. It just weakens the first one and the second one does piss all. Elvanse 30 contains more dexamphetamine (eventually) than Amfexa 10 but the latter gives me 3 - 3 1/2 good hours and the former gives me 2 hours of "meh" (both after 70mg of Elvanse).

The whole "stimulants do the same in ADHD and non ADHD people once you account for the different baseline" thing is such obvious bullshit, brought to you by the same people responsible for such classics as "Only boys get this", "Only children get this", "This is never comorbid with autism", and, "emotional disregulation is not a symptom".

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The real answer to those people is, “It doesn’t matter what you think you can tell. If you make a high priority of ruining the lives of people who are just trying to live in peace, you’re a monster and a loser.”

The only person who has a right to ask about someone’s A_AB status is a potential sexual partner.

You’re quite pretty, too. But that’s not relevant to your (valid) point, or mine. Not that you should care about the opinion of J. Random Guy (of a similar age).

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Seeing Thurman take Daniel and Helen to see the construction site brings a whole new meaning to “the devil went down to Georgia”

Not sure what to make of the “billionaire secretly funds whole enterprise” thing. I guess it feels more in tune with our time but I liked the way it happened in the book: “we’re building a nuclear waste storage site. Nothing to see here. Just nuclear waste. Honest. It’s certainly not a ‘murdering the entire human race and chucking the survivors in 50 deep holes for 500 years thing’. Oh. Was that the out loud voice?”

I reckon I know what the end of S3 cliffhanger thingy is going to be. S1 and S2 departed from Wool quite a bit but S3 is taking Shift and completely scrambling it.

Wondering if Troy is going to give Mrs Simms the same line he gave Lukas Kyle in the book about how they all ended up down there?

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Possibly the biggest single hive of whining cunts on the Internet.

“Hello. I would like my partner to be someone else, but they aren’t, so I’m going to try and traumatise them into it”.

Have you considered the multiple benefits of “fucking off”?

reddit.com/r/ADHD_partners/

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com

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New gender neutral toilet just dropped. This one is a bit public. Still, some people are into that. bbc.com/news/articles/cdrvme6g…

UK's largest Harry Potter shop comes to London's Oxford Street

Warner Bros says the flagship store will be inspired by magical Diagon Alley and open on 4 November.
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The internet: Every part of the ephedra plant contains ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and methylephidrine which cause hypertension in humans and is therefore toxic.

Also the internet: Mormons harvested ephedra and made an infusion from it because they weren’t allowed caffeine. This is called Mormon tea.

Me: makes Mormon tea from harvested ephedra fragilis stems

Also me: hypertension. Good talk. Right.

My blood pressure is 97/65

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So scary. We went on a whale watch in Boston for school once.

Now whales (not sure if Orcas specifically) are dying along the US west coast (Wa, OR). They are starving.

I wonder if this is making them more aggressive in other areas too?

They can’t leave the water to get what they need after people who live on land have taken all they can from the water.

It’s very sad for all living things. 💕

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@mark They've changed quite a lot.

Irrelevant stuff is things like Daniel was called Donald in the books, and they gender swapped Senator Thurman

Seasons 1&2 had some significant departures. The entire Simms plot line isn't in there. They don't know about the digger void. And some other stuff.

But this season is MASSIVELY different from Shift (book 2). It kinda had to be because unless the change really is radical as all hell, there's a reveal they need to do which simply would not work if you can see the characters as it was written.

So I'm interested to know where they're going with it.

Oh, and the flashback 21st century story is MASSIVELY different in the book, although the nature of the threat is the same, more or less.

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Recent security patches from Apple and, I believe, others, have clamped down on accessing what are thought to be non local services on LAN, or something along those lines.

Which is utterly screwing my homeland stuff because it uses IPv6 and has globally routable addresses. Because it’s IPv6. And that’s how it works.

I have spent AGES trying to find the “bug” in my network config when there isn’t one.

Works if I access via Wireguard.

I am reduced to using a VPN to access my network. On my network.

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I have a bunch of docker containers running network services. Each one has a globally routable IPv6 address. They're behind a firewall so that's fine. It does mean I can refer to them by name rather than IP address though, without needing multicast DNS.

I have spent WEEKS wondering why my iPhone and Mac struggle to connect to them.

Apple is being "helpful" by trying to proxy non local sites to avoid trackers.

The proxy can't reach them.

Because they're on my LAN.

Which is behind a firewall.

I turned the tracker prevention off and Everything. Just. Worked.

RATFSCKERS!

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Silo (mild spoilers): clear why Apple TV changed the name of congressman Donald to Daniel.

Interesting that they gender swapped Thurman though. That means they’re gonna have to radically change the dynamics in Silo 1 because otherwise the conceit around Shift 3 doesn’t work. In the book it was readily believable. This time, “hey, wasn’t she supposed to be a she?” Is kinda hard to ignore.

Also I think they’ve made it bipartisan. In the book, every human left alive by the 26th century, which is about when it takes place, was descended from one US political party and the media.

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For the curious, the plant is the joint pine.

Species name Ephedra fragilis.

It contains the highest concentration of ephedrine of any ephedra species. It’s native to southern Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Ephedrine is also known as beta hydroxy methamphetamine.

It works quite well as a cold medicine. The “beta hydroxy” part stops it crossing the blood brain barrier too much.

So it’s not meth.

But take away one teensy little oxygen molecule (this is non trivial and doing so may cause your house to explode. Also it’s very very very naughty and big men with guns might get upset), and it suddenly gets a whole lot more interesting.

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Sure, @goatsarah. Small sailing boats are not a great target. As you described so wittily, this is teenagers fucking about.

I am just enjoying the ability of non-humans to exercise power. That is far too rare.

And I don't think that we humans are well-placed to complain about capricious disruption.

I wish you safe passage.

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They’ve also massively toned down the “Baby Nicole” subplot which seems like an interesting choice because that massively influences the inflection point in the book, where Lydia Clemens basically holds the fate of a continent in her hands depending on which of two paths she chooses.

The Judd subplot has been scaled back too. He was a MUCH bigger cunt in the book.

Unless they’re saving both of those for S2. Judd in the book struck me as much older, given his … proclivities (if you haven’t read it, he is a seriously nasty piece of work (no, worse) and a big part of what eventually influences Lydia’s choice is what he did to her in the stadium)

Daisy in the book knows much more than she does in the series at this point too.

She must suspect though. June is not exactly good at hiding it.

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