Found the Kerbal.

I’m quite certain these are completely separate times and places, how the hell has someone tried this more than once?

“Better living through chemistry!”, I call it.

That’s the “special application” I mentioned, but it seems to have been updated since I last looked at it so it now offers the same level of encryption as the webmail app.

I would prefer to see it freely available, but it doesn’t seem foundational to using the service in any scenario - free accounts have the webmail and mobile clients, which are arguably both more flexible (and maintainable) than the Bridge.

Thunderbird doesn’t have your private key to decrypt your Proton emails. The key lives in your browser and in theory there’s no way to securely provide that key to Thunderbird so it can do the decrypting. There’s a special application they built for business owners who want this functionality, but by nature it breaks Proton’s security because the email content is then stored in plaintext (or close enough) so it’s not “secure” in the same sense Proton webmail is.

When adenosine builds up in the brain, the only way for the brain to get rid of the accumulation of it is by sleeping

Incorrect, the body reuptakes adenosine readily as part of the respiratory cycle. In the absence of external administration, it is physically impossible to build up so much adenosine that it can kill you precisely because it is so readily downregulated to inosine by ADK, or upregulated to AMP and ATP through phosphorylation.

You might be thinking of other toxic substances that build up as part of respiration; some of those like amyloid beta plaques (once thought to play a role in Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases, but maybe not) are only cleared by the glymphatic system.

I recommend reading the last paragraph of your article again, as it doesn’t actually say adenosine is responsible. It just says that adenosine makes you sleepy, and sleeping helps clear toxic buildup from the brain via the glymphatic system (which is true). The wording is just bad and implies adenosine is one of those toxic substances.

Adenosine is not a “waste product of neurons” in the sense it’s being painted. It’s a byproduct of energy production in all our cells, and what it does depends on the derivative - for example adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is used by the mitochondria in our cells for energy production! It then degrades into adenosine monophosphate (AMP) and from there into the CNS-depressing adenosine (or, it can be upregulated back “up the chain” by adding another phosphor to it).

As plain adenosine it can depress the central nervous system, resulting in feeling sleepy, slowing heart rate, etc, but adenosine levels are regulated closely by the body and the idea they can “build up until we die” due to lack of sleep is patently ridiculous. This article is a gross oversimplification that demonises a critical compound for no reason.

This article covers the detrimental results of adenosine overproduction in the body: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6398520/

While Wikipedia describes the compound more generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine

I’ve never been in a cult so I couldn’t say for sure, but that sounds reasonable. Post updated 🙌

Can people choose to have beliefs?

Yes, I’d say most beliefs are chosen. Just because you wouldn’t find a gun a convincing argument doesn’t mean you can’t choose to believe in the FSM (may you be blessed by his noodley appendages). You’d just have to work at it a bit, find evidence to support your views, and ignore any and all evidence counter to your views.

Yikes. I’m so sorry you grew up with that. I’m sorry you lost your brother. I hope you’re doing alright now. You said it only happened when she drank; I’m glad she stopped, and I hope she’s okay now too ♥️

I miss that man. He was an absolute legend.

There are more varieties of cleansers in heaven and earth, kruhmaster, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

(Soaps come in all different kinds, you can’t reliably tell by appearance in the container alone what any given product is, and as well human perception is flawed so it’s entirely possible to not notice something like this if you’re not looking too closely)

I really hope you think it through more deeply, because I don’t know why your opinion on mass murder in cold blood is “yeah but if I can get something in return then it’s cool”.

Where did I say that?

Right here:

I don’t want to be around a Nazi, but I also won’t inherently be against it. I’d rather be friends with a Nazi who’s fun to talk to over a sane person who is boring to talk to.

First, you think being boring is worse than being a Nazi. What the fuck is up with that?

Secondly, “Work with” covers a lot, and I do mean all of it. Work with them to advance their agenda when they’re in government, work to be friends with them and normalise their views, it doesn’t matter how you work with them. So I’m done. You’re a fucking Nazi, just not the kind you’re thinking of. You’re the everyday Nazi, who sat there in Germany and shrugged as people were starved and beaten and gassed. That’s exactly what I’ve been highlighting for you this whole time, and you just came out and said it 👍

Edit: blocked and also get fucked.

The response isn’t “eh”. The response is disagreement.

No, anything less than “that’s fucked up and fuck you for as long as you believe that” isn’t disagreement, it’s disinterest. You’re looking at views as just abstract paintings someone hangs on their wall; they’re not, a person’s views inform the way they act. Most beliefs you’re absolutely fine to say “no I don’t like that one” and not look at it, but keep hanging out at the house.

The painting in this case is the gas chambers, it’s the people making lists of of other people for Nazis to kill, it’s the public beatings and total lack of freedom and justice for all. It’s not a painting of those things, these beliefs are those things. It’s not abstract at all, and it’s not compatible with how free and open cultures work at a fundamental level.

I absolutely hate the term social contract.

Why? It accurately describes what society is.

So that you aren’t around a Nazi, dude. Normal people don’t want to be around Nazis. Their beliefs are abhorrent. “Abhorrent” means “So horrible I cannot stand even the thought of it”. From everything you’ve been saying though, you don’t find their beliefs abhorrent, just uncomfortable. I really hope you think it through more deeply, because I don’t know why your opinion on mass murder in cold blood is “yeah but if I can get something in return then it’s cool”.

That’s what “work with” these people means. You have to compromise at some point to work with people, and Nazis won’t compromise on the mass murder, so that means you’ll have to.

Of course we would judge them, because they’re happily talking to a Nazi. How can you exchange the time of day with someone who would happily sit there and murder thousands of innocent people in cold blood?

“Hello yes my job is gas chamber operator”

“oh, ok. Did you see the ball game?”

^ literally everyone who’s saying it’s fine to work with Nazis. Is it really so difficult to see what’s wrong with that scene?

Fascism is not Nazism, but Nazism is a flavour of fascism.

I do understand what you mean and historically you’re absolutely right, it has always devolved into fascism. I don’t think you can name a system of government that hasn’t either started there or ended up there. But that was a process, capitalism isn’t written that way on paper at all. The tenets don’t line up. Like how communism in practice has very little to do with fascism (the managed economy bits often look similar on paper, though).

Yes, that is the core of the disagreement. You can always find someone to work with who doesn’t believe those things; otherwise you have to say “they’re fine except for this”. But they’re not fine except for that when “that” is “I don’t believe autistic people should exist so we should kill them all”. I guess to put it in an easy to digest sentence: Believing Nazi things is what makes someone a Nazi.

If someone comes around, then great. But we cannot allow “eh” to be the response to “those people who have done nothing wrong should die”. That’s your response when you work with Nazis, whether you’ll admit it to yourself or not. Because you will excuse that core tenet of their views, and I don’t think that’s reasonable.

The social contract has rules that say we can’t kill each other. Nazism does not respect that, so adherents of Nazism do not respect that, so they do not adhere to the social contract, thus they are not covered by it.

At the end of the day bud you’re here saying it’s okay to work with Nazis. It isn’t, period dot and end of story. Fix your ethics.

Capitalism has nothing to do with Nazism. If you find a capitalist throwing a sieg heil, they’re a Nazi. If you find a Buddhist or a Marxist or a Christian or literally anyone working with people who throw sieg heils, they’re a Nazi. If you (the general you, not you specifically) find yourself continuing to voice support for a president who didn’t immediately get rid of Musk after he sieg heil’d on TV TWICE, you’re a fuckin Nazi.

Nobody should have to tell you this.

I don’t concern myself with the opinions of Nazis or Nazi collaborators. Get fucked.