Anecdotally, my cats meow at me a lot. But they're my cats (others live in the house and help care for them). I also meow back more than anyone else. In fact, I might be the only one to do so. :)
I used to meow back to my cat when he was younger for vocal modulation and pitch practice (lots of minor seconds and perfect fourths). This might have been a mistake as he's now very talkative, particularly when I'm on the phone.
Anything to avoid stricter gun legislation. This type of incident will be considered an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice despite how dystopian it really is.
How do you pay with PayPal if not putting in your credit card or bank details? link is a pretty well-known online wallet and much simpler to use than PayPal.
I've never heard of link, so it's the difference between a random website and a well established brand. Not that hard to understand why someone might be hesitant to put in their cc details.
My grandpa (father's father) grew up in Rochester and that was the first time I visited New York for a family reunion, way back in the early aughts. Kodak was the major employer in town then; he and practically everyone he knew either worked there, had dealings with them in some form, or knew many others who did. When we went, I had the pleasure of touring the place and hearing plenty of stories from my gramps and our family. Good times.
This was envisioned by the movie Interstellar where the opening scene shows them chasing an old autonomous Indian Air Force drone that had been flying for years, ostensibly after that agency ceased to exist. I'm sure it's been in other media as well but that's what comes to mind here.
Anyway, it should be interesting to see where this goes in the future.
I am still skeptical it would work out for regular aircraft due to all the moving mechanical parts, not o mention battery charge cycles for night flying.
But I could definitely see it working for autonomous underwater drones that glide in the water, going up and down by changing their density. Few simple mechanical parts & some project already demonstrated very long endurance.
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I’m probably hugely oversimplifying here but let’s say you attach the electric motor directly to the prop, perhaps with some minor gearing, then what’s left in terms of moving parts? Some rudders, right?
Usually prop is directly attached to electric motor. If it's a flying wing then mechanical part is literally motor plus to ailerons. With little efforts thing cam be made hard to destroy even intentionally with heavy machine gun.
I think capacitors would be heavier, they have less energy density than batteries. They have high power density and they last more cycles, but for a given number of watt-hours they'd be bigger and heavier
Only sort of related, but I'm almost completely unable to smoke anymore. I used to smoke heavily in my early 20s (33 now). Now if I take more than one hit of anything, I'm liable to have an anxiety/panic attack. I can hardly move and I get these awful chills. The way it's consumed hardly matters; even with edibles, I can only have 1-2mg. I've ceased entirely and I don't regret it at all.
I'm sure there are at least a couple of other causes (genetics, early life diet), but I think it did worsen some hormonal imbalance issues I've had too.
Its been my observation that most moderate to heavy users have similar reactions eventually - myself included. I gave it up for years. Eventually, I found my way back and was determined to get through the anxiety/unpleasantness. What worked for me was starting back slow (2.5 mg of edibles) and working my way up from there.
Some times it was great, sometimes I could feel the anxiety/panic attack coming. In cases where the latter happened, I would really try to focus on why it was happening and what feelings I was having (mentally/physically). At a low dose, it was much easier to sort out the "who, what, when, where, why" of why the experience turned negative. I started recognizing the onset of the negative experience and learned to simply 'ride the wave' past it. And so I learned a big part of that was the expectation that it was going to be bad and everything that came with it. It became self fulfilling. As soon as I made those internal connections, it's been amazing. The only problems I have now are tolerance related :)
Any way, if you enjoyed it in the past, I'd encourage you to try it again at some point, but start with very small doses and work your way up.
From what I've seen, worrying about reactions and resisting the effect, for whatever reasons; which makes you see exactly what you expect and experience the effects stronger.
Like many here, I finally managed to fix that by leaning into it for a while, which wasn't always pleasant, but fixing internal issues is rarely pleasant. For me it was a lot about letting go of fear, which is always a good thing.
I also went back to it over the years because I wanted to "beat it" and I think there is truth to what you're saying. The biggest help I got that seemed to work was a reddit comment that said the best way to fight the anxiety was essentially to not be scared if it and egg the panic on.
Start feeling panicky? Come Your heart is racing? Ok Go head and beat faster fucker.
my solution has been somewhat similar... i only smoke once a week.
in my experience, weed 'flips the world' so that 'stuff' is no longer 'shut out'.
if you've lots of issues you'd rather not deal with, you're probably in for a bad time... depends a lot of course - where are you, how you feeling, who you with, do you trust them, the weed itself,
to me the experience is like a waking dream, where a very raw version of you comes out...
but that only works if you take massive breaks (1+week?) in between. give time for the 'stuff' to build up again.
excellent for meditative activities, but incredibly difficult from a self control perspective
had a six month period where i was pretty much a zombie. i call it my time in hell...
i know another guy that got admitted to a mental institution... and seen plenty of people 'stuck in their own heads' - talking to themselves, blabbering about things nobody understands but them...
Whoa, you and the other commenter are the only ones I've ever met who even remotely relate to this though (I've never bothered searching it out on the net). That's actually kind of a relief. For me it also coincided with just higher anxiety in general so I'm not really sure which came first.
If you search "weed panic attack" its all over the place.
I wondered what happened to me for a while and I tried different strains/methods but it was all the same. The only thing I can think of this seemed to have started after a semi bad experience with MDMA and weed.
