I have this. When it first started I thought there were like secret gang wars going on in my apartment complex. I would wake up hearing a BANG. I called 911 a couple of time even thinking it was gunshots, but they police said no one else heard anything. I started asking my neighbors if they had heard it too. That's when I started to realize that I was hearing things. I talked to my doctor and that's when I learned about exploding head syndrome.
I've noticed my brain tries to instantly construct a story to account for the noise, like someone is kicking in the front door, gunshots outside etc. I think the order of thoughts / senses while in that half-asleep state is fluid enough that my brain manages to make it all feel like it happened in the order it would if real. I've got up to answer the door more times than I care to remember.
I bought the original kickstarter version of the oculus. I was very excited about the whole VR thing taking off. Ultimately though it was a very nauseating experience. It got so bad that the smell of the headset's cushion was enough to trigger nausea without even putting it on my face. I've heard the newer stuff is less nauseating but I don't want to know.
People like James Randi would have claimed they lived in the mad times. I think it's hard to judge whether it actually is better or worse now. If you're on social media, it's definitely possible to perceive that it's obviously worse now...but that's a function of yours and the social media company's actions in terms of what shows up in one's feed, not necessarily of reality.
You know what else bothers me. If I hover over a thumbnail for a video, that now counts as a view and gets added to my history. Clogging up my feed with more algorithmic horseshit I don't want to watch. I'm thinking of just using nebula because I mostly watch science videos and I'm tired of the algo inserting shit I'm not the least bit interested in.
Just scrolling the frontpage on youtube mobile adds stuff randomly to your watch history, it seems to count anything you linger on - however briefly - as a 'watch'
Needless to say ten minutes of absentmindedly scrolling ruins your suggested results for a long time
I find I have to end up searching though time in order to get the results I want. Especially as a developer. A bug that has the same error 8 years ago may not be the same bug now. So I tell google to only show results for the last year and tada I get what I want. Usually.
There are numerous ways to look at safety here. All else being equal, non-nuclear-weapon states wishing to arm with nuclear weapons would hate a total ban on nuclear energy, due to dual-use mining acting as a cover for their arms development.
Is that a sufficient justification for actually imposing such a ban? I personally don’t think so, but reasonable people can disagree on that.
El Nino has a lot to do with snow pack. I don't know where you are at but from the Vail Basin to Keystone that usually means less snow. Anecdotally of course, that is just my own experience over the last 30 years of skiing here in CO.
