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Time Cube

Years ago my buddy sent this guy an email under the pseudonym Temporal Phoenix, warning him of all kinds of mysterious conspiracies. Things "they" didn't want him to release to the public.

His warning made it on to the page!

I wonder if I can find an archive of it in the way back or something

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Listen to the old man

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Cool smoke can hit better, but counterintuitively, not when it is cooled through the filtration medium (water).

The biggest reason is condensation. Think about a can drink sitting out in the hot weather, and how water collects on the outside. When something very cold touches something very hot, the moisture condenses.

A very similar process happens when you filter the smoke, it passes through cold water, which condenses the humidity out of it as well as a lot of extra THC that you don't want to condense in the water.

So you end up with a relatively dry hit, that is kind of scorching to the lungs in that strange way. Because you've got incredibly dry cool air now hitting warm moist lungs and the condensation happens the other direction! Moisture from your lungs is robbed into the smoke that you just inhaled.

As weird as it sounds, the easiest way to experience this is to notice the difference between a hot filter and a cold filter, when you have a little bit of a chest cold. You'll be able to see just how much extra your lungs freak out when you take a cold hit.

All of this being said, clean bongs regularly and do not allow bacterial growth to form. Since I'm dropping three decades of stoner knowledge here, another tip is to use acetone instead of the commercial cleaners. One tablespoon of acetone beats everything. So it does a much better job than the over-the-counter cleaners, it's way cheaper, and it's a safe solvent.

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Microsoft CEO resorts to blogging in defense of AI

One of my co-workers uses her chatgpt as the go-to for everything.

She's doing a masters in psych, all of her assignments are written by the thing, and she was just telling me that there's a 3 second submit-to-recieve-grade window. Meaning.... nobody even reads the papers, composed by one dumb robot, fed into a second dumb robot that pukes out a grade.

Yeah.

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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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I'm in agreement with this, I'm mostly a content thief, because my use is so extremely limited it simply cannot justify paying any even more than a dollar for any service.

But when it comes to youtube, I get most of my scientific education there, all of the developments in astrophysics and sciences are there. I think I'd go bonkers without it, and yeah, I am not going to be watching no motherfucking ads.

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42 years ago, this was state of the art copy protection

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The inks used couldn't be faithfully scanned/replicated. So even color copiers were useless.

My father had a friend from his childhood who ended up owning a graphic design studio, and sometimes he would have to have these replicated using classic photography.

When I think back, we jumped through a lot of hoops to get a free game when we could have just spent a couple dollars lol