Expert Daddy Pig

Software Engineer, Husband, and Father. A bit of an expert at this and that. I like light bulbs a lot. Will block you if you’re a lotta bit racist.

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Thought I’d share with anyone who cares to listen. Normally I just say dumb stuff but this is important and if you have seasonal depression you should take note. Don’t let it destroy your life. If you work from home, and even if you don’t, it’s a simple fix, coworkers might make fun of you on camera, but boy is it worth it.

It wasn’t until the day I had a huge freakout, crying and feeling something was DEEPLY WRONG, I got into my car and turned off my phone, and decided I’d fly to Miami because I desperately needed the sun, that it clicked I needed to do something about this. I didn’t fly to Miami that day, thank God, but people don’t realize just how bad this can get.

I had severe anxiety and depression from SAD, I wondered for years why I’d have mental breakdowns which happened to coincide with college finals unfortunately, it wasn’t until I got a career and married and it didn’t go away despite life being good that I realized it was something going on. I just assumed it was test anxiety or something. The default is to assume it’s something external when you’re feeling that way. It isn’t necessarily true!

But I’m telling you, and please actually listen, it’s the intensity of light, don’t worry about all this spectrum stuff. Aim for 10,000 lux (which is just a function of lumens in the cubic meters of your space). Just buy some LED 7-way splitters and buy 200w equivalent LED bulbs. Like 28 of them. Then I bought two LED corn bulbs (actually use 200W but have an insane light output. Then plug all this in, in a 10x10 room it gives me about that magic 10,000 lux light level.

You can download free apps on you phone that calculate lux. Midday summer is 100,000 lux.

I’ve since moved my office and so I spend maybe 5 minutes in this room every day in the morning, and even that is sufficient to keep me sane.

This totally changed my life. It looks goofy but I’m serious. I just thought I was a literal psycho and these problems have totally gone away. I haven’t experienced any seasonal depression since I bought these lights.

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as we enter the winter months, remember that seasonal depression is a choice, and you can choose not to have it by going to tractor supply, where they sell heat bulbs intended for chickens that have basically the same spectrum light as a red light therapy bulb for 10 bucks

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@eigenrobot This vaguely calls to mind a bizarre fictional account/copypasta of a liberal man hooking up with Ann Coulter that was kicking around the internet about a liberal man sodomizing Ann Coulter and she was really into arguing with him and calling him stupid. It's googleable I guess

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@owenbroadcast @FrailSkeleton @writriverdale I made escargot as part of a French class assignment. The kids dared each other to try it, so it all got eaten. It's... okay? Mostly tastes like butter and garlic. I thought maybe I'd cooked it wrong and got some at a fancy French restaurant as an adult. Nope, it's just weird lol

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@Gingerblast Honestly most anime is super cringe and for kids. The stuff for adults is sort of middle brow sophomoric philosophy that gets a bit tiresome. Okay except the United States of Smash that makes me cry every time lol then I feel stupid afterward

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@cryptoklotz It was an absolute miserable clusterfuck and if I'd waited any longer my nose would have collapsed into itself because of the mass wearing away at my bone.

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@cryptoklotz I needed a procedure because I had an inflamed extra tooth in my gums that was hurting and getting worse. Dentist said "you need $700 procedure (totally unrelated)". Finally found dentists,
dentist - $1300
maxillofacial surgeon - $5000
Insurance covered the $5000 so I chose that

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@salingergregor @allie__voss Imagine having to get a building permit to put something in your window, wild.

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@interactiveGTS @GreenTextRepost I think it's agreeableness and a certain naivety. I grew up with a lot of Mormons and they can be intelligent people but especially "trace my genealogy to founding Mormons" tend to have an intense, unquestioning naivety, in lots of things, but especially toward their church.

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@Michael_E_Lopez @IMAO_ I probably read this book 50 times as a kid, and actually played it with my friends maybe twice.

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@onebigorangecom @allie__voss Nassim Taleb has written about this. You want a doctor who looks like a butcher because that indicates he didn't get there by playing the social game. The kind of person other doctors say "he's weird, but damn he's good at his job".

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@kitten_beloved A man screws around, steals the power of creation from a goddess then the goddess goes mad with rage? Yeah, this is one of the oldest stories ever. My wife cries every time. It's about the damage divorce and absent happy fathers do to a family/society. It's all right there.

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@CohenJessiae @CartoonsHateHer

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@omgitsOwlGirl @DolphinMossad And we made the US locust broods extinct, likely by farming the great salt lake flats and kicking up all of their larvae. There used to be huge locust swarms in the USA!

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@Moses1150599 @Press_X_Fool @Zona_G1 Insurance generally pays for a new one every 5 years or so, I think? So you end up with several.

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@PompeyTrogue @BIMBOSATTVA_ Nah gotta say "yous guys" like you're an 80 year old retired guy from the Bronx pulling a fat pension.

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@IterIntellectus When our firstborn was little we coslept and my wife said "wow it's amazing, I sleep through the night, she never asks for food!" and I said "no honey, the baby fusses a little bit, you roll over and pop your titty in her mouth and don't even wake up" 😂

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@sterlingcrispin Dang I make more than twice that and I just work on my computer at home.

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@DustinDreher2 @varrock That's why you should use Cybercab instead

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@Howlingmutant0 Am I having a stroke or are you having a stroke @Howlingmutant0

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@webdevMason I can hear the noise but I don't think it really blocks out the noise? Does it block out the noise for you? I just hear like a spasming rumble.

One of those things like how some people can fold their tongue, or how I have to plug my tear ducts when doing the Valsalva maneuver.

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@politicalmath Especially with AI, in my job as a dev the AI augments the good devs, it's a force multiplier. So a good dev becomes more effective. But if you multiply a negative, well...

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@politicalmath I'd much rather cut one mediocre employee and have a good employee work 40h a week.