Wordless Wednesday: October 26th, 2022
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October 2022 archive
Just how many people did you intend on misting?
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If a project that you’re working on is as “above water” as you claim it is, you wouldn’t have to change the name of the project — all while changing nothing else, mind — once you know that people have well-founded concerns with the legality of the project. You also wouldn’t have to gloat that people who worked for the original project decades ago “were happy that you were bringing it back”, because everyone already knows that there has been random support of former employees of the original project since you were touting yours as a “passion project” meant to bring that one back… that, again, everyone thought was being done in a manner that was above water. (I’m not even going to get into the part about “we got invited to an employee party” or whatever, because not even I am drinking enough Kool-aid to make that believable.) Copyright violation is copyright violation. Theft of intellectual property is theft of intellectual property. If you’re making money off of it, which you are via Patreon and have had a previous developer admit to — that the Patreon account actually funds the developers rather than what it was publicly stated to have been developed, which was the project’s server — you can’t claim application of fair use laws, and you can’t claim abandonware on a project that currently has a current version out, which this one actually does (2022 on).
The only good thing to come from all of this is that discussing it with various other streamers caused them to come to the same conclusion (not abandonware, not applicable use of fair use laws, not even actual use of fair use laws, would not be a good idea to continue to be a part of), which is one reason why I bailed from it.
Music Monday: October 24th, 2022
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Triangle Sun is one of the few bands that sound exactly the same live as they do in the studio. I love it.
I told you all that I would get around to these posts…
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Most people do this the other way — they claim that kratom (why did WordPress try to auto-correct this to tomato? why?) is less safe to take than phenibut, and they attempt to sell people on how much safer they think phenibut is. But that isn’t something that I do, nor is it something that I will ever do. Continue reading.
I will never recommend phenibut to anyone for any reason. It has shown up on people’s death certificates as the primary cause of death — phenibut toxicity, or polypharmacy with phenibut as the primary contributor — cascading from there, but phenibut is the primary problem in these cases and has been the primary cause of death. For those of you who don’t know what phenibut is, it is a nootropic that is currently legal in all states in the United States (where I live) and is commonly taken for anxiety, depression, and in some instances insomnia to help people sleep. Although many people claim that phenibut is well-tolerated, it is a full agonist of the GABA-B receptor — this means that it crosses the blood-brain barrier — and tolerance is very easily developed to this drug, meaning that people inadvertently add more to whatever dose it is that they are taking, and this quickly has the potential to become dangerous. People can add one pill to their regimen and swiftly pass out, go into a coma, and then die. All of this can happen over taking one more pill.
Some people also have seizures before they get to the point where they enter a coma and… you know.
I’m actually surprised that more research hasn’t been done into this by the FDA and that more movement hasn’t been made to schedule phenibut. When I get to writing about kratom in here this is probably going to make sense to more of you, but the heightened risks in comparison to almost everything that I could and more than likely would write about in here coupled with the failure to even take interest in phenibut (other countries have) continues to boggle my mind. Sadly it might take more deaths to get the States’ attention.
This is what I got for my European heritage!
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I wish I had the foresight to make the screenshots the same size when I took them, but one of the few pitfalls about the Genomelink site is the ease at which these were… not, to screenshot. However, at least my blog lets me shrink them down to size to make posting about them easier… I’m thankful for that. (And this gives me another chance to play the game of “laugh at the British heritage that I have little to none of, because I am primarily Scandinavian and that is very likely Scottish and Welsh heritage lumped into the British percentile. Multiple other tests that I have done have not picked up detectable British DNA, and of all things, GEDmatch did not pick up British DNA in my ancestry. I could write a completely separate post on “the British thing” that some ancestry apps and websites… do, but I have other posts that I want to write when my migraines consistently recede even just a bit, so I will get to that in due time. All in due time, my friends.)
These posts will be fun to come back to and make when my migraines are even a bit more under control!