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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • I’m not a neurologist either, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but it seems that I’ve gone a bit deeper on the rabbit hole.

    AFAIK, “brain processing” seems to be mostly signal propagation. Our brains don’t work anything like the neural networks we use, but it seems to work like some kind of neural network, and “processing” being made by moving signals from one place to another is part of it.

    The one effect of sleep that I know of is exactly the kind of “environmental cleanup” necessary to make the electrical signals move faster. Now, there are certainly lots of other effects I don’t know of, and for all I know the speed could actually be bounded and all that sleep does is to keep it at the boundary. Also, “tired” is a very ambiguous word here. But still, I’d expect it to be important.





  • A long time ago the Japanese government decided that the entire country producing only one kind of food is bonkers, and started forcing farmers to diversify.

    Jump to a handful of decades later, and the diversification effort was kept every ear, with people complaining that they can’t keep it forever, and the government claiming that it never caused any problem. Repeat that again and again, and well, finally it has caused some problem.


  • The police, persecution and two independent levels of the Judiciary found him to be the central player on the Petrobras scandal that you talked about (and either way, it was created while he was the president). He was the central player on the scandal of car companies paying him (personally) to avoid paying taxes. He inherited the position of central player on the scandal of construction companies paying bribes.

    There were dozens of other crimes. He was right on the middle in most of them. Including the one where he used taxpayer money to bribe representatives and senators.

    Cut the bullshit.