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What are the biggest insanity-makers in our society?
  • Idk what your society or definition of "insanity" is but assuming you're asking what we believe most commonly leads to one's mental health entering a negative feedback loop:

    Broadly speaking it's some form of hopeless desperation (yes, the hopeless qualifier matters here) that commonly kicks into high gear after falling into homelessness, at least based on my own observations

    Some also get to play on hard mode simply for winning the genetic and/or socio-economic anti-lottery

  • Biggest Lie
  • If the other comments knew the details, the response would be terror not annoyance:

    Management types in smaller, growing businesses are shockingly susceptible to the promise of "cleaning things up" by making everything a "Microsoft shop", even when that means transferring data and control to Azure (competitors also try but MSFT almost always wins)

    They're happy, they own nothing and they don't even know it

    Note: this is largely referring to corporate accounts

  • World military expenditure over the past decades, inflation-adjusted
  • I agree in spirit but a CPI applied to military expenditure would be adjusting for prices of irrelevant items and could become very skewed at such large scales

    Admittedly I don't know have a better idea either so... Guess I'm hoping somebody smarter than me can chime in

  • Not everything needs to be Art
  • We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.

    Joseph Fink, Alice Isn't Dead

  • Hurricane Katrina vs. Hurricane Helene
  • Not sure what the science is between 2 images with no source or timestamp and nearly 20 years of technological improvement between them is but this isn't the peak of Katrina

    Katrina ultimately reached its peak strength as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale on August 28. Its maximum sustained winds reached 175 mph (280 km/h) and its pressure fell to 902 mbar (hPa; 26.63 inHg), ranking it among the strongest ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico.

    It probably refers to its stats at landfall

    Katrina weakened to a Category 3 before making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast, first in southeast Louisiana (sustained winds: 125mph) and then made landfall once more along the Mississippi Gulf Coast (sustained winds: 120mph). Katrina finally weakened below hurricane intensity late on August 29th over east central Mississippi.

    But power doesn't equal damage for weather

    [Katrina] is the costliest hurricane to ever hit the United States, surpassing the record previously held by Hurricane Andrew from 1992. In addition, Katrina is one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States

    Sources:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Katrina

    https://www.weather.gov/mob/katrina

  • [SOLVED] Any luck/experience contributing more bike-friendly roads to Google Maps

    I thought this would be dead simple but trying to label a road as "bike-friendly" isn't as intuitive as one would hope (am I "adding" a road even though it's technically there or reporting "wrong info" piece by piece?)

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    Made this PRAW script to ensure my Reddit data is cleared before deactivating. I sure hope a bunch of people don't run it during the last few days of free API access...

    You'll need to update the praw.Reddit() parameters and set booleans to True based on what you want to have cleared.

    This also overwrites your comments with nonsense content seeing as Reddit doesn't really delete your comments if nobody forces them

    Sorry about the amateurish Python, this isn't my go-to language

    ``` import praw

    #Update all values set to XXXXXX and set boolean values to True for whatever you'd like to clear

    reddit = praw.Reddit( client_id="XXXXXX", client_secret="XXXXXX", user_agent="script running locally", #required for PRAW but not sure content matters username="XXXXXX", password="XXXXXX" )

    #booleans delete_posts = False delete_comments = False delete_saved = False clear_votes = False unsubscribe = False

    def get_posts(): return reddit.user.me().submissions.new(limit=100)

    def get_comments(): return reddit.user.me().comments.new(limit=100)

    def get_subscriptions(): return reddit.user.subreddits()

    def get_saved_items(): return reddit.user.me().saved(limit=100)

    def get_upvoted(): return reddit.user.me().upvoted(limit=100)

    def get_downvoted(): return reddit.user.me().downvoted(limit=100)

    while(clear_votes): count = 0 upvotes = get_upvoted() downvotes = get_downvoted() for vote in upvotes: try: vote.clear_vote() count += 1 print('Clearing vote for: ', vote) except Exception as e: print('Could not clear vote due to: ', e, '(this is normal for archived posts)') continue for vote in downvotes: try: vote.clear_vote() count += 1 print('Clearing vote for: ', vote) except Exception as e: print('Could not clear vote due to: ', e, '(this is normal for archived posts)') continue if(count == 0): clear_votes = False

    while(delete_saved): count = 0 saved_items = get_saved_items() for item in saved_items: item.unsave() count += 1 print('Unsaved item ID: ', item) if(count == 0): delete_saved = False

    while(delete_posts): count = 0 posts = get_posts() for post in posts: print("Deleting submission: ", post) post.delete() count += 1 if(count == 0): delete_posts = False

    #Replace comments with nonsense data first as Reddit only "marks comments as" deleted while(delete_comments): count = 0 comments = reddit.user.me().comments.new(limit=1000) print("Replacing comments with nonsense data") for comment in comments: comment.edit('So long and thanks for all the fish') print("Deleting comments") for comment in comments: comment.delete() count+=1 if (count == 0): delete_comments = False

    while(unsubscribe): count = 0 subscriptions = get_subscriptions() for subreddit in subscriptions: subreddit.unsubscribe() count += 1 print('Unsubscribed from: ', subreddit.display_name) if (count == 0): unsubscribe = False

    print('--finished--') ```

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