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Sonus Complete is a scam. #notpayingforAdobePhotoshoop or any other SAAS garbage.

 

[Kain]

 

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How do you obtain disability based on severe tinnitus? Even in Socialist Canada, you get denied. If a psychiatrist, therapist or psychologist can help - how?

You don't get disability for tinnitus, chronic pain or any amount of physical suffering. But you will eventually get disability if you act like a mentally ill fucktard. When applying for disability do not bother talking about tinnitus severity, chronic pain or whatever else health problems. Instead talk about dinosaurs, anime, free and open source software.

SSI Receptionist : Can you Explain why you are applying for disability, it says on your record tinnitus and hyperacusis/pain from sound? What is that.

Me (interrupting her) : Yeah I got ear problems and they suck and make me cry at night. Did you know that in the Mongolian desert scientist in the field of paleontology unearthed a toothless beaked Dinosaur called Oviraptor. The name translates to "Egg Thief" because in the 1920's it was found sitting in front of eggs. Scientist then assumed it was stealing eggs of another dinosaur called Protoceratops. However by the turn of the 1990's and early 2000's it was discovered that those eggs were Oviraptor's own eggs and she was a mom. Later other specimens were found sitting on their eggs with arms stretched out. This was remarkably similar to how mother birds warm their eggs, thus showing empirical evidence Oviraptor had feathers. Later on other oviraptor relatives were discovered with evidence of fully developed feathers and wings.


SSI Receptionist :
Well we are here to talk about your disability eligibility for tinnitus and chronic pain

Me (interrupting her) :

Well yeah ears suck don't they. btw do you like anime? My favorite anime is Akazukin Cha Cha. It's a story about a red riding hood girl named Cha Cha and her Guardian Seravy. Throughout the show Cha Cha discovers that she is in the blood line of royalty and she needs to save the world from evil forces and rescue her families kingdom. She does this with the help of a three part medallion that allows her to transform into a Magical Princess. Cha Cha goes on a quest with her friends Riiya-kun and Shiine-chan to fight evil forces resurrect the Magical Kingdom. Riiya holds the badge of courage, Shiine-chan holds the badge of Hope and riding hood Cha Cha herself holds the badge of Love. LOVE COURAGE HOPE! MAGICAL PRINCESS HOLY UP! They fuse into one medallion that allows Cha Cha to transform into a Magical Princess and defeat foes. You should watch it. I don't want to spoil anything for you!


SSI Receptionist :
You can't just... we are here to talk about tinnitus and disability eligibility and you continue to take things off topic

Me (interrupting her) :

yeah uh.. my ears get hot from loud noise and doctors told me it's all in my head. btw I have ethical issues with SAAS acronym for "software as a service" as it not only denies users the freedom to the source code but it goes even further and makes the program inaccessible without an internet connection. Software companies back in the 90's had blueprints to make software run in a browser/server but due to the technological limitations at the time this was not possible. They were forced to give the user proprietary blobs that could be executed. They did not provide the user source code or the compiler, but the user atleast had the freedom to run the software without an internet connection/. Now that computers are a lot more powerful then those days; the SAAS cancer is a reality. Many software programs like Adobe Suite, AutoCad, Google services that use to be usable offline as downloadable software are now subscription based services. Thus the user is dependent on a foreign server (probably a Google closet somewhere in India or China or the NSA in the US) where as previously they atleast had the unspoken freedom to own software.

SSI Receptionist :...
You'll get to see a psychologist and if you keep up the behavior they declare you unfit to work. But you have to play out the same nonsense in front of them. They will try to reform you using mental health specialist but in the end they will lose. It's like suing the Government for SSI

 

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[Born To Slay]

@Contrast what are your thoughts on a UBI program? It seems it'd make life a lot easier for the disabled instead of having to do that maddening shit you just described above.

 

[Phendran]

what are your thoughts on a UBI program? It seems it'd make life a lot easier for the disabled instead of having to do that maddening shit you just described above.

I know you didn't ask me, but here in Sweden we could definitely use a Basic Income since our social security net is currently broken. The means-testing is out of whack.

 

[Born To Slay]

I know you didn't ask me, but here in Sweden we could definitely use a Basic Income since our social security net is currently broken. The means-testing is out of whack.

Interesting, I think in general means testing is waste, just give everyone enough to be out of poverty and be done with it.

What's the system like in Sweden?

 

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That looks sweet!! How did you make that?

 

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That looks sweet!! How did you make that?

The text was made in gimp, the background was made in pixelitor. Everything except the picture of Hugh is OC.

 

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[weab00]

That looks sweet!! How did you make that?

He is a big Gimp evangelist I think.

 

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He is a big Gimp evangelist I think.

yes, the secret confession is that Gimp is mid-low tier software when compared to all it's compeitors. I am telling the truth when I say Gimp and other free alternatives can do everything most people need. As well as Gimp possibly being the best free Photoshop alternative. However, I am skipping an important fact that Photoshop and other paid alternatives are far more efficient and have a much lower skill ceiling. The user puts in a lot less effort and gets way more bang for their buck.

 

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@Contrast

Just be like me and pirate it.

 

[Phendran]

What's the system like in Sweden?

There are a few entities involved, regular insurance companies still exist, but the major players are the state agencies:

Socialstyrelsen
They exist to help poor people survive. They provide monetary assistance(and in three cases that I know of, housing as well) that you generally have to apply for every month if your application is accepted.

There is one part for every municipality, and they can vary wildly in their ways and wants from people that seek help.
Generally, their main condition for you to get anything is that you must have exhausted all other options, including getting donations from friends and family.

Försäkringskassan
They used to be the cornerstone of the security-net as working people could apply for compensation the days they are sick and should stay at home. They also provide early retirement plans for people that will never again be able to work.

Their methods are very bureaucratic. If you have a job with a serious employer, there are usually no problems.
If you do not have a job, or if your ailment is rare or poorly understood, oh boy.
It used to be that doctors who examine the patient send in a form that Försäkringskassan looks at which tell them about how the patient is unable to work.

Nowadays they have their own doctors. You as a patient are still required to see your own doctor, and that doctor must still provide the documents, but the doctors employed by Föräskringskassan can appeal against what your doctor says, even though they never ever meet the patient.

Retarded part 2: It's not the doctors who decide if a patient will get help or not.
The administrators at Föräskringskassan do that, based on guidelines, and sometimes pressure from managers higher up.
There was a news-article from a few years back, where national reporters uncovered that the ones who make the decisions about patient-help, get higher wages when they deny more applicants.

Retarded part 3:
They are almost impossible to contact.
When you apply for help, you get assigned an administrator for your specific case. They can only be reached by phone, and their phone-times are limited to around 2-4 hours every day, very early. Long waiting times, and most of the time you spend your time waiting for nothing. They will never contact you except by sending letters.
The one who makes the final decision for your case is obligated to put their contact info on the document with the final decision, but similarly, they cannot be contacted.

All this has made the organization practically defunct.


The only thing you can do when Försäksingskassan has made a wrong decision, is to appeal in court.
Luckily doing so is free, and there are three instances of court that one can go through.
I am currently at the second.

 

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@Contrast

Just be like me and pirate it.

You can't pirate past CS6 without tremendous effort. IMO Gimp is superior to CS6 for my workflow.

 

[Daniel Lion]

Hey @Bill Bauer,
What's new?

Do you remember ages ago we were about to discuss water in the future in North America and I didn't pursue the conversation because I was in pain? Do you remember that?

If you do recall, I am interested to know what your vision was. I have a hunch it may have to do with plumbing and urban grids crumbling... do tell.

 

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I have a new way to make graphical text templates.

Lazpaint and it's native (lzp) format allows the user to save text templates

You can select a tile image (like below) and make it the inside of the text and it becomes texurized.

lazpaint is extremely lightweight too, but it lacks modern features like tab support and it can't space text.

 

[JulianBrumbelow]

 

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https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/...rong-individuality-when-navigating-a-maze.htm

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@Zugzug

You need to help strengthen the intellectual argument of threefirefour's alter. It's not a strawman when he argues a materialistic Universe capable of supporting life and or abiogenesis and happened against virtually impossible odds. Dawkins, Stephen Hawkings, Francis Crick and many others have said the exact same thing. He also fails to explain microbial intelligence, microbial and plant susceptibility to anesthetics, abiogenesis and how to boot up Darwinian rules from basic chemistry.

I want to make sure that the character can be as intellectually defensive as possible so I don't fool myself into believing hogwash. Any ideas to strengthen his case on the improbability argument and abiogenesis?

 

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I don't think people realize that Darwinian evolution doesn't even fit in with a materialist cosmology. In a materialist Universe ; Why the f*ck should chemicals bother to self organize, adapt, replicate, colonize, and fight to stay alive? We don't have anything in our current understanding of physics to explain what we see in even the most simple forms of life.

Microbial biology is not only showing decision making and goal oriented behavior in microbes. It's also showing microbes performing acts of altruism, microbes cheating to get an advantage, pack hunting, formations of biofilms that are insanely sophisticated due to the chemical signaling of the microbes. They even "farm" other microbes when food is short.

They don't have a single neuron and yet all this complex behavior is caused by unknown chemical reactions. On a scale where quantum effects could be taking place inside the cytoskelton and cell membrane. It seems dogmatic assumption to say that the Universe is 100% mechanical and deterministic. Decarte believed the Universe was mechanical just like Dan Dennete.


THIS IS WHERE THE DISAGREEMENT LIES. The Debate is not over the existence of a God or human significance. The debate is rather we live in a mechanical Universe or not.

As far as I'm concerned Rene Decarte was a a materialist (outside of human brain's being special) Panpyschism and Idealism disagree that the Universe is mechanical. The Philosophy of mind was literally stagnant with Cartersian's and Materialist until people like David Chalmers showed up. I admit Panpyschist do have to show evidence of Larmarkian evolution being somewhat true, but materialist cannot escape from the burden of abiogenesis. Materialist do not have a good argument on how to start with basic chemistry and boot up Darwinian laws.


I already have shown several cases where different Microbial biologist agreed that Bacteria and Stentor (trumpet shaped Microbes) have basic forms of consciousness and volition. Until TF4's alter comes up with a counter argument I'm forced to keep an open mind. The evidence is against computational consciousness.

 

[Zugzug]

@Zugzug

You need to help strengthen the intellectual argument of threefirefour's alter. It's not a strawman when he argues a materialistic Universe capable of supporting life and or abiogenesis and happened against virtually impossible odds. Dawkins, Stephen Hawkings, Francis Crick and many others have said the exact same thing. He also fails to explain microbial intelligence, microbial and plant susceptibility to anesthetics, abiogenesis and how to boot up Darwinian rules from basic chemistry.

I want to make sure that the character can be as intellectually defensive as possible so I don't fool myself into believing hogwash. Any ideas to strengthen his case on the improbability argument and abiogenesis?

There's nothing I can provide that Hawkings hasn't. From what I've seen, Paul Davies thinks the multiverse theory is a slippery slope that is akin to theological discussions. On its face, it's hard for me to say whether he's right or wrong. I don't study this stuff, but you appear to be an expert, studying it for months. This is why your communications with the alter are so high quality.

I suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect when it comes to the alter. I reference it, thinking I'm challenging you, but I don't know enough to know what would be challenging you effectively.

I find your arguments with the alter to be quite amusing, since it's actually a really good way to learn.

 

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Ben made a new cartoon - Featuring Sonus Complete

 

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I'm thinking about redoing the Sonus Complete layer to make the crack and busting effects better. Tinnitus 911 certainly suffered a better ass whooping.

 

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There's nothing I can provide that Hawkings hasn't. From what I've seen, Paul Davies thinks the multiverse theory is a slippery slope that is akin to theological discussions. On its face, it's hard for me to say whether he's right or wrong. I don't study this stuff, but you appear to be an expert, studying it for months. This is why your communications with the alter are so high quality.

I suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect when it comes to the alter. I reference it, thinking I'm challenging you, but I don't know enough to know what would be challenging you effectively.

I find your arguments with the alter to be quite amusing, since it's actually a really good way to learn.

I am a lay person. I'm nowhere near an expert.

There are two kinds of multiverses. The first is saying different space-times come into existence. The hypothesis states that new universes with big bangs are birthed from black holes. I don't have a problem with this one, as it supports the idea of an organismic Universe. The second (quantum many worlds hypothesis) is saying that every quantum measurement makes a copy paste universe of our current space-time. This hypothesis directly competes with the consciousness model. Instead of consciousness forcing the wave function of the Universe to collapse into a definite state; the Universe just breaks off into infinite copies. We can only measure the copy we are in.

First topic

Do Black holes create new Universes?

Second topic

Does Measuring a quantum system force the Universe to make a copy of itself?

Does consciousness play a role in quantum measurement?

 

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Tinnitus 911 render

 

[GlennS]

Anyone who is aware of what their limitations may be can't suffer from Dunning-Kruger, but I take it that was a joke anyway