Polyvagal Theory is a huge part of how I teach yoga to veterans. There’s a great book by Dr Arielle Schwartz - Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga. It does work, it can’t cure PTS(D) but it does provide relief if only for an hours r of class.
> However, some people have taken the vagus nerve’s expansive bodily influence as an invitation to engage in pseudoscience. In some corners of the internet, so-called polyvagal therapy — physical or breathing exercises that some claim reset the vagus nerve — is proposed to address(opens a new tab) just about any disorder of the mind or body. There’s little to no evidence that these popular remedies are anything but placebos.
> However, some people have taken the vagus nerve’s expansive bodily influence as an invitation to engage in pseudoscience. In some corners of the internet, so-called polyvagal therapy — physical or breathing exercises that some claim reset the vagus nerve — is proposed to address(opens a new tab) just about any disorder of the mind or body. There’s little to no evidence that these popular remedies are anything but placebos.
but is the polyvagal theory backed up by concrete scientific evidence? i’ve heard tons about it but practitioners never seem to have real statistics about it all. i thought that the polyvagal theory has never been actually proven?
Porges started with studying the difference in the length of successive heartbeats, and the nerve systems that control this variability. He accumulated lots of data, and published his findings. He looks at the function of the different branches of the vagus nerve before he eventually connects the state of the vagus nerve with the functioning of the social engagement mechanism--the system that enables us to recognize faces and read their emotional signals. He also connects the vagus nerve with fight-or-flight survival mode of the organism, vs. the rest-and-recuperate mode where resources are made available for healing. It is well-founded, plausible, has good explanatory power for how (to give one example) family visits to a hospitalized family member contribute so greatly to their recovery.
This shouldn’t be that surprising, you’re using a piece of pre-beta software that is currently still in progress. Is it a bug, yeah. Is it newsworthy, not really. Just more, there’s a bug Company X’s product is shite.
This is such a great way to look at this. I'm sad that the employees will lose their jobs but the fact that so much money is being invested in this and going to Mars but we can't stop kids from being killed during school, feed kids lunch if they are starving, or make any real impact on climate change should awaken us to the fact that we've been increasingly played since the 60's.
you can't cut deep enough to cover $1B in interest paymets, maybe now people will figure out that Musk is the wealthiest man in the world by taking tax dollars as subsidies for all his businesses.
Just for some context, Twitter has around $4.5B in revenue per year. Clearly, you can't cut all spending. It looks like the "cost of revenue" is around half that ($2B) and you probably can't cut that. Do you cut sales and marketing? Well, then your revenue probably ends up declining. Do you cut R&D? Well, eventually others are going to eat your lunch. You have $1.6B in R&D costs and $1.2B in sales and marketing and $700M in admin costs (like Human Resources).
As you note, it's really hard to cut deep enough to cover $1B in interest payments without cutting stuff that ends up hurting your revenue. As Twitter cuts their R&D, they're leaving themselves open to missing out on the future. Should Twitter have continued to invest in Vine? Well, the benefit of hindsight says "yes" given TikTok's success. As much as everyone is making fun of Meta's metaverse plans, it's certainly possible it'll be important in the future. We really just don't know. I remember everyone saying the iPhone was a silly toy and people would want to keep their Blackberries and Windows Mobile devices with keyboards. We can literally see the future and say, "nah, that'll never happen."
If Musk cuts engineering too much, does the service just become mediocre?
As you say, it's hard to cut deep enough to come up with $1B.
Going into a sector with lots of incentives is good business. It's not like he lobbied congress for those subsidies and they were tailored so that basically only he could qualify. Everyone had access to all of those subsidies, Musk was a nobody before Tesla and SpaceX.
Why didn't Ford and Boeing, companies with a much better footing than Musk, simply move into those sectors (EVs and re-usable rockets, respectively) and mop up all those subsidies for themselves?
The Roadster was released in 2008. Barely any money was spent on lobbying until after the Model S was already released (2012), the Powerwall announced (2015) and the Model X was released (2015). That's also post-IPO (2010).
Tesla was already a successful, innovative electric car company before it started lobbying like a regular car company.
All of the risk that paid off (what makes a businessman a good businessman) was done in the early days when he invested 6.5 million that he turned into billions.
He invested 6.5m of the 7.5m that was raised in funding. Without that investment, Tesla probably dies on the vine. He didn't "create" the Roadster but he did believe in the electric car and backed it up with a significant investment that allowed the people who were hired to create it to stay employed.
He deserves credit for believing in the David and turning it into Goliath (of EVs), even if government subsidies helped.
I support the government subsidizing clean energy, electric cars and cheaper access to space and I think it's hypocritical to turn around and shit on the companies that take advantage of those subsidies and do exactly the thing that they are meant to encourage.
Large established companies would be legally cautious on things like fake battery swap stations (couldn't operate with real road wear, just taken from the battery install tooling in the factiry) to claim hundreds of millions in subsidies, or using NASA money to buy junk bonds in another company he had interest in (SolarCity), then giving a presentation with faked shingles to bail out the company through a merger and prevent the bonds backed by NASA money from failing and the repercussions from that. Then use SpaceX to create Boring Company without giving them a stake while Musk got 90% (later reversed in a quiet settlement giving SpaceX around 6%).
You really shoehorned that one in there. An established company wouldn't have to do all that, they could have just made and electric car and/or re-usable rockets.
You need to do it in a way that does not make the remaining core hugely dysfunctional. And it would be miracle if Musk could.
And trolling does not help either. The sink thing was trolling and between that and layouts, the remaining people will be dysfunctional for quite a long time.
Wonder if he's going to use money from his other companies for interest payments for twitter, and then claim tax deductions for those companies because these were interest payments.
FWIW I have no idea how finances work, just can imagine Elon getting into weird loopholes.
He can only do that if he owned Tesla and SpaceX outright. But, Tesla is a publicly-traded company with tens of thousands of shareholders that’ll sue him into oblivion if he tries that.
SpaceX is privately-held, but has raised billions of dollars from dozens of investors, so that won’t fly neither.
For me, iOS 16 focus modes and a cellular Apple Watch is working for this. I've been able to pretty much just stop carrying my phone when I need to be connected but don't want the distractions. I have tried the Palm Phone in the past to reduce my use of smartphones and really liked it but did not like the lack of integration to iCloud and that you couldn't de-Googleify it.
I've been giving the advice for years that actually planning for what you'll do past retirement is as important than having all the money you'll need. I've seen my parents and in-laws struggle with mental health issues and boredom more than they have ran out of money. I'm refusing to do that, I found 3 things that I really love and working on turning those into third careers go keep myself busy. The 3 things are teaching yoga, personal training for people over 50, and becoming a divemaster.
Absolutely. I'm reaching 40 this year and people around me always get surprised when I told them I'm making plans for retirement. For most of them planning for retirement is just financial, and many of them do have a solid plan.
But I'm mostly worried about the mental/spiritual part.
