November 2025

Science cannot tell good from bad.

It can tell you "smoking causes cancer".

But the link between "having cancer" and "this is bad for you" is done by a person.

I just watched an episode of Air Crash Investigation and it reminded me of my past hatred of doctors.

I still find it disgusting that doctors have been put in a position that they can do whatever they want to anyone and silence anyone saying anything against them as "he is sick, do not listen to him until we fix him so he agrees with us".

Only my current psychiatrist I do not hate. He's the first one that actually respected me and not treated me like a complex machine to be logically understood and fixed.

You do need something to differentiate good idea from bad idea so that you don't end up believing in crazy shit.

Some people require ideas to be "proved" (whatever that means) or go with "I take as true anything an expert says."

Personally, I use my gut.

But there are good ideas where "being proved" does not make sense.

I was pulling speaker cables in our home theatre and when done, I spotted a USB port on the back of the TV. This a 83-inch LG "smart" TV with a "point and shoot" remote.

So I wondered, can I use a mouse instead of the remote ?

I had a spare wireless mouse from the laptop we no longer use and plugged its USB dongle into the TV. It worked ! The TV cursor moves with the mouse !

It's way easier to use and more precise than the "point and shoot" remote.

It seams that instead of working like a WiiMote and tracking where the remote is pointing, this remote seems to use a gyroscope to move the cursor up/down left/right. When you move the pointer out of the screen, it stays at the edge and when you move the remote back the pointer moves straight away ! Very difficult to use.

Aside, I sure am glad they put a web browser on this thing. I can watch the TV shows and movies on my web server. (And I am not restricted to Netflix and friends). I might just watch my torrented Gold Rush episode on it :)