Rooskie91
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- Comment on Anon has anxiety 22 hours ago:
That’s not true. It sounds like you’re confusing nicotine with caffeine. Nicotine is often credited with “taking the edge off” when in reality, that “edge” is a result of nicotine withdrawal.
Caffeine blocks the receptors that react to a chemical the body releases when it’s tired. You’re right that it doesn’t give you more energy, but it does stop you from feeling by tired.
Out of all the common legal drugs (nicotine, alcohol, THC) caffeine actually provides some of the best benefits with least intrusive drawbacks.
- Comment on Everytime 4 days ago:
I mean you have trees, so they’re mostly on the balcony. I live in a large city (not many trees) of mostly row homes, and they’re on like every window of the side of the houses that face the sun. Not just patios.
- Comment on Everytime 4 days ago:
Awning. They’re a great way to reduce the need for AC by providing shade in treeless regions.
- Comment on Fr Fr 1 week ago:
Idk man indoor plumbing is pretty neat.
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 2 weeks ago:
Same! Here’s the video for anyone wanting to relive it.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News 3 weeks ago:
You either die a start up or live long enough to see yourself become Google.
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 4 weeks ago:
If that blows your mind then think about this: As the universe expanded after the Big Bang, it cooled from unimaginably high temperatures. In principle, this suggest that there could have been a very short window much later, tens of millions of years after the Big Bang, when the background temperature of the entire universe was capable of sustaining life everywhere. Some physicists have suggested this might have created a brief, universe-wide “habitable epoch,” though this remains theoretical.
I’m not an expert, so this is probably not a muture understanding, but it’s cool to imagine a universe where life was incredibly abundant.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 1 month ago:
Cycles of violence.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 month ago:
Yeah OP should say “1 therapist is useless”.
- Comment on Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman at the Galaxy Quest premiere in 1999 1 month ago:
RELEASE THE DIRECTORS CUT!!
- Comment on another Freud meme for the day 2 months ago:
What are you, meme ICE?
- Comment on Let them fight 2 months ago:
It really is the hunger games.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 2 months ago:
This guy must listen to RAtM and be like “I don’t get it, work forces, burn crosses, this metaphor doesn’t make sense!”
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 2 months ago:
Only if your prescription is for euthanasia!
- Comment on Throw enough spaghetti at the wall and some is bound to stick 3 months ago:
Glad to see this is still around.
- Comment on freddie mercury 3 months ago:
Different kind of body count.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 3 months ago:
There’s a behind the bastards about him.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 3 months ago:
Yeah, well, what has the economy done for me lately?
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 3 months ago:
Well this is a bit of a paradox, as we all know clowns are **hung. **
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 3 months ago:
I guess I was a little to aggressive in my original comment. I meant to explain why minority only groups get less flack than majority only groups, not to suggest that men only groups shouldn’t exist.
Women only groups exist alongside the people who disapprove of them. I don’t see why men only groups can’t. As many have pointed out, however, men only groups DO exist. Someone linked to dull_mens_club as a Lemmy specific example, but more broadly, fraternities exist. Battered mens groups exist. I think some groups like nights of Columbus and the masons are or were men only. Men only schools and colleges exist, as do women only. Most veterans organizations are primarily men just by nature of who makes up the majority of most militaries.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 3 months ago:
You’re putting words in my mouth and confusing the difference between a demographic and an individual. AS A DEMOGRAPHIC, women are oppressed. AS A DEMOGRAPHIC, men are not. We’re talking about statistics here, not individual experience.
The fact that some men are oppressed does not imply men are equally or more oppressed than women.
The fact that women AS A DEMOGRAPHIC are oppressed and men AS A DEMOGRAPHIC are not does not imply all men are oppressors. It DOES imply that men opress women, but like… fucking duh? If men aren’t pressing women, then who is? It doesn’t mean all men are oppressors, but are you seriously going to sit her and act like the majority of domestic abusers, sexual harassers, and discriminators AREN’T men???
You’re interpreting a defense of women exclusive spaces as an attack on individual men. You should unpack that.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 3 months ago:
I didn’t place them in the oppressor group, I said they weren’t oppressed.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 3 months ago:
The mens club you’re talking about DOES exist though. Since men are not a marginalized minority, that club is just called society.
Your logic mirrors asking, ‘Why not create a whites-only club?’ Technically, you could, but people would rightly view it negatively because white people, as a group, are not marginalized. Exclusive spaces for minorities exist to provide relief from the discrimination or bias they routinely encounter. For groups that do not face those barriers, everyday society already functions as their ‘exclusive space,’ which makes it difficult for non-minorities to understand why others might need a separate environment.
- Comment on how do respec 3 months ago:
Need to find a place to sell all the random trash I pick up in real life.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 months ago:
Men will say anything to avoid admitting they’re bad at sex.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 3 months ago:
I think the meme is classist because it directs anger toward the people living in the pictured low-income housing. People who have the least control over the forces shaping their lives. Meanwhile, the billionaire class, who paid a hefty and blood-soaked price to keep them uneducated and inundated with right-wing propaganda, escape scrutiny.
Don’t get me wrong, the people in that picture probably suck. They’re more of a symptom tho.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 4 months ago:
They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 4 months ago:
Welcome to fascism, where the rules are made up and the crimes don’t matter (unless your enemies do them, then they really really matter).
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 4 months ago:
Dunning Kruger.
Your body is so much more complicated than a function that takes calories as input and outputs an expected result. You need more than just calories, you need nutrients. A nutrient deficient person does not burn calories the same way a person with a balanced diet does.
Like just think for a second. Is the only variable of food that matters is calories, then why do you need vitamins? Why do we split calories into categories like protein, carbs, veggies, fruits, etc? Why can you get a PhD in nutrition if it’s only as simple as calories in calories out?
The simple answer is it’s not simple. Asserting that it is when it isn’t creates some terrible narratives around exercise, diet, and body image.
- Comment on Just in time 5 months ago:
The first and second images are fantasy.
How come everyone wants to imagine the future is great and the past was great (it wasn’t, it’s literally just now but worse), but nobody wants to imagine what they could do to make now better?