Rooskie91
@Rooskie91@discuss.online
- Comment on A New York court has temporarily blocked the city from installing a bike lane in response to a lawsuit from local businesses owners, who alleged it would compromise public safety 1 week ago:
Statistically speaking, wouldn’t any action that reduces the number of cars on the road be good for public safety?
- Comment on Mosquito Sprites 1 week ago:
If it’s just the bass, sounds like you can play any banger.
- Comment on It's on your blood! 1 week ago:
Teflon is the brand name for for the chemical Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Making PTFE requires PFAS, which are the toxic part. Think of PFAS as little bits of chain varying lengths that get strung together to make the larger PTFE molecule.
The argument you’re making sounds similar to something like “Fossil Fuels are safe, it’s just the CO2 that’s dangerous.” PFAS contaminated water being released to the environment is an unavoidable by produce of making Teflon. You can only make Teflon as a solid without suspending the PFAS in water first.
Here’s a pretty good video about the history, manufacturing process, and toxicity.
- Comment on AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!! 1 week ago:
Lol how is this a fair comparison? 10 mins of watching 4k vs 1 AI question does not seem equivalent at all. Like you could change the quantities and make the comparison look as bad as you want. Why not compare 1 min of 4k video vs asking AI 1,000 questions? Why not compare 1 hr of 4k video to 10 AI questions? When you’re changing the variables around between comparisons like that then the comparison is worthless.
Besides that, the environmentally damaging part of AI isn’t asking it questions, it’s training the models themselves. Training AI uses huge resource consuming supercomputers and can take days.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
“How whiteness makes you gay”
- Comment on Anon breaks up 4 weeks ago:
In the hypothetical scenario that this is the whole truth, what you’re doing is victim blaming.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 4 weeks ago:
It’s usually people who were victims of past abuse, too.
Especially past childhood abuse.
- Comment on They even got their own island 4 weeks ago:
I think they’re being sarcastic…
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 4 weeks ago:
There have also been several studies that also prove this.
You driving after being awake for 24 hours is as impacted as though you had a 0.1% BAC (0.08% is the legal limit).
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 5 weeks ago:
I don’t get why this is so big, wouldn’t anybody be that embarrassed to be caught at a cold play concert?
- Comment on In the cave 5 weeks ago:
Nice, adding that book to the list.
- Comment on In the cave 5 weeks ago:
This reminded me of a character, Martin Silenus from Hyperion Cantos, who has a mansion. In that mansion all of the doors are actually portals. So when you walk into a new room you’re walking into a new room on a different world. So like your living room is on Earth but your dining room could be on the moon. Always thought that was a cool idea.
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 1 month ago:
I’m going to give you the BoD and say that I think your confusing how addiction works and how the body regulates itself. Also, I should be more clear that anything causing an intense reward response can be addictive. Not just any old response will do, it has be a rush.
Addiction isn’t just doing something repeatedly or enjoying something a lot. It’s a progressive hijacking of the brain’s reward system. It starts with an activity (like gambling) triggering a strong reward response. That response draws people to repeat that activity for the “high”. If the behavior is engaged in regularly, the brain adapts over time. The reward response becomes less intense (this is what “gaining a tolerance” is), causing the person to to engage in the behavior more frequently or intensely to get the same “high” as they did the first time. Eventually, the behavior stops illiciting a reward, and you start to get stressed without whatever behavior it is that originally made you feel high. The person is no longer seeking the behavior because their reward system is telling them to, but for relief from the stress and anxiety of NOT performing the behavior. This is where addiction occurs.
Gambling, sex, and drugs all activate activate this feedback loop in the brains reward system. In contrast things like drinking water or wearing boots just just don’t engage the reward system in the same way. You can experience this yourself by having an orgasm, drinking a glass of water, and comparing the difference in how you feel afterward. Drinking water and wearing clothes are biological necessities or habitual actions. They’re not neurologically reinforced the same way that high reward activities like gambling or sex are.
I think we tend to prefer to think of chemical addiction as the true definition because of opiods like heroin. In the case of heroin, you’re not activating your reward system so much as you’re introducing a reward chemical WAYYY more powerful than anything your body can produce.
Other drugs don’t replace dopamine tho, they just make your body release all of the dopamine it has at the same time, resulting in a similar, but less intense feeling. Getting addicted to these drugs is really no different, biologically speaking, than becoming addicted to a behavior.
Recognizing gambling as an addiction is not a slippery slope to naming more mundane things as addictions. It’s the result of decades of work in neuroscience by thousands, if not millions, of doctors.
- Comment on Anon is not satisfied 1 month ago:
Professionals disagree with you.
Like it’s in the definition lol.
Gambling An Addictive Behavior with Health and Primary Care Implications
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 1 month ago:
Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get out chance to escape.
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 1 month ago:
It must be where he keeps his motorcycle.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 1 month ago:
Trump is a bold, unapologetic fascist. You need to accept this fact, or it will kill you. He will never take responsibility because that is not how fascism works.
- Comment on Perpetual motion eludes us again. 1 month ago:
Equal AND opposite
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 1 month ago:
Americans do a lot of foolish things, but refrigerating their eggs is not one of them.
There is a good reason: eggs are washed before they’re sold in the US, which removes the egg’s cuticle (a natural protective coating). This process reduces the risk of bacterial contamination, and, when combined with refrigeration, extends the shelf life of the egg. That matters in a country with a distributed population as geographically vast as the U.S., where food often travels longer distances before reaching the consumer. Refrigerating eggs is a solution to a logistical challenge not present in Europe.
I like to point this out because a European unaware of this difference might visit America, refuse to refrigerate their eggs (believing their own cultural practices to be superior and more “natural”) and end up with salmonella. It’s ironic because getting sick in another country due to ignorance of local customs, while assuming your own culture is better, is a very American thing to do. I guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 1 month ago:
If your curious what the right is pushing for go ahead and check out The Turner Diaries.
If you actually finish the book, wait for your rage to subside then arm yourself.
- Comment on A very curious situation indeed 1 month ago:
Get an only fans page and cash in on people’s weird fetishes.
- Comment on Doctor Rockso 1 month ago:
Freud, probably: youtu.be/oSPT27XyY1U
- Comment on Best way to drink coke? 2 months ago:
First of all, who the hell opens a can like that?! I guess you get your lips pierced for free…
Anyways, I exclusively buy coke in 1L bottles so that I can always ask for “a liter of cola.”
- Comment on I'm not okay. 2 months ago:
I convinced my inlaws to stop bagging or raking their leaves a few years ago, and they’re everywhere now. Not as many as if the whole neighborhood has done it, but more than when I met them.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 months ago:
How the fuck does it cost money to keep businesses closed.
- Comment on A cuppa Jill 2 months ago:
More like here they cum lol /s
- Comment on II Oedipus II Furious 2 months ago:
Oedibussy
- Comment on I don’t want to live here (USA) anymore 2 months ago:
Organized resistance overcoming more powerful enemies. You know, that thing the US always claims they’re known for. Although I suppose an honest look at the past would reveal that America has always been slow (putting it lightly) to organize on the right side of history.
I’m not suggesting violence, necessarily, but I think America’s protests have been relatively toothless and misguided compared to their ancestors. During the first guilded age people protested outside John D. Rockefeller’s house for months._ Can you imagine people protesting outside of Musk’s, Bezos’s, Zuck’s, or Gate’s houses?
The Montgomery Bus boycott lasted an entire year. Headed by people that had no other means of transportation. Can you imagine people depriving themselves of an essential service, like, say, the internet, for an entire year?
I just don’t know that people are prepared to do what, historically speaking, it takes to get better living conditions. Not violence, but the patience and persistence it take to truly change society.
I’m even here writing this long comment instead of doing something in real life.
- Comment on I don’t want to live here (USA) anymore 2 months ago:
Or do the world a favor after living in comfort at their expense for decades, grow a pair, and fight.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If the only thing that brightens your day is coming on the internet to disparage the joy of others, your life it really dreary.