Rooskie91
@Rooskie91@discuss.online
- Comment on Just yesterday I was hit with this revelation 1 day ago:
You’ve become a person who puts the pleasure of others above your own delicate sensabilities. Congratulations on not being prude 🎉
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 1 week ago:
Lol You can’t just do a potatoes level analysis of the game and be like “wow what a bad critique.” The game is not a bad critique, but many players are bad at critical thinking.
- Comment on asked and answered 2 weeks ago:
(was just teasing, I still think it’s good we participated on the right side at least, because that wasn’t always going to go that way).
- Comment on asked and answered 2 weeks ago:
My brother in christ, the military was segregated during world war 2.
- Comment on it would be a better look 2 weeks ago:
Haha imagine a little golden electric chair, or gallows, or lethal injection machine.
- Comment on You are stardust. 2 weeks ago:
Ishmael would like a word.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
This is actually me when I’m in public and see someone judging a family based on exactly one frame of their lives.
I know a family with small kids who watch stuff like this on an iPad. One kid figured out how to get onto regular YouTube, and now watches tutorials to bypass parental controls. A true hacker in the making.
It’s been a nightmare for the parents tho, the kid figured out how to turn on all the game systems and plays stuff they’re not supposed to now lol.
Also, for anyone feeling high and mighty about the content from their childhood: youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
- 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
If it’s just the bass, sounds like you can play any banger.
- Comment on It's on your blood! 4 weeks 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!! 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
“How whiteness makes you gay”
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 month ago:
In the hypothetical scenario that this is the whole truth, what you’re doing is victim blaming.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 month ago:
It’s usually people who were victims of past abuse, too.
Especially past childhood abuse.
- Comment on They even got their own island 1 month ago:
I think they’re being sarcastic…
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Nice, adding that book to the list.
- Comment on In the cave 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
It must be where he keeps his motorcycle.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months 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. 2 months ago:
Equal AND opposite
- Comment on Yellow from the egg! 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Get an only fans page and cash in on people’s weird fetishes.
- Comment on Doctor Rockso 2 months 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.”