Rooskie91
@Rooskie91@discuss.online
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 18 hours 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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?
- Comment on We are all going through something 3 weeks ago:
Damn, street performers are really changing the game. Depressed tree is a unique take on the human statue routine.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 4 weeks ago:
OMG, there used to be this YTMND where the gun was replaced with a kit kat. I have to find it.
- Comment on I volunteer as tribute! 4 weeks ago:
If she’s a 10, and she does that, doesn’t that mean I’m into it?
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 5 weeks ago:
The Compton Scatter honestly sounds like a spot
- Comment on Just yesterday I was hit with this revelation 1 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
My brother in christ, the military was segregated during world war 2.
- Comment on it would be a better look 1 month ago:
Haha imagine a little golden electric chair, or gallows, or lethal injection machine.
- Comment on You are stardust. 1 month ago:
Ishmael would like a word.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
If it’s just the bass, sounds like you can play any banger.
- Comment on It's on your blood! 2 months 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!! 2 months 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 months ago:
“How whiteness makes you gay”
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 months ago:
In the hypothetical scenario that this is the whole truth, what you’re doing is victim blaming.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 months ago:
It’s usually people who were victims of past abuse, too.
Especially past childhood abuse.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 months ago:
I think they’re being sarcastic…
- Comment on Does the ping between your eyes and brain increase when you're tired? 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Nice, adding that book to the list.
- Comment on In the cave 3 months 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago:
Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get out chance to escape.