Warl0k3
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- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
Okay, I’m starting to question if you’re even reading the articles you’re bringing out here?
with the proportion of each reaction among disgust reactions similar to that induced by bitter and sour stimuli
First link states in the abstract that it isn’t measuring a pain response, the paper goes on to clarify that (and has some pretty horrifying descriptions of the surgical procedure…)
The second is studying the LD-50 of capsaicin - and yeah I bet they had a pain response, since they were given so much of it some of them died of stomach ulcers. It does not at any point discuss the pain response from consuming it, beyond that they died. These are both fundamentally irrelevant to the topic at hand.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
Okay but the question was never if subcutaneous injections of capsaicin produce a pain reaction, nor how the effects of neonatal exposure to capsaicin effect the development of a rats life (even if there are impacts on the sensitivity of a response in TRPV1 as a result, your second link pretty clearly establishes that that is not a strong indicator of pain response to capsaicin in rodents). Neither of those have to do with the consumption of capsaicin, though the second article is pretty interesting! It doesn’t establish a relationship between baseline “rodents” and TRPV1 response though, nor does it make any claims about severity of response or exposure sensitivity (which are not the goals of the paper), but that may be because the only english copy I can find of the article is a fairly abbreviated version of the full chinese text (and I uh… do not read written chinese very well at all, let alone discussions of technical biology).
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
Am I just missing where they claim that? From the conclusion:
Altering the palatability of this feed to rodents through the addition of capsaicin may greatly enhance traditional methods of increasing poison bait acceptance on poultry operations
That they avoid taste has nothing to do with the ‘pain’ experienced as a result of consuming it - in the preceding section they discuss other strategies to increase bait acceptance, including adding rodenticide to preferred bait foods. That rodents do not like the taste isn’t really in question, that they have a pain response to consuming it is.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
Squirrels just need to nut up.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
The medium of exchange on an ant farm is tiny plows.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
From a tiny amount of reading (and a complete lack of a biology degree…) it’s that the rodent taste buds just react differently to the capsaicin, so it doesn’t hit the sodium channels in the pain receptor ‘stack’ in the same way as it does in humans.
I think.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 days ago:
iirc mice don’t have the same response to capsaicin as humans - they can taste it, and don’t particularly like the taste, but it doesn’t cause them pain like it does in humans?
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 week ago:
A lot of them do, especially the secret commercial chain stabds that are getting all too common. Like the cat says, “you are not immune to
propagandaadvertising”. - Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 week ago:
Yo they do this on purpose, you see it all the time with roadside stands. Weird and nonstandard signs are more attention grabbing and indicate a true smalltime business, so even commercial roadside stands are starting to have signage like this. You’d do well to give more credit to the intelligence of these people - the motivations behind why they’re like this are invaluable when being forced to interact with them (be thst interpersonally or politically)
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 1 week ago:
AI coding tools are a great way to generate boilerplate, blat out repetitive structures and help with blank page syndrome. None of those mean you can ignore what they generate. They fit into the same niche as Stackoverflow - you can yoink all the 3rd party code snippets you want, but it’s going to be some work to get them running well even if you understand what they’re doing.
- Comment on Can any scientists confirm this important fact? 1 week ago:
Correct - cats don’t “think”, they know, with a certainty obtained through the kind of instinctual perfection which only cats are enlightened enough to possess.
- Comment on flowers for the lost 1 week ago:
Than their required use. Gendered crash test dummies have been a thing for a long time, but AFAIK prior to this there was no anatomical requirements at all, including children (?).
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 week ago:
eeeh… when a business starts dictating morality to the general public, it too crosses a line from “just business” to a legit public concern that merits a stronger response. Hiding from the consequences because it’s “just business” is the reason so much of the world is so incredibly shitty right now, and we need to move past it’s acceptability as an excuse.
- Comment on Good boy 1 month ago:
People post this kind of stuff in the reviews for every kinky item on Amazon, I’ve never understood the compulsion to share your fic in that medium but I guess some folks gotta write when the inspiration hits 'em…
- Comment on Bottoms up 1 month ago:
This has reminded me of the Mormon kids at my highschool who’d talk about how “fucked up” and “high” they’d gotten from drinking eight cans of caffeinated soda at once. Adorably edgy, they were…
- Comment on Anon likes trains 1 month ago:
And indentured workers!
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
Non joke answer: A bunch of reasons. Many precincts are understaffed, so they need all the hands they can get. The police union is huge and makes it extremely difficult to fire even the most homer-simpsonian individuals. Many of the hugely obese cops are assigned to “light duty” meaning the most exertion they face is paperwork, manning the public information desk and or doing things like serving writs (in some cases you’re even allowed to wear the uniformneven if you’re not a bonded officer). Additionally, fitness requirements are actually fairly rare across the whole spectrum of law enforcement - It’s surprisingly rare to see them for any positions besides uniformed patrol officer, even detectives or etc. aren’t always required to pass them - and even when you do, they’re usually pathetically easy to pass.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 months ago:
I don’t really know how else to phrase this, but I’ll give it a shot anyways: Anti-cheat isn’t intrinsically linked to root level permissions. It’s inclusion in a section about data sources compounds that concept. That is the claim that you are now making, and which isn’t supported by the section you’ve cited.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 months ago:
If that’s all it takes to dumbfound you, I am profoundly jealous. Anyways.
Those aren’t the claims fauxliving was making. They claim that there is no indication of taketwo requesting root level access and they’re strictly right, there is no language requesting that permission (or equivalents) (but I doubt that would matter to TakeTwo since they could argue it’s implicit)
They then claim that there has been no change to the game to include kernel level anticheat, which is also true.
What you presented does nothing to substantiate or refute those claims, just the claims made in the OP. Fauxliving’s comment was off base, sure, but substantially their points are correct.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 months ago:
That… doesn’t actually rebut anything FauxLiving said. That they may use anti-cheat, and that they may have automatic updates, aren’t the claims in question here.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 2 months ago:
… Are you serious? You should respect people who don’t respect you in turn because it “builds character”?
No, that guy in your story had it right. If this is representative of the culture you work in, I’d do the absolute bare minimum too. This is such blatant ‘hard work’ propaganda it’s actually kind of nauseating. Holy shit, take a step back and realize you’re helping your team get taken advantage of, and guilt-tripping them when they don’t comply with your corporate masters. You’ve progressed way beyond drinking the kool-aid, now you’re one of the guys holding the children hostage to get their parents to drink it.
Fuck’s sake, you’re the problem in that story.
- Comment on Airbuddy 🦛 2 months ago:
just Tumblr Brain things
- Comment on Definitions 2 months ago:
IDK maybe they’re just really bad at cutting pizza.
- Comment on Late 2 months ago:
Hmm. If you don’t mind me asking, what field was your masters in? During my grad work, you’d have been thrown out after a week if you did similar, but assignments were very much supplemental to the lecture and didn’t overlap with the lecture material much at all.
- Comment on Late 2 months ago:
You know, I’ve had students attempt this every quarter and I’ve still never seen it actually work. It might be a reflection of how teaching has had to shift as a result of the changes brought on by AI + the pandemic, though. I started professing only a little bit before then, so I never really saw the era where you could get away with such strict adherence to the textbook.
- Comment on Late 2 months ago:
While it’s good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually hreatly relaxed once people get into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don’t care if you show up or not, you’ll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn’t there it means I have more time for the other students.
Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor’s idea. Those things are fuckin’ awful to support on the instructor’s side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.
- Comment on Late 2 months ago:
Okay setting aside that I’ve never ever seen that actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they’re going to do that? (You also can’t replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I’m just not sure what you’re basing this on.)
- Comment on Late 2 months ago:
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
- Comment on Late 2 months ago:
I’ll generally accept any excuse unless it’s becoming a habit - in those rare cases I’ll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it’s family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it’s not we can usually find a way to make up for what they’ve missed.
- Comment on Late 2 months ago:
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
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I scream, into the void.