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- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 1 day ago:
Hm yes, I’m a very anxious person myself so that makes sense.
My theory for why I have to pee so often (not only lying down) is also that it was a strategy for me to cope with a very controlling household growing up where my needs were frequently dismissed or ignored.
- Comment on when hell freezes 1 day ago:
Yes, that’s why I said lifespan. That’s what the cited paper is about and it even goes to great lengths to exclude deaths by battles etc. But well, you seem to have made up your mind and not being open to expand your perspective. Annoying, but ultimately your problem. For me this discussion is over, bye.
- Comment on when hell freezes 1 day ago:
What you said about the nobility in medieval times interested me, so I looked into it:
In this paper they’ve looked at over 130,000 people in the European nobility between 800-1800 and found that there was an upwards trend in lifespan from around 50 to 60 years excluding violent deaths. So no, I don’t believe many people got 80 years old back then even though they had the best care of that time.
And what you say about our modern world regarding cancer rates etc is simply not something we’ve conclusively solved yet.
- Comment on when hell freezes 2 days ago:
Well, modern medicine builds on top of natural remedies, but it has standardized it and brought it to a whole new level. People get incredibly old and survive many diseases thought of as incurable a hundred years ago because of modern medicine. Just looking at the similar ingredients in some medicine and nature is not helpful but naive.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 days ago:
Doing meditation or other relaxing exercise on my back is usually not so relaxing because of it :/
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 days ago:
Same, if I lay on straight my back for just a minute my bladder will start to nag me to go to toilet and it doesn’t matter that I’ve just peed a couple of times in the last half an hour…
- Comment on when hell freezes 2 days ago:
Ugh, at first they obviously sound pretty cool, but I feel like they are all about the aesthetic of changing the world, but with no actual approach to do so.
We relate to them because they had to stand by with their cannabis in their bag while the old white doctors came and put leeches on the son—the king’s epileptic son—when they had the medicine for that… In the same way, we have to stand back with our medicine and watch chemo and radiation sometimes kill people without the benefit of restoration from healing plants.
Nope, telling people with cancer just to smoke pot in actually doing cancer treatment is really bad and causes unnecessary deaths. Also, you aren’t like actual healers back then who had so much more experience in what they did.
We make medicine on a full moon and basically it’s more feminine for us to do it by moon cycle. Each product that we make comes with a sticker on the bottom to show what moon cycle we made it in. It’s a way of us coming together with the plant and Mother Nature and having that meditative time—being with the plant and making the medicine under the full moon. It just does something to us.
Like I said, it’s all about the aesthetic, not much else…
Big Pharma has caused a lot of heartache, and a lot of deaths, and a lot of unnecessary treatments where people have exacerbated their incomes and their financial ways of living—especially the poor, the marginalized, the people that can’t have access to this plant
Big pharma sure is evil, but instead of just blindly trusting in one plant to cure all and throwing all of medicine’s knowledge out we could also fight for systemic change and free medicine from the grasp of capitalism.
- Comment on when hell freezes 2 days ago:
Depends to what kind of church you go to. There are really nice old churches in Europe and even when they have a mass it is pretty relaxing, because European church service is much more boring than it is in most churches in the US I’d think. Basically just a person speaking in a monotone voice for an hour and sometimes everyone sings slow, monotone songs.
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 3 days ago:
Maybe you should give the article a read then? It is saying exactly that, that individual actions and consumer activism don’t do shit and structural changes are needed. It even gives some examples for structural changes that could be helpful in the short-term.
I added this anecdote just because I was surprised at the scale that Amazon had an impact on the economy. And yes, it obviously didn’t do much when I took individual action and boycotted them (apart from giving me a feeling of some integrity).
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 4 days ago:
Well yeah, because the author of this article has invented the term and has given insightful explanations like in this article ;)
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 4 days ago:
Really good article and worthwhile a read!
Let the implications of most-favoured nation settle in. If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store.
I haven’t shopped at Amazon for well over a decade now, but apparently even I am affected by their business model…
- Comment on Are you feeling lucky? 1 week ago:
Damn that’s good!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Just to be clear:
1/4 of all mammal species are bat species.
But only a tiny fraction of all mammals are bats.
Or this might be a giant conspiracy and there are trillions of bats living in underground cave systems and only come out when no one is watching!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
My thought exactly!
- Comment on help 1 week ago:
Would be nicer with a photo where you can actually see the leaves in detail ;)
- Comment on Become irresistible to women 1 week ago:
Wow, never heard of Gnetum until now. Incrediblethat it is in the Gymnosperms while looking so much like an Angiosperm :O
- Comment on LOOK AT THIS NERD 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re right. But what is new to me is that they apparently molt only halfway?
- Comment on tortoise beetles are hella tite 2 weeks ago:
I mean, these are leaf beetles, so you would probably only need their host plant(s) and a controlled environment. But there are 3000 species in this subfamily that all look different. If you are talking about this specific beetle here, it is probably Stolas imperialis, which is a Brazilian species. So you would need to have access to this beetle first, probably deal with very strict export/import regulations and then also do the same for the beetles host plant(s)…
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 weeks ago:
Did you read the article though? It is actually about minimalism
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
What has discipline got to do with it? I feel it’s pretty independent or may even get in the way of learning. If you force (discipline) yourself to learn something, it will feel much harder than if you do it out of joy. But maybe I didn’t fully understand what you were saying.
- Comment on The 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2 weeks ago:
Who parsed the text in the description? There are several mistakes that totally change the meaning of these. Bats impacted by pigeons and not alcohol, no mention of pasta sauce etc…
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
It was more of a rhetorical question ;)
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
Are the straights alright? Why not just plan a date together?
- Comment on The New Guy 3 weeks ago:
I would think it doesn’t really matter. A “species” isn’t a true characteristic of the world, it is rather the concept we develop in order to differentiate one type of organism from others. In so far the species in this example is brand new, because we didn’t know a type of organism like that could exist. And frequently a species might be split up into two or more species. The real world isn’t changing, we just update our understanding of it to better match what we see.
- Comment on Mood 3 weeks ago:
That’s not totally untrue. Iirc the first cat memes were postcards people send each other at the beginning of the last century. I guess the difference is that postcards and letters only reach a single address, tweets can reach many people at once
- Comment on What goes here? 4 weeks ago:
So having a foot doesn’t count as having a leg also?
- Comment on The Bog 5 weeks ago:
Wolf spiders are harmless, so there is hardly any incentive to invest in another solution I’d guess…
I wish they weren’t so shy though, it’s really hard to take good photos of them because they are so fast.
- Comment on Average plant behavior 5 weeks ago:
It’s because of domestication and growing plants outside of their natural habitat that they get sensitive. Also, apparently some sensitivity is by design:
Modern roses emerged in 1867 with the development of the first hybrid tea, according to the American Rose Society. These varieties tend to have a reputation for being fussy, requiring constant attention.
“The conception is that they’re not tough, that they require spraying, that you have to have the perfect culture. And a lot of that has been breeding; to breed these perfect flowers, but they bred out characteristics that made the rose easy to grow in our backyards,”
(From the OP’s article)
- Comment on Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering 1 month ago:
I wish there was a queer MTG group in my city where I could play in. I tried playing with some straight cis dudes once and it was just such a strange experience…
- Comment on here there be lions 1 month ago:
Actually that’s not true, male lions are usually hunting alone and in dense vegetation. Newer studies show that male lions actually hunt as much prey as female lions! It’s just harder for us to track that.