Berttheduck

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No but that’s what anxiety makes you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That one is social anxiety and is because in the past if you got excluded from your group of humans you’d starve or freeze to death. We aren’t evolved to deal with the hundreds and hundreds of people that the modern world requires. More used to like extended family groups and small communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is playing horror games a good way to get desensitized to fear, or it gonna backfire and make my anxiety worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends what your anxiety is driven by. Social anxiety is mostly the fear of being driven out of the group, which would evolutionarily lead to death. You’d be better with social interaction games or multiplayer ones to connect with more people in a safe environment.

  Generalised anxiety where you’re hyper aware of every risk and on edge all the time expecting something bad to happen, horror games might work with desensitisation though often in horror the bad things do happen and you just happen to survive by running away or fighting back which is probably not the most helpful thing for anxiety.

  Specific fears around ghosts - play FEAR and shoot ghosts. Specific fears around zombies play resident evil, probably the remake of 4, and shoot zombies. Existential dread about what makes you human and the existence of consciousness and souls, play SOMA (has a mode where the enemies don’t insta death you now so you can experience the story and the incredible locations), probably won’t make it less scary but is a great game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is "human husbandry" called⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Eugenics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with this point relating to dementia is that dementia specifically makes forming new memories harder. So they are unlikely to remember any specifics including their diagnosis. Also for the patient saying dementia or memory problems will be more than enough to tell everyone who’s not a doctor.

  The frontotemporal bit won’t mean anything to the general public unless they remember more human anatomy than most, but everyone has heard of dementia that one is in common parlance anyway I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a big problem with medicine in general. Medicine is unfortunately very much an old white man’s club, it’s getting better slowly, but all the knowledge and the way it is taught comes from that old white guy standard.

  Medical terminology is complex because medicine is complex. There is definitely an element of being part of an exclusive club but there is also communicating lots of information quickly and efficiently.

  Frontotemporal dementia describes a specific set of symptoms and if you are medically trained tells you most everything you need to know about what is happening. As opposed to the patient is a bit confused or sees things sometimes which could be many different things.

  The language and how diagnoses are communicated are really important, a good medic should tell the patient their diagnosis with the medical words but should explain what those mean in as much detail as the patient wants.

  Most patients are able to understand dementia even if the frontotemporal bit doesn’t make sense to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could look at fire safe boxes for document storage. Those are usually pretty solid. You would want to bag up the drive inside an anti static bag and probably put a couple of those little water absorbing silicone packets in there as well. If access isn’t an issue then maybe some sealant around the seams to keep it more water tight.

  Magnetic tape would be better for long term storage as well I think. Those have longer storage stability. I don’t know how long an unplugged hard drive will reliably store information.

  Animals could dig it up but probably wouldn’t as it wouldn’t smell like food. Depth wise I’d go for at least a couple feet deep, the traditional 6 is a surprisingly deep hole and temperature gets more consistent the deeper you go (at least with readily available tools, it eventually starts to get hot again).

  Please note totally random opinion with very little experience with long term data storage. Thanks for the fun thought experiment, I hope things get better and you don’t need your backup data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Universities are a stepping stone to teach students how to be independent adults so getting them used to normal working hours gently is a good thing. Most courses aren’t a solid 9-5 so there’s plenty of opportunity for a lay in at least some days (depending on the course)

  Universities are also research institutions and that all runs on normal working hours, the lecturers are often researchers first and teaching staff second so fitting classes around the research makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect the main reason is the inertia of the 9-5 that most of the world revolves around. You’d struggle to recruit staff to teach, techs to maintain buildings and stock required if they had to work permanently on late shifts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers: 1 Star⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember where I saw these but the rest of these animal reviews are also great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much of a persons body is needed to survive?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, you’d want to talk to someone like an intensive care doctor really but yeah a lot of your organs can be replaced mechanically these days at least for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much of a persons body is needed to survive?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends what you mean by survive.

  You could do ECMO and dialysis and get rid of the heart, lungs and kidneys, parenteral nutrition to feed via an IV so no need for a gut.

  The patient would be bed bound and at immediate risk of dying from a complication but in theory that’s basically an empty abdominal cavity connected to a brain and a bunch of machines.

  You would need enough decent sized blood vessels left to connect it all up but otherwise not much physically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a fart dry vs wet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A wet fart is a slightly more polite way to say shit yourself.

  Basically if there is poo in your undies after a fart it was a wet day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a lot better than other electric toothbrushes whilst retaining waterproofing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, you need to send it back to them but for a few quid (or included if you have their replacement head subscription) they will change the battery for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have recently gotten ourselves some SURI toothbrushes and they are eco friendly, repairable, the heads are recyclable/ biodegradable. They also give a better clean than my old oral b electric. Quieter too. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In summary of the nature article:

  Listen and be interested in why they hold those opinions, use motivational interviewing techniques (I explain this as Inception, trying to get the patient to have the ideas) and provide solid evidence, be realistic about data and certainty, ie the MMR vaccine is safe (and doesn’t cause autism) the COVID vaccine has less data as it’s newer, but it is still safer for the vast majority of people than COVID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a question random people on the internet can answer easily, but I can offer you some things to think about which might help.

  I’m in a medical field in the UK and do some interviewing so I’d be asking you why you want to pick a job with long hours, bad pay (comparatively for the responsibility), poor working conditions? Medicine is not a job for people who want to breeze through or are just a little bit interested in biology and people.

  I’d recommend you get some work experience, health care assistant jobs are commonplace in the UK and a great way to see if medicine is right for you, universities here look on it very favourably as well. If you can do a 12 hour shift where you are exposed to blood, poo, urine and vomit and still want to go back for more then I’d say medicine is probably an ok field for you.

  What are your goals? Helping people is a common response in medical interviews but you can help in lots of ways, law like you’ve already been considering, engineering, accounting etc. What do you get out of medicine that you can’t get elsewhere?

  Do you want to make lots of money and have an easier life, don’t pick medicine, pick something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self insert power fantasy recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dragons dogma 1 and 2 fit the bill I think. 2 more so than the first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 4th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any recommendations on the mods? There are loads!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 4th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I have been playing Vintage Story. We’re really enjoying it. It’s a block survival game ala Minecraft but it’s much nicer to look at and the mechanics are way more in depth.

  We’re in our first winter currently and doing things around the house we built at the start of the cold season (so we can stay close to somewhere warm). We’ve just made our first windmill and are building a chicken coop and making our farm look nicer with fences and paths. I’ve just started tanning to make leather using barrels full of borax and tannins (which you get by soaking oak logs in water for a day or so).

  It’s also highly customisable with the world gen/ server settings and mods. For example we’ve moved our default spawn to our base and have a mod that sets spawn at beds for when we are off exploring.

  It’s in early access but there’s definitely enough game to justify the cost at present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they are common beach wear but a visiting a site for looking at women wearing them is not something most people would do at work so they are probably right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Americanized names of places etc exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of this is due to colonialism. Back when the Brits were sailing around pointing cannons at people and being delightful they didn’t respect local culture and dialects enough to bother with a “tricky” word so replaced it with an easier version. Unfortunately due to that expansion and the proliferation of English as the most common trade language the English versions tend to stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also think E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy is a masterpiece of jank?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played this for a few hours on a laptop a decent number of years ago. Such a weird game. I had no idea what was going on in the story despite all the exposition. I’m pretty sure you are in a cult but could be totally wrong. There were a load of options for gear and upgrades. It was definitely interesting and had potential. I think I stopped playing and didn’t finish it because I didn’t really understand why I was doing anything and I think I struggled to recognise any of the characters between scenes, if there were any persistent characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in healthcare and it’s an append-i-cectomy not an appen-dectomy. It should have the i pronounced. The Americanised version is just lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you got to go on a short cruise where they returned you unharmed to your original destination.

  That’s definitely not human trafficking but the situation you put yourself in could have very very easily gone that way if the people on the boat wanted it to and you were lucky you came out of it unharmed and free.

  The things we do as teenagers eh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing off new features for my home cockpit: Priority alerts, sounds and more status indicators⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s so cool.

  Looks like Elite dangerous, I’m just trying to work out what ship you’re in?

  Have you tried VR? How does it compare to the sim set up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3,700 hrs in Rimworld - my current colony⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Snap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to learn how to work from home make sure you learn from an expert⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can buy them. Henry the hoover. Really popular UK brand usually in commercial buildings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from telling your parents you probably need to change your toilet habits and diet. You should spend less than a couple of minutes on the loo to open your bowels. Lots of water and a high fiber diet will help. Most people spend way too long straining on the toilet and that’s how you get haemorrhoids. Don’t be embarrassed though it’s a really common problem your parents likely have them themselves or know people who struggle with them.