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- Comment on Have any of you experienced that "snake detection" instinct? Do you think it's real? 1 day ago:
This thread made me remember a story my own mom told me about seeing a snake heading towards oblivious-toddler me and how she reacted without even thinking to yank me away. Mom action hero vs snake moments!
- Comment on Have any of you experienced that "snake detection" instinct? Do you think it's real? 1 day ago:
You know, I don't think of myself as afraid of snakes or even anxious around them, but looking back I remember certain things that might have created some wariness.
I remember going out to play in the spring and family warning me to leave any snakes i saw sunning themselves alone because they were confused and slow (and thus more dangerous?) when they were colder. And my mother telling a story about a snake coming towards me when I was very little playing outside, and her sweeping in to grab me. I could have absorbed that wariness, and it's just in my brain now. I think they're kind of cute, honestly, but maybe my grandmother transmitted her phobia to me while babysitting with stories I don't even remember.
I was curious if many people would mention having a non-reaction like yours. Brains are so interesting!
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- Comment on Why don't people do Documentaries about the average person instead of someone who was in the news or pop culture? Like their neighbor or something. 2 days ago:
They exist! https://screenrant.com/best-documentary-movies-about-normal-people/ These don't all fit, but the first one on the list is about the documentarian's parents.
I think the documentaries that we see are going to be the ones that conceptually interest enough people that they can get, like, funding for it. Or it's just someone's movie they made about grandpa that only people in the family see.
Oh, this question reminded me of NPR's story corp. https://www.npr.org/series/4516989/storycorps
https://storycorps.org/about/ - Comment on Female approached by man 4 days ago:
If she wants to be more polite in the future in similar situations, I think your script is useful and I appreciate it. But I think since his behavior made her afraid, getting away quickly without concern for etiquette was the better move and she doesn't need to feel bad about it. It indicated immediately, if her instincts were correct, that she wouldn't be an easy target. If he was just trying to make a connection and fumbling, he discovered quickly she won't give him one, so he could go sit next to someone else.
(It's useful to keep in mind that he already was slightly rude by sitting down without a cursory "is this seat free" that would be a very basic manners for this situation. He didn't, and it's not evil or anything that he didn't. But when she got up and left abruptly she was at the same level of rudeness. I don't think either party needs to feel bad about it, tbh. Social fumbles happen constantly.)
- Comment on Female approached by man 4 days ago:
I think it's good you listened to your instincts and were firm. If he has a disability that makes social things complicated, being obvious was a favor to him. If he did have bad intentions, your immediate willingness to leave showed you weren't an easy mark.
There are probably good scripts for this, but I don't know them. I just think you should know it doesn't sound like you handled it badly.
- Comment on What happened to dancesafe? Used to they would sit outside of raves and test drugs with the cops help. That way you knew what it was laced with. How come this did not catch on? 3 weeks ago:
https://exronmusic.com/2026/05/17/dancesafe-announces-staff-layoffs-amid-financial-crisis/ bummer. Guess they're moving to a chapter based method
- Comment on Why do people refer to characters in movies by their actor's names? 4 weeks ago:
I agree with the other comments that it's probably about memory more than anything, especially in faster paced communication like an in person conversation.
In like, a blog post intended for lots of people to read, it's contextually dependent. Probably? Like, if they're reviewing the movie, they're talking about how the actor filled the role. In a plot description, it's more natural to say the character name. If the actor is named then, it could be intended to imply the actor never disappeared into the role. "Then Chris Hemsworth snuck into Whosville dressed as santa and stole all the presents with his dog Max" implies that the person talking never entirely saw Chris as the Grinch.
But, yeah, in immediate one on one talk, I assume it's the name that comes to mind first. The famous person is memorable. Though, if you got a very strange mental image, you can also consider the possibility that the speaker was making a joke, like I was with "how chris stole christmas" up there. The quality of the joke is separate from whether it was intended as one.
- Comment on Is it okay for a teenager to suck their thumb in public? 4 weeks ago:
I would assume a kid that age doing it had some kind of disability and move on. A binary ok or not is irrelevant, because it'd be none of my business unless they want to shake my hand.
- Comment on WTF?! Players in AU have to use a CC for age verification via steam just to view "violent" games! 5 weeks ago:
I think they were one of the places where Fallout took out child models so players couldn't kill them
- Comment on Why do women in golf wear those short/skirt things while the men wear pants? 1 month ago:
The PGA bans shorts and the LPGA's dress code doesn't. There's more to it (why are the dress codes this way, historically?) but that's a simple answer to your question.
- Comment on Is anyone else skeptical of the story about a 13 year old dying after eating 3 packs of raw noodles? 1 month ago:
Probably the rapid pace of eating it plus bad luck. A relative almost died last year because of an intestinal blockage. Don't know the specific cause of his just one day he couldn't keep anything down. He went to the doctor thinking it was a bad stomach bug and was immediately shipped off to the hospital for emergency surgery. He lived, but it's a thing that can very rapidly kill you if you're unlucky.
Like, people die from stuff that didn't kill lots of other people all the time. Only one lady died from this:
https://abcnews.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer-strange-water-drinking/story?id=8970712
but dying from drinking too much water, like bowel obstruction, is a known cause of death. Or like when "healthy" athletes randomly die from heart attacks - sometimes the body just goes "nope" and fucks something up. There might have been a flaw in the heart that was just chilling until some slight extra push made it cause a whole system failure.
Maybe the kid had a slightly swollen section of his intestines before he started, or a different flaw in the area, where it was easier for food to get caught. Or he ate it way faster than a normal raw pasta enjoyer would, because it was a challenge and not for the love of raw noodles.
So, I don't see any reason to doubt it.
- Comment on If the bible is real and dealt with real people, what were the 3 wise man wise of? Like subjects and stuff for their time? 1 month ago:
Probably reading stars
- Comment on We tried to attend a Tom Kean's campaign event. His staff called the police. 1 month ago:
Do you have to make an account to read gift articles now?
- Comment on If someone's injected with cancer cells, they develop cancer. Could at least part of the increase in cancer be to do with people getting cancer cells inside their bodies, similar to a viral outbreak? 1 month ago:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5946918/ oh hey here's a study that goes into the cases when cancer has transferred.
In humans, a lot of things have to go wrong for transmission to happen.
Cancer cells have a parasitic propensity in the primary host but their capacity to transit between individuals is severely restrained by two factors: a lack of a route for viable cell transfer and immune recognition in allogeneic, secondary recipients. Several examples of transmissible animal cancers are now recognised. In humans, the only natural route for transmission is via the haemochorial placenta which is permissive for cell traffic. There are three special examples of this occurring in utero: maternal to foetus, intraplacental twin to twin leukaemias and choriocarcinoma-extra-embryonic cells to mother.
It can also happen in organ transplants, since the recipient has to be on immunosuppressants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonally_transmissible_cancer
It doesn't seem like there are case studies about transferring the cancer cells through the air. People can also get diseases that can lead to cancer from each other, but that's not the same thing.
- Comment on In Open Carry states, is it also allowed to openly carry bladed weapons like Swords? Bow and arrow? 2 months ago:
Ran into AI article hell trying to look this up.
https://knifeinformer.com/state-knife-laws/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state
https://thelegalguide.org/constitutional-carry-knives-do-knife-laws-follow-gun-carry/
Does constitutional carry for firearms affect my ability to carry a knife? No. Knife laws operate independently of firearm carry laws. A state may allow permitless firearm carry while imposing strict knife restrictions, or vice versa.
https://thegunzone.com/can-you-open-carry-a-bow-and-arrow/
The legality of open carrying a bow and arrow varies dramatically. Some states have no laws specifically addressing the issue, meaning the practice is generally permitted unless prohibited by local ordinance. Other states might consider a drawn or easily accessible bow and arrow a concealed weapon if specific conditions are met, such as having the bow strung and an arrow nocked in a populated area.
- Comment on Why do seemingly well-adjusted adults find it acceptable to loudly play tiktoks on public transport? 2 months ago:
Possibly it doesn't bother them when other people do it, but my theory is a very mild sadism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet_(headgear) i was picturing the lady in the first picture, but futher searching revealed i was wrong. Hope some other people understand the situation more for you.
- Comment on Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ 2 months ago:
The approach also has “a deep irony at its core,” because the company has long marketed itself as one of the safest ways to get around — especially after a night out, said Nora Freeman Engstrom, a legal ethics professor at Stanford Law School.
“Uber’s strategy recycles an old and ugly script: If a woman drank, if she rode alone, if it was late, if her memory is imperfect, then maybe she is to blame,” Ms. Engstrom said. “But those are precisely the circumstances when Uber told consumers its service was supposed to protect them.”
Yep.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I actually adore it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
By the way, I think my initial reply reads dismissive, but my intention was to try and make clear that whatever is happening isn't normal aging. Can you see a second doctor? Fatigue is such a vague symptom, with so many possible reasons, but what you're describing could indicate a lot of things and you need a doctor who will take it seriously.
My friend was able to do a mini sleep study from home recently, to test for sleep apnea. I noticed when we were traveling together that he sometimes gasped in his sleep, and he told his doctor about it. I think there are DIY sleep monitoring apps but I don't know if they're any good. Might be worth looking into, if your doctor isn't helping. Or find someone to listen to you sleep.
The range of possibilities with bad fatigue is just so big. I can only make suggestions based on my own life experience, but a doctor in your corner would be able to look for so many more things.
Oh, did you have a bad illness at some point before the fatigue? Covid isn't the only virus that can have confusing long term after effects.
A relative with fibromyalgia had constant farigue, but I think pain is a factor with that one.
I can keep thinking of possibilities, unfortunately.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They didn't do any followup? Low white blood cells for that long can indicate some stuff that should at least be checked for. Your doctor should also know if those numbers are normal for your age. Did they make any suggestions? 32 is genuinely still young.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Nope! I'm older than you and that doesn't happen. You probably need blood work done? I went through a time when I was exhausted constantly and was like "this must be middle age" but I had low iron and vitamin d.
- Comment on How can people know what they want at a given moment? 2 months ago:
I've noticed the specific food craving thing around my period. It needs to replace iron or whatever, so I suddenly want a hamburger.
But how does that connection happen? Is my body releasing hormones in a specific way that my brain understands before and after the burger, and then in the future, the "give me iron" hormone is translated into me fantasizing about hamburgers by my brain?
https://www.parents.com/what-to-know-about-pregnancy-cravings-7507166
I figured pregnancy was when people get weird cravings the most. Hormones go so wild then, it really makes me think hormones are the culprit here, with the brain translating them as best it can.
The like three articles I looked at on this all warned about how pica (craving for nonfood items) might mean you have low iron.
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-6357/6/3/26
The connection with iron and pica makes me think there is something concrete going on here (don't eat concrete. go see if you need iron supplements). But your hormones and brain are both flailing around trying to keep you alive, so it can get weird.
Outside eating, the craving is probably the desire to return to some feeling. Music especially seems to get associated with times and people who were around then, and specific states of mind. I permanently associated one song with a cool scene from a story I was reading, and now I get an echo of the feeling from that scene when I hear it. And when I want that reading a cool action scene feeling, I can listen to that song on purpose.
TLDR; probably brain translating desire or need by making us want things it associates with filling those needs. With food, hormones seem involved.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I probably have vaginismus and my experience with penetration is pretty similar to yours.
Cis women do enjoy and even seek out vaginal penetrative sex, I eventually realized. Part of how I figured out I was different was reading a thread of all the weird stuff women inserted while masturbating. I was suddenly like: "Oh! They must really want something up there! Look at the stupid, dangerous stuff they're doing to experience that!"
There are things you can do medically if you genuinely want that kind of sex, but it's useful to remember that sex isn't just penetration. You literally never have to be penetrated to have enjoyable sex. It can be tough to find a partner, since PIV is the end goal of sex for lots of people (as is their perogative), but the world is also full of other types of people.
As for vocalization, the "oh fuck" (doc, it's like sandpaper ripping me in half) and "oh fuck" (I'm having an overwhelming but positive physical sensation) are pretty different kinds of yells, and generally sound pretty different. Like people don't cry just out of sadness, you know?
- Comment on Why do bumblebees die under the tilia? 3 months ago:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/13/9/20170484/50480/Do-linden-trees-kill-bees-Reviewing-the-causes-of The abstract here has some ideas.
- Comment on marble balls floating on water are nice sculptures. why doesn't the water squirt out like when you pinch a garden hose ? 3 months ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugel_fountain Is it this kind of thing you're asking about?
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 3 months ago:
What salt gun do you use? I've never heard of them and now I'm intrigued
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 8 months ago:
There are a bunch of different kinds of places that all link together! Lemmy is a bit like reddit, Mastodon is like twitter, Mbin does the twitter and reddit thing mashed together, pixelfed is like instagram, friendica is like facebook- and so on.
https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=en-us
Maybe this will help?
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 8 months ago:
I think it's an easy naming scheme when you have a litter of puppies to try and adopt out.