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- Comment on FACTS 3 hours ago:
Okay. Idea. Repurpose Epstein island as a pedo and sex offender prison.
What’s the consensus ?
- Comment on Forever young 3 days ago:
We account for all of that. We have higher quality equipment to reduce device delays.
Are you sure you aren’t “predicting” ?
Also I really question how accurate the website is. Has it done latency tests on your screen and keyboard and accounted for that? Because maybe it’s using the wrong information and adjusting your score out of humanly possible ranges.
I say this because it takes nearly 150-250 ms just for the visual stimuli to be processed. There is no way around this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P200
There are specific processes that occur in the brain that take time to happen. And these are dependent on size of the brain (a very small factor within same specifics,) and myelination. A much bigger factor even within species.
Myelination is essentially the lubricant and insulation for signal wires. Signal travels faster and in higher quality when neuron connections are adequately myelinated.
This is something mostly genetic but can be degraded with diseases like MS and aging.
Of course having stronger pathways from using those pathways often will make them more accurate.
Motor control is , in many ways, the most simple processes the brain does. It’s not that simple. But compared to a lot of other functions it is.
Motor Pathways are mostly mapped out in humans. However, We still don’t understand completely what the cerebellum does but it’s very involved in motor control. (Not initiation tho). Because of the straight forward nature tho of initiating a response we know those hard limits of reaction time for pushing a button after seeing or hearing a stimuli signal.
Also
The best thing for your brain is adequate, efficient, and reactive oxygen supply.
Meaning the heart and vascular system can re route oxygen quickly to various brain areas in response to need.
People want magic vitamins and neurotropic drugs to make themselves smarter but in reality, cardiovascular health is literally number 1.
- Comment on Forever young 3 days ago:
Yeah but there are hard limits. Cause of physics.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 days ago:
that makes sense
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 4 days ago:
Ok it’s funny but black box doesn’t record audio from the cabin. Pretty sure it just has like flight data. From the airplane sensors. And logs of actions. ?
- Comment on Change my mind 4 days ago:
Like Twitter , I’m pretty sure like 80% is fake people and bots.
- Comment on Change my mind 4 days ago:
The real questions we want answers to.
- Comment on Forever young 4 days ago:
Yeah but that was not supported.
It’s biological.
- Comment on Forever young 4 days ago:
So I said there is a difference of about 200ms. But humans cannot typically react faster than 200-300 ms. Even young people. Because it takes at least 200ms for a signal to be sent. So I’m suspicious of this result.
I used to do research on reaction time. We throw out any number under 200 because it’s considered not humanly possible and it’s an error measurement.
- Comment on Forever young 5 days ago:
It’s honestly maybe more flattering than you realize.
Motor Reaction time starts to decline around age 30.
Comparing a 20 year old and a 30 year old. About a 200ms decline. That’s not huge in real life activities. But it can make a difference in games.
So essentially if you are over 30, playing against 20 year olds, you are literally playing with a handicap.
If you still beat them, that’s something.
It could mean your prediction skills are superior, that they circumvent motor response delays.
It’s likely something like that is occuring.
Some humans are really really good at compensation in the brain.
When something starts to slow down or not work as efficiently as it used to, people with higher cognitive intelligence, often find alternatives approaches to compensate for this loss. To the point where the end product is even superior to a young healthy brain.
This is actually the real reason why people who are higher educated and more intelligent show less severe dementia symptoms and get the disorder later in life. Or so it seems.
They actually have it just as bad (biologically) but are masters of brain compensation.
A famous study on nuns is how we first learned about this. If you are interested.
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 6 days ago:
Shoes that match his personality
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 6 days ago:
Foot size is more related to height than dick size. I can 100% confirm. I dated a dude 6ft 4. Wore size 15. Near the bottom of d size of my body count.
Also he constantly talked about how big he was. Always wanted me to confirm he was bigger than my previous partners. Gah. I only dated him like 2 months.
I’m also 5’3". And I did not like dating someone so significantly larger than me. Honestly prefer partners closer to my height.
The logistics just don’t work with a full 12 inch difference in body length.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 2 weeks ago:
Where he grows his backup organs
- Comment on Thank me later... 2 weeks ago:
That depends on two things.
The dosage and the person’s tolerance.
Drugs that are ranked higher for drug addiction typically have strong fast effects and fast loss of the high.
But all drugs have addiction capabilities because of how tolerance in the body works. Tolerance, withdrawal, addiction. All part of the same process.
So back to addiction.
Cocaine. Immediate and intense high. But doesnt last that long. Same for the heroine.
Drugs like meth and adderall are basically exactly like cocaine in many ways except the high is actually more mild (per dose) and lasts longer.
Opiate medications can be seen as similar to heroine but. Last longer and not as strong.
Of course you can take larger doses of either of those two and get a stronger effect.
Even if you don’t tho, people still get addicted to both of these more milder forms of cocaine and heroine. My just not at the same risk level.
And the risk declined drastically if taken at therapeutic levels (like following prescription drug directions).
Another thing you have to consider is genetics in brain receptors.
Some people’s brain responds strongly in eurphoria to a drug while someone else’s does not.
For example. Opiates. I personally do not get euphoria from opiates. I instead get a bad headache and extreme nausea. I had an injection of morphine about a year ago for a ER visit. Not only did it not help the pain at all, I had unpleasant effects from the drug. I was not high. But I was woozy. It was incredibly awful.
I actually told them not to give me optiates because I already knew I didn’t tolerate them but that’s what I get for going to a 1 star ER.
So how is it possible that a drug like an opiate wouldn’t make me high or at the very least block the pain I was having ?
Genetics. My mother is the same. The part of other peoples brain that the opiate drugs bind to, will not accept the drug in my brain. Instead the drug is binding to some other receptors. Starting a cascade of signals that give me delirium, nausea, and a headache.
They are different enough to make a drug have a completely different effect in two animals of the same species.
It’s things like that, that make designing drug therapies incredibly difficult.
So even when we try to give a basis run down of what drugs are highest risk, we can’t say that’s true for everyone.
There is zero chance I could become addicted to opiate based drugs. They literally are aversive to me.
It also means if I get injured and I’m in severe pain, there isn’t much that can be done (so pretty big trade off. Here’s hoping I don’t get a painful terminal cancer).
So at present. Schedule 1 drugs have a specific definition. And that definition indicates a high risk of dependency.
You can read up more about how a drug qualifies for schedule 1. And schedule 2. I think that will help you understand the system better.
- Comment on Parents App'rule'ved 2 weeks ago:
That’s what I thought too. Or a vase. Measuring a vase. ?
- Comment on Thank me later... 2 weeks ago:
Nope.
That’s endorphins.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
I kept dying. And I couldn’t figure out how anyone dies in a narrative game. I couldn’t really figure out how to play the game and gave up after dying 2x in the same conversation.
I’m still so confused how one dies from conversation.
Instead I watched a video about the game.
I play a lot of games but nothing like this one. I wanted to like it but I’m too dumb to figure out the mechanics. And I even tried watching videos and found them convoluted and confusing.
Meh.
Loved the art style tho.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
I really liked and the story. But after taking a year break and then playing the dlc phantom liberty. I kinda was over it. Just felt like work. Not really fun.
So idk. Maybe you just have to be in the right mood for it.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 2 weeks ago:
Well just fyi. The end missions are currently, still today, broke. So only one ending available that is regardless of whatever choices you made.
I loved the first one. I like this one but they made some bad changes.
But mostly they need to fix the mission bugs.
First one you could change the armor and weapons on the companions.
Also I really liked the vicar and Parvati. Vicar was like a snarky gay guy and I loved it. I will admit the other 3 were blah. But the new companions on OW2 are kinda bland.
I don’t really like any of them. Niles and inza had potential but wasn’t developed.
And I straight up dislike Tristan’s personality. He’s just awful.
Aza can be entertaining. If they made her more impulsive I think that could have been fun.
For instance if you take too long in negotiations and shes present. She just starts attacking people after some time limit.Or randomly attacks strangers she doesn’t like the look of.
They could have done something interesting with her.
But mostly they need to fix the damn quest bugs so I can finish the game.
- Comment on Parents App'rule'ved 2 weeks ago:
Well maybe have that info in the screen shot.
- Comment on Good way to relate to your school teacher 2 weeks ago:
I’m a woman. I don’t wear makeup and I’ll tell you why. I have a lot of reasons.
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I’m too lazy. (Meme applies). This is infact my number 1 reason. To be honest.
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I don’t feel other people deserve for me to get dolled up for them. (I occasionally wear eye makeup when meeting up with my bestie gals, even just hanging out at their house and I loudly proclaim I got dolled up and shaved my legs for them).
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As I’m getting older, I suspect that if people get used to seeing me with makeup, then when I don’t wear it, they will think I look like shit that day. And I want people to know this is what I look like all the time. So no better face to downward compare my regular face to.
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I seem to have built up a mild allergy to foundation makeup over the years without realizing it (since I don’t wear makeup) and now I can’t really wear it. At least not the kind I have. I do occasionally wear makeup to comic con for a costume or a rocky horror show. So that’s how I realized I’m now allergic to foundation. But again those are special situations. Probably some out there I’m not allergic too but refer back to reason #1 as to why I haven’t sought it out.
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As a feminist. Who has 3 nieces. I want them to see that it’s normal for a woman to not wear makeup. Idk if they get it.
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I think I’m decent looking and I don’t need it anyway. As I’m getting older I still think that. My face is mine. It’s not a bad face. It changes with time. As it should. I don’t think aging makes someone ugly. Just different. And ive had that opinion for as long as I can remember so as a woman and aging, I’m not as anxious about “losing my looks”.
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- Comment on Thank me later... 2 weeks ago:
These drugs release endorphins not dopamine.
Dopamine is not a feel-good neurotransmitter.
It’s widely misunderstood and misapplied.
- Comment on Complete Snoozefest 3 weeks ago:
Donny dementia
- Comment on Meanwhile, on Facebook 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I had a dental implant I paid almost 3k for, with insurance, about 10 years ago. It recently came loose. I don’t have dental insurance, only medical.
I had to pay 2k to have it removed.
5k for a temporary tooth.
Welp.
- Comment on Meanwhile, on Facebook 3 weeks ago:
Idk I think it was just some archeologist. I have a DVD of the series becoming human. You can’t find it online anymore. I’ll have to give it a fresh watch and see if it’s from it.
- Comment on Meanwhile, on Facebook 3 weeks ago:
Idk I watched some documentary about human history. one thing I recall was that they talked about how people used to die a lot from dental issues. They had old like 5000 year old skulls and was pointing out how some teenager likely died from a bad molar due to the damage on the jaw.
They thing I remember mostly is that they said that modern dentistry had done more to extend human life span than general modern medicine. Because of teeth being so close to the brain, blood infections and abscesses could potentially get through the sinuses and kill people.
Wish I could remember the source material better.
It’s possible it was from the PBS series “becoming human”.
That’s my best guess. But yeah. Dental stuff. Dangerous.
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 3 weeks ago:
The South Park season 28 episode 1 made fun of it . It’s definitely a ghoulish look.
- Comment on This is inssein 3 weeks ago:
No one saw it coming. If only someone, anyone, could have told us this would happen!?!?
- Comment on This is inssein 4 weeks ago:
Maybe endorsement a felon who has bankrupted 8 companies and helping to put him in charge of a country’s economic system was a bad play.
Who could have guessed?
I mean. Cause you know. Unions. Way worse.
Can’t be having workers petition for their own value.
Nope.Best to have a president who will help eliminate unions. Even if that means the company disappears.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 4 weeks ago:
Okay so similar. Apartment complex. Beep was coming from somewhere outside. Me and a few other tenants could never figure it out. Walked around parking lot.
Sounded like it was elevated .but maybe the sound was just bouncing around between buildings.
Yeah it would beep like once every 30 min.
Insane in the summer when you wanted to have the window open.