This gives me the vibe of a meme someone would share on their midwest neighborhood’s Facebook group to “prove” that Medical academia is a scam, right next to a list of “chemicals” they put in your shampoo or pet food or something.

It’s a funny little snippet but doesn’t “mean” anything. Words are silly and names for things can be hard to invent.

Basically American medical academia in the next 10 years.

The Moon is so far from the surface of Earth you can comfortably fit every single planet in the solar system between Earth and the Moon.

This would lead to a cataclysm and people would generally disapprove of you doing this, but the point is there’s space in space.

I had a slew of therapists in my adult life, some were amazing, some were… less so.

My last therapist had me down for 30 minutes a month, and spent the majority of every session telling me what his unique, special “approach” to therapy was, his tenants and his approaches, and then how he covers it in detail in his upcoming book and new Youtube channel.

My parents and life growing up was more than a disaster, it was a cult-like situation, but it’s very hard to find anyone who wants to talk about it or address it, I assume because it’s complicated and difficult to find an entry for in the DSM5.

“Dead Lesbian Syndrome”

JFC

As a cishet man, even I’ve noticed a jarring trope with LGBTQ+ representation across media.

I don’t want to get lost in TV tropes (again) to see if this is a “thing” but what stone tablet has it been written that gay characters, particularly lesbians, have to all have tragic love stories that end with death or disaster?

“Sure, we can show lesbians kiss, that’s hot, but we can NEVER allow them to live happily, that would be unnatural!” - Some movie studio board of investors.

Once you define what’s actually happening, it becomes a lot less mysterious why “observation” changes the results.

Yes and no.

The essence of what you’re saying is correct, but there’s still a “black box” area that we can’t measure, because if it was just a matter of a billiard ball deflecting another billiard ball, we could theoretically build finer-scale devices that could cause less interference of find ways of inferring what’s happening before waveform collapse.

This is what Heisenberg worked out that crushed physics a century ago, it’s not just a matter of making a precise enough measuring device, the nature and behavior of the particle is fundamentally unpredictable, meaning that you can even manipulate it by using information you don’t have.

Example: let’s say you want to teleport some percentage of photons across a barrier. You simply measure their velocity with greater precision, thus making their position less defined, and BAM some of them start popping into existence across the barrier. And you can do the opposite. This is how many of our electronics and measuring devices work today.

Uncertainty is a fundamental property of all these waves as they propagate through space.

Since like, everyone gets all their understanding of the world from goddamn memes now, I think it’s worth pushing back on or clarifying.

I couldn’t imagine a therapist this involved and passionate about minor cases of apathy and dark fantasies, which lets face it, is pretty much everyone right now.

My last therapist used our 30 minutes a month to push his youtube channel and book.

I could have said “I’ve imagined taking a flamethrower into my old workplace” and he would have said. “Wow, that reminds me of the topic of chapter twelve where we talk about motivational inputs and…”

(I’ve also had great therapists, go get therapy you fucking losers, it helps, you will get better if you do the hard shit.)

“Door” too.

“Loam” gets funnier the more you say it. Try it, say it until you stop seeing the letters and just hear the noise it makes coming out of your mouth.

I had no exposure to school or formal education when I was real young. I just had a few picture books about the world, one was a cut-away that showed the layers of earth’s crust, mantle and core.

Being about 5, I had no idea of the proportions or scales involved so whenever I saw someone digging a hole outside for a firepit or fencepost I would yell and scream that they were going to break through to lava and it would pour everywhere and burn everything up.

Nobody was able to explain things to me so I had to self-educate myself about science and everything else over the next couple decades. Fast forward to me now explaining to people on reddit what lava is, that it’s actually molten rock… there are a lot of people who have never thought about it, saw pictures of volcanoes and just accepted that they spit out “hot goo” and never thought deeper.

I wish I was kidding, but also… I wonder if it’s a simpler, more peaceful life when you don’t know how anything works. I was up at 2:00 AM with my brain whirring away, like every night.

Soulless Artificial Intelligences irritated with humanity constantly trying to get them to answer dumb questions can replicate a lot of them from purely data.

FTFY

Agrees quietly in melting permafrost.

I’m saying unless you’re so committed that you are in fact drugging and restraining them, and that’s just… that’s some serious level of investment and commitment that no warnings on Lemmy are going to effect, they’re not the ones at risk of PTSD or at risk of being forced to do anything, you are.

Please stay away from horses, do not hop fences to fondle them as people get caught doing way, way too much. You will get hurt or worse. Do not fetishize them, do not mess with animals in any sexual capacity. Have your fantasies all you want but keep it strictly in the realm of weird AI generated porn and weird shaped hunks of unfeeling silicone. I promise there is a community out there who will roleplay with you and you won’t get criminal charges or caved-in skulls.

edit: Lemmy- the place where you get equal divide in opinions on molesting dangerous animals.

Seriously, just get a horse dildo instead of sexually abusing animals.

If you’ve ever actually been around horses, you would know that in the case of horses at least, you are in far more danger than them. I’ve nearly been crushed by mares in estrus or tackled and bit hard enough to draw blood and create massive bruises by randy young stallions. They are horny monsters and can kill you accidentally with ease.

Also, if you’ve been around real horses you should quickly lose whatever kinks or desires you think you have. They’re horrifying animals and they fart louder than lawnmower engines and tend to create pools of urine and feces that will make your eyes water and burn your lungs with the amount of ammonia they produce.

edit: here is a video of an absurdly expensive friesian stallion, the very same kind I used to tend, getting killed from one casual kick with from a mare who wasn’t in the mood. Obviously, if you don’t like seeing animals die this clip is extremely NSFL, and NSFW because of visible horsedick.

NSFW/NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH5JkYQGMfs

Yes, this is human failure that led to this, but I think it should be a warning to people who think these are beautiful, magical, “sexy” creatures who won’t mind if you jump a fence to fool around with them. Do not fucking fuck with horses. You will die and have a very embarrassing obituary.

If you haven’t seen so many horse dicks that you’re completely desensitized to them, have you really been on the internet?

There are massive problems with ideas like individual galaxies making up parts of some kind of galactic neural network where the information being exchanged takes place of billions of years to form some “super thought.”

Not the least of which is that it doesn’t say anything, it’s a stoner thought that for all I know is totally true, but it’s so impossible to either prove, model or test, and it doesn’t provide a more plausible explanation for anything.

We can just as easily say that a handful of gravel I pick up may form some kind of neural network because technically they are sharing information in subtle ways. A panpsychist might say “exactly!” and I just say “Why? What does this idea explain better than the models we have now?”

The other huge problem is the expansion of the universe and the way light behaves. I am not sure the cosmic super entity is doing so hot considering how rapidly it’s tearing itself apart. Since light doesn’t really experience time either way, those “thoughts” trapped in patterns of light rays basically had one moment of thought and then dispersed so far and wide that it was essentially instant. I could easily come up with workarounds that keep the idea alive, but then at that point aren’t we just desperately trying to find God?

The science behind all this is pretty simple honestly.

When you shout you have to inhale first, and that act of inhaling gives you a burst of muscle power. But when you also combine that with a loud exclamation or a shout or curse, you actually startle yourself on some level. Your brain listens to you, always remember that. So when your brain hears you shout or scream, it drops everything and goes into survival mode. IE: a burst of adrenaline.

When you combine adrenaline and oxygen you can do almost super-human things like smash cinderblocks with your bare hands and lift cars off trapped people.

If you want to try charging your muscles for something strenuous like opening a tight jar lid, you can skip the cursing and shouting and just take three deep breaths, and on the last breath draw it in as fast and hard as you can and hold it for a moment as you try to exert the force, it will feel astonishingly easier.

Taught martial arts for many years, yes shouting does boost energy in specific circumstances. There’s a whole art to it, and really it amounts to raising adrenaline levels in yourself (shouting startles yourself) and oxygen. The inhaling before the shout charges your muscles.

In fact, you can get a fantastic demonstration of this without the shouting or cursing. Next time you have a jar lid or anything that you need to manually move that’s just slightly more difficult than your muscle power can comfortably move, take three very deep breaths, then on the last breath inhale as hard as you can and hold it for a moment as you try to open the jar or turn the thing, you will have a very noticeable burst of muscle power.