Mercival
@Mercival@lemm.ee
- Comment on Want to lose weight? Poverty can help! 7 months ago:
It is a fair point, being obese and poor can definitely be a a horrific feedback loop to get out of. In developed countries anyways, you don’t really see it in places where food is scarce, of course.
- Comment on Call me for all your home design needs. 9 months ago:
I’m more fascinated by the countertop. Although thin and probably composite rather than natural rock, it could still set you back thousands of euros. At that budget you’d think you’d have the budget for a better sink solution.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Here’s a springboard article, if you want to do your own research.
nzz.ch/…/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-…
The woman, based on whom the term was coined (the psychiatrist never even talked to her) wrote an autobiography “I became Stockholm Syndrome”.
There’s also the works of Allan Wade, a Canadian psychologist, who has talked to the victims throughout his career.
Basically when you’re at the whims of an armed lunatic, you might cozy up to them in order to appease them. The victims were also really afraid of the police coming in and shooting them. Which is pretty justified, considering the police couldn’t even identify the perpetrator before conceding on his demands and bringing in his prison buddy.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
Stockholm syndrome was made up to cover for police incompetence
- Comment on The snail of your dreams 11 months ago:
Oh god, that reminded me of this statue. It has a LOT going on. So many questions. Perhaps they’re better left unanswered.
- Comment on Citrus Lingerie 11 months ago:
Be careful, we might have some citrus-stealing whores in this community
- Comment on Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department 11 months ago:
I love how just a year ago, he was the one to call out FTX.
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and all that…
The whole industry seems like a criminal plot at this point.
- Comment on zam 11 months ago:
Gay = big funny
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 1 year ago:
Horseshoe crabs are not crusteceans, they are early chelicerates.
They have an open circulatory system, where the blood (heamolymph) freely spills out of the arteries into surrounding tissues, so a small clot probably wouldn’t cause issues. Think of it like a cyst, sometimes if an infection can’t be removed by the immune system, your body will just enclose it in a capsule, so it can’t spread.
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 1 year ago:
Sadly a lot of the companies harvesting them will just kill and sell them for bait anyways.
Of those that are released, about a third die. Not to say about the decrease in overall fitness, which can lead to them falling prey more easily.
It’s obviously a traumatic experience for the animal in the best case scenario and that is going to reflect on their ability to survive in the wild.
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 1 year ago:
It is not an anticoagulant, quite the opposite actually. The blood (limulus amoebocyte lysate) will coagulate at the slightest hint of gram-negative bacteria and their endotoxins.
It’s most likely a defense mechanism against bacterial infections.
It’s widely used in medicine to check for bacterial contamination of injectable pharmaceuticals.
- Comment on I'll never not want to 1 year ago:
Thank you! He lived to a pretty ripe old age for a dwarf hamster :) He was a rescue, so hard to say how old he was exactly, but we had him for over 16 months, which is nothing to sneeze at as is. One part of being a rescue was his bloodthirstiness, went right for the fingers. Hence a spicy Dumpling.
- Comment on I'll never not want to 1 year ago:
Currently there’s just these three, as we have lost a very spicy dumpling last week.
- Comment on RIP 1 year ago:
Don’t forget the goslings and moslings
- Comment on How do we make this happen? 1 year ago:
Why do you want more people to visit their public library, aren’t fentanyl overdoses high enough as is?
- Comment on So I'm thinking about starting a new project 1 year ago:
Do it. We need repetition and peer review, otherwise it’s just a case study.
- Comment on A luxurious treat 1 year ago:
I want to believe these are pickled body parts found at a serial killer’s pantry, because the idea someone pickled innocent veggies in this nightmare is somehow more disturbing.
- Comment on this is so real 1 year ago:
I’ve been in therapy for so long, I basically understand it well enough intellectually to be able to help others.
I know exactly how it’s supposed to help me, but deriving actual benefit or being able to apply the techniques to myself has never been the slightest possibility.
- Comment on Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please) 1 year ago:
Lol, rose-scented shea butter, starch and baking soda deodorant all the way baby. You apply it once a day, twice at most, it moisturizes and nourishes your skin, lasts all day, there’s no plastic and you get to laugh in the face of fragile masculinity.
- Comment on Consider the following 1 year ago:
Why’d you cut your finger, when you have perfectly good wrists and forearms?
- Comment on anyone else? i made this to represent my struggle. 1 year ago:
Lol, I’ve had IBS since I was a kid.
- Comment on anyone else? i made this to represent my struggle. 1 year ago:
Ben and Jerry’s has amazing stuff. They use soy lecithin sadly, so I’m still getting a mild allergic reaction, but definitely better than dairy.
- Comment on anyone else? i made this to represent my struggle. 1 year ago:
I’m allergic to milk and soy protein. Ain’t no lactase pills are gonna save me.
