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- Comment on Octopuses fall for the ‘rubber arm’ illusion, just like us 2 days ago:
You got it, bud.
- Comment on Octopuses fall for the ‘rubber arm’ illusion, just like us 2 days ago:
Researchers at the University of the Ryukyus placed a plain-body octopus (Callistoctopus aspilosomatis) into a tank filled with polymer beads. Whenever the cephalopod sat on the beads, the team covered one of the limbs with a fake arm affixed to an opaque sheet and then gently stroked both arms at the same time. When the researchers pinched the fake arm with tweezers, the octopus reacted defensively by changing its body color, retracting its arm, or escaping. But in trials where only the fake arm was stroked, both arms were stroked out of sync, or the real arm was in a different position than the fake one, the mollusk showed little or no response.
Gotta read the article too.
- Comment on Scientists discover a new species of vegetarian piranha with human-like teeth 3 days ago:
They’re putting chemicals in our water, turning our piranhas vegan!
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 6 days ago:
Dissolution of corporations was once the law of the land in uncle Sam’s backyard.
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 week ago:
Mar Attack*
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 week ago:
Are you sure?
::: spoiler I’m pretty sure it’s a 2009 animated post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy, featuring sentient rag dolls and killer machines. :::
- Comment on Shortcut to Weight Loss: No Nausea Required 1 week ago:
While I share the sentiment, they’re taking about a drug, not permanently changing neurons. The GLP-1 family of drugs (Ozempic) work on neurons too, for instance.
- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 1 week ago:
I got thrown for a loop by the word bridge too. It having multiple meanings made me wonder if there’s a bridge in flying parlance that meant something else. Clearance is also very unspecific.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
You’re just saying the extra steps are justified, not that they don’t exist. Which is hogwash, of course. Indirect elections where the intermediate can choose the candidate regardless of people’s choice is just regulated election fraud.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
That’s just direct elections with extra steps.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No. She looks like a regular elder Karen suburbanite. I’d wager if you take a regular and give it the same power as her, it would turn out just like her. Hopefully less successful.
- Comment on Piss Post 2 weeks ago:
Just not as satisfying, especially while standing.
- Comment on Piss Post 2 weeks ago:
Farting while pissing is awesome.
- Comment on mensa 2 weeks ago:
Not true. Latinos love big booty Latinas.
- Comment on bird based storage 2 weeks ago:
Starkink
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 2 weeks ago:
If someone this to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 2 weeks ago:
Anytime!
- Comment on YSK: This recent war on adult content was mostly started by a single law in 2018, pushed by a few evangelical groups pretending to fight sexual exploitation 2 weeks ago:
One and the same, BTW.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 2 weeks ago:
First time meme.jpg
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 2 weeks ago:
Try some old time TV shows to see if that’s really the case. I don’t have issues watching old Star Trek, but current shows are a shot in the dark.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re missing the point. Lack of LUFS standards is what forces people that normally wouldn’t/don’t like to use subtitles to use them because they can’t understand dialogue otherwise.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 2 weeks ago:
If you have an MH diagnosis and you don’t have two back-up legal addresses, you are on this Ex O.
Could you translate this to simple English? MH? Ex O?
- Comment on Here’s how the U.S. military can trim its massive carbon footprint 3 weeks ago:
Step two, stop playing world police.
- Comment on A monumental 3,800-year-old warrior kurgan discovered in Azerbaijan 3 weeks ago:
The success of the excavation is also educational. Participants included students and faculty from Baku State University, ADA University, and regional institutions, along with local museum staff and history teachers. The project is praised as a model for integrating academic research, heritage conservation, and public engagement.
The whole article was a pair of pleasure to read.
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if sarcastic, but there’s a lot more to milk. Lactose, lipids, emulsifiers…
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 3 weeks ago:
And what you absolutely don’t want in beer is lactose fermenting bacteria. It gives it a cleaning rag stench.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 3 weeks ago:
There are billboards on the road using the event as advertisement fodder.
- Comment on Horny🧠 3 weeks ago:
I’ve recently had to start hormone replacement. Apparently my T levels were so low I was getting clinically depressed. So I went from half the minimum testosterone levels to slightly above the maximum. Now, I’ve always had a weirdly high libido, and I was afraid I’d have to turn into a recluse. In fact, the opposite happened. I had barely any libido left. I’d jerk off just to test if things even worked, and everything was fine, but it was like I was in constant post-nut clarity. I hated it. I didn’t feel myself anymore, and having focus and clarity while all this shit is happening in the world… Like, the hormones did help with the depression a little bit, but it was offset by the otherness I am feeling.
Anyway, this rambling is my way to relate, in a way. You went through puberty of sorts, and I’m going through a reverse one. I am having to get to know myself again, unsure as to what is happening to my body, and dealing with the occasional zit.
BTW, Instead of injecting T, the doctor attempted (successfully!) to kickstart my internal production with a drug that stimulates FSH production, which, in XY equipped hardware, boosts testosterone production. AMAB bodies normally deal with excess T by converting it to estrogen. To avoid that, another drug that blocked it was added. I found it curious how the same messengers are used by both sexes, sometimes with the same outcome, sometimes with completely different outcomes.
- Comment on Horny🧠 3 weeks ago:
I must not fap. Fapping is the little death that brings total ownage. And chafing.
- Comment on Common sugar substitute shown to impair brain cells, boost stroke risk 3 weeks ago:
Everything reminds me of her.