[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago

I think now is a great time to separate pride events from these corporate scum. They never have been and will never be allies, just opportunists who would just as willingly burn parades to the ground if it maximizes profit. The capitalist machine will never be your friend.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 month ago

Many millennials are middle aged now but I think securing $3.3M is a stretch for most of that generation.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago

I stuff my woodpecker's holes full of acorns before I gobble it up. Doesn't everyone?

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 months ago

I'm direct and highly value honesty, but I've learned that's no excuse for lacking tact. Being a minimal degree of kind and polite to neurotypical people isn't particularly difficult, it's just learning to interface with someone whose emotional drivers you may not completely share. It's easier than learning to interface with a nonverbal species like a cat or a parrot.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 months ago

It's really both, neurons communicate electrochemically. Neurons establish a voltage difference across their membrane, typically positive outside, negative inside, by concentrating ions on one side or the other. In a single neuron, the action potential (signal) results in the electric polarity of the cell membrane switching to negative outside, positive inside, with the change in gradient cascading down the length of the axon as ions are allowed to flow across the membrane by voltage-gated ion channels. After depolarization, ions are actively and selectively pumped to either side of the membrane, repolarizing it.

There's a lot more to it than that but it's 100% charge dependent. The change in charge is mediated by the flow of ions across a membrane instead of the flow of electrons through a conductor, hence why it's slower.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 7 months ago

I was taught the same. I got extra credit for memorizing that the Nile River was a "notable exception".

While I didn't go to school in Texas, our school district used material developed there. It figures.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago

I think the only thing that will come of this is a number of Trump supporters that might have forgotten to vote will be sure to vote now.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago

But think of the art!!!

/s

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago

Little Grandpa story time:

Ponies are generally nicer than horses, but I was raised believing ponies were angry, vicious little assholes. My father was bucked off of a pony in his twenties, causing him to break a rib and paralyze half of his diaphragm. Being the actual asshole in this story, he never stopped to think that maybe he was too heavy and too drunk for a pony, so he spread pony hate throughout his life. I want angry ponies as I dislike my father and on a primal level think they'd keep me safe from people like him, like two pissy, grass eating charms to protect against narcissists.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

Hi! I'm a scientist. A microbiologist, even. If I watched the video evidence every Internet person threw at me, I'd likely still be catching up to a backlog from my twenties. It's time consuming and, more often than not, completely full of insane conspiracy theories.

If there's even any primary research referenced, then you have to vet that to determine if the video makers even interpreted it correctly. If they haven't, that's an entire extra step where you argue with the person providing the video about how the research was misrepresented or misunderstood.

So GTFO of here with "if you had bothered to watch the videos". It's "if the OP had bothered to link the actual research".

We're not going to do the work of substantiating someone's point for them.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

No, but that's around the point where my cat's bedtime routine can get triggered.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

I have one of the conditions some doctors suspect is the root cause of long COVID, mast cell activation disorder, and it absolutely sucks ass if it's uncontrolled. It can make for some amazing naps, but they get old when it's all you can do.

I'm fine'ish now, although I guzzle the contents of a small pharmacy every month.

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