It might be better to do PDE’s before thermo and electromagnetism

The mouse is on the left side of the keyboard. Do left handed people use computers like that?

From sight alone? No.

As soon as I open my mouth and either fumble over a normal conversation or go on an hour long infodump about the latest science rabbit hole I fell into? Yes.

If a person is going to continue being threat to the lives/wellbeing of others, they should be kept away from others.

If you lack the resources to keep them in an institution indefinitely, then killing them is the way you keep them away from others.

For example, a person who isnt in their right mind committing homicide because the voices in their head tell them to should be institutionalized by the government.

Whereas a billionaire pedophile should probably just be killed because they can bribe their way out of any institution/law so murder is unfortunately more likely to prevent future harm than attempting to institutionalize them

I read it as smørrebrød at first and was very confused at why there was sunscreen and not rye bread and fish

Depends on what “makes sense” meant. I understood that the dude basically locked up his wife and she went insane, crawling around the room thinking her shadow was another woman in the wallpaper. Also that she perhaps killed her husband in the end.

I also caught the vague impression maybe they lost a kid since she mentions shes in “the nursery.” Of course bars on the window makes it seem like maybe shes in a hospital, but that wouldn't track with her having a blade to sharpen her pencil with.

I still don’t really know what the message is. People are fucked up? Mental illness was not well understood nor treated well in the victorian era? People can go insane because they’re treated like they’re insane?

Addendum: Just read the wiki article. Yeah the feminist themes were almost entirely lost on us. To be fair I grew up in a very rural conservative town, but that raises the question of why have us read the book if not to talk about the main point? I think we were just supposed to pick out metaphors and similes etc. from the text

Traumatizing middle school reading assignment

A brass ring which functions as a small lighter with sparker and wick for flame

Resistive heaters still suck though because Heat pumps give you 200-400% efficiency. So heating wise, “100%” still less than maximally efficient.

(Not a violation of thermodynamics btw. Heat pumps use electricity to move heat energy that already exists, so the electric power in is often significantly smaller than the heat coming out of the device)

ACTUALLY ITS BOILING SODIUM!!… which then gets used to boil water

Sharks are older than the North Star. (450mya vs. 70mya)

Sharks are older than trees. (450mya vs 390mya)

Bro myopia is the least stupid part of our eye design problems. Our retinas are built entirely backwards for no other reason besides evolution making a mistake and then duct taping over it too much to fix it later.

If your retina was the right way around (like cephalopod eyes) you would have:

• No blind spots
• Higher fidelity vision even with the same number of receptors since the nerves and blood vessels wouldn’t interfere like they do now
• much lower likelihood of retinal detachment since you could attach it for real in the first place
• possibility for better brightness/darkness resolution since blood supply could be greater without affecting light passage
• possibility for better resolution because ganglion nerves can be packed more densely without affecting light passage
• The ability to regenerate cones and rods because you could, again, ACTUALLY HAVE SUPPORT CELLS WITHOUT BLOCKING LIGHT TO THE RETINA

Our eyes are built in the stupidest way possible.

Another fun fact: retinol is regenerated by your liver. Not your eyes, not some part of your brain, not some organ near your head like your thalamus which could probably get the job done if it tried, your fucking liver. Your eyes taking a while to adjust to the dark has basically nothing to do with your eyes; it’s because of the delay in adjustment by your fucking liver to produce more retinal, dump it into your vascular system and wait for it to hopefully reach your eyes. Why are we built like this?!

Edit: A few comments asked for sources on the relation between dark adaptation and liver vitamin A. So I went looking for sources. It was honestly somewhat difficult to find information, but I was able to find two different case studies showing that night blindness in patients with damaged livers. Specifically these individuals had liver damage that affected their serum Vitamin A levels. And after raising their vitamin A levels, their symptoms improved.

This study details a patient with normal day vision and no other ocular problems besides being unable to see at night.

The patient had a medical history of stage 4 non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis, which led to a malabsorption of vitamin A, as confirmed by the very low vitamin A level in the serum analysis… …Subjective improvement in symptoms, along with better performance on visual field, were noted after initiating oral vitamin A supplementation for 6 months.

This study details a patient with night blindness caused by low levels of vitamin A presumably due to Hepatitis C.

Case description: This case describes a 64-year-old female patient with symptomatic VAD, likely secondary to liver cirrhosis in the setting of Hepatitis C. The patient presented with night blindness and blurry vision. She was successfully managed with direct replacement of Vita-min A.

These studies do show that dark adaptation is dependent on vitamin A produced by the liver, but I’ll be the first to admit it’s not exactly conclusive evidence of my initial claim that the liver must respond to dark conditions increasing retinol concentration in the blood in order for rod cells to function properly in low light conditions. That is a possible explanation for these case studies but not necessarily the only one, so take my last fun fact with a grain of salt.

Fake: girl was actually interested in anon

Gay: anon is implying they aren’t in the military, but Russia requires all men to be cannon fodder. Ergo, anon must be a woman, and women who like women are gay.

Fake: two lawn chairs? In this economy?

Gay: went back to a guy’s apartment where there’s literally nothing else to do (besides each other)

Fake: cops obeying the law and following due process? Really?

Gay: Anon clearly took “be gay, do crimes” seriously… too bad he didn’t take his opsec as seriously…

Fake: girl is interested in anon

Gay: dude likes “eating meat” lol

Watch a show with confident and or flat out deranged (but still motivated/functional) characters.

Wait for code-switching or whatever it is to kick in so you can easily start thinking and acting like said character.

Do the action the way you think they would.

You might have executive dysfunction but Hannibal Lecter sure doesn’t. (Bad example but I’ll leave it because it’s funny)

No joke I would do this to write essays in high school. It made my scores go up if I decided I would write the essay as though I was Cave Johnson

For completing household tasks, I’d recommend deranged characters like from Hazbin Hotel

For completing tasks that might make you anxious, I highly recommend someone who would be bored doing the task but still do it, so go watch The Witcher and then say under your breath “fuck” before doing the now more tedious than anxious task lol

I also really do recommend you choose humorously chaotic or satirical characters for most boring/tedious tasks btw because it makes life so much more entertaining to imagine their commentary about the action or your life in general.

Imagining that a character is talking to you (rather than… possessing you… being played by you?) can also be fun, like hearing Johnny Silverhand give you patronizing and cuss-word riddled but still somewhat motivating pep talk for going outside or writing an email lol

No, have you?

Fake: anon gets frequent tinder dates? Doubt.

Gay: while on said dates he’s thinking about another man.

Also it’s like the worst man to think of for both for the object of attraction and for the confidence trick.

Talking like Cave Johnson would be a much better option all around. Then you’re not drooling over or mimicking a pedophile AND you can make vaguely ominous jokes about science, so it’s clearly the better choice