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It activates the same chemicals in your brain as cocaine! not-built-for-this

Well, yeah, there are only ~~three~~^[@Neuromancer49@midwest.social corrected me] a few neurotransmitters. That's not saying much.

You know what else activates those chemicals? Practically everything. When scientists breed "knockout" mice without dopamine, the mice just stand there until they die of thirst, because there is no reward for.... living.

It contains more germs than a toilet seat! NOOOOO

Germs like moist surfaces. We don't want germs on our toilets, which is why we make them out of porcelain, which is hard, dry, non-porous, and easy to clean.

If it had more germs than your colon, then I would be concerned.

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[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

She is a treasure, after I read about that moron talking about "vibe physics" I really needed someone to spend an hour enumerating all the specific ways they were being stupid.

Wow buddy, a machine designed to emit affirming text emitted some text that said "who's a smart boy? You are, yes you are!" and it broke your fucking brain in twain.

The billionaires piss me off especially because they have the resources to poach the greatest teachers of our age and just like hang out with them in some tropical paradise getting totally immersed in a field. No pressure to produce useful work, just the ecstasy of following pure curiosity in the company of genius. But nah, even that is too much like actual work for them.

PS It's not just seppos, that shit is everywhere. People think knowing some silly stuff about what a wavefunction is makes you into some sort of god. I got hired to a bunch of jobs I could not do on the basis of being a physics knower and my bosses often wanted me to affirm their dumb Deep Thoughts.

[–] dat_math@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

brain in twain

sick band name, what kinda stuff do you guys usually play?

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

I am a solo act, doing some pretty avant garde stuff. Tends towards screaming based chants at the news and spoken word anti-LLM multi-hour long screeds.