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The buoyancy also surely plays a role... having relief from the ever present pull of gravity on our muscles and skeleton while floating through water is itself quite stress relieving.

Just looking at that photo makes my adrenaline and cortisol levels decrease!

Does $100 represent total production costs (materials, labor and payroll, property and overhead, shipping, insurance, taxes, etc.), or does it represent only your raw materials costs? If the first, then you don’t have enough info to answer. If the second, then your 20% drop in costs results in your profit going from $25 instead to $45. That represents a 56% profit (up from the original 25% profit earned with the higher materials costs).

Professor Gilden?!? When did you change your first name to Steve? Depends on the nature of the research. For things where harm is unlikely, they only need to be given the opportunity to be informed, but can sign off without first being forced to comprehend. There are usually institutional review boards overseeing such things. Is there a particular problem you have with me? Thanks for the neg rep. Please stop abusing the PM system and instead keep the conversation here out in the open.

The skin suit surely adds to this, much like a thunder coat for dogs who fear lightening storms. There’s a thing called the dive reflex which also results in changes to our blood flow through the trigeminal and vagus nerves: https://dan.org/alert-diver/article/how-the-dive-reflex-protects-the-brain-and-heart/ A whole greater than the sum of its parts…

For someone who uses it so often in his own posts, I find it strange you’re so unfamiliar with hyperbole in those submitted by others.

Sensory deprivation is another potential explanation for the calming effect. While it can cause overwhelming anxiety in some, it can often quiet and soothe raving racing minds in others. I suggest being underwater deprives us of nearly all of the sounds so common in our terrestrial days, and the peace from audio triggers that come from that may be part of the answer here.

Panpsychism is what it drew to mind for me. Also, wasn’t elan vital brother to gore vidal? It’s literally impossible to exist anywhere else.

Do you believe the way rudeness gets measured and classified (and who defines those classifications) has no bearing on the ethics of any research into it? Who are you again?

In any sense One is more immersive So perhaps in that sense

You’re the one proposing we research rudeness. I asked by what measure and told me nothing in reply. It’s your study idea, not mine. To be frank, I’m comfortable with ignoring it and flushing it down the drain. You should consider reading up on it. We’ve been doing it for decades.

The quiet in a house cannot be equated with the quiet of underwater.

I think the rule that players on the baseball field are allowed to wear gloves and mits and better catch balls I hit their way with the bat is unfair. It’s sports. It’s literally a set of arbitrary rules than can be arguably changed. I also think it’s unfair that hockey players get to rest on a bench when lines change and penalties occur. The rules should say they must do pull-ups while they wait, otherwise it’s not fair. Fairness will never be absolute, but that doesn’t mean that some choices aren’t more fair or less fair than others across the most number of people. This is all an awful lot of handwringing and panty twisting for all 11 of those trans athletes out there actually trying to compete.

Perhaps learn that an autodidactic may learn things in parallel, not just serially.

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It may be as simple as the deep concentrated focus it brings. All noise goes quiet when you dive and otherwise fall into a meditation doing something about which you’re passionate.

What is your metric for rudeness? Is it binary yes/no, or does it have different intensities along a scale? Who gets to decide these ratings, and how is bias removed or minimized before averages and analyses get conducted? It needs to allow consent to be informed. These aren’t new questions (see also previous comments about reinvented wheels) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5980471/

Neither

As our experiences change, so does the information we must transmit to fellow members of our pack or tribe. New words evolve to align with those new experiences, and the words which work best and most efficiently get selected for.

It may be beneficial to learn more about what has been previously and what is already being done today so you may better focus your energies into remaining gaps (instead of wheel reinvention)

What if we do both? It depends rather a lot on how we do it as well as why.

Seconded

Risk is so negligibly small IMO as to be dismissed and disregarded. Main risk seems to be fire from heat. If your device is getting so extremely hot while it charges as to ignite any items surrounding it, then case or no case will result in similar outcomes. It’s time to replace. The only time it makes sense to remove a case for charging IMO is if you’re using a wireless induction pad and the case interferes with successful transfer of power.

Happiness is the wrong metric, IMO. Healthiness, specifically mental health, is the way to go. You lose your job and have an entire family counting on you for survival? Don’t worry, be happy! Your spouse get raped leaving work? Don’t worry, be happy! Your child die in a fire? Don’t worry, be happy! You got diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of 14? Don’t worry, be happy! Did warring tribes raid your village and slaughter everyone living there? Don’t worry, be happy! Can’t afford food or shelter and living in squalor for decades at a time? Don’t worry, be happy! Nonsense. Feeling the reality around us and dealing with it in a healthy authentic manner needs to be the goal, not some bumper sticker “turn that frown upside down!” childish cartoon view of goals for existence. If feeling better is your goal, then science has shown charity and helping others, finding meaning in our actions, spending time outdoors, and getting consistent quality sleep tend to be the strongest levers…. But disappointment and failure will be your primary outcome if you try to prioritize happiness over healthiness.

Droughts are worse and wild fires are extinguished to protect dwellings. This creates more tinder and sparks from human activities and power lines love jumping into kindling like that.