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  1. Also, looking at the splash patterns in the sink, I'm wondering whether some sink splashing reaches my moustache region when I am rinsing my lips and not rinsing above my lips. That could be why the moustache hairs are problematic. But, per the above, I still remember what I ate: rod-shaped cookies first, and then bagels yesterday. The bagels didn't touch my moustache region but only a wider area of my lips, after my lips were extensively rinsed, and the effect was unusually severe despite the extensive rinsing. I don't know what is happening today, the day after, but something is going on, and I'm tentatively blaming the sink. I'm carefully biting my crackers out of their bag after running out of bottled water, and I'm pulling out the ones that might have touched my lip. I just had another flare up and it made me momentarily reconsider, but I'm pretty sure. Another Addendum: Two days ago I decided to snort the water into my nose until my nasal passages were clean. I may have actually re-sensitized myself to the effects if it could have splashed from the sink to my nose, essentially refilling my nasal cavity with more of it so that I experience a more enduring sinusoidal effect.
  2. I don't know why the book summary is missing. I already have general biological knowledge and personally acquired medical knowledge. Even at sub-sniffling doses I can feel restless and scatter-brained, but this effect oddly doesn't increase proportionally to the sniveling and on a few occasions has been quite intense in the absence of any sniffles. I don't know whether to blame it on histamine. Anyway, I have just confirmed that I am washing it from my cheek rather than washing it off from my lips. I should probably partition my pouring technique into two different steps, so that my pouring doesn't just grab more from the periphery as it washes away. I poured out more than a few ounces this time, and I still had issues. On the prior night I tried putting plastic over my face, but I was touching the plastic as I was tearing the ear holes. Working it out later, I realized that I had indirectly touched my cheek on the very periphery of where I would pour the water, and it was its location on the periphery that allowed it to act as a reservoir of sorts. I still don't know what happened with the facemask. The facemask was never an issue UNTIL I tried pouring water (and sweetened tea) over it, and was only an issue immediately after, not thereafter. It probably tends toward an equilibrium with however much is on my lips whenever my lips are touching the mask. Do I have to add a warning? Do not put plastic over your face. Especially, do not put plastic over your face overnight! It wasn't even necessary. ... Because you could suffocate due to the non-breathable, non-porous nature of the material, i.e. the plastic. I use plastic to keep things dry. I was reluctant to put it over my face.
  3. I have been allergically responding to the tap water, and I think I have worked out the hydrodynamics of it well enough to post it with some certainty. I don't know where my mom's apartment's water comes from. Any help understanding this would be appreciated. Main allergic response: The first thing I addressed was the tableware. Yes, tableware and silverware washed in tap water is the #1 culprit if no action at all is taken. My fingers were the number two culprit. Even accidental contact with fingers was noticeably aggravating to my allergy. Rinsing my fingers with store-bought water was ultimately more wasteful than simply using inside-out bags as gloves. Indigestion: I have also had some big problems with my toothbrush since I began sequestering it. This phenomenon was unique because it wasn't an allergic reaction, but it seems to happen consistently. I think the toothpaste and maybe something else is reacting over night on the toothbrush, so I have to always always rinse my toothbrush before using it, ... lest I risk digestive issues. Beware, these digestive issues are exacerbated by energy drinks - it happens an hour after whichever happens after the other, the energy drink or the toothbrushing. Smaller allergic response: Other more negligible exposure points, negligible as they were, were illuminating. Some wrappers allow hit or miss transmission, and the best solution is to bite the corners off before pulling the wrapper open. It is possible that pouring over a horizontal surface splashed a negligible amount back into my water container, but I am not sure anymore because it was a wide-mouthed bottle, which has its own problems if my lips aren't rinsed. In any case, if the surface isn't solid or isn't horizontal, it isn't an issue in any degree. It also gets ingested from my lips in negligible amounts, presumably when certain circumstances convene. For example, moustache hairs can be problematic in unpredictable ways. I just learned that (with moustache hairs) I am able to ingest some via my pillowcase. (I hadn't shaved, ) I poured about half an ounce of water over my lips, being sparing with my water, but instead of washing off my lips I washed down whatever was beside my lips after it leaped from my pillowcase to my face. I will soon explain how this pertains to tableware. Any effects of ingesting it from the lips are negligible, but the effect I just described seems to interact with what is eaten or drank. Thick foods, like doughnuts and thick cookies, and plastic bottles, contrasted with cans, seem to allow it to pass into my mouth from my lips in negligible quantities. It seems to rinse from my lips more easily than it rinses from fabrics. When I rinsed my pillowcase contact point with insufficient water (maybe half an ounce of water), my lips became a noticeable exposure point. The same thing had happened with my fabric facemask, but I poured out at least ten ounces of water over it. Compared to my lips, It rinsed down the fabric at less than one-tenth the pace, requiring more than ten times the water. I have not clearly recreated either effect more than once, but the implication is that tableware, despite being the worst unrinsed, is also the easiest to rinse. Nothing to my memory contradicts this. All of these were negligible exposure sources, and none caused the digestive problems that I had with my toothbrush + energy drinks. Cans are better than bottles, but I don't like wasting the water rinsing the rim of the can because I didn't want to remove the can carefully. Thanks. I hope I don't have to edit this.
  4. One. Actually, I have to believe you believe it. Two. My belief should be consequential to me to be part of my perspective, or it should be part of somebody's perspective to constitute a meaningful statement.
  5. Netanyahu-Israel's government rose to power as what suspiciously resembles a coup government, its retaliations are always disproportionate and reckless, and it gets ample funding and weaponry from the United States, and now we are blocking a UN resolution to condemn its present actions. This conflict has been a steady, slow-burning fire, but the USA, whose alliance has global strategical implications(?), alongside the Wahabi Saudis and the militaristic Al-Sisi, will bare responsibility when it escalates into a Palestinian genocide whereupon the Iranians will take matters into their own hands. All roads lead to Iran. Before the British-American coup of Iran Couping in Iran, 1953! A Deep Cut With Stephen Kinzer (The Commitee Program/Nomiki Konst) After the coup, reign of the Shah in Iran, before the second revolution Iran 1979: Anatomy of a Revolution | Featured Documentary (Al Jazeera) and also "Iran 1979 Legacy of a Revolution" (Al Jazeera) Palestine and its ally Jordan, another victim of poverty and political violence King Hussein of Jordan: On A Knife Edge and part two Survival of a Dynasty (Al Jazeera), but they could use an English dub. There is apparently a French documentary about Yitzhak Rabine. Saudi/Israeli alliance, Saudi/Israeli holy sites, Saudi/Israeli political assassinations, and each one killing... its own.
  6. Yet the currency would still remain valid in those times, upholding those inequalities even in times of strive. To give a more biological perspective, I think the ways the legitimacy of a currency is maintained are arguably very primatological: territory/land, food patches/resources, safety in numbers/shelter. If these things were still free, it would probably be easier to break from our currencies when they became counterproductive. Cultural hegemony of the elites/majorities can be a, a, something with claws.
  7. Indeed, why does a computer hacker have access to more systems? Moreover, does he have a right to those systems he hacked into? Nobody owns the Internet! But somebody does code the code, and knows the code's deepest vulnerabilities. Perhaps the dollar's deception of simplicity deceptively suggests anti-regulatory stances like longing for the gold standard, while legitimizing the rich. The deceptively simple concept forgets that the power of currency actually comes from an idea, that so much exploitation is actually psychological, and these psychological tendencies are what crashes the system. America's 2009 economic crisis, i.e. "the housing bubble", was caused by predatory loans.
  8. Not knowing socialism or communism, I tend to assume that the communism-capitalism axis is as superficial/cultural as the left-right axis is. It is more like some self-fulfilling guide to coalition building that probably made more sense fifty years ago. Our societies seems to be full of reciprocity-driven concepts that would useless without a cultural context, including money and stocks. Profit can have unintended side-effects. The stock market is self-fulfilling.
  9. Then why haven't we fixed the damn problem?! Brainy Quote my ass! PS That river is full of teflon PFOA/PFOS particles. ... depending on how high up it is.
  10. As someone who is pro-education and anti-superstition, I do still think this is a matter of human nature. This is my personal perspective based on my personal online research. Both religion and, seemingly, these conspiracy theories like QAnon, disproportionally affect women, and women score higher on theory of mind and score lower on measures of autism. Theory of mind is correlated with religiosity (+ToM, -IQ). Theory of mind, measured via facial expressions, is thought to involve the ability to infer hidden motives (and "conspiracies" I suppose). And my personal speculation: The correlation of religiosity with ToM seems to be reinforced by the many correlations shared between oxytocin and religiosity, including ToM score, along with being female, monogamy, ethnocentrism, generosity, and (paradoxically if so) gloating behaviors. Vasopressin is also related to ToM, but it seems understudied compared to oxytocin. Certain measures of religiosity, like church attendance, are stronger predictors of the more desirable behaviors that are correlated with religiosity. If something like church attendance, which has indeed steadily declined, is in decline, it is probably a sign of an undesirable change rather than a desirable change. The above increases the likelihood that religion is some sort of outlet for some part of our nature. Internet conspiracy theories could be the new and even more problematic outlet for those instincts. These tech giants are apparently run by geeky libertarian types, who probably wouldn't be concerned by something like a drop in church attendance, not being aware of the sociological implications. If this is a problem of human instincts run amok, the easiest solution might be natural, not rational, corrections to the environmental factors causing the deviation. Trying to fight it with rationality might be akin to pushing a boulder up a hill. Worst case scenario: the necessary changes cannot be implemented without a political realignment. Stay tuned for even more ramblings on this perspective of mine. Schizotypal personality disorder is significantly elevated among people on the autism spectrum.* STPD (which is male-biased) was originally a subscale of BPD (which is female-biased) before it became STPD, and STPD hasn't been linked with the same sort of hyper-mentalizing that BPD has. Although "high-functioning" autism (autism with a certain IQ score) has been linked to agnostic + atheism, STPD has a unique relationship with peculiar beliefs or superstitious beliefs. The apparent suggestion is that some feature of STPD, like social isolation or socially anxious paranoia, is possibly responsible for the rise in conspiracy theories. At the non-pathological end, STPD has relationships with the Neuroticism (unsurprisingly), Antagonism, and Introverted dimensions of the Big Five. I have come across one personality study that reported an unusually high correlation between Agreeableness and Extraversion (Antagonism and Introversion), which surpassed the Agreeableness-Conscientiousness correlation. Personality is supposed to be stable over time, and not situational, but I don't see why a personality disorder with so many links to psychiatric illness should not violate this assumption of longitudinal stability. The assumption of BPD's non-treatability has also been challenged in recent times. If situational factors can exacerbate STPD symptoms, then the affected symptoms might include the peculiar beliefs. I have also come across reporting, accurate or not, that being african-american increases the likelihood of a PPD diagnosis (paranoid personality disorder). In my opinion, this should raise questions about how habitual assumptions like the fundamental attribution error can interact with stereotyping or in-group bias to affect the diagnosis of these disorders. However, environmental factors like urban lead-exposure could also potentially explain the phenomenon, if it is verified and it is the rate of PPD specifically that is elevated. *(STPD too, but SPD and OCPD were the most elevated among Asperger's patients, in the data I found.)
  11. Our virtue, your fault, acknowledging own fault-lines, or faith in leader. The seismometer, whose fault is these clumsy lies, to spare us later / to spare us leader.
  12. We should have had extras to spare. They should have gone to experts at high risk of contracting. India is a tinderbox. Even more risk, because most Indians speak English.
  13. It isn't over yet, America! Deaths (as a proportion of cases) are spiking as covid-19 ravages underfunded hospital systems in southern Europe and west Asia! https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths If we don't even send them some vaccines specifically intended for hospital workers etc., which we should have done months ago, then I hope Narendra Modi, whom I am not a fan of, rubs it in our faces when they are manufacturing the Covaxin vaccine domestically without patent restrictions. Because, by that time, it won't matter whether the patents are lifted, and that is called petty healthcare CEOs being too petty to be greedy. On another note, the microchip, if it even existed, would probably become oxidized in a peroxisome or something somewhere. Stop eating snake cakes. Matt Binder had a guest on to discuss the 12 biggest anti-vax disseminators. Let us have a live discussion about THEM. The Anti-Vaxxer Disinformation Dozen Matt Binder John Iadarola hosted Kurt Eichenwald (Anti-Vax Story Suffers SERIOUS Blow) to discuss how Andrew Wakefield set off the anti-vax movement.
  14. The thread topic seems rather trivial until you consider that "possibility", much like the set theory problem above, is really a non-referential linguistic operation that describes our use of language rather than any particular referent or experience except the experience of using language. A statement of possibility describes a hypothetical validity rather than a factual validity because it pertains to the unknown, but as the unknown becomes known then the hypothetical possibilities narrow toward the factual reality. Thus "possibility" pertains to knowledge rather than reality. Even your set theory problem makes more sense after considering that "sets" are a useful product of psychology and language rather than empirical investigation of the world, and insofar that a set is imaginary a set is free to produce the sorts of contradictions that are necessary to guide a logical operation toward its appropriate conclusion. err "factual *veracity*", not "validity" A good analogy is a wrench that doesn't fit any bolts. The wrench still exists, it just doesn't work. If my cult happened to worship that mis-shapen wrench, however, that wrench would suddenly become an important aspect of my world in the minds of myself and culties. 😋
  15. Hmmm, what about disinfection via tanning booth? I wonder.
  16. All of this is basic psychology. One gigantic problem-IMO-still looms. How easy is it to provoke a confrontation between sides? Who benefits from the resulting wrestling match? Who profits; who consumes; who condones; and who could but doesn't? Who gets a distraction? TMBS 146: Joshua Khan describes his group's delightful encounter with undercover cops. youtu.be/8MZqEuUlzDs?t=690
  17. Pregnant Woman: I might have to abort my own child. Radical Pro-Lifer: I might have to kill (liberal people) to save the fetuses. They updated their translation of Exodus. I can't find it. Is that one of those modern translation? Best wishes.
  18. I like Diablo Swing Orchestra. YouTube seems to rarely recommended anything non-white. Even the disco is white people (Faze Action). Its algorithm just tossed up Trump's Snake poem last night though. Trump reads... "Trump reads a snake poem" Hmmm Radiohead's "Desert Island Disk"
  19. I don't know how many people have already forgotten how the stock market jumped right back up in 2020 when the US government bailed everybody out. I don't know any economics, but I think it is probably an over-mathematicalized social science, like personality psychology is. The entire concept of personality comes from common sense rather than scientific theory. The double blind procedures only ensure that the bias being measured is not the researcher's own bias but rather the bias of the independent raters, like an astrologer who ends up measuring astrology itself. However, the biases are culturally acquired and culturally universal, and the force they exert upon our reality is the force of people themselves. This makes it seem quasi-objective in the same way that jumping out of the way of a boulder is more objectively correct than jumping on a game of hop-scotch, the latter being totally optional even if both were socially induced.
  20. How everyone everywhere tolerates the same styles of music, and all societies tend toward the proliferation of those styles, such that, a supposedly creative discipline is slowly consolidating toward a few styles. I appreciate the lack of words. Ghost Mice, Chipped Tooth and sequel: Death and Hatred to Mankind
  21. Ordinary peoples' interest in these extraterrestrial projects seems to be dampened by a doubt that it will have significant intersectional applications - the fossil fuel industry is one. We do have immensely diverse and adaptable microbial life here on Earth that is yet discovered, including many extremophiles and thermal vent ancestors, like the ones that gave us the Taq DNA polymerase.
  22. Angie Speaks is not about coronavirus, but I recognized the Erik Satie. "Dull Day" is set to Gnossienne No 3.
  23. Karyotype, Genital development, psychological gender. Extra chromosomes usually abort, but trisomy 21 and 18 are not always lethal to the fetus, and extra sex chromosomes in Klinefelter's et cetera are virtually harmless. Klinefelter's people still have male genitalia, but the condition results form extra X's and not extra Y's, making it the closest thing to an ambiguous gender karyotype. In rare cases genital development is ambiguous, but I am unaware of the relationship between intersex genitalia and extra sex chromosomes. I would imagine that some countries include an "intersex" option for newborns. Psychological gender depends on the brain and maybe even socialization. Anthropologists know that historically many cultures recognized people of a "third gender." Autistic people are on average less gender conforming. Dissociative identity disorder (DID) involves "identity disturbances" that can include amnesia, leaving home (as in dissociative fugue), altered dialect (an accent), and yes gender changes. In many cases, there are intersex scenarios, third gender or transgender scenarios, or in rare cases a destabilization of gender (as a psychological trauma coping mechanism). Moreover, I think our culture and probably most cultures have a tendency to genderize emotional stsates and their expression even though the notion of a gender-specific emotion is absurd. Paul Ekman's research identified 6 or 7 universal emotions until the Fore of Papua Guinea whittled it down to 5. Happy, sad, angry, fearful/surprised, and contempt was dropped. ... 6: forgot disgust.
  24. I almost found a studio produced cover of Son of Sam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXkefMiLvw 4+ cover albums in 5 years and nobody wants to touch it. No Name #3 gets a lot of covers, considering.
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