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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How would I troubleshoot an AC unit that isn't working well.English
    9·
    9 hours ago

    100% low on coolant, which means you have a leak.

    If it suddenly got really shitty, then it’s a big leak and no way around it.

    If it’s slowly gotten shittier and shittier, so slow you’re just now really worrying about it. Then it’s likely a tiny pinhole leak. The environmently right thing to do is still to get the leak repaired, depending on your state laws you may not have a choice.

    But for a pinhole you can charge it back up and could be good for years, could be good a week.

    Now you’re a renter, so if you’re in a good state you maybe able to report the suspected leak, and then they have to get it checked?

    It’s one of those things where any one person has a negligible effect, but if everyone goes one way or the other it’s a huge effect, so some states say you can’t charge without doing a leak check and then they have to fix it before charging.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoStar Trek@startrek.website•Why fed ship do not have dedicate landing team, but send bridge crew on dangerous mission ?English
    20·
    14 hours ago

    I always like the theory that the entire Starfleet is just a relief valve for people who can’t be satisfied in a post scarcity utopia

    They could stay on Earth and cause problems, or they can boldly go far the fuck away from an ideal society.

    A high turnover of senior leadership due to stupid risks means that there’s room for promotion and ambitious people stay in the fleet.

    Otherwise they’d return to Earth and fuck up society.

    Historically, every society needs some kind of relief valve like this or domestic issues develop. Once it’s an entire world government, they need that relief valve to vent off planet. And that’s what Starfleet is.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•qzsEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    I just really liked the idea that OP thought they were exaggerating the timeline with that, when they were still waaaaaay off on how baked in that behavior really was.

    Modern life makes a lot more sense when you realize we really weren’t built for this shit. On an evolutionary timescale we went from taking a shit while walking like a horse to Star Trek in an afternoon.

    It makes it a lot easier to let shit go instead of assuming the other person is fucking with you intentionally. Which ironically is another thing baked into our instincts. It’s safer to think someone you don’t know is a threat and is acting maliciously. Now a days it’s maladapted into road rage shootings because someone forgot to signal for a merge.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•qzsEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    I wouldn’t judge someone who shows up to a campground at 430 am too harshly…

    They’re probably running on pure lizard brain at that point.

    Like, depending on your definitional of rational, there was/is a reason for this behavior, but it’s not like someone intentionally decides to do it. It’s just autopilot.

    A lot of what we do is just autopilot and rationalizing it later. Shits crazy interesting, but we can’t really study it because it’s not ethical to just cut people’s brains in half for no reason other than to gain knowledge. And there was only a brief period it was a valid medical treatment for things like epilepsy.

    Sperry performed another similar experiment in humans to further study the ability of the right hemisphere to recognize words. During that experiment, Sperry asked volunteers to place their left hand into a box with different tools that they could not see. After that, the participants saw a word that described one of the objects in the box in their left field of view only. Sperry noted that most participants then picked up the needed object from the box without seeing it, but if Sperry asked them for the name of the object, they could not say it and they did not know why they were holding that object. That led Sperry to conclude that the right hemisphere had some language recognition ability, but no speech articulation, which meant that the right hemisphere could recognize or read a word, but it could not pronounce that word, so the person would not be able to say it or know what it was.

    In his last series of experiments in humans, Sperry showed one object to the right eye of the participants and another object to their left eye. Sperry asked the volunteers to draw what they saw with their left hand only, with closed eyes. All the participants drew the object that they saw with their left eye, controlled by the right hemisphere, and described the object that they saw with their right eye, controlled by the left hemisphere. That supported Sperry´s hypothesis that the hemispheres of brain functioned separately as two different brains and did not acknowledge the existence of the other hemisphere, as the description of the object did not match the drawing. Sperry concluded that even though there were no apparent signs of disability in people with a severed corpus callosum, the hemispheres did not communicate, so it compromised the full function of the brain.

    https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/roger-sperrys-split-brain-experiments-1959-1968-0

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? (Edit: No, she is not gaslighting me, but may have some other issues.)English
    1425·
    3 days ago

    Eh.

    It could be just her going thru possible consequences out loud. Maybe intentionally to drive the point home about what could have happened.

    Like, this is some real shit that women do always need to be aware of, and men just never fucking think about, because we don’t have to.

    OP could live in a super sketch area where this level of vigilance is warranted and this shit could be going thru her head.

    Like from her POV OP didn’t take the risk serious enough to meet her, if he’s not willing to do that, her mind is running thru where the line is on what he would do. You zero into that by asking big questions. And again, it could be to try and set in the possible consequences.

    Like, her wanting to know what level of commitment he has to her safety. I doubt it was extrajudicial executions in her mind, and more Liam Niessons style rescue as a rhetorical device.

    For a woman a partner who values their security and safety is important both on an instinctual and sadly still practical level. They have a lot more threats then the average dude will ever think about, especially when young and in the dating stages of life. Even married men sometimes don’t learn about it till later when they have kids their responsible for.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•qzsEnglish
    1191·
    3 days ago

    Instinctual survival habits.

    If you asked them why, they likely couldn’t give you an answer, or they’d rationalize one on the spot without realizing it.

    We have millions of years of evolution telling us it’s better to be grouped up to sleep, and just a couple generations at most for recreational camping etiquette.

    Instincts will always wins that battle