southsamurai

Wait, wait, wait,

What kind of helicopters?

Marmite is love, marmite is life

That was my thought too. If it had that, it would have everything I want a phone to have. On paper at least, things don’t always match spec lists

She’s a pretty girl. Order her the nuggets, maybe she’ll hop in the car and you can take her home.

I dunno that it’s cut and dried.

Me? I’ll sleep through storms and music and loud cars. But if you even tiptoe into my room, I’m awake and usually already moving by the time you’ve taken a few steps.

However, different people cause different levels of response. My wife and kid can usually get close to the bed, maybe even reach out to touch my leg. My best friend is the same way. My dad, and my best friend’s husband I wake as soon as whatever it is that my brain recognizes is in the room, but I’m not on edge the way I am with anyone else.

My dad is similar about sounds outside the house, he’ll snore through a hurricane, and has. But if you speak his name quietly outside his door, he’s awake and talking to you, ready to move if he needs to.

My wife though? Fuck me, she sleeps hard. I have had to shake her awake more than once.

The kid is more like my dad with their name being called, but they also wake up to any loud noises outside. They will, however, sleep through an entire conversation right outside their door.

I believe the reason is that our brains filter senses all the time, awake or asleep. Everyone filters a little differently. So it makes sense that we’ll all pick up habits of filtering things our brains have learned are low priority, but rouse us for higher priority things. What’s crazy to me is that those filters don’t always make sense.

Kinda like that, only with more garden hoses

Well, in my defense, I think my inner thoughts are horrible.

Like, the one about hamsters. Nobody wants to see that.

Rarely, because I have decent self inhibition, even online.

But yeah, definitely things leak

Only reason I don’t sleep with my equivalent is that I’ve already had to fix it five times.

The blanket that was my childhood blanket is so fragile it’s not even possible to mend it.

But the pillow my grandmother made for me, that sucker was made of polyester scraps. Which, for all that’s bad about polyester, the stuff lasts. So, over forty years later, I’ve replaced the filling three times, and resewn it fully twice, plus one partial resew. I tend to replace the filling any time I do a major repair, but there’s been three times I needed to specifically refill it.

Back when she made it, it was filled with that loose polyfill stuff. I’ve swapped between cotton, polyfill, shredded foam, and shredded memory foam.

I don’t sleep with it any more, like I said. But it’s right here beside me.

I had even specified being buried with it, but swapped to wanting cremation, and that’s not going to work with the pillow.

Well, when it comes to video games, despite being foundational, Mario Bros. At the time, it was mids, but there were a lot less truly great games, and less abysmal ones so it looked better than it was. The series got better, but that first one was kinda meh. It’s all timing jumps, which is fine as far it as it goes, but there were both better and worse options on that console.

Away from video game, Life is about as meh as it gets. No real strategy, no depth. But it’s a good time killer and you can play it with a table full of people drinking and not get bogged down or into arguments because of the game (unlike monopoly lol).

Walk away.

People want to troll. Don’t feed trolls.

There’s a few factors.

First is genetics. Not everyone has the same base level reaction to peppers and/or capsaicin. And it can be either of them causing intestinal rebellion. Some people just don’t respond well to even sweet peppers.

Second is habitation. The more spicy stuff you eat in general, the more your body adapts to it.

But, there’s also variances in mucosa. Our guts, the colon in specific, opportunists produce snot. It’s essentially the same as what coats your throat and sinuses. Not exactly the same, but the same basic ingredients and purpose. Separate from how you respond to the food, and how used to it you are, some people produce more than others.

In your case, I suspect that you have a higher resistance genetically, and produce mucous in your gut that protects you from the irritants that spicy foods have.

If you also have a healthy gut biome going, it’ll add a layer of resistance to things being over stimulated.

And that’s what causes the diarrhea and cramping for most people. The chemicals irritate tissues, so your body treats or like an emergency. That means to increase bowel motility and flush the guts with water. Which means squiiirt.

Well, you run into the trouble of “help with what”

We do still have plenty of treaties, and the allies that go with them. So long as we don’t break those treaties, those allies are likely to provide the kind of help they cover.

If you mean “help us get rid of the fascists”, nobody yet because the fascists haven’t been stupid enough to try and export it in ways that violate treaties, so it’s an internal matter.

Even if the US devolves into civil war, don’t expect to see external military assistance being provided to any sides involved until and unless there’s no other choice.

However, there’s a good chance that US refugees would be welcomed to some degree in most of our allied nations. If refugees could get there. Canada would only take so many, and would otherwise have to play adoption agency, which they might not be willing to do. Same with Mexico. You might see some people fleeing via water, but where would they go that would either accept them or help them to other nations that would?

So, we aren’t without help. It just might not be the kind of help you want.

With all of that in mind, chances are high that at least some of our allies would try to get assistance into the country to back whatever factions they support. Dunno if that’s help or not, but it is what it is.

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there’s so many similarities that they’re going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There’s still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

I don’t know I’d call it an accent really, since it isn’t quite the same thing, but I know what you’re talking about.

Yup. It can exhibit anywhere. In general, you’ll see people having a “preference” for specific spots, but it’s fairly rare for it to be exclusive to only one.

After head hair, eyebrows tend to be the most common, followed by arms.

Those that grow facial hair would likely be higher in the list except that not everyone grows enough of it to be able to pull it at all. But you’ll often see folks dealing with the issue try to pull at the sideburn area even if they don’t grow anywhere else, and even if it isn’t long enough.

I’ve heard that it’s largely based on ease of reach rather than anything else. Otherwise you’d see it on the lower extremities more often.

But it is an unconscious thing, so that makes sense. If they could consciously choose where to pluck, everyone dealing with trichotillomania would just hit the easier to hide spots first.

No worries, thank you for responding so quickly :)

That’s true enough, and that’s why I said that if Iran was backed by others and that retaliated in a way that might.

Let’s say Iran blames the UK, so they explode something there. Or one of their allies decides to pull fuckery in Germany.

That’s what I was talking about.

Edit: the relevant section

might retaliate in a way that triggers something like the nato treaty and you get some combination of countries compelled to do something, which could set off a series of conflicts that might spread.

See the multiple mights and coulds? And that it said something like the nato treaty, not specifically that treaty or only that one.

I’m kinda curious how all those italicized conditional terms and the “like” in there didn’t indicate the idea. There certainly wasn’t anything anywhere in it saying that Iran our Israel were members of NATO. So it’s confusing as hell how you got that as what I was saying

Worst case, world war three. If enough other countries back Iran, they might retaliate in a way that triggers something like the nato treaty and you get some combination of countries compelled to do something, which could set off a series of conflicts that might spread.

More likely, some skirmishes and back and forth attacks happen, but nobody outside the region becomes involved directly.

Or, Iran could just posture and use it as political leverage to strengthen their position with allies and the various blocs around the world.

Obviously, there’s variants of those, and plenty of really unlikely options. But based on how iran has acted in the past and how little anyone is pressuring Israel currently, it doesn’t seem like it will escalate unless something else changes

Well, ya have to, I stole the old one ;)

Jokes aside, that’s a pretty damn nice one too.