I have spent more of my life in bars that prohibit indoor smoking than ones where it’s normalized, but every time I go back to Pennsylvania for the holidays I’m like “yes, this is what the atmosphere of a bar is supposed to be”
I got to say that with all the hand-wringing about disassociating companies and products from problematic figures it’s really funny that McAfee Antivirus is still called that.
Someone needs to do an Elon!twitter update of this classic GamerGate meme of Vivian James, personification of video games, leading anons into exile, in which they’re coming back out of the desert as a conquering army, Muhammad-returns-to-Mecca style
So the mental effects from this “echo wave” are all gone and only minor peripheral nerve issues, what’s left I s is in order to maintain regular power levels I need 15g creatine a day, 36mg (200% RDV) iron gluconate, and to stand up and move around to get blood pumping up to the top of my body, I think blood pressure might’ve actually been the “long” effect of my third case, back before the 1st even wore off completely – that would line up with the first time I fainted (with the 2nd, at the same goddamn bar, an “echo” from my 4th or 5th case).
Also the apparent increase in testosterone might be downstream of the 1st case brain stuff but if not the testes could’ve been 4th or 5th.
I don’t think the way my blood pressure went up last time I was manic was the same thing though, that coincided with a return of the mental effects of anxiety (which suck), which makes me think maybe the “anxiety zeroing” was a matter of the first brain case cutting off an overactive sympathetic nervous system (and then in mania reactivating?)
Even incorporating all this the pattern holds that the overall tendency is for the “echoes” of previous cases to be fainter when they recur and the new effects to be weaker, so maybe I’ll be acclimated after 1-3 more?
Like, the 2nd case where I needed creatine to patch energy deficit (by enabling more fat-burning; as this keeps up I’m appreciably slimming) went from 0 to near-torpor in 10 minutes, the recent iron stuff came on over 3 or 4 days so by the end I was dragging and a little mentally foggy trying to find the vitamin aisle for supplements, but I had time (I had been lucky enough to already have creatine on hand).
And as a reader with medical training explained, if I can absorb iron supplements my body should be able to scavenge blood cells and shortage would only be an issue if I was regularly bleeding out.
No objection! And yet, quite reliably, if I don’t take iron I begin to feel a sapping heaviness so specifically in my blood I can locate major vessels in my limbs by the feel, but if I do there’s a light relief immediately that proceeds to a full normalization in 3-5 hours. I dunno, man.
a fun fact about pope john paul the second is that his birth name was karol józef wojtyła but when he was elected pope he chose to be known as john paul because he was such a devout mclennon shipper
further fun fact, john paul ii’s immediate predecessor, john paul i, was also named for his lennon and mccartney, starting a period of 27 years in which the pontiff of the roman catholic church would be named for beatles rpf fic.
I’m pretty sure that the reason the ice fractured into six slices is the same reason snowflakes are often six sided and it has to do with the shape of a molecule of water and I just think that’s so freaking cool.
How would it even stay lit though?
!!!!! it IS actually because of the structure of water molecules! Water molecules are fuckin weird, as are lots of other liquid substance molecules, because theyre shaped like fuckin HEXAGONS! hexagons are those weird, six-sided shapes that re very sturdy, but they dont tend to sit very well when stacked together. thats why, when you fill up a glass of water to its full capacity, it can go OVER the brim a little and not spill over. It’s also why water beads.
anyway, so since water is essentially made up of a gazillion little hexagons, it tends to gather into larger hexagons as it shapes together. this is not visible unless the water is in a solid form, aka ice. when the water is split, it tends to crack around the established hexagons. that bottle rocket exploded in the PERFECT place to show this phenomenon and its geeking me out.
ALSO! the bottle rocket stays lit because the fuse was definitely waterproof and made with magnesium and an oxidizer of some sort. this means that they will burn underwater because they dont need the oxygen from the air to stay lit. thats so fucking weird isnt it. im tipsy and its the 4th of july. sorry for the science haha
Don’t you dare apologize for science
Reblogging for science, explosions, and cool hexagons!
I don’t know why, but I need you all to know that Ojavenger just… made that up completely.
And when you take a moment to think about it, it’s obvious that water is not shaped like a hexagon. Benzene is shaped like a hexagon because it has 6 different atoms all linked together. Water is 2 hydrogen atoms joined together by the oxygen atom in the middle. How does it make a hexagonal shape, in 2 OR 3 dimensions? Answer: it doesn’t.
2022 ME, staggering out of time machine. “In the wake of Kanye West’s praise for Hitler on Alex Jones’s show, the Anti-Defamation League and actual white nationalists are in a race to win over the Black Hebrew Israelites”
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