Manjushri

There is a chemical in your brain called dopamine which is an important part of how we feel pleasure. Use of recreational drugs and alcohol causes a rush of this chemical and that is part of the pleasure we feel from using them. The problem is that regular use of such chemicals causes us to have lower levels of dopamine when we are not using them. We end up feeling a desire for the drug or booze to get our dopamine levels back up.

Diets high in sugar, salt, and carbs also causes a dopamine rush. When you eat that food regularly, it lowers your normal dopamine levels, just like drugs and alcohol do, if not to the same level. That is why you feel that craving. Eating such food occasionally is fine, but if you do it to often, you can literally get an addiction to it.

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You mentioned that fast foods are low quality and bad for you. That is true, but but only in high quantities. Fats and sugars were high value foods to our ancient ancestors. Fats are very high source of energy. You get more than twice the energy from a gram of fat than you get from a gram of carbohydrates or protein. Sugars are easily digested making them a source of quick energy compared to other carbs, fats, or proteins. Eating these kinds of foods gave us a survival advantage over those who didn’t, at least until we learned the agricultural skills to make them easy to acquire. Now, many or most people can get such foods any time they want and though they no longer give us an advantage, and eating a lot of them is actually harmful in the long run, those ancient taste preferences still remain in our evolved programing.

Reed said that the briefing confirmed his “worst fears about the nature of the Trump Administration’s military activities, and demonstrates exactly why the Senate Armed Services Committee has repeatedly requested—and been denied—fundamental information, documents, and facts about this operation ."

Every single Republican in the House and Senate is responsible for this. They are allowing Trump to do literally anything he wants militarily. No evidence has been provided to oversight to justify these attacks in the first place, and now a clear war crime has been committed and still they do nothing. Not only are they unwilling to impeach him, they are unwilling to take any steps to rein in his military abuses in any way at all.

Technically, he may have already pardoned them .

Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I do hereby:

(b) grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021

It happened on Jan 6 and it was near the Capitol, right?

Non-fascists in the military who don’t like where this nation is going are bailing out. Fascists in the military are getting nice retention bonuses. And oodles of new fascists are signing up because they like the odds that that they will get to murder people, maybe even liberals, gays, and trans people in US cities.

“Sounds better every time I hear it!” - Pete Hegesth probably.

Someone needs to go back to civics class and learn what the Supremacy Clause actually means.

This, right here, is why the Internet should be banned free and uncensored!

Autotune is not driving up electricity costs for everyone whether they use it or not. AI is.

American households have seen their electricity bills rise 30% since 2021. This is contributing heavily to rising cost-of-living concerns across the country. At the center of these price hikes is the AI revolution, and the sector’s projected expansion means the increased costs are unlikely to level off any time soon.

The AI data centers sector, hungry for power, which accounts for much of the increased energy demand, is projected to undergo double-digit annual growth through the end of the decade. This far outpaces what the existing electrical grid and its operators are prepared to manage. Consumers are finding themselves footing the bill for the excess strain on the system. A study published by Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University predicted an increase in household energy costs of 8 percent nationally by 2030, with up to 25 percent increases in select regional markets.

At some point, people will get sick of this AI nonsense and stop allowing the data centers in their communities.

Yes, as I said, “In other nations…”

Different countries write dates differently. In the USA, 11/20/25 is Nov. 20, 2025. In other nations, it’s written 20/11/25.

It’s basic libertarianism. They want to get rid of all regulations and let businesses do whatever they want. The bottom line is all that matters to them. They want to remove the requirements for these safety features will make it less expensive to manufacture cars, but it won’t lower the costs. Manufactures will just pocket those savings without passing them on to the consumer. And then they’ll move on to removing more regulations.

So Amazon isn’t directly adding anything, the nitrates are more concentrated over time due to basic evaporation as the water is recycled through for a while before it is replaced.

Well, it’s still an issue. They are taking in that contaminated water and using it to cool their machines via evaporation. Their processes are actively increasing the concentration of the contamination in the water they discharge. While they are not directly increasing the contamination, they are concentrating it.

Also, expect next weeks articles to be talking about the nitrate contamination of the produce that they are spraying that water on at the end of the process.

They’re not missing the point. They are actively obfuscating the real point so they can use the issue to push their agenda.

“Ya think?!” - The rest of the world.

So they measure RA after that happens.

This is my problem though. How do they know when it happens unless they are observing RA? And if so, how are they making an observation of RA without collapsing the wave function for LA and RA.

Follow them home, yeah, but then just get a shovel. Then every time they shit on your sidewalk, scoop it up and put it on their own porch.

Maybe they had a lawn sprinkler set up there that over the years washed the stain off the fence where it was hitting.

I get that they are creating a pair of entangled particles and sending one on a 14 km trip. When they measure the 1st particle at the lab, the wave form of the other also collapses 14 km away. My question is, how do they know when the second particle’s wave function collapses without observing it which would collapse both particle’s waves prematurely?

You should have included the bit before he said, beats me. It’s comedy gold.

A curious aspect to the submission was that some of the source code was credited to Mark Shinwell at Jane Street Europe, a financial trading company whose research includes an open source project called OxCaml, described as a safer and more performant version of OCaml, and which includes DWARF debugging support.

“This seems to be largely a copy of the work done in OxCaml” remarked OCaml contributor Tim McGilchrist, who is also working on the project. Asked why some of the files credited Shinwell as the author, Reymont said, “Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn’t question it.”

With all his “directing, shaping, cajoling and reviewing” he never noticed that his AI code credited someone else, who was working on a similar project with similar goals, as the author?

Yep. That “midwestern mom vote” won’t be enough to get her elected again anywhere, but it will 100% be enough to let her grift millions and continue polluting the airwaves and social media with her hate filled screeds.

The lawmaker said Republicans should be trying to win elections on the merits, not through gerrymandering: “If you’re not confident enough in your policies that you think that it’s going to have a negative impact on your politics, then maybe you need to be doing something different.”

A self-aware Republican politician? In Indiana?! Am I taking crazy pills?