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New comment by luhsprwhk in "Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations"

luhsprwhk — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:47:52 +0000

I don't know. If it's not a poison, why do they call it "alcohol poisoning"? Go figure it out.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations"

luhsprwhk — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:27:12 +0000

So what? Are you saying that long term effects are worse in men than women in humans? Because that's not true.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations"

luhsprwhk — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:48:08 +0000

True, true. What's interesting about this study is that the girl rats were unfazed while the boy rats had hangovers. Do their livers work differently? With humans it's not stark like that.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Chronic ethanol produces sex-dependent impairments in striatum computations"

luhsprwhk — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:42:59 +0000

This should have been part of the title, because the abstract says the results are that men handle booze worse than women, which is the opposite in humans.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"

luhsprwhk — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:29:13 +0000

Giving generic feel-good advice is a decent strategy to farm likes from the naive. Some people have no shame.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"

luhsprwhk — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:19:54 +0000

I long for the day when people don't try to pass off vapid generic advice for likes. Waste of bandwidth.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Don't Bother with Vibe Coding"

luhsprwhk — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:47:13 +0000

"Vibe coding" is an unfortunate buzzword. I do think it's gonna help with burnout, but imposter syndrome is bound to spike.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Using fake deadlines without driving your engineers crazy"

luhsprwhk — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:35:34 +0000

Deadlines exist for a reason; they’re not just random torture. Without them, nothing would get done when things need to get done. But faking pressure with artificial deadlines? That’s a dumb move. It just pisses people off, and rightly so.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:47:39 +0000

No, war by proxies is not peace.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:19:22 +0000

The Saudis have oil cash for all—controversial, but it beats arguing politics with broke friends.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:56:36 +0000

I'd say war became hot again way back when with Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Korea. Proxy wars but wars nonetheless. A major war? Perhaps 2022 was the start of it like you said, that tracks. Hopefully not though.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "Fragments of a rare Merlin manuscript from c. 1300"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:31:08 +0000

Disappointment alert: It wasn't fireball scrolls or a recipe for healing potions. It's a medieval rom-com.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 02:58:15 +0000

It wasn’t America's principles that made it the world leader at the time—it was the fact that, unlike other major powers, it emerged from the world wars largely unscathed. Both peace settlements following the wars were widely criticized as unstable and unlikely to last, and they didn't.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "What to Do"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:59:09 +0000

"Make good new things" is the thesis, which is about as vague as the rest of the article. The other one is "good people make good things" which is just naive. Examples: too many to name but since this is a science forum, James Watson and John Von Neumann.

A "good" motivation doesn’t guarantee a good outcome, nor does a bad outcome ensure a good one.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "The surprisingly simple reason kids have imaginary friends"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:41:50 +0000

"If you find your child talking to a can of tomato paste, don't worry". I don't think anyone's ever been worried about kids having imaginary friends. So long as the furniture doesn't start moving by itself.

New comment by luhsprwhk in "The average college student today"

luhsprwhk — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:39:59 +0000

Every year, this ancient topic creaks out of its grave: the young turn old and grumble about the kids. I bet it’s been whining since the Stone Age.

As for "the kids don't read", I doubt it. This was perhaps only true when the movies got sound.