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Can confirm.

I've let several women do my make up and they're always super enthusiastic that I'm down for that.

It is a science fiction adaptation of the 1844 novel The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

I'm in.

I've always thought that a fusion of art deco and 90's anime cyberpunk would look cool, but I have none of the skills to do it justice.

Edit: Someone mentioned Deus Ex Human Revolution, which is pretty close to what I'm describing.

Nice, adding that book to the list.

This reminded me of a character, Martin Silenus from Hyperion Cantos, who has a mansion. In that mansion all of the doors are actually portals. So when you walk into a new room you're walking into a new room on a different world. So like your living room is on Earth but your dining room could be on the moon. Always thought that was a cool idea.

Hell is other people and being alone is a fate worse than death.

This work was done by Chavis Mármol.

And this level of response is why we're still here.

I think it's reasonable to say that, strictly in terms of green house gas emissions, it's hard to determine whether delivery or pick up is the better option.

Ok, but like if I pick it up, then I'm driving both to the restaurant and from the restaurant. Is it not more efficient to have 1 person that drives between all houses to drop off food from a single collection point as opposed to all houses using their vehicles to drive both to and from the restaurant?

I mean if it isn't more efficient, then why doesn't everyone pick up their own mail from the post office?

What it's like asking ChatGPT if America is gonna make it...

Why's that bad? What does a person's gender or skin color have to do with their ability to lead?

Are we finally bringing wagons back?!?

To rub its nipples while you pee on it, duh.

Oh I love Pittsburgh!

Bigotry and fascism.

How cruel a joke it must be for a God to create beings that crave consistency in a universe where the only consistent thing is change.

If only there were some document that clearly outlined his plans in intense detail while he was running for president.

Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Sartre with the fire explanation for this behavior.

I'm going to give you the BoD and say that I think your confusing how addiction works and how the body regulates itself. Also, I should be more clear that anything causing an intense reward response can be addictive. Not just any old response will do, it has be a rush.

Addiction isn't just doing something repeatedly or enjoying something a lot. It's a progressive hijacking of the brain's reward system. It starts with an activity (like gambling) triggering a strong reward response. That response draws people to repeat that activity for the "high". If the behavior is engaged in regularly, the brain adapts over time. The reward response becomes less intense (this is what "gaining a tolerance" is), causing the person to to engage in the behavior more frequently or intensely to get the same "high" as they did the first time. Eventually, the behavior stops illiciting a reward, and you start to get stressed without whatever behavior it is that originally made you feel high. The person is no longer seeking the behavior because their reward system is telling them to, but for relief from the stress and anxiety of NOT performing the behavior. This is where addiction occurs.

Gambling, sex, and drugs all activate activate this feedback loop in the brains reward system. In contrast things like drinking water or wearing boots just just don't engage the reward system in the same way. You can experience this yourself by having an orgasm, drinking a glass of water, and comparing the difference in how you feel afterward. Drinking water and wearing clothes are biological necessities or habitual actions. They're not neurologically reinforced the same way that high reward activities like gambling or sex are.

I think we tend to prefer to think of chemical addiction as the true definition because of opiods like heroin. In the case of heroin, you're not activating your reward system so much as you're introducing a reward chemical WAYYY more powerful than anything your body can produce.

Other drugs don't replace dopamine tho, they just make your body release all of the dopamine it has at the same time, resulting in a similar, but less intense feeling. Getting addicted to these drugs is really no different, biologically speaking, than becoming addicted to a behavior.

Recognizing gambling as an addiction is not a slippery slope to naming more mundane things as addictions. It's the result of decades of work in neuroscience by thousands, if not millions, of doctors.

Professionals disagree with you.

Like it's in the definition lol.

Gambling An Addictive Behavior with Health and Primary Care Implications

I feel like it's easy to conflate addiction with chemical addiction specifically. Anything that releases endorphins in your body can become addictive. Watching TV, playing video games, sweet foods, sex, etc, all have the potential to become addictive.