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This movie made me stupider just watching it.

Not to sound too much like an emo teenager, but... Most people just don't understand that kind of existential pain. They just don't know what it feels like to hate your own existence so much that anything is preferable, even ending it all. But that's a good thing they don't. It's the worst...

He wasn't listening. He was just doing what everyone does: give ineffectual, unasked-for "treatments".

Fuck off

Except I am completely alone in my life and complete strangers just stop listening when I do try to reach out.

Going through withdrawals from medication that doesn't work anymore. They refuse to help me get off the graveyard shift at work. Therapist is incommunicado. I feel like I'm dying.

Was super bored and couldn't sleep. Horrible fucking movie. Horrible acting. Horrible script. Barely acceptable CGI. I think Fadaar hit it on the head. Would have been amazing 8 years ago. Now? Not so much.

Adult neurogenesis isn't a new thing either. It's been around as an idea since the 60s. Taken seriously since the late 80s, early 90s.Adult neurogenesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We've known for a long time that the brain remains plastic throughout your life. It would be impossible to learn anything at all otherwise. TED Talks are shit and are about as reliable as IFLS posts.

That's exactly what furfag is. He's a science contrarian. Except, unlike good contrarians like Christopher Hitchens, he doesn't bother to support his side of the argument with logic or facts or anything resembling the ability to back up his views. He doesn't bother to do the legwork required to...

Why is furfag still allowed to post here? ALL OF THE FUCKING SCIENCE SUPPORTS IT. ALL OF IT. PERIOD. YOU ARE WRONG.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped....ogv.480p.webm That's a pretty damn good explanation of what's going on behind Schrodinger's Cat.

Unfortunately the math unfolds fairly elegantly and makes accurate predictions.

Some local stuff that I really love. (None of the guys in Saola are over 18 and have a better stage presence than bands 10 years their senior... unfortunately their lead guitarist is going off to college.) I really fucking love the metal scene in Portland right now.

Even if something like metaphysical free will were real, it would ultimately be constrained by physical processes.