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by MoneyJungle
Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:12 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Depression is likely not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, study says
Replies: 10
Views: 8433

Re: Depression is likely not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, study says

All this serotonin vs dopamine stuff comes off to me like the four humors for a digital age. I’m not aware of anyone I know actually having their brainchems measured or how such things are performed/possible. Diagnosing chronic illnesses from whole cloth is big moolah. I was on Zoloft long enough to...
by MoneyJungle
Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:21 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 99
Views: 163275

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

Welcome back fellow miser. :thumbsup: Allegedly, I once stayed at a homeless shelter to save on coin. Miser?! I feel seen. All I could hear last night when people were shooting off fireworks for hours was money burning. How old is your neighbor? … I have no idea how old my neighbor is. He’s standof...
by MoneyJungle
Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:20 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 99
Views: 163275

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

I’ve seen my neighbor take a half dozen ambulance rides in the last couple of years. This morning he just walked up to the gurney and got up there in a practiced way. I can’t even imagine calling an ambulance if I wasn’t in the throes of death. Maybe it’s one of his family members who insists on thi...
by MoneyJungle
Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:35 am
Forum: World
Topic: Books & Reading Them
Replies: 32
Views: 18908

Re: Books & Reading Them

I also will now read pretty much anything someone recommends to me This seems highly exploitable. Everyone, recommendations to MoneyJungle post haste. My recommendation is "The Old Man and the Sea". I haven't read fiction in awhile. When I read lately it's mostly health books. I still want to read ...
by MoneyJungle
Wed Jun 15, 2022 6:46 am
Forum: World
Topic: Books & Reading Them
Replies: 32
Views: 18908

Re: Books & Reading Them

Probably about four a month but never really one at a time. Usually I have in progress a literary novel, a genre novel, a religious book, a lite history book and a heavy history book (history is almost exclusively about pre-Enlightenment Europe). I used to have this statute of limitations on how lon...
by MoneyJungle
Thu Jun 09, 2022 3:01 am
Forum: World
Topic: Violence in fictional movies and TV series
Replies: 5
Views: 3148

Re: Violence in fictional movies and TV series

Heads blowing up a way I would perceive as realistic don’t really bug me but I don’t really have a stomach for sadism. I’d be happy to never see viscera again in a movie. Seeing guys in old westerns get shot and grab their bloodless torso as they keel over and instantly die takes me out of the narra...
by MoneyJungle
Wed May 25, 2022 1:33 am
Forum: World
Topic: How about that inflation
Replies: 30
Views: 74030

Re: How about that inflation

Goodwill paperbacks went from two to three dollars overnight. I actually would have to read them at that price. No deal.
by MoneyJungle
Thu Apr 28, 2022 6:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 99
Views: 163275

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

I was in checking out at the local hardware store where there are two registers. Another guy was checking out when I got to my register and he was really singing the praises of the hardware store and the staff, etc. My cashier was an old guy with the vibe of a man who has done a long stretch in pris...
by MoneyJungle
Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:10 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 272
Views: 265121

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

6 dead 12 injured in a shooting a block away from the Capitol building. Seems like a nightclub altercation. I don’t go out at night except to walk my dog. I read they are calling it gang violence. Somehow I didn't know the gangs reached all the way up there. Are you close to the Capitol? They very ...
by MoneyJungle
Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:24 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 272
Views: 265121

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

6 dead 12 injured in a shooting a block away from the Capitol building. Seems like a nightclub altercation. I don’t go out at night except to walk my dog.