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- 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: 9009
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...
- 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: 179923
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...
- 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: 179923
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...
- Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:35 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Books & Reading Them
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20600
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 ...
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 6:46 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Books & Reading Them
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20600
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...
- Thu Jun 09, 2022 3:01 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: Violence in fictional movies and TV series
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3572
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...
- Wed May 25, 2022 1:33 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: How about that inflation
- Replies: 30
- Views: 76309
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.
- 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: 179923
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...
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:10 am
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 286396
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 ...
- Sun Apr 03, 2022 8:24 pm
- Forum: World
- Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
- Replies: 277
- Views: 286396
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.