Posts by rowdyridge59

Michelle Patel78 said:he's part of an experimental generation

🙂 I'm sticking to the old plan 😎

A lot has shifted since my last update. Now that the FBI is hunting down Father Marko Ščepić, my only shot at becoming a Bumblebee is totally dead in the water. I’ve been digging through some zoology texts lately, looking into the hormones that trigger metamorphosis in insects—is there any way I could manipulate my own pupation process so I finally emerge as a little bzzzz bzzzzz Bumblebee? 👍
I mean, Bumblebees crawl out of cocoons, right? Or do they just pop out fully formed? 😕 👍 👍

Besides messing with hormones, maybe I could just infect myself with a viral vector carrying Bumblebee DNA? I'd slowly shrink, grow tracheae and wings, turn more and more yellow until I'm just one big bzzzz, eventually flying circles around the Eiffel's Tower hehehe 🙂

Is there any other way? 👍

nataniel said:Just a quick side note, I'm gonna focus on body language.
I gotta admit, I used to be pretty skeptical about this whole "body language" thing—until I had my own little epiphany.

The BODY LANGUAGE between two people tells you all those tiny nuances, exposing everything they’re trying to hide behind their actual words.

So, I started this new job. We've got these glass-walled offices, so we can basically see everyone.

I DON'T KNOW ANYONE OR ANY OF THE OFFICE POLITICS YET. I'm just watching. One day, this young woman walks into my boss's office... They start talking, and on the surface, it looks strictly professional...

And at one point, just watching them, I lean over to the coworker next to me and go, "Those two are hooking up. And they have been for a while."

She practically spat in my face—and get this, she's been there for years, knows everyone... and she didn't see it coming at all...
Most of them didn't have a clue....

Turns out, I was right. Those two had been seeing each other for two years, confirmed later.

I caught the whole thing just from a few non-verbal cues.

They called me a witch, but they've said that before; I'm used to it.

😁

Goddammit, I don't miss a thing, seriously.

That happens to me too.😢

I mean, if I can figure out who's sleeping with whom, I'm still miles away from actually being good at sex myself... 😢 🤣

Some people can make those conclusions consciously through intense observation, but for me, it kind of happens subconsciously. My brain just processes a ton of info and hands me the final result: "They're touching each other's junk." And more often than not, I'm right. As far as I know, that 7% rule is still a thing, though I'd have to look up how they actually pulled that experimental data together.

Michelle Patel78 said:Look, if you can't actually be Alexander Moore44, you can still read about them. People read about all kinds of stuff. Just because someone’s reading up on Alexander Moore44 doesn't mean they think they can actually become one.

That’s exactly what eats at me.

Think about any dream you've ever had. I don't know you well enough to pick one, but let's say you want to be an actress in Hollywood, but it's just never going to happen. Would reading about people who actually made it help? Hell no, it would just make you realize even more that you belong there and that you're meant to be a Hollywood star. That's how it is for me and the bumblebees. I know everything there is to know; I've devoured every biology textbook and every scrap of literature out there regarding bumblebees, and my final, absolute decision is that I want to be a bumblebee. I want to hang out with them.

I want to carry honey. 😢

Yeah, yeah, this is exactly what I deal with in the real world—constant mockery or just straight-up public ridicule.

Look, you gotta understand that I'm just trying to be different. Honey is this beautiful, viscous, bzzzzzzzz sweet liquid, and I want to smear it all over my wings (I'm telling you this so you can actually picture it and realize I'm not even that much weirder than any of you).

I was reading on some medical site about how one guy basically turned himself into a reptile and another became a tiger. They tattooed scales all over the reptile guy's body, split his tongue, messed with him, all that stuff. So why is it suddenly impossible for me to be—a bumblebee?

It’s been a few days since curiosity finally got the better of me... I picked up "Push the Button" by the Chemical Brothers. Galvanize was the first track I played. Listening to that song, I felt like...

Yeah, just like Alexander Moore44. From the second that beat hit, I knew I was born to be a bug. I could feel this primal pull deep inside, these insect genes calling me to join them. I was just picturing myself flapping my wings to the sound of Galvanize, while all my little legs tapped along to the drum rhythm.

So, look, I’m asking you—my friends, my fellow humans—if there’s some kind of foundation out there for people trapped in their own bodies, maybe one that funds gender reassignment surgeries, what makes me any different? All I want is to be a bug, carry some honey, fly around the Eiffel's Tower, and just go zuuuuuuuuuuu. Being stuck in a human body means I can't even tap into 5% of my actual potential, so please, if you can, donate some cash because I've decided to go through with a full bug transformation. It’s going to cost $50,000, and the surgeon is Mark Spitz, a big-name pop star. He says his track record with these procedures has been perfect so far. Check out this drawing I made again; hopefully, it shows you how badly I need to become a bug.



What do you guys think? Is this medical breakthrough actually possible, or is it just some scam that might become reality in the near or distant future?
A lot of people have been mocking me since I told them I wanted to be a bug, so please, take this seriously. I've had enough of the ridicule, the insults, and being pushed into a corner... 😢

Washington, D.C., Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone 🙂

You probably think I’m just some guy making bad jokes, but seriously 😢
I just headed into the kitchen to grab some mozzarella, and while I was slicing it, I realized there’s this constant ringing in my ears that I hadn't noticed before because I had music playing in the room 😢

It’s only in my right ear, though—it sounds like when you press a seashell against your head, just these rhythmic waves, like the ocean or the stars 😢

I figure plenty of women hang out on this sub, so I’m wondering how they actually deal with this crap on a daily basis 😢

103.5°F 😲

Just hit her with some Tylenol and Vitamin C, then tell her to stay put and stop moving around so much. Why am I even saying this? Because I was sitting at 102°F yesterday and now I’m back down to a chill 99°F.

quietdriver3 said:So if intelligence is just something you're born with, then we can't even really call emotional intelligence "intelligence," right? It’s more like... I don't know, just some kind of emotional experience.

Exactly. An emotional experience. Intelligence would just be the speed at which you pick up that experience.

Debate over. Now let's get back to talking about dicks.
I have a dick. 😢

blueranger12 said:Figuring out how to approach someone emotionally just to get what you want—that’s a massive hurdle too. Some people just get it; they can read the room, see why someone is acting out, and know exactly how to play it. Then you’ve got others who can't tell if someone is pissed off or just stressed, let alone why, or how to handle it. If that isn't a fundamental problem, I don't know what is. Some people are naturally gifted at this, some aren't. Thinking you can just take these skills for granted is pretty damn stupid.

I haven't spent a ton of time reading up on this stuff, but I can see exactly what kind of territory we're talking about here.

At the end of the day, emotional intelligence is basically just a measure of how much social interaction you've had over time. The more you pack into a shorter window, the higher your EI is. I mean, if you've been holed up inside for twenty years, of course you're going to be socially stunted and wouldn't recognize a pulse, let alone actual human emotion.

We could honestly turn this whole identification and troubleshooting thing into one massive, bloated debate if we wanted to.

Look, let’s take chemistry as an example—a subject where you actually have to use your brain and grasp the logic just to crack a single problem. After enough hours of grinding, I finally get why you follow one specific process over another instead of just guessing. But back when I started? I was basically just throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what stuck. I'd eventually stumble onto the right answer, sure, but I hadn't actually identified the underlying issue.

How are you guys going to interpret that?

blueranger12 said:Why on earth would those two types of intelligence be different? Following that logic, kids growing up in the exact same environment should have identical emotional intelligence, which we all know isn't how the real world works.

But what does that actually imply?
If you look at twins raised in the same house, there's always some level of correlation when it comes to IQ. Is it 0.3 or 0.4? Who knows, but there's a positive link for both monozygotic and dizygotic twins. I know twins personally—one's a complete moron while the other is actually halfway decent. 🙂The same principle applies to the emotional side of things, generally speaking.

You'd expect to find that same correlation in emotional intelligence, though it really just boils down to how you choose to define it.

Sarah Long said:I already tried 😁 but if I have to deal with this again...

Why don't you just lay down some landmines on the way to your alarm clock? 😁 😁

Set your alarms on both your phone and your smartwatch, then toss them way across the room. Since it’s freezing outside, you’ll be forced to crawl out of that cozy, warm bed just to go aggressively smash those alarms off. That little spike in adrenaline gets your systems revving, and suddenly, you're actually awake.

At least you should be, because it works on me every single time.

rowdyridge59 said:I call myself a night owl, but honestly? I’d kill to just wake up at 7 or 8 AM naturally without an alarm, no matter when I crashed. I’m seriously jealous of people who can actually do that. 🙂

Look, just try sticking to a schedule for maybe two weeks—which basically means one week if you aren't going out—and hit the sack around the same time every night, say between 9 PM and midnight, then aim to roll out whenever you need between 6 and 9 AM. Your body should eventually sync up with the new routine and just lock it in. Obviously, you're gonna mess it up a bit on the weekends, so don't even think about napping during the day if you actually want to fix your rhythm.

Michelle Patel78 said:Apparently, it's supposed to be a good thing when people dealing with depression pull an all-nighter just to clear their heads for one night.

Personally, I’ve always loved being awake all night. Between the lack of social life, zero stimulation, and just generally messed up brain chemistry, you start making all these wild mental connections you'd never have otherwise. Half the legendary poets probably stayed up on purpose just to catch those weird, intense vibes.

But honestly, why staying awake would actually be healthy for someone struggling with depression? I haven't got a clue.

I’m not entirely sure how the whole brain repair theory actually works, but if DNA has stuff like exonucleases and telomerases to handle things, why wouldn't the brain have its own mechanism for neurons and glia? 😉

placidranger said:Going without sleep for an extended stretch—like more than three days—is a fast track to paranoia, hallucinations, and just straight-up mental instability. Don't try that at home.

That's exactly why you should give 😁 a shot (though, unfortunately, I could never quite make 😢 work)

When it comes to sleep, you really want to aim for that sweet spot—the golden mean. Not too much, not too little. If you’re hitting the sack at 2 AM every night and dragging yourself out of bed by 6, you’re basically fast-tracking yourself to an early grave, and your physical health is going to pay the price. On the flip side, if you’re sleeping from 9 PM to 10 AM, but you actually woke up at 8 and just spent two hours paralyzed by laziness in bed, that’s not exactly smart either.

See, once you wake up, your body starts firing on all cylinders to get everything running. If you just lie there for a long time after waking up—like, instead of getting moving within 15 minutes of being awake—you're essentially screwing with your internal systems, and in the long run, that's a losing game.

Just find a rhythm that works for you and try not to wreck it. You won't mess things up if you stay relatively consistent, even if there's a slight shift, like going to bed at 9 PM one night and 11 PM the next. But if you're crashing at 10 PM one day and then staying up until 5 AM the next? Yeah, you're going to ruin your flow. That’s how you fix insomnia, too, because the body loves having a rhythm.

Jessica Chase15 said:You could totally run an experiment on this. Try sleeping just five hours a night from 11 PM to 5 AM for two weeks straight. Apparently, it only takes fourteen days for your body to adjust, though let’s be real, that first week is going to be pure hell. I actually managed to flip my schedule for about five days once, but then the weekend hit, I slept for over ten hours, and completely trashed my progress.

Anyway, I'm already planning on running the experiment again.

Oh, and Da Vinci used to pull off only four hours of sleep a day by taking fifteen-minute power naps throughout the day.

So yeah, it's doable. 🙂

Wait, 11 PM to 5 AM is six hours, not five. 😕
By the way, I wouldn't mess around with that polyphasic sleep crap if I were you. There was this one psychology study where two American psychologists thought sleep was basically an evolutionary relic—something we don't even need in this modern world—so they tried cutting it down to three hours a day. Six months later, they ended up checked into a mental institution.

Don't screw around with your sleep. 🙂
(Translation: Just get the sleep you need.)

urbanseal6 said:I'm right there with swiftscout8!
I can pass out in five minutes flat, like someone just flipped a kill switch on my brain.
I try to hit that 6-8 hour window, but I usually fail because I stay up way too late. So naturally, I wake up feeling like absolute garbage and totally cranky.

I’m actually curious to get some EXPERT input here—is six hours of sleep really enough for a person to function normally??
Or is that cutting it way too close??
🙏

Look, I'm no sleep specialist (I'm a biology major), but from what I've gathered, six hours works fine if you feel like it's enough. If you aren't dealing with exhaustion, losing focus, or hitting those micro-sleeps during the day, then you're golden. Some people thrive on six, others need eleven.
Personally, I'm definitely an eleven-hour kind of person. 😁

There was some theory about how your brain repairs itself while you sleep... and based on how I feel, mine is definitely broken. 😁