Alright, look, I’m basically a total addict when it comes to Red Bull... which means I can easily knock back up to four cans a day, though I gotta hit at least two to feel human... depending on how much cash I have in my pocket, obviously.🙂 And I've been riding this wave for like 5 years now.
So today I stumble upon some headline claiming Red Bull can trigger heart attacks or cause major cardiac issues, and it actually made me stop and look at the label on the can in my hand. One single can has about 80 mg of caffeine, which is actually less than a standard cup of coffee. A Starbucks Pike Place has closer to 100 or even more, so if my math isn't totally trashed, drinking three cans puts me right in line with—or even below—most people who chug two or three coffees a day. And everyone knows coffee is supposedly fine for a healthy heart.
In my head, if you already have underlying heart problems, then yeah, maybe any amount could stir up some kind of mess, but for someone else, I don't see the big deal... honestly, I don't see much difference between coffee and Red Bull... coffee gives me that same buzz, except the taste is absolutely disgusting so I can't even stand to drink it.
What do you guys think from a medical standpoint?☕
"The most common symptoms of schizophrenia involve patients believing someone else is controlling their actions, reading their thoughts, or even persecuting them."
I just stumbled across this a few minutes ago and man... if you go by this logic, it sounds like everyone walking the streets today is basically dealing with some form of schizophrenia. It’s wild because nobody actually wants to be manipulated anymore—everyone is too busy trying to pull the strings on everyone else. You see it everywhere, from those cheap airport books like "Manipulate Anyone in 5 Minutes" or "Close the Sale in 10 Seconds" to those "Hypnosis for Beginners" guides... even the mainstream media is constantly hacking away at how we think and control our perspectives... so now I'm left wondering, am I the one losing my mind here, or is it the people actually pulling all these stunts? I'm feeling a little sketched out, honestly...
Rebecca Thomas6 said:Trust me, it happens when they start meddling in your actual life. I try to stay out of it and shut down, but she just won't stop. I have no idea where she gets the energy or the nerve...
thanks 🙂
And look, if you ever get totally fed up with all this crap, just hit me up and you can come crash at my place👍
But seriously.... those old fossils can be such a massive pain in the ass, everything bugs them, they've got zero tolerance, and they just criticize you constantly... and the best part? Even if you were absolutely perfect, they'd find something about your perfection that annoyed them, but mostly, when they're nitpicking you, they're really just projecting their own insecurities onto you. It’s classic—they take everything they hate about themselves and dump it on someone else. It wouldn't even be a huge deal if it didn't happen every single day, but it’s constant. Like that old saying goes: a person who's unhappy with themselves will find fault in everything and everyone... including the smallest little things.
Just honestly stop giving a damn, that's your best move, because deep down you already know exactly what to do😉
I honestly can't wrap my head around how someone who isn't even part of your family—especially when you *know* they aren't—can get under your skin and throw you totally out of whack like that... Seriously, when you're dealing with people that frustrated, the best move is just to shut down, tune them out, and let them vent into the void, because the second they feel you pushing back, they just double down and get even worse. And honestly, why even care what anyone thinks about you when everyone already knows she's just mentally unstable? Nobody takes people seriously when they're constantly running their mouths like that, so it’s on her, not you. Hang in there. 👍
Matthew Fisher11 said:Has anyone here actually done LSD? I’ve got this nagging feeling that tripping on acid and dealing with schizophrenia feel pretty much identical... because once you start desperately praying to God to just let you go, you know for a fact that things have gone completely off the rails.
Look, I've rolled with LSD a few times myself and I’ve never had a bad experience. Sure, there were moments where the trip started taking me on a weird detour, but that's a whole different beast entirely...
The way I see it, a trip just magnifies whatever is already swirling around in your head by a thousand percent... if you’ve already got a genetic predisposition for mental health issues, then yeah, you're probably gonna have a rough time. Honestly, I know plenty of people who ended up diagnosed with schizophrenia after using it, but looking back, the drugs were just the trigger for stuff that was already simmering under the surface anyway... if you aren't prone to that, then fear shouldn't even be a factor...
And that part about praying to God to let you out? I think the big thing is that most people absolutely freak out because they think they’re stuck in that state forever, and that panic is what keeps them trapped there. For me, I always just told myself I had to ride the wave and let it happen, and once I did that, my brain would just pivot to a different headspace and I never spiraled into a bad trip...
so seriously, tell me about your trips... I'm genuinely curious to hear how it went for you guys... assuming you haven't completely lost it, obviously...🙂
Man, if you guys are actually schizophrenic, then I’m just straight-up anxious... please don't scare the hell out of me...
But alright, for real though.... how do you even tell the difference when you're spiraling through symptoms thinking you might have schizophrenia versus when you actually have it?
Like, say you get that feeling that someone is following you (maybe they are??).... or someone walks past on the sidewalk and you're convinced they're laughing at you (which happens—I mean, I laugh at people all the time when they walk by, so why wouldn't they?)
northernbadger4 said:It’s either that or you die. I'll admit, the choice isn't exactly great—it's pretty damn shitty—but if you find yourself in that spot, those are the only two options you've got. And as for being outnumbered six to one, yeah, that's definitely possible. But whatever, let's not go down that road. It's not important right now.
Alistar overrem and his brother once absolutely laid out five bouncers at some club... if you count the first two going down instantly, then it's basically 3 against 2, which isn't a huge deal, but man, 6 against 1 would be something else entirely...
There were rumors floating around back in the day that Preskar beat the hell out of some lone security guard outside a lounge, whether that's true or not... anyone who actually knows how to fight knows you'd need at least three years of training just to stand a chance...
Everyone’s got their own twisted way of looking at things, right? Like, in some parts of the country, the more time you spend behind bars, the more people look at you like some kind of hardened outlaw, and honestly, it’s not much better here in the States either... eventually, some old man is gonna get roughed up at home and just shut his mouth for good, while someone else ends up in a cell because they decided to claim their old man was treating them like a punching bag when they were kids...
It's a damn messed up situation... fighting is always gonna be part of the deal, unless we can somehow make humans immortal or totally bulletproof... I'm talking about some crazy sci-fi injection that makes your skin just bounce right off any blow
To summarize... a young man was brutally beaten just because he had an mohawk haircut. They left him unconscious in the street, where he was then struck by a car. He passed away in the hospital 😢
And once again, there will be a thousand excuses made for the idiots who did this. Once again, the attackers will somehow be treated with more leniency than the victim...
What can even be done? 🤷 I realize everything starts with how a child is raised at home—the values parents instill from a young age—but there will always be sociopaths out there who shouldn't even be allowed near children, let alone harm them. So what options are left? The education system, society as a whole... perhaps sanctions. Harsh and swift ones (though that might be a utopia...) Regarding the killers of Coco Gauff, practically nothing happened. One individual received a single year in prison... a damn YEAR 😢 👎 for murder. The others faced nothing... once again, the laws and the system seem to protect juvenile delinquents, and in this specific case, murderers. What kind of message have we sent? "Go ahead, beat people up in the streets; nothing will happen to you... even if you kill them." 😢
Implementing maximum legal penalties for violent crimes could help. If the killers of Coco Gauff had been sentenced to the harshest possible punishment, it might serve as a deterrent to others acting similarly. Perhaps then, idiots like those mentioned in the link above would actually stop to think whether beating someone up is worth spending 3, 5, 10, or 15 years behind bars. Maybe they would hesitate... maybe they would walk away. Maybe they wouldn't be reading about it in the crime news today... regardless, another young life has been lost. 😢
If you ask me, slapping someone with the max penalty doesn't change a damn thing... because look at the US, where we have some of the toughest sentencing laws on the planet and it clearly doesn't mean squat since we still see hundreds of people ending up with life sentences every single day for murder and whatnot... if you're gonna kill someone, you're gonna kill them, period... unless it's one of those rare cases involving pure rage, but that's just how it is... and another thing, this was a tragic accident, most likely those guys didn't set out to kill him, they were just fighting and things went south when the car hit him... it's just like how the attackers against Coco Gauff weren't trying to kill her, they were just beating her up and then things spiraled out of control... someone dies from a blow, while someone else fights their whole life and walks away fine, but aside from people looking for intentional revenge, nobody actually goes out looking to cause death, this was just a straight-up brawl where someone died... I guess we should give life sentences for every single fight then, since any scrap could potentially turn fatal, right... dead people aren't coming back...
Education, education... yeah, easy to say, but how are we supposed to know what "proper upbringing" even looks like when every single person is wired differently? For some people, everything is just constant frustration, for others it isn't...
Patrick Wright2 said:Look, a judgment has to be logically sound to be considered true, but being true doesn't automatically make a judgment logically sound. That's why our first move has to be separating the valid arguments from the invalid ones, since an invalid argument can't be true by its very nature. That's really the core of the issue here.
When you're trying to nail down the truth between two valid concepts, it all comes down to checking the premises, and checking those premises depends entirely on your method of verification, which honestly is enough material for a whole new thread on this forum. 😉
You're sharp, and I gotta respect that,👍 props to you,🙏
but how the hell are we supposed to decide who actually has the authority to judge, and who doesn't... because everyone walks around thinking they're the one who's right... if you're convinced you've got the truth and you've got your own story playing in your head, there isn't some grand authority coming to tell you what's right or wrong... people are just way too sensitive to criticism... and frankly, everything stems from that criticism...
Rachel Palmer21 said:It seems to me that there are essentially two distinct categories of discourse occurring within this forum: those discussions driven by pure, unadulterated logic, and those fueled by nothing but raw emotion. Personally, I find myself gravitating much more toward the latter. Now, don't get me wrong; both approaches represent perfectly valid ways for primates—and by extension, humans—to communicate their perspectives. (However, one must be careful to avoid mixing these two realms together—that is to say, one shouldn't attempt to counter logic with logic, nor should they try to meet emotional outbursts with more emotions.)
But honestly? Both sides are right in their own way... so at the end of the day, it all kind of evens out anyway...
Look, I get it, but who actually decides what counts as "truth" in philosophy anyway? It’s like nobody ever wants to step up and admit they’re totally wrong...😍The person sitting in judgment always claims they can see some deeper layer that you're just missing, which is their way of acting like they're somehow more enlightened than you, but if there isn't even a judge to call out, then the whole thing feels pretty pointless because you've got nowhere to go to prove you actually know your stuff...
I honestly don't even know how to break this down for you guys, but there’s really no point in wasting good arguments if all you care about is acting like a know-it-all and trying to look superior to everyone else... at the end of the day, you're just performing for attention and waiting for applause, which basically makes you no different from someone like Taylor Swift...
Look, I’m not saying you guys aren't smart—trust me, you definitely are—but let's be real, everyone here is just looking out for number one... you always have to be the smartest person in the room while acting like everyone else is totally clueless and knows nothing compared to you... from what I can tell reading this sub, about half of every single post is just people whining about how nobody else understands basic logic or how to actually explain things, just like this opening post right here... honestly, what I really want to know is why people go out of their way to belittle others just to feel superior (and it's always for that same old "I'm the genius here" ego trip, because obviously, there's no other reason for it besides that)... so yeah, basically, everyone here is just incredibly insecure, no matter how much they actually know... everybody just *has* to be right all the time... if that's the case, then this isn't even a real discussion... peace out
feralranger said:Consider this scenario: Suppose you spend your entire existence working in a laboratory, despite having an utter disdain for lab work... yet, through that grueling, soul-crushing labor, you happen to discover a cure for a devastating disease...
Would you still stubbornly cling to your original premise?
(And honestly, one could construct endless variations of such dilemmas if they had the patience for it.)
Look, I am telling you right now, with absolute certainty, that nobody spends their whole life stuck in a lab just because they enjoy the grind itself. There is zero chance anyone would spend decades hammering away at something they don't care about—especially in fields where you aren't the one making life-or-death decisions for others—there are endless examples of that. That’s my first point. And even if the end result is "good," what does it matter if you don't feel any actual satisfaction from it? It’s like if your parents forced you into professional tennis and you ended up becoming some world-class champ like Andre Agassi, but deep down you hated every second of it... what was the point? You were basically living someone else's life instead of your own, and that is exactly where people go wrong. Someone else will eventually step up and get those results... but if you personally aren't fulfilled by what you've achieved, then you've fundamentally missed the mark...👍
If you ask me, spending your entire life grinding away at some job you absolutely hate... that’s just a wasted existence. Honestly, that’s the only truth that actually matters...
So, I hit up the pharmacy just two days ago looking for Normabel, but they wouldn't give me the time of day unless I had a prescription in hand... which totally threw me for a loop because why on earth was I able to grab Apaurin over the counter without any hassle, even though Normabel and Apaurin are literally the exact same thing?? I'm seriously confused about why one is treated like this and the other isn't when they're identical... anyone know what's up? Thanks
Life’s just plain boring when there’s zero emotion involved...
Plus, having way too much sun and light can actually be pretty damaging if it ends up blinding you or something. Everything in life really needs to stay within a normal range, and that’s just the reality of things. All this talk about "liberation" and "freedom"... what a joke...
I don't really see the logic here... what actually happens when you put two empathetic people in the same room? They both just spend all their energy trying to feel out what the other one is going through, and honestly, that’s exactly how things fall apart—I know because I've lived it. Empathic people never want to be under a microscope while they're busy being the ones looking under everyone else's... and I guess that's the one big flaw with having too much empathy.