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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9711409 times)

Solifuge

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #46350 on: May 03, 2012, 10:22:16 pm »

Don't take the XKCD bit too seriously; the first paragraph in the penultimate panel describes the process most people go through as they grow and learn. The later paragraphs were the part where a knife was stuck in and twisted around, not in an effort to factually represent the person in question, but just to hurt them. It's that whole thing about an ounce of truth making a lie seem realistic.

Also, Sky... I can't speak on the rest of your rant, but if it was about brains not feeling pain because they have no nerves, it's sorta true. They have neurons which are basically modified nerve cells, but they don't have nerves-as-pain-receptors.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #46351 on: May 03, 2012, 10:23:17 pm »

I have not had a real day off in over a month.
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« Reply #46352 on: May 03, 2012, 10:24:52 pm »

Okay, I officially hate xkcd.

It describes my life in this comic.

I don't do what that guy was doing, but in my current mood, reading through her retort gave me a shrinking feeling. I mean, it's funny, but she didn't have to describe my life while she's giving some guy his come-uppans.

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« Reply #46353 on: May 03, 2012, 10:54:24 pm »

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Believe it or not the brain actually sort of doesn't have nerves. Anything above the brain stem is incapable of "feeling" anything, ask a brain surgeon if they ever need to anaesthetise the brain itself. Although this still sounds like it was part of some sketchy science.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #46354 on: May 03, 2012, 11:16:58 pm »

Okay, I officially hate xkcd.

It describes my life in this comic.

I don't do what that guy was doing, but in my current mood, reading through her retort gave me a shrinking feeling. I mean, it's funny, but she didn't have to describe my life while she's giving some guy his come-uppans.

Goes back to reading xkcd.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #46355 on: May 03, 2012, 11:18:28 pm »

Thank you. I was wondering about that.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #46356 on: May 03, 2012, 11:44:58 pm »

Believe it or not the brain actually sort of doesn't have nerves. Anything above the brain stem is incapable of "feeling" anything, ask a brain surgeon if they ever need to anaesthetise the brain itself. Although this still sounds like it was part of some sketchy science.

That's a fundamental misunderstanding of how nerves work. The brain has nerves. It's made of nerves. Along with a shitload of protective fat. What it doesn't have are sensory neurons, the ones that would tell your body that your brain is getting cut open. That would be a waste of space anyway, since by the time your brain was being damaged, you'd probably already be dead or fatally wounded. There's also the fact that the brain is surrounded by the meninges which is rediculously packed with pain receptors to tell you 'hey, something got through the skull and it's getting way too close to the brain for comfort.'
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« Reply #46357 on: May 04, 2012, 12:11:32 am »

Believe it or not the brain actually sort of doesn't have nerves. Anything above the brain stem is incapable of "feeling" anything, ask a brain surgeon if they ever need to anaesthetise the brain itself. Although this still sounds like it was part of some sketchy science.

That's a fundamental misunderstanding of how nerves work. The brain has nerves. It's made of nerves. Along with a shitload of protective fat. What it doesn't have are sensory neurons, the ones that would tell your body that your brain is getting cut open. That would be a waste of space anyway, since by the time your brain was being damaged, you'd probably already be dead or fatally wounded. There's also the fact that the brain is surrounded by the meninges which is rediculously packed with pain receptors to tell you 'hey, something got through the skull and it's getting way too close to the brain for comfort.'
You're right, and you're wrong. The term "nerve" refers to the "cables" of neurons that transmit sensory information. So it's technically inaccurate to say the brain is made of nerves.
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« Reply #46358 on: May 04, 2012, 12:18:15 am »

But it does contain plenty of them. Even just considering "real" nerves.

Optic Nerve, Oculomotor Nerve, Trigeminal Nerve, Olfactory Nerve, just to name the more well known ones.

The brain contains... 12 nerves? I'm not sure... somewhere around there. If we're talking nerves that are just hanging around wrapped in brain stuff.
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« Reply #46359 on: May 04, 2012, 12:28:12 am »

Pharaoh and Cleopatra is such a terrible game next to Zeus & Poseidon but the aesthetic is so much better. Why could they have not made a game with the mechanics of Zeus and the feel/look of Pharaoh. Damn you world.

This is what made me sad today and what has made me sad for the past 10 years.
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« Reply #46360 on: May 04, 2012, 12:40:39 am »

But it does contain plenty of them. Even just considering "real" nerves.

Optic Nerve, Oculomotor Nerve, Trigeminal Nerve, Olfactory Nerve, just to name the more well known ones.

The brain contains... 12 nerves? I'm not sure... somewhere around there. If we're talking nerves that are just hanging around wrapped in brain stuff.
I was going to say something like "Yes, but that's the brain stem I was talking about." But after pulling semantics on the nerve thing, I'm not sure the semantics of "brain stem" covers me here.

So I guess I'm just going to say that the statement "the brain contains no nerves", is a stretch to the point of breaking.
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« Reply #46361 on: May 04, 2012, 01:04:16 am »

So, for future reference, 50% rum may be too much for grog, and drinking half a bottle of rum in a single sitting as a consequence of this miscalculation is a poor plan if you're not planning to become shitfaced.
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
Minsky then shut his eyes. “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.
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« Reply #46362 on: May 04, 2012, 02:23:46 am »

I'm right there with ya, buddy. Mine was black rum, though. ^_^
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« Reply #46363 on: May 04, 2012, 02:33:15 am »

Kicked the whole penguin thing, found out I don't have nearly as many avvies of doc scratch in my picture files as I thought I did. Must be on my older computer...

Ah well.
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« Reply #46364 on: May 04, 2012, 04:51:08 am »

Entrance exams. I know, they're not the real deal, but darn, they make me nervous.
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