Okay, so I just now got this idea.
Here's a thread where you can post the greatest mindfuck theories you can come up with.

I will start:
What if one user is actually running several other familiar user accounts here? Like for example, what if @Rustyy @DJWOLFBEAT5 @NotMeNotYou @Knotty_Curls @Tokaido and @TheHuskyK9 were all the same person IRL?

Now you can't unthunk that thought.
Shit, I can't either 0-0

Anyway, what's your crazy idea?

Our Universe is just some lab experiment created in another Universe by advanced creatures.

Or the Universe is some complex VR simulation.

Don't be ridiculous.

There's no way those guys are the same person. For one thing, TheHuskyK9 has posted videos on YouTube, and he's a black guy from the US, which means that everyone else would have to be the same.

furballs dc is the greatest enigma on this site. I know nothing about him. I think he might live in the Westerly US, or maybe he lives during the night elsewhere in the world. He could almost be a bot, with the way he blips. A very smart bot, mind you. So HEY furballs! :D

He does post some cool stuff though.

Aeruginis said:

furballs dc
*her*

furballs_dc said:

OOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Mind=blown. It's funny how guys assume everyone else is a guy haha. Do girls do that? Anyway, pleasure to meet you m'lady ;)

Aeruginis said:
OOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Mind=blown. It's funny how guys assume everyone else is a guy haha. Do girls do that? Anyway, pleasure to meet you m'lady ;)

Sometimes, unless I know otherwise.

Hai! You too. :3

Aeruginis said:
Anyway, pleasure to meet you m'lady ;)

good god i hope you don't say that unironically

Anyway, for mind-fuck theories, what about this;

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
Anyway, for mind-fuck theories, what about this;

The UN makes every effort possible to hide the existence of magic and stuff like that from people (because if they didn't there'd just be anarchy and death everywhere).

So-called psychics and practitioners of 'magick' have the wrong end of the stick, so to speak, but they're getting closer to discovering how to use actual magic, and so The Establishment is making every effort possible to keep them out of the public eye/manipulate public opinion to make these people laughing stock/ridiculed by people (by deploying agents who just make hoax videos to decrease public belief and thus keep as many people as possible away from discovering how to use magic

Highly advanced tech can be indistinguishable from magic. :3

furballs_dc said:
Highly advanced tech can be indistinguishable from magic. :3

Well yeah that's correct, i hadn't thought about that

Those aren't chemtrails, they're light refractors which create the illusion of a round earth.

조선 truly is a worker's paradise and all their defectors who tell us the horror stories are just agents who are spreading disinformation to prevent foreigners from immigrating there.

George W. Bush shot Kennedy and did the moon landing.

Colony Collapse Disorder is a honeybee-plotted mass-suicide attempt intended to bring about the end of human civilization as we know it.

What happens if Pinocchio says his nose will grow?

Fenrick said:
Colony Collapse Disorder is a honeybee-plotted mass-suicide attempt intended to bring about the end of human civilization as we know it.

Eh, we'll live without honey.

TruckNutz said:
Okay, so I just now got this idea.
Here's a thread where you can post the greatest mindfuck theories you can come up with.

I will start:
What if one user is actually running several other familiar user accounts here? Like for example, what if @Rustyy @DJWOLFBEAT5 @NotMeNotYou @Knotty_Curls @Tokaido and @TheHuskyK9 were all the same person IRL?

Now you can't unthunk that thought.
Shit, I can't either 0-0

Anyway, what's your crazy idea?

Seems like great way to organize all your personalities.

What if the metorite that wiped out the dinosaurs was a UFO... and we are the aliens?

Furrin_Gok said:
Eh, we'll live without honey.

Not without the massive dependence we have on bees for much of our agriculture, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees

Melissa_R said:
What if the metorite that wiped out the dinosaurs was a UFO... and we are the aliens?

But we already are aliens. A Supernova exploded the outer layers long ago, very far away, and some of the material formed our solar system. :3

Fenrick said:
조선

"Shipbuilding"?

TruckNutz said:
What if one user is actually running several other familiar user accounts here? Like for example, what if @Rustyy @DJWOLFBEAT5 @NotMeNotYou @Knotty_Curls @Tokaido and @TheHuskyK9 were all the same person IRL?

SHIT I've been found out!

Furrin_Gok said:
Eh, we'll live without honey.

If we lost bees, we would lose most of our crops (by type, not quantity). Thankfully, grain doesn't need insects to reproduce, but a massive portion of plants in the world would be dead in a year or two, edible or no, and others would die in the years to come. Butterflies and other insects do much less pollinating than bees. There would be mass starvation. Basically, we'd be screwed.

If you were being facetious, my bad :D

Aeruginis said:
If we lost bees, we would lose most of our crops (by type, not quantity). Thankfully, grain doesn't need insects to reproduce, but a massive portion of plants in the world would be dead in a year or two, edible or no, and others would die in the years to come. Butterflies and other insects do much less pollinating than bees. There would be mass starvation. Basically, we'd be screwed.

If you were being facetious, my bad :D

We simply turn to eating the next most readily available thing...

MAN

TruckNutz said:
"Shipbuilding"?

"Joe-suhn," what North Korea calls themselves (the old name for Korea).

For some reason, Google Translate does not agree with Korean at all.

This may not be an actual mindfuck, but it entertains me nonetheless:

No matter how well you know your friend, you will never know their favorite day with you.

What happens if Pinocchio says "My nose will grow"?

Si_288 said:
Seems like great way to organize all your personalities.

It most certainly is!
I mean, uh, I'm not in that list so I can't be one of them! Yeah, that.

GameManiac said:
What happens if Pinocchio says "My nose will grow"?

By technicality, that's a truth. If you want to make it a paradox, it has to be "My nose will grow as a result of this sentence." I think what will happen is he gets forced to say a lengthy "No" with increasing volume to keep it true and not a paradox.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bb5nnt1CQAAKDf8.jpg

Aeruginis said:
If we lost bees, we would lose most of our crops (by type, not quantity). Thankfully, grain doesn't need insects to reproduce, but a massive portion of plants in the world would be dead in a year or two, edible or no, and others would die in the years to come. Butterflies and other insects do much less pollinating than bees. There would be mass starvation. Basically, we'd be screwed.

If you were being facetious, my bad :D

People are mainly concerned about the honey bee in the US, which is...not really an issue.

How can we see mirrors if our eyes aren't real?

Here's one of my favorites:

Every single person you pass on the street has their own stories and a life full of experiences just like you do. They are the protagonist in their own life and to them you are just some random person on the side of the street.

Genjar said:
Here's one of my favorites:

you wanted your mind blown? Well, here!

Every single person you pass on the street has their own stories and a life full of experiences just like you do. They are the protagonist in their own life and to them you are just some random person on the side of the street.

Dude(ette), that actually took me a step back. Woh...

NuclearAssault said:
How can we see mirrors if our eyes aren't real?

Settle down Jaden Smith :V

Aeruginis said:
and he's a black guy from the US

Heh heh

I'm going to hell for this.

An American goes to give a Mexican his two cents about tacos vs pizzas.
Should the Mexican thank him or get pissed off?

Here's a fun one. It's called saccadic suppression.

Quickly glance to your right side, then to left.

I bet you didn't notice that you were effectively blind while your eyes were moving. It's a safety mechanisms that prevents humans from getting motion sickness from rapid eye movements. But your brain stops you from noticing that moment of blindness by feeding you extrapolated fake visual information.

With practice, you can see flashes of black when moving your eyes from side to side. And that's what you're really 'seeing' while you move your eyes.

And that's by far not the only thing that our brains lie about.

For instance, you always see your nose. But your brain blots it out.

TheHuskyK9 said:

Heh heh

A plain "heh heh" is rather unsettling.

Genjar said:
Here's one of my favorites:

Every single person you pass on the street has their own stories and a life full of experiences just like you do. They are the protagonist in their own life and to them you are just some random person on the side of the street.

That's already something I've thought about, unfortunately. You can become a major character in their stories, though, but they will always be the primary one.

Genjar said:
Here's a fun one. It's called saccadic suppression.

Quickly glance to your right side, then to left.

I bet you didn't notice that you were effectively blind while your eyes were moving. It's a safety mechanisms that prevents humans from getting motion sickness from rapid eye movements. But your brain stops you from noticing that moment of blindness by feeding you extrapolated fake visual information.

With practice, you can see flashes of black when moving your eyes from side to side. And that's what you're really 'seeing' while you move your eyes.

And that's by far not the only thing that our brains lie about.

Thats an interesting one. I know the brain lies about seeing things right-side up, though--Your vision actually hits the brain upside-down, but gets flipped over to make sense. In my case, it also flips it "Right-side-up" when it's viewed at an angle, going beyond the 180º mark even. Only a small angle closest to having my eyes themselves being upside-down will show me things as being upside-down, which makes trying to see side-ways gameplay difficult.

Aeruginis said:
A plain "heh heh" is rather unsettling.

Heh :V

Genjar said:
Here's one of my favorites:

Every single person you pass on the street has their own stories and a life full of experiences just like you do. They are the protagonist in their own life and to them you are just some random person on the side of the street.

Extensive Mindfuck Incoming!

I know that this is a widely accepted way of thinking, that everyone is the protagonist in their own life but I have a slight problem with that.

First of all, a protagonist means that their story revolves around them, whether they are good or bad. But when I look at my life, I always see myself as a background character in the lives of others. I always feel like everyone else is a protagonist of their own different reality and my interactions with them is just my fulfillment of my duty as an unimportant background character in their lives to keep their story going in the right direction. I feel as if I belong to everyone else's story, but only in the background.

Kristal_Candeo said:

Extensive Mindfuck Incoming!

I know that this is a widely accepted way of thinking, that everyone is the protagonist in their own life but I have a slight problem with that.

First of all, a protagonist means that their story revolves around them, whether they are good or bad. But when I look at my life, I always see myself as a background character in the lives of others. I always feel like everyone else is a protagonist of their own different reality and my interactions with them is just my fulfillment of my duty as an unimportant background character in their lives to keep their story going in the right direction. I feel as if I belong to everyone else's story, but only in the background.

Details- Seeing myself as a Background Character, rather than a Protagonist:

I don't ever feel like my life or my reality is mine, but rather that although everyone else in the world is in the same reality, they all have a different bubble in that world that they affect more than anyone else, even if their bubble is intersecting the bubble of another person. (This is what we all refer to as their life). But I feel like I am on the outside of all of those lives (bubbles) and do not have my own bubble myself, so it is my job to insert myself into the lives of others whenever their story calls for me to.

As far as how that effects me in real life, I feel that since I am just a background character without a life of my own to focus on, whenever I am surrounded by people in public I tend to lose focus on my own life and goals and I gain an extreme perception of situational awareness of others around me. I feel like my life has no importance as long as he lives of everyone else is kept stable and on the correct path.

So say if I am in a store to get food and their are boxes in the isle that everyone else just kind if pushes to to the side instead of moving out of everyone's way, I feel like it is my job to just move those boxes out of the way so that no one else has to worry about them. But that is just one example. Sometimes my situational awareness kicks up so much that when I am doing my job as a background character people tend to look at me like so kind of weirdo because I'm doing things that everyone else neglects to even pay any attention to.

The story of a person who's only major act is slight meddling in others' stories is still a story! Not all stories focus on some important person; there are plenty that follow the main character around as they observe the lives of those around them.

Example- When someone slips and falls:

I have run into a situation more than once when I am just out and about and someone trips and falls near me, either from losing their footing, or otherwise.

Now, normally people just tend to kind of watch it happen and then laugh or say "oh, are you okay" and help them up, when to me they clearly could have done something to stop it before the person got to the ground, and when I see it regret fills my mind for not being there to help them myself. I feel like although everyone else says that such an action "happened too quickly", I alone perceive it with such speed that it almost seemed 'telegraphed', as if it was begging to be prevented and was giving others ample time to prevent it. So then I start to question why no one did anything to stop it when they had so much time to do so, when in reality it happened within less than a couple of seconds.

Yet when it happens near me, I immediately lose focus on my own task and catch the falling person as soon as they slip and usually out of my mouth comes the words "don't worry, I got you" as I am holding them and raising them back up. And all of that happens before I have even had time to think of what I just did. In fact, it's erie in a way, but it just happens and I don't know why.

Again, I don't know why I do things like that, but I just do: If people are arugueing, I lose focus on my task and analyse the situation in my head and I try to become a peacemaker. If people are being aggressive, I stop what I am doing and try to intervene even when I know that doing so can bring harm to myself. If people are trying to do something themselves when they obviously need help, I quit the task at hand and step in to offer aid, and if people are hurting, I feel like I must be the one to heal them. It's almost as if I can't control myself in these situations, and as such I tend to feel like an unimportant background character in the lives of others, rather than a protagonist, or even a slightly memorable side character.

There'd be plenty of interest in a character who's always there to catch a person, or a character who's always willing to mediate and offer council.
It sounds like you're a passive empath, catching onto the feelings instantly and instinctively, drawn to them and brought to action. There are ways to block that out, but from the sounds of it that would just upset you, so it's probably best you let them in.

Furrin_Gok said:
The story of a person who's only major act is slight meddling in others' stories is still a story! Not all stories focus on some important person; there are plenty that follow the main character around as they observe the lives of those around them.
There'd be plenty of interest in a character who's always there to catch a person, or a character who's always willing to mediate and offer council.
It sounds like you're a passive empath, catching onto the feelings instantly and instinctively, drawn to them and brought to action. There are ways to block that out, but from the sounds of it that would just upset you, so it's probably best you let them in.

TruckNutz said:
Here's a thread where you can post the greatest mindfuck theories you can come up with.

best possible example of mindfuck that i know of...religion. hands down, the best/worst example.

edit: or if that doesn't work well enough for this thread then i guess either i or parasprite could go looking and dig something awesome up. >.> tbh though, i'm not sure if i could top that extreme prolapse pic they (i forgot the gender! o_o forgive me) posted somewhere on the forums not long ago.

edi2: wait...yes...that's perfect! lol behold, a chicken born with no eyes!

Life is a video game.

The graphics are the up-most limit of rendering.

Each person is just a players' avatar.

Past lives are just different playthroughs.

Celebrities are just high-leveled players.

Legends and heroes are players who won.

Respawning is damn near impossible.

Everyone is locked in Hardcore mode.

When we die, our current playthroughs are deleted.

Who are the players? Hell if I know.

What if there's a color we have not yet seen?

What if quarks (atom particles) aren't the smallest particles?

What if oxygen is actually toxic but takes around 50-80 years to kill someone?

Where is space expanding into?

When someone would fall into a hole drilled through the entire earth, what would happen to them in the center?

HotUnderTheCollar said:
What if there's a color we have not yet seen?

Oh, there are plenty. There could be infinite colors, but we only have basic color perceptions. A few animals have more. Maybe two things we see as identical look like a rainbow to them.

Chame34 said:
Life is a video game.

The graphics are the up-most limit of rendering.

Each person is just a players' avatar.

Past lives are just different playthroughs.

Celebrities are just high-leveled players.

Legends and heroes are players who won.

Respawning is damn near impossible.

Everyone is locked in Hardcore mode.

When we die, our current playthroughs are deleted.

Who are the players? Hell if I know.

Most of that would have been covered just by saying 'Life is a roguelike', tbh.

HotUnderTheCollar:
Of course there are colors we haven't yet seen. Colors are just particular wavelengths of light. If we, for example, had football-field sized eyes, we'd be able to see ALL SORTS of interesting stuff.

"where is space expanding into?" is a kind of definitional problem. Space is only meaningful in the context of mass (ie. space and time is proportionate to mass.. that's the basic description of a Riemann Manifold). So I think the correct answer is 'space is expanding into less and less space' :)

HotUnderTheCollar said:

What if oxygen is actually toxic but takes around 50-80 years to kill someone?

Oh, and oxygen actually is toxic. Very toxic. Look what it does to steel! You actually don't want to breathe 100% oxygen. We need most of what we breathe to be some inert gas (nitrogen most of the time, obviously). Breathing pure oxygen for too long causes lung collapse.

treos said:
edi2: wait...yes...that's perfect! lol behold, a chicken born with no eyes!

The real mindfuck about that is that people thought it was better to cull them. If you're raising a domestic animal, it'll actually have a chance at surviving, and over time learn how to handle things. It's not like it lost its ability to see, it was born without it. Navigating without sight is perfectly natural to such a chicken.

HotUnderTheCollar said:
What if there's a color we have not yet seen?

What if quarks (atom particles) aren't the smallest particles?

What if oxygen is actually toxic but takes around 50-80 years to kill someone?

Where is space expanding into?

When someone would fall into a hole drilled through the entire earth, what would happen to them in the center?

I can answer one of those questions.

@Fenrick: Oxygen is highly reactive, and, yeah, it likes to attach to things, you could say. It's pretty cool stuff. The only reason we use iron, a metal that quickly disintegrates, is because it's so abundant.

Furrin_Gok said:
The real mindfuck about that is that people thought it was better to cull them. If you're raising a domestic animal, it'll actually have a chance at surviving, and over time learn how to handle things. It's not like it lost its ability to see, it was born without it. Navigating without sight is perfectly natural to such a chicken.

quite true. it probably gets around by sound like other creature/people who have either bad eye sight or are blind. with occasional help of course.

that part about people thinking it better to cull (kill? same difference probably) them is pretty bad though. i mean, blindness isn't a life threatening condition or anything. it just means being more careful with them.

aurel said:
Bad dragon is a secret organisation, seeking to find real dragons/other creatures hiding amongst us.
Given that no sane person would try using an extra large sized toy, they trace all extra large purchases hoping to find a real dragon who was careless enough to buy one.
Small/medium sized toys are a mare coverup (which also earns some monies :D (much win wow)).

trout_(artist) bad_dragon I think the extra large are still too small.

The Jews run everything and are trying to bring western civilisations to destruction

Rustyy said:
The Jews run everything and are trying to bring western civilisations to destruction

1st part, no. 2nd part...couldn't be more true...and stupid.

treos said:
2nd part...couldn't be more true...and stupid.

I'll have to take your word for it.

LemonLeman said:
You can break the fourth wall by announcing the fourth wall's destruction, further breaking the wall. The fourth wall, however, may be realized in-universe as something that would break the fourth wall if that universe were fake. Does this mean that we can break the fourth wall in a television show while breaking the fourth wall inside of a universe that may or may not be simulated allowing us to break the third fourth wall?

Ours is a theoretical wall. You aren't actually breaking a wall by speaking of it in a theoretical sense, you are mearly smudging it. You need to be certain to break the wall, and even then, you won't see the break, you'll just have the satisfaction of being certain you broke it.

LemonLeman said:
You can break the fourth wall by announcing the fourth wall's destruction, further breaking the wall...

Furrin_Gok said:
Ours is a theoretical wall...

Um... I think I "break the fourth wall" all the time.

For example if I am watching a video or just doing pretty much anything else IRL and I happen to make a pun or joke about something either on-screen or otherwise, I have noticed time and time again that I have an urge to turn slightly to my left and wink or stick my tongue out, or just bounce my brows a couple of times if it's an innuendo joke (in an "if you know what I mean" kind of way). And most times, especially if I am by myself so I don't look like weirdo, I do it.

(Note: on some occasions it can be to the right or a different direction altogether! at times even requiring me to turn my head, but it is always as if I am looking at an unknown on-looking entity.)

It's almost like a reflex I have specifically for telling jokes and puns IRL, but that doesn't explain why I feel comfortable doing it, or even when I first started doing it at all. I mean, it's not like I am doing it for a camera or something, so why do I do it at all especially without valid reason to?

Again, it's kind of like a reflex but it's completely voluntary and I feel like in doing so I am trying to garner validation from "Something" that is watching.

So now that I have thought more about it...

FOURTH WALL?

_{(And maybe less importantly, does anyone else feel and do that too?)}

Open link (a PDF), go to page 58, and read "Details". Some of the mindfucks in this thread reminded me of that story. Can't vouch for the others in the book, but if you like one...?

furballs_dc said:
*her

BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS

AKBAR_THE_CORNCOB said:
BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS BOOBS

How old are you anyway?

So, I posted this in another thread, but someone said (perhaps jokingly) that I should put it here.

Cyanide is a compound that occurs in the seeds of many plant families we eat, including rutaceae (citrus) and rosaceae (apple), so very small amounts may be present in the juice. It can also be found in foods such as spinach, bamboo shoots, almonds (also rosaceae), lima beans, and tapioca. In small doses, cyanide in the body can be changed into thiocyanate, which is less harmful and is excreted in urine. Cyanide in small amounts can also combine with another chemical to form vitamin B12, interestingly. Basically, any amount found in foods we eat isn't enough to hurt us. However, I believe that in very rare cases a person may not be able to assimilate these small doses properly and can become ill.

Another interesting compound is arsenic. It is even more common than cyanide (it's everywhere, so it gets in plants and animals), and when researchers removed it from the diet and environment of birds and mammals they became ill; some developed reproductive problems. The offspring of these arsenic-deprived adults were born with developmental problems. When arsenic was put back into the adult animal's diets, the problems were completely reversed. It's very likely that we need it as well, but this is virtually impossible to prove, as arsenic is ubiquitous to the environment.

Cool stuff, eh? ^.^

i have here, the greatest mindfuck ever conceived in all it's cult-like glory! behold the gender master list

at this point, i think they've effectively destroyed any meaning the word gender once had. it's now little more than a word describing how you feel.

that said, i don't think i have any reason to respect any version of the word anyone creates from now on. i'll stick to male, female, and intersex, instead of polluting my mind with this poison.

also, to anyone else who wants to try dragging gender into tagging here...no. just...no. this list is a prime example of why not. it'd be a complete waste of effort tagging such a thing and an act of stupidity.

sorry for speaking harshly admin but when is this madness going to end? doesn't seem like it will any time soon.

treos said:
i have here, the greatest mindfuck ever conceived in all it's cult-like glory! behold the gender master list

at this point, i think they've effectively destroyed any meaning the word gender once had. it's now little more than a word describing how you feel.

that said, i don't think i have any reason to respect any version of the word anyone creates from now on. i'll stick to male, female, and intersex, instead of polluting my mind with this poison.

also, to anyone else who wants to try dragging gender into tagging here...no. just...no. this list is a prime example of why not. it'd be a complete waste of effort tagging such a thing and an act of stupidity.

sorry for speaking harshly admin but when is this madness going to end? doesn't seem like it will any time soon.

Okay wow, that's a ridiculous list. There are more than just the three, but "Intersex" is an umbrella for the rest.

Furrin_Gok said:
Okay wow, that's a ridiculous list. There are more than just the three, but "Intersex" is an umbrella for the rest.

theres even one that sounds like bipolar disorder.

"Ceterofluid: when you are ceterogender and your feelings fluctuate between masculine, feminine, and neutral"

treos said:
theres even one that sounds like bipolar disorder.

"Ceterofluid: when you are ceterogender and your feelings fluctuate between masculine, feminine, and neutral"

That list makes genders feel more like feelings than any orientation.

Maybe that's all genders really are. Just a bunch of feelings that anyone can make up and the only reason "man" and "woman" are the most popular is because no one had bothered to make up new ones until now and if there were people who were claiming to be all these genders, no one took them seriously until our generation.

wait does that count as a mind fuck?

The_Diggler said:
wait does that count as a mind fuck?

This is the right thread for that.

Aeruginis said:
How old are you anyway?

So, I posted this in another thread, but someone said (perhaps jokingly) that I should put it here.

Cyanide is a compound that occurs in the seeds of many plant families we eat, including rutaceae (citrus) and rosaceae (apple), so very small amounts may be present in the juice. It can also be found in foods such as spinach, bamboo shoots, almonds (also rosaceae), lima beans, and tapioca. In small doses, cyanide in the body can be changed into thiocyanate, which is less harmful and is excreted in urine. Cyanide in small amounts can also combine with another chemical to form vitamin B12, interestingly. Basically, any amount found in foods we eat isn't enough to hurt us. However, I believe that in very rare cases a person may not be able to assimilate these small doses properly and can become ill.

Another interesting compound is arsenic. It is even more common than cyanide (it's everywhere, so it gets in plants and animals), and when researchers removed it from the diet and environment of birds and mammals they became ill; some developed reproductive problems. The offspring of these arsenic-deprived adults were born with developmental problems. When arsenic was put back into the adult animal's diets, the problems were completely reversed. It's very likely that we need it as well, but this is virtually impossible to prove, as arsenic is ubiquitous to the environment.

Cool stuff, eh? ^.^

I was joking lol

AKBAR_THE_CORNCOB said:
I was joking lol

I'll quote Jaque (Jon Tron's bird):

"...This is cool stuff."

i come bearing gifts...horrible, dreadful gifts of the tumblr variety.

for this first one, there are some listed genders not found in the so-called master list Complete List of all Tumblr Genders (So far)

such as "Adeptogender– When your gender identity was obtained through your realization of your kinself. as in your kin realization spurred your gender realization. (note: the gender and kin type do not necessarily have to correlate with each other)"

and now we have the Complete List of all Tumblr Sexualities (So far)

to say one can not understand these special snowflakes would be a dire understatement as understanding a madness, the likes of which i doubt even Discord could conjure forth on a real BAD day, is impossible.

edit: looking through this 1st list, it seems some of these genders have multiple names for the same thing (really people? *facepalm* we have redundant terminology!).

oh and apparently a lesbian is no longer the female equivalent to homosexual...according to tumblr. this is of course due ONLY to the whole gender shitstorm as seen in previous lists.

"Homosexual: the feeling of being attracted to your own gender"

"Lesbian: someone who identifies fully or partially as a woman who is attracted to other fully or partially identified women"

wonder...wtf is this?

"Amaregender- A gender that changes depending on who you’re in love with."

*facepalm*

homosexuality is the attraction one has to the same SEX. gender has fuck all to do with it.

I was going to continue the soda discussion in The Life Pro Tips thread, but figured it could go here.

One of the bad ingredients in soda that very few seem to know about is carbon dioxide. When you absorb CO₂ into your tissues it changes your acid base. The normal PH of the blood is about 7.4 (slightly alkaline), but CO₂ makes your blood more acidic. This condition is called acidemia and, if prolonged, causes acidosis, which is injury to the body's cells and nervous system by a rise in acidity that leads to faltering functions of the heart. Also, the acid can slowly leach calcium from your bones and make them softer. This is a huge issue in environments with low oxygen, because then you are breathing in more CO₂ to get the same amount of oxygen. Hypoxia, as this is lack of oxygen is called, can happen on earth at high altitudes or when diving, but we need to be sure it doesn't happen in space as it would greatly aggravate the already occurring bone tissue loss.

Now, drinking a can of soda every day isn't going to affect you too much, but many of us already have some degree of acidemia, so moderation is the key. I usually drink one or two a week.

If you replace the W in What, Where, and When with a T, you answer the question.

Aeruginis said:
I was going to continue the soda discussion in The Life Pro Tips thread, but figured it could go here.

One of the bad ingredients in soda that very few seem to know about is carbon dioxide. When you absorb CO₂ into your tissues it changes your acid base. The normal PH of the blood is about 7.4 (slightly alkaline), but CO₂ makes your blood more acidic. This condition is called acidemia and, if prolonged, causes acidosis, which is injury to the body's cells and nervous system by a rise in acidity that leads to faltering functions of the heart. Also, the acid can slowly leach calcium from your bones and make them softer. This is a huge issue in environments with low oxygen, because then you are breathing in more CO₂ to get the same amount of oxygen. Hypoxia, as this is lack of oxygen is called, can happen on earth at high altitudes or when diving, but we need to be sure it doesn't happen in space as it would greatly aggravate the already occurring bone tissue loss.

Now, drinking a can of soda every day isn't going to affect you too much, but many of us already have some degree of acidemia, so moderation is the key. I usually drink one or two a week.

I'm no biologist but this doesn't make sense to me. Isn't CO2 usually absorbed through the lungs? If you drink soda, the CO2 goes to your stomach instead, and you can't really breathe from there.

There are far worse things about soda, such as the fact that the sugar content can be so high a typical bottle can contain 80% of your recommended allowance. The CO2 is quite a non-issue.

treos said:
"Amaregender- A gender that changes depending on who you’re in love with."

"Gyragender: having multiple genders but understanding none of them" sums up much of tumblr fairly well.

Kaeetayel said:
I'm no biologist but this doesn't make sense to me. Isn't CO2 usually absorbed through the lungs? If you drink soda, the CO2 goes to your stomach instead, and you can't really breathe from there.

There are far worse things about soda, such as the fact that the sugar content can be so high a typical bottle can contain 80% of your recommended allowance. The CO2 is quite a non-issue.

I thought that CO₂ was expelled from the digestive system entirely. However, IIRC diffusion takes small compounds like CO₂ into the bloodstream via the small intestine normally, so I guess it could happen.

Aeruginis said:
interesting yet not so pleasant side effects of too many soft drinks

another side effect that can come of too much soft drinks in too short a period of time might be the dreaded kidney stones. had that happen to me once and it was definitely not something you want to go through (thankfully it passed on it's own so nothing major was needed for help).

Tumblr should be banned from the internet

Rustyy said:
Tumblr should be banned from the internet

why? it's a gold mine. I hate everything about its interface though