Bub's Brain Spills

Oh, yes.

A few years ago I went to pick up a woman I met on OKCupid for a date, and a friend of hers was there. They kind of over-explained “Oh, she just showed up to say hi” and there was a vague nervousness in the air that even my autistic ass was picking up on. Her friend was playing conspicuously with her phone. I went “Ah, the safety. Need to get a picture?”

Dead silence for about a second and a half, then the friend took a picture, looked at my date, and said “Have fun” and walked out the door.

(I would ordinarily have been clueless, but I’d just been asked to be the safety the previous night.)

My advice to male-presenting folks: recognize that this not your problem. By which I mean, this sort of security check isn’t a problem for you. It doesn’t hurt you. You aren’t being insulted or disrespected. And if you treat it like what it is– a reasonable adaptation to an unreasonable situation– and just roll with it, your dates will be more comfortable, and you will have a better time as a result.

The same applies to phone calls mid-date. Let them answer the damn phone without drama.

Their arguement is that before processed feeds chickens had shorter lifespans and just died but like??? That honestly isnt the case since the biggest cause of death in chickens is predators or illness.

Flocks having better access to science based care is what increased their lifespan in my opinion

Like i think they keep only thinking about during The Great Depression and other bad economic times chickens had to live off scraps and yeah starving during those times wasnt good but the same thing happened with other domesticated animals.

But like before that? Even before America chickens were eating things other then processed feed and thriving.

I have seen so many peoples hens and roosters die from calicum toxicity in their layer feed (specifically purina but i wont point fingers) people dont realize that yes! Hens can have to much calicum and to little phosphorus or vitamin D and they can sick and die if thats off.

Leghorn hens for example need about 20% protein to truely thrive but your lucky to find a layer feed with even 18% in some farm stores. Which is even more stupid when you realize most modern layer pellets were invented for battery cage hens. Of course battery hens need less protein! They cant move!

Sometimes people will have whole flocks of silkies get wry neck and die and they think its due to mareks or silkies being fragile but in reality Silkies need alot more thiamine in their diet and deficiencies can kill them or the side effects from the deficiency can be so bad they just can never recover. These birds would normally be on a good crumble feed but these feeds are normally lacking.

In some locations almost every feed is missing huge chunks of nutrients which can cause deficiencies as well. Vitamin E is a common one.

And also as someone with house chickens i can also say their poop is genuinely awful on a diet of only processed feed. Cecal poops are huge and way more common due to the bird having to digest and ferment the inedible plant stuff in their gut longer so their poops are smellier, wetter, and just harder to clean.

I hate most chicken feeds

To everyone who says “but men trying to attract women is predetory” FUCK OFF with that gender essentialist bullshit! Men wanting to be attractive and desirable (even if its *gasp* hetero) isn’t inherently predetory! Men aren’t inherently predetory.

You realize by saying “men being femenin trick women into thinking they’re safe” is saying women = good, safe, soft, perfect and men = bad scary evil

And thats guess what! Sexist! Straight UP! Because women can be dangerous, predetory, whatever, and Men can want to be attractive and desirable and whatever.

The entire history of dude fashion which has def been about looking attractive and appealing to women, but that’s masc and expected so that’s all fine. But if you wear a skirt or dress it’s PREDATORY.”

Hero, dodging: but your entire room? I’m not painting my entire room orange

1) every time I see something like this, or photos of wild unrealistic landscapes that really exist, or spectacular architecture, whatever it is, I think again that when we write fantasy, we NERF REALITY. That is, here’s some dude with a special interest and a brain that somehow lacks basic self preservation mechanisms, and he’s out here looking like a super hero. Regular humans are capable of things we seem super human. Real landscapes are more fantastical than our fantasies. Reality is more fantastical than our fantasies.

The human eye only has three types of color sensitive cones, which detect red, blue, and green light. Your brain is making up every other color you perceive.

Let’s have a little fun with that thought. This is the visible spectrum of light.

You will of course note that yellow is on the chart. Yellow has a discreet wavelength, and is therefore a distinct physical color. But we can’t see it.

“Sorry, what the fuck?”

What we call yellow is just what our brain shrugs and spits out when our red and green cones are equally stimulated. We have light receptors that can pick up on the physical spectrum of light we call yellow: that’s why yellow things don’t just look like moving black blocks to us. But your brain has no fucking idea what the color yellow looks like. 

Some animals have eyes that can perceive the color yellow! Goldfish have a yellow cone in their eyes. If they could talk, they could tell us what yellow looks like. But we wouldn’t be able to understand it.

What your brain actually sees of the color spectrum:

We can measure the wavelength of light, so we know that when we see ‘yellow,’ we are seeing light in that 550-ish nanometers range. But we don’t have a cone in our eyes that can pick that up. Your brain just has a very consistent guess about what color that wavelength of light could be. We decided to name that guess ‘yellow.’ We can’t imagine what yellow really looks like any more than a dog can imagine the color red.

Here’s the funny thing: your brain is never perceiving just one photon of light at a time. Something like 2*10⁸ photons per second are hitting your retina under normal conditions. Your brain doesn’t individually process all of them. So it averages them out. It grabs a bunch of photons all coming from the same direction, with the same pattern, and goes, “yeah, that cup is blue, fuck it, next.”

That’s how colors blend in our eyes. So sure, if a photon of light with a wavelength of 550 nanometers bounces into our eyes, we see what we call “yellow.” But if we see two photons at the same time, coming from the same object, one of which is 500 nms and the other of which is 600 nms, your brain will average them out and you will still see yellow even though none of the light you just saw was 550 nms.

So how does magenta factor into this?

Well, as we’ve just established, when your brain sees light from two different slices of the visible light spectrum, it will try to just average them together. Green plus red is yellow, fuck it. If it’s more red than green, we’ll call that ‘orange.’ Literally who gives a shit, we’re trying to forage over here. There are bears out here and it’s so scary.

What happens if you take the average of blue and red light, which we perceive to be magenta? What’s the centerpoint of that line?

Fucking green.

Hey, that’s not gonna work? We live on a planet where EVERYTHING IS GREEN. If something is NOT green, that means it’s either food, or a potential source of danger, and either way your brain wants you to know about it.

So your brain goes, WHOOPS. Okay - this is fine. We already made up yellow, orange, cyan, and violet. We’ll just make up another color. Something that looks really, really different from green. 

And so it made up magenta.

So, physics-wise, is magenta “real?”

No; there’s no single wavelength of light that corresponds to magenta. But you’re rarely seeing only a single wavelength of light anyway. And even when you are, every color other than RGB is a dart thrown on the wall by your meat computer. This is the CIE Chromaticity Diagram:

Explaining this thing is a little more than I want to take on on a Saturday morning, but I’ve included a link above that goes into it a little more. The point is that only the colors that actually touch the ‘outline’ of the shape actually correspond to a specific wavelength of light. All of the other colors are blends of multiple wavelengths. So magenta isn’t special.

Given that color is just a fun trick your brain is playing on you to help you find food and avoid danger, is magenta real?

Yeah, absolutely. Or at least, it’s just as real as most of what we see. It’s what we see when we mix up blue and red. It would be disastrous from a survival standpoint to perceive that color as green, so we don’t. Because it’s not green. Light that’s green has a wavelength of around 510 nm. Stuff that’s magenta bounces back light that is both ~400 and ~700. Your brain knows the difference. So it fills in the gap for you, with the best guess it has, same as it does with your blind spot.

Yall.

That exact thing just happened yesterday. A guy I knew who had a rough go of life, and made poor choices for much of it, was just rounding the bend and starting to build a healthier & happier life for himself - when cancer took him very quickly.

Rich People: “That’s a smart business strategy.”

Reddit User: “These GameStop shares cost me $3 each, but I’m selling them to short investors for $300 each because I know that they can’t just refuse to buy it.”

gettingvetted here.

Yep, grain-free diets are a way to up the price tag. They started out as a fad since so many humans were adopting a gluten-free diet, and these days brands often like to claim that dogs and cats should not eat grains as part of their diet since they wouldn’t do so “in the wild”. Since dogs and cats are domesticated, they shouldn’t be eating anything in the wild, and are so far removed from their wild ancestors that their ability to digest grains have substantially increased. More recently, grain-free diets have been shown to contribute to dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM, or heart failure).

However, it’s not just about grain-free diets. The diets that are causing DCM are now referred to as “BEG” diets – boutique companies, exotic ingredients, or grain-free diets. The apparent link between BEG diets and DCM may be due to ingredients used to replace grains in grain-free diets, such as lentils or chickpeas, but also may be due to other common ingredients commonly found in BEG diets, such as exotic meats, vegetables, and fruits. In addition, not all pet food manufacturers have the same level of nutritional expertise and quality control, and this variability could introduce potential issues with some products.

A diet should not be selected based on ingredients (or lack thereof). Rather, a pet owner should be asking these questions of a company: