Zompist Bboard Again

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 3:22 pm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_(2023_film)

Looks like they finally made a movie with good guy mummies. After all those books and movies and TV shows with vampires as protagonists, I had seriously been waiting for this. I mean, say about mummies what you want, at least they don't go around sucking people's blood. I think before this movie, the only work in the "mummies as sympathetic characters" subgenre was one old episode of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.

malloc wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:53 pm An odd question but something I have always wondered. Plenty of chemical substances cause euphoria or pleasure when consumed. But does anything have the opposite effect, making you miserable? It has always seemed odd to me that drugs with largely opposite effects, like stimulants versus depressants, nonetheless both feel good when consumed.

malloc wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:53 pm An odd question but something I have always wondered. Plenty of chemical substances cause euphoria or pleasure when consumed. But does anything have the opposite effect, making you miserable? It has always seemed odd to me that drugs with largely opposite effects, like stimulants versus depressants, nonetheless both feel good when consumed.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:28 am The wikipedia page for 'Dysphoria' lists a few: notable are Salvinorin A (found in known hallucinogen Salvia Officinalis) and quite a few anti-psychotics. People that have been on Haldol report that it feels awful.
As for salvia, there's a very article on it on Vice (where else?): https://www.vice.com/en/article/nexkvg/ ... Highlights: 'Each time I’d tried salvia the experience had been uncomfortable at best and terrifying at worst.'

Ares Land wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 2:35 pm salvia divinorum, dammit... and sorry. It's a different species, native to Mexico.
Common sage has no such properties.

That made me think of nutmeg though -- hallucinogenic, unpleasant and toxic in high doses.

linguistcat wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:20 am Also bananas but as far as I know (no personal experience with the drug side of this), whatever causes it is mostly in the peels. However I have had weird dreams after eating a banana before bed so maybe a small amount is found in the fruit as well.

malloc wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:53 pm An odd question but something I have always wondered. Plenty of chemical substances cause euphoria or pleasure when consumed. But does anything have the opposite effect, making you miserable?

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 6:20 pm For those who haven't heard, there was a VC that identified as a bank called Silicon Valley Bank. They do have a state charter, but (and apparently this is true of all state chartered banks, and since 1991 technically true of nationally chartered banks as well) they were not required to apply for FDIC insurance. And they focused on investments into tech startups. So basically, it was a big box where you could go and be an angel investor and let someone else do the paper work. You've probably heard that the era of "free money" and insane post-Covid growth is over. Interest rates are up, tech companies are scrambling to make a profit, and even the Saudis are reluctant to inflate random startups. So SVB, with its two hundred billion dollars of uninsured holdings, went belly up on Friday. It's one of the biggest banks collapses in US history. If this happened four years ago, I would allow people to be surprised. But in 2023, anyone who was still drinking this snake oil should have known better.

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:42 am The whole point of physics is to make prediction machines, though. A model’s no use if it can only tell you stuff you’ve already verified. (This is the reason why many people don’t like string theory etc.)

malloc wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:53 pm An odd question but something I have always wondered. Plenty of chemical substances cause euphoria or pleasure when consumed. But does anything have the opposite effect, making you miserable? It has always seemed odd to me that drugs with largely opposite effects, like stimulants versus depressants, nonetheless both feel good when consumed.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:07 am (Ignore me, I'm just testing something)

E=mc²

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:30 am Did it work?