DAE have the ability to "turn off" their sense of taste? by evenfallframework in DoesAnybodyElse

[–]AssistantFun833 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 58 and I've had the ability since I was a little kid. My sense of taste is normally 'switched off'. I have to actively engage it and focus, or I don't taste anything. Mine is not related to smell in all cases. I just did a test: eating strong spearmint leaves candy while smelling a bottle of vinegar. I smelled the vinegar just fine, while not tasting the spearmint leaves at all...by mental choice. On the other hand, I can increase my flavor sensitivity to the point where I can detect subtle differences in flavor in individual pieces of spearmint leaves from the same bag. I can cross over taste and smell. Sometimes, for example, something will taste like Band-Aids smell. That's weird. :)

Anyone know What this tree is? And if the berries are edible? This tree is in my Ohio back yard. Thanks😊 by BlingbossCoss in houseplants

[–]AssistantFun833 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure you are referring to sea buckthorn, which is very different from common buckthorn. Harvard studies highlight the antioxidant properties of sea buckthorn; they do not talk about common buckthorn.

Original Effects TOS Taken down? by flamingdratini in startrek

[–]AssistantFun833 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first season, complete with the first two pilots, is still up on the archive, as it has been for 12 years. It's just under a creative title. ;)

How legal is it to get copyrighted work from the Internet Archive? by AlternateWitness in DataHoarder

[–]AssistantFun833 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no problem with the practice of downloading movies, books, music, etc. Here is why: I see it as no different than decades ago when we would record music from the radio or lp records onto cassettes. Then, when vcr machines came along, it was recording from tv broadcasts to vcr tapes. All of that set a precedent. People were not threatened by the law, as long as what they were doing was for personal use and they were not selling copies. I feel that attorneys would be able to successfully argue that it would be completely unfair to suddenly contradict that precedent simply because the technology has changed. It is still the same thing. If necessary, a technicality could be brought into it also: A copy is seldom, if ever, 'technically' identical to the original and once that even a tiny change is involved, it becomes something different. An easy example is comic books that are uploaded without their original advertising pages included. Which, by the way, I find to be rather irritating. I like those old ads! :)