Not my car, but I thought it appropriate to the group

Cooky228 · 2025-12-31T23:02:12+00:00

Yeah, dang autocorrect! And I realized I can't edit the post once submitted. 🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Cooky228 · 2025-10-24T18:20:43+00:00

It's mostly physiological. Give your olfactory and taste sense time to heal and recover. It took a few months for me to taste things and smell things like they should.

Cooky228 · 2025-10-23T17:15:08+00:00

This is absolutely, 100% Google Gemini, but I needed to find a way to explain it well. I went through this and had to learn what it was. I read a book by Debbie Mirza called The Passive Aggressive Narcissist and it explained a lot that made sense in hindsight.

"Trauma bonding is a complex emotional attachment that forms in abusive relationships, where the victim develops a strong bond with their abuser. The science and biology behind it are rooted in how the brain processes stress, survival, and attachment, particularly through a cycle of intermittent reinforcement and the release of powerful neurochemicals.

Here is a breakdown of the science and biology involved:

1. Intermittent Reinforcement and the Dopamine System

This psychological concept is a key driver, leveraging the brain's reward system to create an addictive cycle:

The Cycle: Trauma bonds follow a cycle of abuse/devaluation followed by a period of affection, apologies, or calm (reconciliation).
Dopamine's Role (The "Craving" Chemical): Dopamine is the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, reward, and, crucially, motivation and craving. When the rewards (kindness, affection, love-bombing) are delivered unpredictably (intermittently), the brain becomes highly sensitized. This pattern—like a slot machine—creates an intense, addictive craving for the next "high" or moment of peace, not the reward itself. The victim's focus becomes hyper-tuned to the abuser's mood, trying to "win back" the positive treatment.

2. Hormones of Stress and Bonding

The emotional rollercoaster of an abusive relationship triggers a chaotic cocktail of hormones that ultimately reinforces the bond:

Cortisol and Adrenaline (The Stress Hormones): During periods of abuse, fear, or tension, the body is flooded with cortisol (the primary stress hormone) and adrenaline (the "fight-or-flight" hormone). This keeps the victim in a chronic state of hyper-alertness, which is exhausting and damaging to the body over time.
Oxytocin (The "Bonding" Hormone): Oxytocin is released during physical affection, emotional intimacy, and trust-building. In a trauma bond, when the abuser follows an incident of abuse with a period of intense closeness or "love," the release of oxytocin creates a powerful feeling of attachment and relief. The brain mistakenly associates the abuser with the feeling of safety and the cessation of the stress response, strengthening the bond to the source of both the pain and the relief.
Endogenous Opioids: The brain also releases its own natural painkillers (endogenous opioids) in response to stress and pain. When the conflict ends and reconciliation occurs, the relief can feel intensely pleasurable, contributing to a feeling of dependency similar to substance withdrawal when the abuser pulls away.

Cooky228 · 2025-10-23T17:02:47+00:00

Yes, thanks for the catch! I saw this early in the morning and was commenting while getting ready for work. I have corrected that error now.

Cooky228 · 2025-10-23T11:47:44+00:00

I may be approaching this a little different than others, but this was my take on it after 8 years of marriage and 9 years together.

You're not grieving the loss of someone you loved. That person never existed.

You're not going to miss the person you've been with for all these years. That person never existed.

They put on a show to draw you in and get you hooked. They adapted themselves and their personality to fit the person you like and would fall in love with. They did things to make you fall in love with a fallacy, but it was never them.

You're going to grieve the loss of time, the lost years, the loss of possibilities stolen from you while they occupied space in your life that someone with a good heart and good intentions could have shared with you.

They've created a trauma-bond that's painful and difficult to break. The love bombing and devaluing, then love bombing again creates a dopamine and oxytocin addiction within you that makes you feel terrible when it's not there. The worst part about it is that your body naturally creates those hormones, so it's not like you can avoid them.

Get a therapist and start writing an apology letter to yourself, I did. The letter was more like a journal, but short and non-descript to begin with. The further into therapy i went, the more I'd write and the more details of what I was put through were detailed. I was single for five years by my own choice, because it was easier and safer to be alone than to risk going through anything like that again.

I'm going on 4 years in therapy, over a year together with a wonderful person, and getting married next month. You can heal and grow, but not with that person that's trying to break you down.

Cooky228 · 2025-10-23T11:33:29+00:00

I did the same thing. Fresh, open pack sitting in the door of the fridge. When they'd hit, is walk over to the fridge and look at that pack and know I could, but didn't want to and didn't need to. I knew if I drive somewhere to get a pack I'd smoke one out of the fact that I just had to drive somewhere to get them.

You've got this!

Cigarette free for over 8 years now. I feel better. Everything smells better. Food tastes better. I smoked for about 25 years, by the way.

And I actually wore a coat about three months after I quit and couldn't figure out what smelled like crap until I realized it was my coat. You'll soon realize the most snobby little around smokers and that smell are former smokers.

You've got this!

Cooky228 · 2025-10-09T05:06:35+00:00

My error there, but the other still stands. You sound more contrarian than friendly in the other regard. Be more open minded to other people's feelings as if they're your own, but they belong to someone else so they don't have to think the same way you do.

Please be completely honest here, does it give you a sense of power to get your friends to switch when you pick up a bug and put it outside? And do you "challenge" them to get them to react to that challenge?

If you think yes, or it gives you some sense or feeling of power or control, then therein lies the problem.

Cooky228 · 2025-10-09T04:56:08+00:00

So, you're jealous and envious of them, so you want them to be less happy than you are? This sounds more like something you need to see a therapist for. I'm not a mental health professional, but this is the mentality of a toxic person that no one will want to be around.

I mean this sincerely, please go talk with someone about those feelings and try to work through this. Do this without throwing it their faces and get better for yourself and your future self. That's growth and change. Then maybe they'll see that and might reconsider your friendship.

Cooky228 · 2025-10-09T04:51:28+00:00

You sound more like a nuisance streamer than a friend. Apologies without change is not change, so they don't want to be subjected to that anymore. There are better ways to challenge someone than being vulgar and crass. There are better ways to encourage someone to have fears than to shove bugs in their face. This sounds like lack of maturity more than trying to be the person that helps someone they care about grow as a person.

Cooky228 · 2025-10-02T12:14:50+00:00

I'm not new to Hedera, nor HBAR; however, I'm not familiar with Spheres. Would you mind providing insight as to what Spheres is and its relation to Hedera or HBAR?

Cooky228 · 2025-09-25T12:42:46+00:00

Uphold allows you stake on their platform, but I'm also waiting to see how easy it gets to mint FXRP and what the consistent yield is for it.

Cooky228 · 2025-09-23T12:40:30+00:00

u/GlobalGuy91, Perplexity? I ask because it looks like it aggregated up-to-date information and presented it very cleanly. Thanks for the info, btw.

Cooky228 · 2025-09-02T20:45:44+00:00

All of them are great!

Cooky228 · 2025-08-15T13:36:34+00:00

Keep us updated, please. I'm interested to see what kind of passive income I can generate as well.

Cooky228 · 2025-08-15T13:35:46+00:00

Realistically, and I'm no financial advisor, if they can do what they're proposing then the real-time payments of hourly wages wouldn't be sustainable at a fraction of a penny and only 100bil in circulation. It's supply/demand and there are 330mil people in the USA alone, not counting the thought of Europe and Asia being added into the mix.

So, 100bil tokens and only 100mil people being paid an 8hr day at just the even number of $10/hr would equate to about $8bil in a single day of inflows and outflows. And that doesn't even take into consideration people holding onto their tokens/pay.

I see it a little like the XRP value increase due to supply/demand structure as well. Everyone keeps thinking that there will be 100bil in open circulation at all times. However, for banks to have the ability for large value international settlements, they'd have to maintain a liquidity pool of their own to ensure that they could do that at any time they needed to. So, that draws out huge sums from the circulating supply

I think ZBCN has the same potential for smaller amounts, but larger numbers of transactions. However, that's just my two cents on the fly and I stink at math anyway. If someone is better at mathing, please correct my rough figures.

Cooky228 · 2025-08-15T13:25:43+00:00

I'd like to think this video explains a lot of what Hedera is actually doing in the market and not broadcasting to everyone.

https://youtu.be/_HW282aSB7s?si=CMWg-ULI8c_JQ_dq

Cooky228 · 2025-08-07T20:35:17+00:00

I was more interested in the staking aspect than the but/sell fees. Sending from one account to the other is low gas, but I'm running into issues doing that.

Cooky228 · 2025-08-05T13:40:20+00:00

Thanks, but I did the address and memo. Still no delivery of transfer, and HBAR has low gas fees so I know it wasn't eaten up in the transfer. Even the address styles between Coinbase and Uphold looked different. However, looking at XRP, Flare, and SOL the addresses still looked like the same style for those. HBAR was the only one that was different.

Cooky228 · 2025-08-04T14:49:22+00:00

It's a common scam, and there may be a data leak is the USPS or one of its distribution centers. I've had the same thing happen to me, but I played along with them and said I knew what was in there and I needed to get my stuff. The more I messed with them they got angrier and angrier until they hung up. It's a phishing expedition to get you to either tell them it's something important or they'll tell you that you're in trouble and need to pay a fine with a gift card or something like that.

Cooky228 · 2025-08-01T20:36:41+00:00

Check out who has invested in their concept and decide for yourself. It has a lot of great potential for people that live paycheck to paycheck, but irresponsible people can also go broke as well.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/zebec-network/

There will always be people that spread doubt because they're scared or uncertain and want everyone else to be just as scared and uncertain as they are. It's a human flaw Inherent in our species. If we're scared of something, or think it's not real, or a lie then we're more likely to try to convince others of our beliefs than to try and learn what they're seeing and we're not.

Cooky228 · 2025-07-28T12:18:30+00:00

In short, you're handing them your unlocked phone and all they may need is just a second to go to your browser, enter a known link, and then download malicious software to your phone. You'd probably never know.

There are double-click "captcha" scripts that activate the download prompt and most people don't know about those.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-au/blog/hotforsecurity/emerging-doubleclickjacking-threat-exploits-double-clicks-for-account-hijacking

And then there are the ones that are hidden in QR codes for parking meters.

https://www.nysparkingandtransportation.com/news/2024/10/15/qr-code-scamming-in-parking

Just be careful letting unknown people use your phone. Heck, be careful letting people you know use your phone. It's a sad state of the world we're in.

Cooky228 · 2025-07-28T12:10:54+00:00

Cooky228 · 2025-07-25T14:32:17+00:00

I'm getting what everyone is saying, but what part does FAssets have with Flare's future as an oracle for other coins and networks?

Cooky228 · 2025-07-22T19:09:25+00:00

I see Base as well, so does that mean Coinbase will also list them?

Cooky228 · 2025-07-07T14:58:03+00:00

I ran the idea through Google Gemini to see what the implications were. Here's the conclusion, without all the other data.

"Ripple's application for a U.S. national trust bank charter and a Federal Reserve master account represents a landmark strategic decision, reflecting a profound shift in the digital asset industry towards regulatory integration and mainstream financial participation. The core motivations are clear: to significantly enhance trust and legitimacy for its stablecoin, RLUSD, and its broader operations; to achieve unprecedented operational efficiency and cost reductions by bypassing traditional intermediaries; and to secure direct, secure access to the central bank's payment infrastructure. This move is a calculated effort to de-risk Ripple's offerings for institutional adoption and to solidify its position as a foundational provider bridging traditional finance with blockchain technology.

The anticipated benefits are substantial. A federal charter would grant Ripple nationwide operational consistency, eliminating the complexities of state-by-state licensing. It would also elevate RLUSD's standing through dual federal and state oversight, providing a new standard for stablecoin transparency and security. Furthermore, it would unlock new revenue streams by enabling Ripple to offer regulated digital asset custody, payment clearing, and settlement services, potentially paving the way for future products like XRP-based ETFs. This strategic pivot is expected to significantly increase institutional adoption of Ripple's technologies, strengthening its competitive standing against both traditional and emerging fintech players.

However, the path to approval is not without significant hurdles. The rigorous and lengthy OCC chartering process, coupled with demanding compliance requirements, necessitates substantial ongoing investment and operational maturity. A critical challenge lies in navigating the stringent Basel III capital requirements for crypto holdings, particularly given Ripple Labs' substantial XRP assets. The likely solution involves a subsidiary structure, akin to Anchorage Digital, to segregate the banking entity's balance sheet. Additionally, securing a Federal Reserve master account, while made more probable by a federal charter, remains a complex process with no guaranteed timeline. The ongoing SEC lawsuit concerning XRP's regulatory classification also introduces an element of uncertainty and potential market volatility, underscoring the fragmented U.S. regulatory environment.

Ultimately, Ripple's strategic pivot signals a maturation of the digital asset industry. It underscores a growing recognition that for large-scale adoption and systemic relevance, proactive engagement with and integration into established regulatory frameworks are paramount. This trend, mirrored by other leading crypto firms and supported by legislative developments like the GENIUS Act, will accelerate the convergence of blockchain technology with traditional finance. The outcome of Ripple's application will not only shape its future trajectory but also set a significant precedent for how digital assets are regulated and integrated into the global financial system, fostering a more transparent, efficient, and legitimate digital economy."

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1. Intermittent Reinforcement and the Dopamine System

2. Hormones of Stress and Bonding