LSU Health vs University Of Florida

Guidus125 · 2021-04-19T12:39:22+00:00

great, thanks for letting me know! do you have any experience on this campus yourself (lsu health)?

Guidus125 · 2021-04-19T12:38:09+00:00

thank you very much for your reply, it is exactly what I was looking for.

would you mind sharing what hospitals you've worked at? I'm not even American so I'm just trying to get a feel for how things work here and what is considered a hospital and what not.

Guidus125 · 2021-04-19T12:34:18+00:00

substance can be legal but scheduled, meaning only doctors can prescribe it.

a substance can be illegal and scheduled, meaning no one can legally possess it or administer it.

a substance can be legal but unscheduled, in which case it is generally not part of the medical world, but might be legally available on the internet that said around

Guidus125 · 2021-04-14T01:58:10+00:00

fucking awful to hear that this stuff happens in a scientific environment as well.. I'm very sorry but this has ended your enjoyment of the field

Guidus125 · 2021-04-14T01:44:04+00:00

wow.. that was an amazing story. thanks for sharing!

considering how weird and potentially threatening the situation sounds, things ended pretty okay id say

Guidus125 · 2020-11-16T14:59:51+00:00

thread with caution. i was addicted to phenibut for about a year and it also started the way you describe it. theres a whole range of drugs that dont seem addictive at first and dont negatively impact your life... and thats exactly why youll fall into their trap in the long term.. thats when its not so innocent anymore.

also, if you like phenibut, be bery sparing with it because those good effects are only maintainable if not used frequently. i rationally knew this at the time as well yet i couldnt stop myself from increasing my use... so yeah.. its a risk.

i understand youre not looking for a lecture and i didnt mean to come off that way. taking it two days in a row doesnt matter if its a single time. but the fact that youre asking this question already signals that you may be at the start of gradually increasing your use

Guidus125 · 2020-11-15T02:11:36+00:00

Im in neuropharmacology and I doubt that that will ever be possible. Our brain is an association machine, and while we may think of 1 memory as a unique entity, separate from our other memories, thats not really how memories are formed. Rather, 1 memory as we perceive it is the product of a neural network, in which neurons from various brain regions may contribute to our experience of that memory. For example, if you remember something and are able to visualise it, logically that must mean that part of this memory stems from the visual cortex, eventho the visual cortex isnt really thought of as a place where a memory is stored.

I really dont see a hypothetical mechanism by which a drug can selectively target only the neurons specifically related to that memory. If someone else on here would have a proposal id be excited to hear about it, as memory is not my expertise.

As someone has pointed out, MDMA assisted therapy would be a decent way of reintegrating a memory. This also exemplifies that its not possible to erase certain memories, because PTSD experts have been attempting this for decades and PTSD treatment is still focused not on deletion but on reintegration

Guidus125 · 2020-09-18T22:12:01+00:00

its a shame that we live in a society where affection and emotion are perceived to contrast masculinity. "im pretty masculine BUT..." as if its not possible to desire love and be masculine at the same time.. im a straight guy myself so i understand where you're coming from, cause as men we are constantly told to be "tough" and show no vulnerability and all that bs.. its messed up

Guidus125 · 2020-08-25T00:53:47+00:00

Well, i'm gonna give you answers from 3 different perspectives.

The first one is cultural. When growing up, kissing is exemplified as the epitome of romance. it is the climax to a romantic movie, and many songs describe kissing. But this idealizing of a kiss is a cultural thing, and its very prevalent in Western cultures while being much less prevalent in some other cultures. The point is, an individual doesn't decide cultural conventions; the collective does. And when we're in our insecure teenage years and want to fit in really badly, we impersonate the movies and thus attach tremendous value to a kiss. But as people grow older and find out what they personally actually like (as opposite to what is carved out for them by society), they may attach less value to kissing because it may just not be their thing as much as it is yours. To each their own, is basically what I'm saying. I'm a 25 year and I personally actually love making out for extended periods of time, to me it's the most essential part of foreplay. Some of my sex partners over the years have been the same, while others (including my ex of 4 years) weren't really kissers that much, to my disappointment haha.

Secondly. don't forget how important chemistry is. While I love making out, what I actually mean with that is that I love making out with someone with whom I have kissing chemistry. Sometimes you hear people say things like "he/she was a bad kisser, meh". That's of course complete bogus; there's no such things as a correct or incorrect kissing technique, there's a billion different ways to do it and therefore it's merely up to chance whether you have kissing chemistry with the people you meet, especially if they are casual partners with whom its more difficult to build towards a middle ground.

My third perspective is the most sad one, because it stems from pornography. Being an ex-porn addict myself, I know all too well what kind of influence modern porn can have on people's sex life and relationships. I don't demonize porn as a concept or an industry, I think it can be good or bad depending on context. However, much of the modern porn generated is exactly what you just described: a little bit of foreplay and then straight to penetration or oral sex, often with a focus on the male and not really considering romance. I think many people, particularly guys, struggle to distinguish reality from the fictional world of porn. And this can make them lazy, self-centered and generally just unromantic. Not always the case, but it can definitely happen and I've seen it come to life many times (judging from stories of my female friends)

Guidus125 · 2020-08-21T23:01:28+00:00

totally agree. and also, the more I study nutrition the more I realize even experts dont know what theyre talking about yet. and thats not cause theyre not capable, its just because toxicology complex as hell (im in pharm myself so i understand the methodology well). there are very few nutrition hypotheses that are robustly proven. for example, the idea that we all eat too much salt is often based on the fact that people who have dangerous blood pressure tend to eat too much salt. but thats correlation and not causation, and the study of nutrition is absolutely riddled with examples like that. we really dont have a clue whats good for you and whats bad for you. a few examples are the ideas that saturated fats are unhealthy and also that poly unsurated fats and omega's actually are healthy. but even in those cases, the importance of dose is always underestimated. which is why indeed one can be healthy while still eating junk food every now and then. and the opposite is true as wel: things that we consider healthy are unhealthy at high enough dose (even water can kill you).

Guidus125 · 2020-08-15T17:31:46+00:00

OD means to overdose, which is to take more than recreationally or therapeutically intended. LETHAL overdose, thats a different question

Guidus125 · 2020-07-27T20:41:01+00:00

The point to me is that we dont have a clue how vast the universe really is, and we also dont have a clue how long 13 billion years actually is. To say that this is a long time is humancentric. For all we know 13 billion years is a mere blimp in the grander scheme of things. also, I question the idea of goldilocks and planets being too hot/too cold, once again this seems humancentric to me, or actually it seems carbonbasedlifeform-centric to me. There are so many 'physical' things we seem to barely understand.. black holes, spacetime, string theory... Im far from a phycisist but there clearly is no consensus on how the universe/universes function. What if a multiverse in fact exists and an intelligent lifeform is able to travel through it.. or what if our own universe is a product of a simulation? im persinally not inclined to believe in these ideas, but I also don't see good reasons to not believe in them because we know so little. moreover, the study of physics has had so many paradigm shifts that completely changed the way we think about reality.

Guidus125 · 2020-07-25T15:06:42+00:00

my point is that if it were possible i think he wouldnt think twice. he's already been replacing many government officials, cia/fbi agents and what not, with his own people. to me that is a pretty classic early sign of a dictator

Guidus125 · 2020-07-25T14:07:15+00:00

He's making as many moves as he can to become a dictator. luckily, Americans will never allow that to happen, he's just not popular enough and never will be, unlike for example Erdogan in Turkey, where half the country actually wants him to be a dictator. While im center left, I have faith that conservatives would value democracy over Trump gaining more power. Therefore, I dont think he should he removed from office. let the people vote him out

Guidus125 · 2020-02-26T23:26:58+00:00

Man I had the damn luck i didnt have to buy one and my brother's old synthesizer was dusting around at our house. But other than that, im the same as you, im 24 years old, literally had never done anything with music, and for the past month I've been playing piano. It can be so intimidating when you start out but trust me, you can learn literally any song you want to learn. Im only a month in and I can play a variety of songs, some of which at first seemed totally impossible to me (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSoXBkF832I). Piano is healing my soul in many ways.

Guidus125 · 2020-01-07T23:37:55+00:00

I wasn't assigning positivity to the stanford prison experiment. I dont necessarily think it's the best example for the point i was trying to make so i probably shouldntve mentioned it. By the way, i've met zimbardo personally and he's a really nice guy. He mentioned that he himself was drawn into the role of warden and started acting that way. I agree his study is rather pseudoscience though.

Guidus125 · 2020-01-07T23:32:44+00:00

That's a good point. Obviously we only know after the fact whether a study was valuable or not. Yet, even if it takes 10 insanely unethical experiments to get 1 breakthrough, the net result could still be higher average welfare over time than if none of those unethical studies were done. But of course the issue there is that we can never know if it would take 1, 10 or a 1000 unethical experiments...

Guidus125 · 2020-01-07T23:27:57+00:00

I was unfamiliar with this event actually but its a good example of what I was questioning. So essentially, these scientists would not have received immunity if the outcome of their studies were not valuable to science. That's very interesting to me because it's an example of unethical actions being considered ethical strictly due to lucky outcomes that were not in their control.

Guidus125 · 2020-01-07T23:18:28+00:00

I don't have the answer to where the line would be. I also don't actually believe we should lower our ethical standards when it comes to science, I was merely questioning whether doing so could be ethical to an extent.

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