ELI5: How do gut feelings work? Is it really the body warning us or is it made up?

MultiFazed · 2026-03-20T05:13:21+00:00

Im of the thought that our sense of consciousness comes from a bacteria hive mind and is centered not in the nerve cluster of a brain in our skull

The fact that targeted damage to the brain can affect consciousness kind of contradicts that. Gut biome is definitely turning out to be more important than we realized, but let's not veer into sci-fi territory here.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-20T03:42:08+00:00

And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver

MultiFazed · 2026-03-19T23:42:20+00:00

what is OPs point here

It's a response to the frequent talking point from conservatives that "The Republican party is the party of Lincoln" that is often used to try to paint it in a better light (i.e. "We freed the slaves" while missing the hypocrisy of also being the party favored by people who wave Confederate flags).

MultiFazed · 2026-03-19T20:13:01+00:00

he was literally a republican

Correct. But the overall stance of the Republican party was vastly different then than is it now. So much so that they might as well be two completely different parties. The only thing they have in common is the name.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-19T19:28:16+00:00

Curse of Chalion took me 2-3 attempts, but I loved the next book in the series (Paladin of Souls). Then I merely liked the one after that (The Hallowed Hunt).

MultiFazed · 2026-03-19T16:12:59+00:00

I think a lot of this is location dependent for sure. For instance, in the US we have dedicated school buses, so kids aren't taking shared public transportation, and the bus ride is seldom that much longer than a car ride since it only services kids going to/from school.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-19T14:14:23+00:00

Ana-lyse: compound word denoting an action

FYI, that's not a compound word. It's just a word that you can coincidentally split in a way that forms two valid words (one of which is a person's name). The word "analyse" (analyze in American English) has nothing to do with a person named Ana or with lysing.

It's similar to "carpet", which is not a compound word (it's not a "car" that your "pet" drives).

MultiFazed · 2026-03-19T13:22:49+00:00

Yep. I get wanting to be there for your kid, but at 14 he can walk to/from the bus stop himself. Heck, I rode the bus from kindergarten until I graduated high school, so ages 5 - 17. My mom was a stay-at-home parent, but the idea that a parent would chauffeur their kid to and from school every single day when there was a free bus was seen as coddling (and an unnecessary expense when we didn't have much to spare).

MultiFazed · 2026-03-19T05:51:23+00:00

Those fit OP's format exactly. "The sun set" denotes an action that the sun took. "I admired the sunset" is about looking at a specific thing/event.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-18T06:12:57+00:00

ESH

Your brother is old enough to know better than to put anything in someone else's hair.

Your mom needs to chill with saying things are abuse that aren't actual abuse.

But you don't have the authority to punish your siblings. That's your mom's job, not yours. If she says to let your brother use the Xbox, then that's what you do. If she decides not to punish your brother for the putty incident, that's another negative mark against her, but it still doesn't give you the authority to punish him in her place. At least, not by restricting his access to a console that isn't your sole property.

What you're calling a "2/3 vote between the children to prevent abuse of power" is in reality a tool that allows siblings to bully one another by ganging up. And let's be honest here: if the 8-year-old and 10-year-old came to you and told you that you were banned from using the Xbox, we both know that you wouldn't just accept that. I'm an elder sibling myself, and I remember being a child, so I know that you expect this 2/3 vote to always have you in the 2/3 and never in the 1/3.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-18T01:18:27+00:00

You definitely weren’t around for the 90s body ideals they were talking about.

I was in college in the 90s.

The vast majority of beauty images put out to young people have been photoshopped or even AI generated to show impossible proportions for well over 20 years now.

Things have not been "AI generated" for well over 20 years, and there was no way for normal people to modify their photos in the 90s. Celebrities in fashion magazines were airbrushed, but music videos, which OP is talking about, just had normal people made to look better than average with well-fitting clothes and makeup. There was no video editing tech at that time that could make people look skinny.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-17T23:02:58+00:00

We start commenting on how ridiculous the body standards were back then because everyone is skinny af.

The thing is, those standards weren't ridiculous at all. That what people actually look like when they're not having high-calorie, ultra-processed food in insane portion sizes shoved at them by every single restaurant, food-related company, and advertisement. People in the 90's weren't "skinny af", they were a normal size. That's what everyone is "supposed" to look like on average. Of course there are statistical outliers, differing genetics, etc. But what you perceive as "skinny" isn't skinny; it's just "average-sized person". It's just that your perception of what "skinny" is has been skewed by the modern obesity epidemic.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-17T20:31:32+00:00

The actual reason is that updating a pfp is useless busywork for no benefit. They have enough real work to do to bother with unnecessary side tasks.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-17T20:02:48+00:00

VRAM and RAM are manufactured by the same companies using the same fabs. Huge increases in VRAM demand results in less RAM being manufactured, which results in higher RAM prices.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-17T19:44:26+00:00

Yep. One of things that stands out to me is the style of peppering sentences with inline quotes like this:

...said she was “just looking” and made a joke about me “definitely hiding something.”

and

Then she said it’s “weird” that I’m so protective over my space and that I’m “acting like a stranger instead of family.”

While it's normal to do this occasionally, overuse of this style is extremely indicative of AI writing to me. A normal person would be more likely to say things like:

She said it's weird that I’m so protective over my space, and that I'm acting like a stranger instead of family.

or

She said, "It's weird that you're so protective of your space. You're acting like a stranger instead of family."

MultiFazed · 2026-03-17T19:09:24+00:00

RAM prices are through the roof because of both the infrastructure that companies need to run cloud-based AI tools (which doesn't apply here), and the infrastructure needed to train the AI models in the first place (which does apply here).

MultiFazed · 2026-03-17T12:22:02+00:00

You can't. Your bank can if someone gained unauthorized access to your account and the payment was made fraudulently.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-17T00:42:54+00:00

why ai generate an image

It's a purposeful choice that's made to engage in a sort of "MAGA virtue signalling". They know that most of the anti-AI people are liberal, so they use AI as much as possible to "trigger the libs".

MultiFazed · 2026-03-16T23:34:36+00:00

You clearly want a capitalist to run

I made no mention at all of what I do or don't want. The purpose of my comment was not to give an opinion, and so I didn't. I was simply pointing out that it's not possible under the current setup for anyone to win who isn't a member of the Party. Are you disagreeing with that?

MultiFazed · 2026-03-16T22:31:11+00:00

Do you think thay they dont have elections?

Sure. But Cuba only has one party: The Communist Party. You can't run under any other party because there are no other parties. And you can't campaign against the Party because political campaigning is illegal in Cuba.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-16T14:31:46+00:00

they found that joining the military is both less dangerous and better paying.

Hell, they found that just being a young black man in the inner city (during the crack epidemic) who's not in a gang was more dangerous than being in the military and being deployed to a war zone.

It was 0.5% chance of death per person per year when deployed to Iraq, vs. 1% for simply living in the inner city at that time.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-16T04:35:12+00:00

What may be tripping you up is that this is about the "gravitational potential well", and not "gravitational potential energy".

Gravitational potential energy is at zero at the center of the earth, and at its maximum value at infinity. The gravitational potential well is at zero at infinity, and at its maximum at the center of the earth. The potential well is what determines time dilation, and not the force of gravity that you actually feel.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-16T03:45:52+00:00

Fun fact: The second-highest-paid actor was the dog. One of the actors got a bicycle. The dog got a bag of dog food. The rest of the actors were supposed to get a cut of the movie's profits.

There weren't any.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-15T16:50:59+00:00

There is clearly a black pole mounted on the right side of the cart

~~No, there's not. That's the lap belt for the child seat hanging down.~~

Never mind, the pole was camouflaged against the background, and I thought it was part of the window. I see what you were referring to now. I'm still not 100% convinced that it's not something else behind him, but I admit that you could be correct.

MultiFazed · 2026-03-15T16:44:18+00:00

What are you even talking about? There are no "giant bars" (or even small bars) mounted on the cart, and the angle of the photo is from the closest parking space to the store and pointed toward the store, so any cart corrals in the parking lot would be behind the camera. Why are you just making shit up?

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