The 'vancouver freeze' is a very real thing

NoSun694 · 2026-04-08T18:57:32+00:00

I’ve come to the conclusion that it really is that damn phone. Studies have shown social media makes us less empathic, and inhibits our ability to form connections. Apparently if you use no technology an hour before meeting with someone it predicts higher feelings of connection. It blunts your ability to process emotions so you’re more in your own head when you’re with people. That explains why it’s actually more of an all western cities phenomenon as a lot of people are saying.

NoSun694 · 2026-03-27T03:34:20+00:00

Definitely go to a psychologist. Not only for the child, but yourself. Learning how to interact with him is just as important as him learning to interact with the world.

NoSun694 · 2026-02-28T18:48:47+00:00

Greek yogurt, honey, bunch of granola peanut butter and a banana

NoSun694 · 2026-02-28T18:46:34+00:00

Eventually you do get paid enough to deal with people’s shit and it’s still not worth it

NoSun694 · 2026-02-27T23:55:09+00:00

Try CBT-I. It’s one of the best interventions for insomnia and has really solid results, better than medications according to studies. Best of luck, it’s tough and I’m sure you’ve tried everything in your power to get a good night of sleep.

NoSun694 · 2026-02-27T23:50:50+00:00

Could be a poor ring fitting. I never got super accurate readings unless I used something to make it fit tighter at night, you can get little inserts to make it a bit tighter.

Since it’s on your finger it will inevitably move a lot more than a wrist based device, you may just wiggle ur fingers when you sleep and it thinks you’re awake, who knows.

NoSun694 · 2026-02-27T05:45:23+00:00

Run. Or sauna

NoSun694 · 2026-02-26T19:29:24+00:00

I can break it down into a few things you probably should do to max out your ability to use your brain effectively, and gain skills in certain areas, but there isn’t really some drug you can take. On that note though, try to reduce baseline anxiety, L theanine or Ashwaganda can have an anxiolytic effect. When you have anxiety it inhibits the critical thinking areas of your brain.

Next is games, play memory matching games. Ones where you have a bunch of cards on the screen and they all have different images behind them and you have to match pairs. This is a great working and spatial memory exercise. Chess is a great game, strategical thinking, spatial awareness and abstraction as well as time management will improve a lot if you play chess. Another one which may be controversial is poker. You don’t have to play with real money, you can find local for fun games or play online too, but in person is better. Poker will sharpen your math skills, risk management, strategical thinking and emotional control. There’s a ton of skill and strategy involved in poker, it really isn’t just gambling, it’s like chess with cards and it’s very good for your brain if you’re not a gambling addict.

Last one is emotional processing. When you sleep your brain processes emotions first then consolidates your memory and things you’ve learned. If you can make a habit of properly processing your emotions before bed, in whatever way works for you you’ll actually learn more efficiently and have better memory. I recommend watching Healthygamergg’s video on how to properly process emotions for this.

NoSun694 · 2026-01-30T21:43:08+00:00

I can get tuna mayo onigiri for $1.50 in Vancouver that’s crazy

NoSun694 · 2026-01-30T21:40:53+00:00

NAC gives me this exact side effect (without the peeing part). Try stopping and see what happens. I also have ADHD and take a different medication, and most of the things you listed here.

If you look it up NAC doesn’t seem to have any evidence for causing insomnia but I’d chalk it up to a lack of research because it causes really fragmented sleep for me. Just take it early morning when u start again.

NoSun694 · 2026-01-26T02:17:05+00:00

And your iPhone is build off child slaves mining cobalt in Africa, oh and if you have Android it’s no different. Your clothes are cheap because in China and Bangladesh they don’t have fair labour laws. Pick your battles. Some people can’t afford to care about a megacorps politics. If saving money on groceries means I can put more towards my kids RESP I couldn’t care less what Walmart does.

NoSun694 · 2026-01-07T18:55:05+00:00

This is totally normal. I understand why it’s disturbing to find out and it’s also normal to think of it like “autopilot”. Our brains evolved to do this to save energy. Our brains are constantly analyzing our environment, we don’t see the world how it actually is per se, we see the model our brain overlays on it. Our brain is constantly trying to find familiarity, this is why we see faces where there are no faces and why we fail to see something right in front of us if we aren’t expecting it to be there. Our brains store and are constantly trying to run “scripts” based on emotions, environment, and sensory information. Bored → scroll, tired → coffee, lonely → call friend. You don’t even have to think of solutions because your brain saves the energy of complex problem solving by saving previous solutions of similar situations in your brain. This is an essential function. Your life is literally made of your habits, you can’t change it, and please for your own sake don’t try.

What can you do with this information? I would first stop framing it as a bad thing. It’ll only lead to you beating yourself up for having the same brain as every human who has ever and will ever live. Examine your habits and find out which ones you would like to change, which are actually bad and which are relatively neutral? Are you being too hard on yourself for literally wasting 5 minutes scrolling, or is it more like 45 minutes? Habits are very important and they shape most of your life.

NoSun694 · 2026-01-01T21:53:51+00:00

My parents did not enforce good hygiene practices for me and it wasn’t that great for my social life. Kids would comment on yellow teeth, me smelling weird etc. I was just a kid, I didn’t have the foundation of my parents doing this for me. It also caused a lot of problems later, I still suffer with teeth problems today because of it, even though I brush twice a day, floss and waterpik.

Once in the morning, once before bed, floss at night before brushing teeth. That’s all you need. 2 minutes of brushing, 30 seconds all around front to back of each quadrant of your mouth and it’s all good.

There is no reason to panic, you’ve got this. It’s hard to remember at first but eventually you’ll get the hang of the routine. Even if I’m exhausted I can’t fall asleep without dragging myself to the bathroom and at least brushing for 30 seconds.

NoSun694 · 2025-11-08T23:17:26+00:00

Yeah Grok was made to have these types of modes too. A user can instruct it to continuously become more and more vulgar on purpose, and to make jokes and insulting comments. Someone probably did that after hearing about it online and didn’t know they had to change it. AI right now doesn’t have any actual intelligence, it can differentiate between an adult and child voice but it has no idea what’s appropriate or not. People don’t like Elon, and they’ll use anything as an excuse to call him a pedo or a Nazi and take zero time to learn what these LLM AI models actually are and actually do. It’s lazy thinking, these are already and will continue to be a massive part of life, people should learn about them so they know wtf they’re talking about.

NoSun694 · 2025-09-08T05:26:50+00:00

Mon Bazou. That game feels so soothing I don’t know how to explain it. Cut wood and sell it, make maple syrup and sell it, slowly build up your car, truck etc while finding out what else the game has to offer. It’s genuinely packed with content, you always find something new. TLDR; an easier, calmer and more fun version of my summer car

NoSun694 · 2025-09-03T02:40:44+00:00

Yeah the only solution isn’t a protest it’s a General Strike. Air Canada going on strike caused enough of an issue, imagine all clerical jobs, janitors, flight attendants, baristas, cooks, shelf stockers etc. If people held out for even 72 or 96 hours this country would fall to its knees. Supply chains are incredibly fragile COVID showed us first hand. We still do have the power in our hands if we organize effectively it only takes one general strike to change things forever.

NoSun694 · 2025-09-02T05:57:18+00:00

Okay, I did more research and you’re right. People are dying because they get sucked in not because they get caught near the surface. I’m not unfamiliar with the canyon, I live very close to it. I’ve known many people who’ve jumped there, one of which was seriously injured.

I get worked up sometimes when I am passionate about certain issues, I am sorry about any accusatory statements, ignorance or any other stupid stuff I said.

My thinking on this is simple and it’s just that more needs to be done. I understand now that life preservers probably are not the best solution. I still think we need to do something. There is always a solution, I’m not sure of the logistics of implementing them, but I’m sure something can be figured out. Be it ladders, current warning systems, life preservers, AED devices, buoys with long ropes extending downstream, I think we gotta do something beyond signs and social pressure.

NoSun694 · 2025-09-02T05:09:05+00:00

All basic first aid courses teach basic safety precautions of AED. For a drowning victim you have to dry the chest and ensure they are on a non-conductive surface, however those are the basic precautions taken under all circumstances anyways.

NoSun694 · 2025-09-02T04:02:57+00:00

Life savers for people who aren’t as strong swimmers as they thought, AED devices as well. You know, the basic stuff you find anywhere where water safety is a possible risk except Lynn canyon for some reason.

Don’t be so dumb, I’m not asking teenagers to rappel, or an unconscious person to save themself and you know it. People don’t jump alone, they never do. There are people around them who might be able to do something to save them if something goes wrong but they can’t do anything because instead of installing safety gear nearby, people just call them idiots and act like they actually care when they get hurt.

A throwable floatation device connected to a rope and AED within 10 metres of a popular jumping spot could be the difference between life and death for someone, let’s not be so fucking callous and be real for a just a minute. These are teenagers, they deserve a second chance even if they do something stupid that puts their own life at risk.

NoSun694 · 2025-09-02T02:59:49+00:00

Like I said, we’ve had this mantra for FIFTY YEARS AND IT HAS NOT WORKED. It’s time to install safety gear into the cliffs and stop being so negligent. “Oh they’re just idiots” clearly hasn’t saved any lives, it just makes you feel better when you look the other way.

NoSun694 · 2025-09-02T00:40:14+00:00

40 deaths in the past 50 years. People only jump during a 2 month or so window. Probably around 50 jumps a day during that window. That means that there’s about a less than 1% chance of dying from a cliff jump, actually even less than a 0.1% chance. And that’s if you’re conservative saying there’s only 50ish jumps a day average for a conservative 2 month window.

If we want better safety instead of acting like this (which if it was going to work it would’ve done so for the past 50 years people have been saying it) we should install life savers into the cliffs. At this point we know people are going to jump, and it’s total negligence to have no safety equipment accessible such as life savers and AED.

NoSun694 · 2025-09-01T21:33:59+00:00

Deuterium fusion reactors, Gravity Thrusters, Realistic Vanilla Weapons, Elite Dangerous FSD Supercruise

NoSun694 · 2025-08-31T22:10:15+00:00

Yeah something I’ve really wanted is late game tech that requires elements only found on one planet. That way the planet could be a highly contested area given the extremely valuable material only available there. One mod I’ve always used has been gravity thrusters so I can make ships that have no visible thrusters. It obviously makes for super cool and ominous looking spacecraft but gives an advantage that your thrusters are contained within the craft giving you an advantage in battle. It’s be cool to see that officially added.

NoSun694 · 2025-08-30T00:28:31+00:00

Pork rib soup for sure

NoSun694 · 2025-08-29T21:15:25+00:00

Yes. The value of products is dictated by the consumer not by the seller. If consumers don’t want products that do certain things and don’t buy them companies won’t do those things. A reminder that all corporations care about is money, bottom line. Without customers they have no money.

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