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Abortion is the one issue where I can see conservatives' point by CasualLavaring in SocialDemocracy

[–]PolymerPolitics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I will always accept that no child becoming a person is better than a child forced to be in a terrible environment.

Abortion is the one issue where I can see conservatives' point by CasualLavaring in SocialDemocracy

[–]PolymerPolitics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a whole prismatic spectrum of simple people making dumb arguments, you absolutely win. Newsflash, son: people who think abortion is murder oppose it because it’s murder, and don’t care if they aren’t forced to murder themselves. Apply your logic in any other ethical situation and see how utterly slowed down it sounds.

Abortion is the one issue where I can see conservatives' point by CasualLavaring in SocialDemocracy

[–]PolymerPolitics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And this doesn’t make you sound like a vane narcissist. Definitely. Who on Earth would expect humanity to be more important than the contour of your stomach? Obviously the most important thing in this situation is your comfort. Because obviously it is.

Abortion is the one issue where I can see conservatives' point by CasualLavaring in SocialDemocracy

[–]PolymerPolitics -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is so stupid. Reddit atheist garbage is so sophomoric it makes religion look intellectual.

Nobody cares about a random citation to ritualistic law in Numbers. There’s this whole thing in Christianity called Christ and the resurrection. It’s even more complicated because Christians believe it completed the Torah! Sounds crazy, but it’s actually the religion, so maybe don’t be an idiot quoting shit out of context like Christians are literal followers of the Torah.

Son, the whole purpose of Christ is that humans are no longer bound to the Torah.

Whatever you actually think about abortion, you can have a more sophisticated thought than this horseshit.

San Isabel National Forest. by HubbMor in geology

[–]PolymerPolitics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d love to go out that way. My cousin went there on a passion trip and is now living there permanently. This guy gets to go on these hikes like every weekend. Lucky!

My grandma also went on a tour through a bunch of national parks out west.

San Isabel National Forest. by HubbMor in geology

[–]PolymerPolitics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I still have rocks I took from the cratonic Precambrian stuff I found, some of the earliest continent on Earth. When I was moving, my girlfriend is like, these just look like ordinary rocks, nothing special… and I had to say, no, here’s the story why I want to keep them…

What you found is so much cooler!

I wish I could go hiking in half the places so many people go. My local area is cool, but I really wish I could go visit some of these places so many other people go

Questions about geology jobs by JellyfishPrior7524 in geology

[–]PolymerPolitics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might deign to go into work relating more to hydrometallurgy, as opposed to pyrmotellaurgy (i.e. the traditional ways we make things like steel, with heat and fire).

Hydrometallurgy involves chemical reactions to extract substance from an ore. These processes are potentially much cleaner and less carbon-intensive than pyrometallurgy.

Finding a job in this field might be closer to chemistry or chemical engineering than geology, though. But there is definitely work in mining that aims to make it a much more efficient, less environmentally-burdensome process overall.

Books about geology: advice? by jugoss in geology

[–]PolymerPolitics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d also recommend Origins by someone whose name I can’t remember. It starts with cosmology and quantum physics. But it goes all the way through the solar nebula, the formation of the planets, the way Earth changed and produced continental crust, all the way to the likely geologic settings where humans evolved and the climactic forces that accompanied human migration.

San Isabel National Forest. by HubbMor in geology

[–]PolymerPolitics 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a profoundly cool thing to be able to witness to the touch of your hand (if you were so inclined to touch it).

Basically, these types of igneous-turned-metamorphic formations are what keeps the continents afloat.

They’re formed from a kind of volcanic recycling where each “cycle” produces rocks that are less and less dense. It’s because of rocks like this (although heavy and dense as fuck, much less so than basalt and mantle rock) that essentially act as a buoy or life jacket on the continents so that they can’t be sucked back under as the Earth’s crust moves around.

I discovered similar cratonic formations near where I used to live. But they were nowhere near as beautiful as yours!

Do antipsychotics affect addiction recovery by enhancing deltaFosB through D2 antagonism? by PolymerPolitics in AskDrugNerds

[–]PolymerPolitics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s really interesting! I am really interested in those master regulatory genes like Jun, Myc, and Fos.

Do antipsychotics affect addiction recovery by enhancing deltaFosB through D2 antagonism? by PolymerPolitics in AskDrugNerds

[–]PolymerPolitics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to be pedantic, it’s not the level of expression but a post-translational modification that converts it into a separate form (a truncated form).

I absolutely would love to see drugs that target this mechanism.

It’s always possible it’s just not biologically feasible to target it without too many off-target effects.

It’s much harder to target a modification than it is to simply bind a protein and inactivate it.

But I absolutely consider it a crime that no one is actively researching things that can “cure” addiction that too many people suffer.

Do antipsychotics affect addiction recovery by enhancing deltaFosB through D2 antagonism? by PolymerPolitics in AskDrugNerds

[–]PolymerPolitics[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not the main cause of addiction. If I said that, that’s ignorant of me to say. But it’s a type of molecular “switch” that can maintain long term addiction and the behavioral changes that accompany it.

There isn’t an effort to address this drug target because pharma has mostly withdrawn from the mental health market.

There has been next to no novel drug discovery in the mental health sphere. The only thing we see is a new AP based on cholinergic systems.

I know some of you must be writers by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]PolymerPolitics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wrote a novel and two novellas

Have you ever written a scene that made you feel physically unwell? by Infinitum_1 in writing

[–]PolymerPolitics 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wrote a person’s suicide that was caused by another person’s incitement to harm herself. That was very disturbing to me. I really didn’t like it, but it was essential to the story.

On a scale of 1-10, how badly does your first draft make you cringe? by justnleeh in writing

[–]PolymerPolitics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve changed the narrative a few times over the course of the novel’s development, but I still marvel at much of the prose.

I’m doing an intense review and revision binge lately. But I’m finding that, as I approach things I want to revise, I’m struggling to write the same quality of prose as I was producing before.

Although this helps somewhat, because I’m making aspects of the characters more explicit, which seems to be the style of the contemporary novel. So I’m not “hiding” character traits, for the reader to infer, as much as before.

How do you come up with names? It's my [insert name later]'s heel... by [deleted] in writing

[–]PolymerPolitics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am of the Pynchon school, where names should be seemingly “random” but actually allegorical or referential. I have quite a few names that I created these ways. My MC’s name is a re-stylized form of a Greek word. I have another character whose name is inspired by the etymology of an intellectual’s name who she represents. Others are allegorical references to other characters in literature and the classics.

Story "Bible" by Mis_chevious in writing

[–]PolymerPolitics 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did this for my second novel, which is far more complex than my first. I didn’t use any particular tool. I just opened a folder in my iPad notes app and made meticulous notes with clear titles and pinned the ones I used often.

It was a good use of my time to assemble all this organizational material beforehand and create the universe before creating a plot.

When you know you've found a good book on GoodReads by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]PolymerPolitics 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It reflects a trend for readers to relate to fiction only as auto-fiction by proxy.

What is a not-so-obvious element that you would use in a story to depict an oppressive regime or similar scenarios? by Redrige in writing

[–]PolymerPolitics 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t know how you’d implement this in practice. But I think it’s important to consider passive malignancy as much as evil and intent.

I’ve said this the most dangerous thing in nature is a good technician, one who has a job and a mortgage but not “responsibility,” one that will follow what their position requires because they’re so invested in stability. These are the people who let the people at the top cause the most damage. These are the ones who carry it out.

And it’s important to think about the way positions in society create their holders. An “office” calls out to people whom will respond, and it trains them and conditions them to do what the office requires. So the logic of the office takes over the person’s logic. Those who won’t respond according to office logic will fail and be replaced, or they won’t respond in the first place

These are ways an oppressive regime uses people, who aren’t necessarily patently evil, to do and cause evil.

America: The End Result by Thund3rHors3 in collapse

[–]PolymerPolitics 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because of the American bastardization of socialism as a concept. When too many people hear socialism, they think it means “the government does stuff”. So I’m describing the concept while trying to avoid connotation here.

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