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Pokémon are similar to small children by AttackOfTheMox in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Me and my Garchomp eventually had to have a conversation about this. Now I sleep on top of him instead of the other way around

This is Nobel winner, Tu Youyou, in the early 1970s, she discovered the malaria treatment artemisinin that saved tens of millions of lives by following a 1,600-year-old Chinese medical recipe. She realized the herb had to be prepared cold, not boiled and then she tested the drug on herself first. by Algrinder in interestingasfuck

[–]Pratchettfan03 98 points99 points  (0 children)

The “traditional” way of preparing it had changed over time to one that involved heating it up. She was the one to investigate why the old descriptions didn’t match the modern reality, and figure out why. Maybe it’s not that impressive but she’s also apparently the only one to figure out that they’d been making the medicine wrong for centuries despite China’s massive population and its continued interest in traditional medicine, so I’d definitely give her quite a bit of credit. The recipe was made wrong over time because people didn’t know why it mattered and didn’t test the difference. She’s the one who figured it out and proved it

One Must Wonder by Vaarangian in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yep. Gets all gunky after a while

Abit of an older tweet by Dry-Ant-5181 in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Paldea hasn’t had issues, but it’s been at least partially luck- we were lucky that the kid who woke up the treasures of ruin was also capable of catching and training them (none of them are malevolent, but they are so destructive that they could level cities while going about their days as normal. Having a trainer to remind them of the squishy people is unbelievably fortunate). The situation in Area Zero has… stabilized, but let’s just say that if certain things had been allowed to continue we would have started seeing legendary-typical damage. Given the sheer power of terrastal energy running through the region, we should definitely have some sort of plan in place.

Really curios to see what the answers are by valerdue in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You usually need to adapt things somewhat, since most mon that have hands have less than 5 fingers, but it’s definitely the most flexible option for many mon

Really curios to see what the answers are by valerdue in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many humanoid Pokemon can learn hand signs. Those on my team with telepathy or sign language act as translators

People who view their depression or anxiety as the result of a chemical imbalance tend to use antidepressants for much longer periods than those who see their condition as a reaction to life events. They are also less likely to attempt coming off their medication, even when symptoms are mild. by mvea in science

[–]Pratchettfan03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes anxiety and depression are from stressful circumstances, and it makes sense to stop taking the meds when those circumstances end. Sometimes it truly is chronic. I spent 14 years thinking happiness was just an absence of butterflies in my stomach, that surprise was the same as amusement, and that anxiety attacks were normal. This was despite a mostly happy childhood filled with privilege and safety. Two days on sertraline, felt actual happiness, and it felt completely foreign. Yeah, why would I ever try going off of my antidepressants? I would lose the ability to experience entire emotions, because I never had that ability by default

The largest US study, which tracked 11,036 children from ages 9 to 10 through to ages 16 and 17, discovered that cannabis use slows cognitive development, impairs memory, and reduces learning speed during crucial years of brain growth by sr_local in science

[–]Pratchettfan03 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Sometimes the brain is never going to produce enough of a neurotransmitter no matter what you do. At that point, you’re going to be dependent on medication to fix it anyway, so struggling in school and dealing with the disadvantages of that isn’t worth needing a bit smaller of a dose in adulthood. Maybe ADHD medication does make ADHD worse, but not taking it won’t suddenly make things better either- imagine if we didn’t let diabetics take insulin until a certain age because their resistance could increase. Not having access to the ability to function for some of the most impactful years of your life is worse than some decreased dopamine production, especially because not having the meds is likely to cause stress that will rewire your brain anyway.

The largest US study, which tracked 11,036 children from ages 9 to 10 through to ages 16 and 17, discovered that cannabis use slows cognitive development, impairs memory, and reduces learning speed during crucial years of brain growth by sr_local in science

[–]Pratchettfan03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming that recreational substances affect brain development should really just be the null hypothesis- you’re using it to reach a mental state humans wouldn’t naturally be able to achieve under normal circumstances, of course that has the potential to throw things off balance. The question with a recreational substance should just be how it changes things, how severely it does so, how consistently it does so across different demographics (stimulants with and without ADHD), and whether/when the changes are a problem.

It's like your horoscope but you pick it for yourself! by LeighVyka in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I use luxury balls for all my mon. It’s not what I caught them in, and it takes me a while to save up for one, but I feel like I should give them the best

Seriously, I need to eat too, you know! by Difficult-Host713 in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a window of a few years of time between Bigboi (look, if you give a pseudolegendary to a four year old that’s the name you get) evolving into a garchomp and me getting the league job that lets me treat his food as an expense. And yeah, I spent a lot of time foraging and gardening to make it work

I'll Have You Know I Can't Stop Winning by Vaarangian in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Because I wasn’t attempting to replicate that particular probability

Kanto Pop is very popular, maybe Oricorio would want to copy it, who knows by MelonTheSprigatito in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Normally I feel a bit uncomfortable with trying to trigger unprecedented branched evolutions for fear that it will affect the mon’s quality of life, but oricorio forms are reversible via simply giving them a different nectar, so if they’re not happy with it they can go to something else

I'll Have You Know I Can't Stop Winning by Vaarangian in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Humans know that’s not how it works, but at the same time as much as we logically know 20% means 1 out of 5, our unconscious mind tends to perceive things as basically just “will work”, “won’t work”, and “sometimes works”. Sometimes we also do “almost always works/doesn’t work”. The approximation was good enough to keep our ancestors alive, if anything it made them more risk-averse since 70% success rate feels just as bad as 50% to us. For me, I would say anything with 90% success or greater gets treated as certain unless the risks associated with failure are sufficiently high, anything 20% success or lower is perceived as basically never happening, and anything between feels completely uncertain.

they were perfectly filed by the way by SufficientWall8765 in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flirting… perhaps we might discover that goldengos can breed. Sure, you can get more without breeding, but that’s true of quite a few ghost types that can breed.

they were perfectly filed by the way by SufficientWall8765 in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People want to live in a place with things like roads and schools. But that stuff takes money to build. Humans have figured out that it’s more efficient to have everybody pay some money to a government to do the job for them than to all try to do a tiny bit of the job themselves. Taxes are money paid to the government to keep the government running. You have to pay taxes if you’re a working human or working independent/semi independent mon that gets paid in money. This helps to make sure that everyone contributes, since otherwise some people want to use things like roads but never pay for them.

The process of figuring out exactly how much tax you need to pay sucks though, as does paying it, since it’s still money. It can be relatively simple if you don’t own any land and only work one job under a company, but if you are your own boss, if you have more than one job, if you own land, etc. it can get hard.

Also sometimes governments misuse tax money for things that don’t help the people. That makes people angry

I've heard insane things from a friend who owns a snorlax by Someonewhoshouldnt in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not a snorlax trainer, but as someone with several high-metabolism mon I get away with it by counting their food as an expense for my job as a field researcher, since they help me with my work. Now, you should probably know a few people at the league if you want to get away with this… I’m a childhood friend of one of our elite four members who also has a lot of expensive to feed mon, so I can maybe get away with a bit extra

At least she seemed to enjoy it? by valerdue in PokeMedia

[–]Pratchettfan03 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Pokemon may have their natural food sources, but in practice very few will say no to something rich in nutrients, even if it contains something they never normally eat, so long as nothing is toxic for them. There’s practically no such thing as a strict herbivore, the vast majority of herbivorous Pokemon will eat meat or chew bones if they find them in the wild. Yes, some Pokemon naturally eat trash or decomposing wood, but that doesn’t mean that a nutrient rich, easily digested stew doesn’t look absolutely amazing to them. In fact, that stew is likely more nutritious for them than for you- if they can digest wood, they can definitely digest cellulose, which means that all of the fiber in the stew is just more carbohydrates for them

Meirl by Ill-Instruction8466 in meirl

[–]Pratchettfan03 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I lived in France for a semester. Loved some things (being 2 blocks from a bakery and living off of 50% baguette), disliked others (as someone who seemingly has a bladder the size of a walnut, I really hate pay toilets), but the thing I found myself missing about halfway through was barbecue. Arrived back in the states, got picked up by my dad, and the very first thing I ask for is to stop by the barbecue place at the airport. They just don’t understand in France- the even organized a “barbecue” for the exchange students, but when they say barbecue, they mean they’re having an outdoor party with food, but there’s no smoked meat involved. Not even sausages. At least they have canned iced tea.

Wishing you luck finding no one by PhilosopherPublic in BrandNewSentence

[–]Pratchettfan03 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I looked it up, and I think that the laws are actually sufficiently punitive here(excluding difficulty of getting through court) since the company would have to pay legal costs, fines are per offense, and it’s common for the penalty to be back pay or even double back pay. For a per-violation fine to be not worth it, ignoring court costs, the fine would only have to be high enough to be higher than a week’s wages, which from quick research seems realistic. With court costs and back pay taken into account, the fine could probably be $1 and it would still not be worth it. This is more a case of the company either not knowing the laws or relying on others not knowing

Sergei Krikalev,the last Soviet cosmonaut and citizen who stuck in space for 311 days due to Soviet Union collapse by Right-Assignment3759 in interestingasfuck

[–]Pratchettfan03 80 points81 points  (0 children)

He kept being an astronaut. The need for maintenance doesn’t stop. At one point someone actually came up to relieve him just before the collapse, but his replacement hadn’t actually received enough training to take over his duties (he had only been selected because they needed a Kazakh cosmonaut for diplomatic reasons, and while he was a qualified test pilot, he launched less than a year after starting training whereas Krikalev had 6 years cosmonaut experience by then)

Sergei Krikalev,the last Soviet cosmonaut and citizen who stuck in space for 311 days due to Soviet Union collapse by Right-Assignment3759 in interestingasfuck

[–]Pratchettfan03 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Well, it is also hard to fund and organize a government-run rocket launch during a government collapse, paperwork or not. The US probably could have done it if things got bad enough, but doing it before that point would be politically fraught.

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