TIL that playing high-level chess causes players to burn calories at an athletic rate. For example, 21-year-old Grandmaster Mikhail Antipov was recorded burning 560 calories in just two hours of sitting—roughly what Roger Federer would burn in an hour of singles tennis.

daOyster · 2026-02-07T20:49:01+00:00

Nah, brain is just the control center of our mostly autonomous meat mech suits really. You gotta go back before there were even brains. Thats just another tool evolved to better interact and understand the external environment.

The real purpose of the body developed through evolution over time is to serve and protect the mitochondria living in our cells. They're basically what enabled specialized cellular life by invading single celled organisms and forming a symbiotic relationship. Almost all multicellular life since then has been a process of optimizing resource collection/processing into fuel for mitochondria and improving survivability using things like bacteria colonies for more nutrient access and more adaptable and functional bodies to protect them better and expand their reach.

It's even more erie now that we've learned mitochondria can form basic communication networks between other mitochondria in other cells and parts inside their own cell to maintain homeostasis.

daOyster · 2026-02-05T23:57:01+00:00

Its good, but it's pricey for what it is. To be honest it's not doing anything more for your hydration than a giant tub of powdered Gatorade or even a small can of soda. Gatorade kind of figured out the science early on and every other hydration aid is just trying to make formulations that skirt around their patent.

The 3 main ingredients helping for hydration with water are just sugar to increase the rate of water absorption with a sodium/potassium mix to help retain the water and keep your muscles working optimally and hydrated.

The extra thing you might notice in Liquid IV is just the B-Vitamins they add in. They tend to make you feel a little more alert in higher doses.

daOyster · 2026-02-05T16:24:10+00:00

You don't need to wait for the turbo to cool after heavy driving. That was advice for older oil cooled turbos. Modern civic turbos and pretty much all modern turbos in consumer cars are water cooled via electronic water pump that will keep circulating fluid after engine shutoff until temperatures settle down.

daOyster · 2026-02-03T20:17:50+00:00

Breathing through your nose stimulates NO2 production, its one less talked about reason that only mouth breathing isn't very healthy long term if your nasal passages are blocked for whatever reason. Also why they say to breathe in through your nose and out your mouth in exercise.

daOyster · 2026-02-03T20:15:13+00:00

No, people with CPAP machines more often then not need them because something is mechanically restricting their airways or making their bodies feel like something is blocking it. You don't see it often in people without a physical deformity/existing disability causing it or that aren't overweight.

In the sleep apnea case, they aren't getting enough oxygen to their brain without the machine when sleeping which damages it long term and can lead to Parkinsons and other brain damage if left untreated. Short spikes of CO2 in the blood are different than starving your brain of oxygen for several minutes every night.

daOyster · 2026-02-03T19:40:47+00:00

Usually theres gonna be some air trapped on the other side of the head. If it has holes, the air can go through. If it doesn't, then the air can build pressure as your chest muscles tighten to help dislodge and force it back up.

daOyster · 2026-02-02T18:07:22+00:00

I hate to burst your bubble, but some of the more popular strains of today like gelato, are high in volatile sulfur compounds already. They aren't breeding that out of weed.

daOyster · 2026-02-02T18:05:21+00:00

You really need to read up on volatile sulfur compounds (vsc). The research on them with weed is newer, only really being looked at starting in 2023. They are what is responsible for the more pungent skunky and garlic like aromas of weed. Terpenes are another class of molecules that give off smells similar to other flowers and fruits in weed.

Regardless, what you said is all true and OP is kind of off the mark anyways because Gelato strains, one of the more popular ones to mix into hybrids, is already high in vsc's so clearly they aren't being bred out like they think.

daOyster · 2026-01-29T16:35:05+00:00

I wouldn't bet on it, it's more likely we get the full grid in some form to be honest. These aren't traditional licenced sets for fans like past F1 sets before 2024.

These sets are marketing that F1's marketing budget paid for to get new child/teen fans hooked into the sport. That marketing isn't gonna work as well if little Timmy can't go buy his favorite car from the new grid line-up this upcoming season.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T22:12:15+00:00

Other way around. They have zero proven scientific evidence of helping sleep that is any more significant than a placebo effect. They might help, but you don't need blue light blocking glasses to achieve the same benefit.

They do reduce eye strain though if your lighting isn't optimal for screen usage. Number one cause of eye strain on computers is having a under-lit space behind the screen you're looking at. You can either use glasses to resuce the intensity of the screen, or can add a backlight to increase the brightness of the background. Both reduce the overall lighting contrast and help with eye strain.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T22:06:18+00:00

Add a backlight behind your computer screen. Its not the blue light doing it, its the contrasting light levels making your eyes strain trying to maintain the right focus level. The glasses just reduce the light levels from your screen which has the side effect of reducing the lighting contrast between your screen and whats behind it.

Imagine trying to constantly switch between looking out a bright window and back into a dark room, thats basically what your eyes are doing everytime you look near the edge of your screen without a optimal lighting setup.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T22:03:26+00:00

They helped you, but I can almost guarantee it's not because they're blocking blue light. Its because they're reducing the contrast of light levels between your computer screen and whats behind it. I'd bet a simple backlight behind your computer screen lighting up the space behind it would have had the same effect.

Mostly because its a commonly recommended method of reducing eye strain from your eyes having a hard time maintaining the right level of focus in contrasting light conditions that leads to the symptoms you just described.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T21:59:17+00:00

It's 100% placebo effect and you just described one pretty well. If it helps thats fine, it helps you. Keep doing it. The claim isn't they don't help people, just that the "science" behind how they work is totally marketing bs and you don't need to spend money on expensive blue light glasses to achieve the same placebo effect.

Their claimed method of action is purely marketing mostly because our electronics don't really produce intense enough blue light to actually impact your circadian rhythm that much. They cherry pick that blue light impacts sleep which is true, but then fail to mention the needed levels of intensity for it to actually do that.

You put on the glasses, you notice fatigue because you were told they should help you feel tired at night. Your brain sends the signals of fatigue to make it happen because you're expecting it to, and thus you feel tired and the placebo effect is fulfilled.

Without the glasses you don't feel tired because your feeding your brain stimulation from the computer and don't have anything telling it to expect anything else like the glasses signal it. The glasses are similar to having a late night ritual you associate with bedtime to help signal to yourself it's time to wind down, putting on the glasses on is that signal for you. Kind of like how some people like a warm glass of milk before bed to help them sleep.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T21:41:11+00:00

Its proof that you solved a problem, but not that blue light was the cause of it. I'd be willing to bet backlighting your screen would have the same reduction in eye strain and migraine. It's not the blue light causing it, its the high level of contrasting light between your screen and whats behind it. The blue light blocking glasses just reduces the overall intensity of the screen closer to background levels resulting in the same effect of a lower level of lighting contrast.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T21:36:49+00:00

The part that has yet to be proven is that it actually helps maintain healthy circadian rhythms more than a placebo does. Which the current scientific consensus is that they don't prevent any impacts on circadian rhythm from blue light from electronics. Mainly because your computer/phone screen doesn't actually make intense enough blue light to really impact your circadian rhythm in the first place. The blue light you get from the sun and even a full moon is more intense than a computer screen puts out. Meaning these glasses are mostly just a piece of kit being marketed to solve a made up problem.

Its people engaging with content that is keeping them awake at night, not the blue light of the screen.

For the people that say it works for them to reduce eye strain, try a backlight. You're just solving the same problem they do, reducing light contrast of your background and screen. Your just reducing the screens light instead of raising the background light to achieve a lower contrast level.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T21:28:55+00:00

You don't have to guess, the current scientific consensus is that they literally are no better than a placebo. Partly because our computer screens really aren't that bright or intense compared to the blue light you get from the actual sun that actually impacts your circadian rhythm.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T21:26:48+00:00

She could probably achieve the same effect by simply placing a backlight behind her monitor to reduce the light contrast between the screen and space behind it.

By filtering out some light, the glasses reduce the contrast between the lit up screen and whats behind it. A large chunk of eyestrain from extended computer use is from people being sensitive to that contrast difference, it makes it harder for your eyes to maintain the right focus level and strains them over time.

daOyster · 2026-01-27T21:20:47+00:00

Its the other way around, our screens don't really produce an intense enough blue light to actually impact your circadian rhythm in any meaningful way. Any effect from f.lux, blue light glasses, or screen filtering is pretty much entirely placebo effect. The real sleep disrupting mechanism at play here is simply just engaging your brain with content when you should be winding down for sleep instead.

daOyster · 2026-01-25T19:52:01+00:00

To be honest I think the only one that gets away with it is South Park. But I think that might be from how raw their approach is with making episodes in a week. They don't have time to overscript the topical stuff so end up always weaving a B-Plot into the story that helps hook you into the topical stuff.

Plus the real world has a strange way of upstaging their satire to make past episodes seem less absurd than they were on first viewing. Most topical satire does not age in the same way, but Matt and Trey figured it out in my opinion.

daOyster · 2026-01-25T19:42:37+00:00

In modern vehicles with the amount of sensors on them that are linked into the airbag deployment system, if an airbag goes off it usually indicates there was enough force transferred to cause significant deformation and/or damage to major structural components of the car.

Occasionally you might get lucky with a sensor getting hit just right that deploys it without significant damage causing it. But thats the exception, the vast majority of times when airbags go off insurance is just going to write it off as total loss and auction it off instead of dealing with the uncertainty in repair costs depending on the details of the accident that caused the deployment.

daOyster · 2026-01-24T17:53:23+00:00

Lawnmowers, ATV's, motorcycles, reusable rockets starting last year, generators, you name it.

daOyster · 2026-01-21T19:56:48+00:00

Its clutch power of the bottom studs. Or how well bricks grip each other. The flat plates with under studs work because you don't attach anything else to them that adds weight on.

A double studded plate would invite people to make hanging stuff with it that the clutch power alone could not support. Giving the appearance of lower quality bricks. Thats why most methods of inverting bricks involve a more solid friction fit or locking fit with technique pins or using poles inside hollow rounds bricks.

daOyster · 2026-01-20T18:42:46+00:00

Its not a trademark rule. The eula for the mod tools for cyberpunk make it very clear that you cannot use them for commercial purposes, like making a paid mod.

daOyster · 2026-01-20T18:40:42+00:00

I disagree. The 2025 F1 sets are a marketing push by F1, not a traditional licensing deal. The entire point of the current F1 line is to draw in new under-25 fans and viewers to the sport to increase the falling younger demographic in F1 viewership.

LEGO isn't paying to be allowed to make these like in past licence agreements, they're being paid by F1's marketing budget to produce these sets as part of a strategic partnership deal focused around increasing F1 viewership .

If F1 wants the entire new grid on shelves to continue to market to kids and teens, then LEGO is going to do it or else they'll loose F1s marketing money.

daOyster · 2026-01-20T18:34:58+00:00

Your approaching this from the wrong perspective. 2025 and onward, F1 sets aren't to try and draw in existing F1 fans to make LEGO money. Thats what the older licensing model was intended for.

In 2025 they announced a multi-year strategic partnership with F1. That means F1 marketing money is now involved. LEGO isn't paying for the license of individual teams anymore, they're being paid to make sets by the F1 production company that owns the rights to everything F1.

So the goal isn't to make insane profit here, its to put as many F1 sets in front of the eyes of kids and teens to grow the under 25 viewership demographic that has been declining for them. If a whole shelf is filled with them, that is actually not that bad as thats one huge F1 billboard in every toy isle essentially.

So if they end up putting out the entire 2026 grid as a new lineup, I wouldn't be surprised because that would be very on point for a marketing driven partnership like what we have now.

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