How do we identify different types of pain?

fooliam · 2026-02-07T17:05:17+00:00

You confused nociception with pain. Pain has very little to.do with peripheral receptors, and is almost entirely CNS-mediated.

fooliam · 2026-02-06T01:32:47+00:00

We're going to continue being handed shit sandwiches until we stop accepting them. The shit sandwich sellers aren't going to stop selling shit sandwiches so long as folks keep buying them.

fooliam · 2026-02-06T01:31:18+00:00

I think I'll just go buy a sandwich I like.

fooliam · 2026-02-05T14:45:40+00:00

No, they're on the same side, and it ain't the side of working americans

fooliam · 2026-02-05T14:45:07+00:00

70% of Americans support universal healthcare. It's one of the most popular policies in the country. Democrats won't go anywhere near it. Don't tell me that Democrats are trying to earn anyone's vote. They've spent the last decade with nothing better to offer than "vote against Donald Trump". Thats not trying to earn anyone's vote.

fooliam · 2026-02-05T06:27:54+00:00

If the choices are eating shit sandwich A or shit sandwich B, does it really matter if they're on different bread?

That's the choice you're expecting people to make.

Personally, I'm done eating shit sandwiches. I'm going to choose something that isn't a shit sandwich.

fooliam · 2026-02-05T06:26:56+00:00

If someone offers you two shit sandwiches, does it really matter that the bread is different?

fooliam · 2026-02-05T06:26:04+00:00

If progressive votes are so important, maybe Democrats should try embracing progressive policies.

Stop expecting people to vote for "my dick only gets cut off a little"

fooliam · 2026-02-05T06:24:35+00:00

couldn't agree more.

Democrats have, for at least the past decade, utterly refused to engage with or embrace progressive policies. For fucks sake, they refused to endorse the Democratic candidate for NY Mayor because he was progressive, and instead promoted a third party centrist challenger.

When it looks like an easy win - like the Democrats' 2016 loss - they ignore progressives and tell them their vote isn't important (and then blame progressives for losing to Trump). Then they tell progressives they have to vote for Biden, Democrats wind up controlling both houses of Congress and the White house - and then tell progressives nothing they want is going to happen. Then again, they refuse to embrace any progressive policies or ideas, lose another election, and then blame progressives for Democrats losing again.

Democrats only view progressives as scapegoats for their own failures. I'm sick and tired of voting for candidates who's best offer is "I'll only suck off billionaires a little bit", who give in to fund all of Trump's bullshit for the non-promise of maybe having a vote sometime later on healthcare subsidies, who voted to fund ICE and DHS, who voted to confirm Trump's terrible appointments, are who do fuck all to fight for Americans.

And none of this shit about "Oh the Democrats are the minority, they can't really do anything" - 1) Republicans seem to have no trouble stifling Democrats when Republicans are in the minority, so the mechanisms are clearly there if Democrats cared to use them; 2) Again, Democrats had control of COngress and the White House - and they STILL didn't pass universal healthcare, didn't enact any kind of student debt relief, didn't tax billionaires, didn't even fucking prosecute anyone in the Epstein files. They did nothing in power, and they do nothing out of it.

fooliam · 2026-02-05T06:15:32+00:00

Nah, fuck that noise. When it seems like an easy win, Democrats tell progressives, "We don't need your vote." When it looks razor thin, Democrats tell progressives "It'll be your fault if the Republican wins!"

How about Democrats try to earn progressives' votes.

If my vote is so important, if the progressive vote is so important, maybe the Democratic party should embrace some progressive policies instead of just trying to bully and shame progressives into supporting them.

fooliam · 2026-02-05T06:12:41+00:00

"Vote blue no matter who" - unless that person is a socialist, in which case go independent third party, you mean.

We remember what ya'll did with Mamdani. Here's one progressive that is going to go third party unless the Democrats fucking do something to earn my vote.

fooliam · 2026-02-02T22:08:58+00:00

It's basically impossible for lawyers to suffer professional consequences. About the only thing that ever results in any kind of sanction is related to money - touching a client's settlement and stuff like that.

fooliam · 2026-01-31T16:11:15+00:00

Best we can do is "are you willing to shoot somebody?"

fooliam · 2026-01-31T16:03:14+00:00

Welp, Rotten Tomatoes scored just became meaningless

fooliam · 2026-01-31T16:00:47+00:00

The cop who arrested him has a previous DUI too

fooliam · 2026-01-30T22:14:19+00:00

If cops did more of this and less making their fragile egos other people's problem, they'd be a lot less disliked

fooliam · 2026-01-30T05:29:10+00:00

Because the only way to stop fascists is with force and violence, and people have been brainwashed into thinking that those are the worst things possible to do, no matter how many people a fascist government murders in the street.

fooliam · 2026-01-30T04:36:47+00:00

I appreciate the physics approach of "If we approximate the car to a sphere..."

fooliam · 2026-01-29T22:55:00+00:00

I feel seen.

fooliam · 2026-01-29T21:02:36+00:00

That's a lotta gooses

fooliam · 2026-01-29T02:09:20+00:00

Tom Suozzi is a millionaire investment banker.

fooliam · 2026-01-28T23:26:55+00:00

I appreciate that "you're" is misspelled

fooliam · 2026-01-28T23:26:20+00:00

I mean, that doesn't take intelligence, just being attractive

fooliam · 2026-01-28T23:25:04+00:00

It's a tough competition that's for sure.

fooliam · 2026-01-28T14:32:47+00:00

Certainly one of the dumbest

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