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okcupid's okc logo looks a lot like the Montreal Expos logo.
The who?
Don't you dare disparage the memory of the Montreal Expos by forgetting about them, or about how much we deserve to hate Loria.
But they will rise again, 21st. They will rise like a phoenix as an AL East team, so that we will have the bossest rivalry in all of sports entertainment!
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Orphanerivers of redthat run to seaRegistered Userregular
You know what's crazy? We still don't really know why we sleep.
And yet, it appears as though nearly every animal with a nervous system requires some sort of "sleep" state. There's even evidence that nematodes "sleep".
It's something every brain has to do and we don't really know why, and you literally just die after going long enough without it.
If wakefulness were as good as sleep in fulfilling a fundamental biological function (or even nearly as good), is it likely that sleep would be so ubiquitous? Why would an animal choose to spend long periods of time not just immobile, but above all disconnected from the environment? It would seem that, if sleep has a core function, and if this function is for the brain, it should be one the brain cannot fulfill during wakefulness, and one that benefits from being performed off-line. Among several options, those related to plasticity and memory are especially intriguing, not least since during sleep, despite the functional disconnection from the environment, most neurons remain spontaneously active at levels similar to wakefulness [95].
Off-line activity may be necessary to stimulate synapses that remain underused during the waking day [96–98], so they can be ready when their turn comes. It may also be an excellent way of maintaining old memories by keeping them “exercised,” or of weakening nonadaptive memory traces while strengthening the adaptive ones [99]. A related idea is that an offline activation of neural circuits may be especially important during development [100], perhaps to rehearse innate behavioral patterns [101]. And perhaps sleep may even favor the formation of new synaptic contacts to refresh the repertoire of circuits available for the selection and acquisition of new memories [102].
Alternatively, sleep may be a good time for consolidating and integrating new memories without interference from ongoing activities, and indeed human studies have provided evidence for sleep-dependent memory consolidation, at least in some tasks [103,104]. Consolidation may happen, for instance, by further strengthening synapses already potentiated during wakefulness [103,105,106]. The observation that neural circuits activated during learning are “reactivated” during sleep is consistent with this possibility (e.g., [107–111]). Another possibility is that signal-to-noise ratios may increase through the generalized downscaling of synapses, as synapses mediating firing patterns predictive of postsynaptic activation would “survive” better than random ones [90,91,112]. This scenario would prevent runaway synaptic potentiation and the saturation of the ability to learn. Moreover, it would dovetail nicely with the cellular need for synaptic homeostasis: renormalizing synapses during sleep would counteract the cellular stress brought about by synaptic potentiation during wakefulness.
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CindersWhose sails were black when it was windyRegistered Userregular
Chat, how do you read ignorant political comments on Facebook without getting an aneurysm from anger / disbelief? Because I'm really struggling with that right now.
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BeNarwhalThe Work Left UnfinishedRegistered Userregular
Chat, how do you read ignorant political comments on Facebook without getting an aneurysm from anger / disbelief? Because I'm really struggling with that right now.
Chat, how do you read ignorant political comments on Facebook without getting an aneurysm from anger / disbelief? Because I'm really struggling with that right now.
1: recognize that a person is not their political comments - there's a whole person behind them, with good and bad parts, likes, loves, wishes and desires, fears and failures, shame and triumph. View them as people.
Chat, how do you read ignorant political comments on Facebook without getting an aneurysm from anger / disbelief? Because I'm really struggling with that right now.
1: recognize that a person is not their political comments - there's a whole person behind them, with bood and bad parts, likes, loves, wishes and desires, fears and failures, shame and triumph. View them as people.
2: Don't read them.
Alternate answe:
1. Don't do any of that. Refuse to associate with those people. Curse them and their family. Do not attend gaming conventions with them or talk to them.
2. Post equally hateful diatribes whenever they post anything.
Chat, how do you read ignorant political comments on Facebook without getting an aneurysm from anger / disbelief? Because I'm really struggling with that right now.
1: recognize that a person is not their political comments - there's a whole person behind them, with bood and bad parts, likes, loves, wishes and desires, fears and failures, shame and triumph. View them as people.
2: Don't read them.
1 is hard because the hateful, racist, bigoted comments make me not see any good parts about them. It makes me a bad anthropologist, but here I am.
2 is hard because I get bored.
http://www.danreviewstheworld.com
Nintendo Network ID - PirateLuigi 3DS: 3136-6586-7691
G&T Grass Type Pokemon Gym Leader, In-Game Name: Dan
Chat, how do you read ignorant political comments on Facebook without getting an aneurysm from anger / disbelief? Because I'm really struggling with that right now.
1: recognize that a person is not their political comments - there's a whole person behind them, with bood and bad parts, likes, loves, wishes and desires, fears and failures, shame and triumph. View them as people.
2: Don't read them.
Alternatively, compare their views to mine. If they receive a score way different from mine, then they are not worth your time.
Chat, how do you read ignorant political comments on Facebook without getting an aneurysm from anger / disbelief? Because I'm really struggling with that right now.
1: recognize that a person is not their political comments - there's a whole person behind them, with bood and bad parts, likes, loves, wishes and desires, fears and failures, shame and triumph. View them as people.
2: Don't read them.
Alternatively, compare their views to mine. If they receive a score way different from mine, then they are not worth your time.
I will make sure not to associate with your writers block suffering husband. He seems to disagree with your life quite strongly.
I don't know what a good litmus test might be, or if there should be one. Are there irredeemable views? Idk. Maybe. I just try to stop reading before I feel myself going to a hateful place because I don't want to feel that way.
Chu on
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TTODewbackPuts the drawl in ya'llI think I'm in HellRegistered Userregular
I don't know what a good litmus test might be, or if there should be one. Are there irredeemable views? Idk. Maybe. I just try to stop reading before I feel myself going to a hateful place because I don't want to feel that way.
I feel like the last 5 years have really changed my outlook. Perhaps I have grown too old for these battles.
Wasn't there a recent study that indicated that sleep is used to remove certain types of waste products from the brain?
There's a lot of different positive functions that are associated with sleep, but there's nothing approaching a "core function" that explains why we have sleep in the first place. Many different animals have many different types of sleep, and all of these types of sleep have different features and aspects, a lot of which were probably added in over the course of selection as additions to whatever the core function is. Why we sleep probably has something pretty fundamental to do with how nervous systems work: brains have to periodically "turn off" the environment for some reason.
Like, there's a lot of animals that would benefit from being able to just avoid sleep, but instead they have work around it in bizarre ways (like through having "half-sleep" or "microsleep"). There's potentially a lot of ways that the brain could clear out waste products while avoiding having to severely limit input for a period of time, and I'd kind of assume that these would be a lot easier to select for than the complex sleep behaviors we actually see in animals. Rather, I'd say it's a lot more likely that the reason sleep happens has a lot more to do with the structure of the whole network of neurons together rather than just individual neurons on a cellular level.
I don't know what a good litmus test might be, or if there should be one. Are there irredeemable views? Idk. Maybe. I just try to stop reading before I feel myself going to a hateful place because I don't want to feel that way.
I feel like the last 5 years have really changed my outlook. Perhaps I have grown too old for these battles.
I'm definitely too old and too tired for these battles. I really need to just start blocking people wholesale.
http://www.danreviewstheworld.com
Nintendo Network ID - PirateLuigi 3DS: 3136-6586-7691
G&T Grass Type Pokemon Gym Leader, In-Game Name: Dan
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I meant to say that there's a thread specifically for online dating help!
This is the thread specifically for embarrassing yourself.
Don't you dare disparage the memory of the Montreal Expos by forgetting about them, or about how much we deserve to hate Loria.
But they will rise again, 21st. They will rise like a phoenix as an AL East team, so that we will have the bossest rivalry in all of sports entertainment!
porque no los dos
@Eddy It was over for me once I heard that horn, there's something about it that just like, kills it.
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And yet, it appears as though nearly every animal with a nervous system requires some sort of "sleep" state. There's even evidence that nematodes "sleep".
It's something every brain has to do and we don't really know why, and you literally just die after going long enough without it.
"Sorry, this profile is either private or doesn’t exist"
You all must just suck.
Nintendo Network ID - PirateLuigi 3DS: 3136-6586-7691
G&T Grass Type Pokemon Gym Leader, In-Game Name: Dan
Step 1: Avoid Facebook at all costs
it just sent me a link to promote my page because it is "peak hours"
what is your game here
1: recognize that a person is not their political comments - there's a whole person behind them, with good and bad parts, likes, loves, wishes and desires, fears and failures, shame and triumph. View them as people.
2: Don't read them.
Alternate answe:
1. Don't do any of that. Refuse to associate with those people. Curse them and their family. Do not attend gaming conventions with them or talk to them.
2. Post equally hateful diatribes whenever they post anything.
:P
1 is hard because the hateful, racist, bigoted comments make me not see any good parts about them. It makes me a bad anthropologist, but here I am.
2 is hard because I get bored.
Nintendo Network ID - PirateLuigi 3DS: 3136-6586-7691
G&T Grass Type Pokemon Gym Leader, In-Game Name: Dan
Alternatively, compare their views to mine. If they receive a score way different from mine, then they are not worth your time.
wtf magic
Life is sometimes a real trip
well that's what a Mediterranean diet will get you
and by that I mean all the trim he's gotten over the years
I will make sure not to associate with your writers block suffering husband. He seems to disagree with your life quite strongly.
@Atomika That tiny MILF bastion.
I hate real life
I am so fucked.
maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I want to throw my beer at him.
But Drez
Who is better there than them
what even. what. 29 years how what.
lud come here we have work to do. together. with each other. if we start now maybe we can stabilize our forms.
I feel like the last 5 years have really changed my outlook. Perhaps I have grown too old for these battles.
I'm not even there and I'd bet you I am.
There's a lot of different positive functions that are associated with sleep, but there's nothing approaching a "core function" that explains why we have sleep in the first place. Many different animals have many different types of sleep, and all of these types of sleep have different features and aspects, a lot of which were probably added in over the course of selection as additions to whatever the core function is. Why we sleep probably has something pretty fundamental to do with how nervous systems work: brains have to periodically "turn off" the environment for some reason.
Like, there's a lot of animals that would benefit from being able to just avoid sleep, but instead they have work around it in bizarre ways (like through having "half-sleep" or "microsleep"). There's potentially a lot of ways that the brain could clear out waste products while avoiding having to severely limit input for a period of time, and I'd kind of assume that these would be a lot easier to select for than the complex sleep behaviors we actually see in animals. Rather, I'd say it's a lot more likely that the reason sleep happens has a lot more to do with the structure of the whole network of neurons together rather than just individual neurons on a cellular level.
I'm definitely too old and too tired for these battles. I really need to just start blocking people wholesale.
Nintendo Network ID - PirateLuigi 3DS: 3136-6586-7691
G&T Grass Type Pokemon Gym Leader, In-Game Name: Dan