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My parents they dont exactly like the whole online talking thing
And they found out about the Shard
They're making me leave
I'm sorry
I'll miss you guys
Thank you for being such great friends and for being there for me. I love you all
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Im so sorry!! Im sad too
They're giving me till the end of today to make my goodbyes (there's that atleast)
But tomorrow they're gonna make me log out in front of them and i dare not defy them by coming back
I hope ill come back too!!
Thank you guys so much <3
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Humans don't have hygroreceptors.
Insects have hygroreceptors. Spiders have hygroreceptors. Humans do not.
Fadran, what the heck is a hygroreceptor?
Humans, most traditionally, have the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. This was devised (somewhat unsurprisingly) by Aristotle, has carried through to modern-day education, and is completely and totally wrong.
At least... scientifically, anyways.
I don't mean to diss on my boy Ari. He's great. And if he'd had access to our modern-day academia surrounding biology and such, then he would've come to a different conculsion. Those five consist of several overlaps between a whole slew of disputed senses and non-senses that humans may or may not have, because these bloody neurologists cannot for the life of them ever agree on anything.
Fadran, what the heck is a hygroreceptor?
There are a few senses that most neurologists (apparently) agree upon. Nociception is the sense of pain, Proprioception (I refer to it as Somatic) is the sense of your own body (like where you arm is, and how you can move it without thinking), and Equilibrioception is the sense of balance.
The numbers are disputed. Most agree on at least nine. Some say there's twenty-one. Michael Cohen theorized and researched fifty-three total senses (I'm going to list them all in a spoiler box because why the heck not).
SpoilerRadiation Sensitivities
1. Sense of light and sight (including polarized light)
2. Sense of seeing without eyes.
3. Sense of color
4. Sense of moods and identities attached to color
5. Sense of ones visibility or invisibility
6. Sensitivity to invisible radiation
7. Sense of temperature and temperature change
8. Sense of season
9. Electromagnetic sense and polarity,including the ability to generate current as in brain waves or other energiesFeeling Senses
10. Hearing - including resonance, vibration, sonar, ultrasonic frequencies
11. Awareness of pressure
12. Sensitivity to gravity
13. Sense of excretion
14. Feel, particularly touch on the skin
15. Sense of weight and balance
16. Space or proximity sense
17. Coriolus sense (Earths rotation)
18. Sense of motion. Body movement sensations and sense of mobilityChemical Senses
19. Smell with and beyond the nose
20. Taste with and beyond the mouth
21. Appetite and hunger for food water and air
22. Food obtaining urges including hunting and killing
23. Humidity sense including thirst, evaporation control, acumen to find water
24. Hormonal sense such as pheromones and other chemical stimuliMental Senses
25. Pain - external and external
26. Mental or spiritual distress
27. Sense of fear, dread of injury, death, or attack
28. Procreative urges - sex awareness, courting, love, mating, child-rearing
29. Sense of play, sport, humor, pleasure, laughter
30. Sense of physical place, navigation senses, position of celestial bodies
31. Sense of time
32. Sense of electromagnetic fields
33. Sense of weather changes
34. Sense of emotional place, of community, belonging, support, trust, and thankfulness
35. Sense of self, including friendship, companionship, and power
36. Domineering and territorial sense
37. Colonizing sense inc. receptive awareness of one's fellow creatures
38. Horticultural sense and ability to cultivate.
39. Language and articulation sense, used to express feelings and convey information
40. Sense of humility, appreciation, and ethics.
41. Senses of form and design
42. Reasoning, including memory, logic and science
43. Sense of mind and consciousness
44. Intuition or subconscious deduction
45. Aesthetic sense - creativity, appreciation of music and beauty
46. Psychic capacity
47. Sense of biological/astral time, awareness of past-present-future events
48. The capacity to hypnotize other creatures.
49. Relaxation and sleep - dreaming, meditation, brain wave awareness
50. Sense of pupation- cocoon building and metamorphosis
51. Sense of excessive stress and capitulation.
52. Sense of survival by joining a more established organism
53. Spiritual sense - conscience, sublime love, ecstasy, sin, profound, sorrow and sacrificeBut no hygroreceptors.
Fadran, what the heck is a hygroreceptor?
A Hygroreceptor is a type of sensory organ that detects humidity and wetness. Go find a nature documentary from BBC and see if you can find David Attenborough explain the life cycle of some insect that stays underground its entire life until it somehow senses rain a day early or something. Most invertibrates have hygroreceptors, meaning that they can feel wetness.
Fadran, you ding-dong, I can feel humidity. You fool. You imbecile. You absolute candlestick.
No you can't.
Go jump in a pool. Or leastaways imagine jumping in a pool. If you're where I am then it is not yet pool weather.
What do you feel?
Cold, first of all. Probably. You're going to feel cold. But then you're going to swim around for awhile and it'll start to warm up until you're comfortable.
(Unless you're swimming in that one pool we had with an AirBNB that one time. Blimey, that was frigid).
Why do you feel warm in the pool after awhile? Well, because you got used to it, right?
WRONG.
Humans have thermoreceptors, which are not temperature detectors. You are not feeling temperature, you are feeling the heat exchange from your body. This is why a room temperature metal plate will feel colder than a room temperature plastic plate; the metal is a conductor, and draws heat from your body. You feel the heat leaving your body, and thus the metal feels cold.
When you jump in the water, the water is colder than your body. Humans run at nearly 100 Fahrenheit on average, which is actually pretty dang hot if you think about it. Most of this heat is internal, meaning it's really warm in all your squishy organs and such, but less so on your skin (the reason why your head/ears are what you check for fevers is probably because that's where you brain is - that thing is more powerful than any PC ever built. It's gonna run hot sometimes). This is why you can jump into 50 F water as a 98 F without freezing to death; we're pretty tough in that regard, all things considered. But we're a lot warmer than the water regardless, so thermodynamics kicks in and we start losing heat.
When the water stops feeling cold, that's because we're coming into external equilibrium with its temperature, such that we stop losing heat so rapidly. After awhile the water might even start to feel warm. All the molecules are finally calming the heck down with the heat exchange and figuring out how chill or un-chill this party is going to be.
But then you suddenly have to pee and this pool really isn't big enough to do it quietly, so you have to get out and go to the bathroom.
And then suddenly it's freezing again.
There is water all over your body, and you start feeling cold. If it's windy then doubly so. It's because the water's cold, right?
Not quite. It's because you're warm - and the water wants to be too.
There's air, and its molecules are all nice and chaotic. Molecules like being chaotic. That's how the universe designed them. Water, as a molecule, also likes being chaotic. Like all matter, it's most chaotic in molecular form as a gas - meaning, when it evaporates.
(Side tangent: Doesn't water boil at 212 F? Humans are only ever a bit over 100 on bad days. Well turns out what you learned in grade school about the states of matter is also super wrong. There is always some level of action going on that takes molecules away from liquid clumps and turns them into gaseous clumps. A substance's boiling point is the highest amount of energy you can put into a fluid - anything at that or above will turn it into a gas with no chance of parole. I learned this just now and will probably make another SU at some point ranting about it if I decide the science is cool enough).
But where is the water getting its energy from?
You. Duh.
Evaporating takes energy, so it needs to suck energy away from something. That something is you. This is the essential scientific principle behind why you sweat on hot days: you generate water, and evaporation cools you down. Simple as that.
So you finish peeing and jump back in the pool. It still feels nice and warm - that's because you're a quick peer (...pee-er? Urine-er? Urinater? Urinator?). You're body hasn't had the chance to get back into equilibrium with the regular air atmosphere, meaning you're still at roughly pool temperature on the outside. If you had dried off and sat out in the sun for awhile, you'd steadily feel yourself grow warmer as the heat of the nasty summer day starts pumping thermal energy back into your body.
Fadran, what does any of this have to do with hygroreceptors?
I know my fair share of people who say that water isn't wet.
My own older sister was one such person who consistently insisted to me that water isn't wet.
Someone's girlfriend pestered them so much that they asked Bill Nye if water isn't wet.
Water doesn't feel wet when you're in it! You don't feel the water when you're submerged! Water isn't wet!
You can't feel wetness. No one can. Your perception of wetness is a combination of developed texture and thermal senses. When you're submerged in water there's no air for it to evaporate into, so you don't feel any thermal exchange. When you're soaking back onshore you feel cold because there is. You feel the water slipping down you because you know what water feels like; there's an awful lot of it, and you feel it all the time.
But you aren't feeling the wetness.
No one is.
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I DONT KNOW WHAT TO READ
so you guys help me
1. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger
2. The Lottery and other Stories- Shirley Jackson
3. R-read of Grishaverse
4. Re-read of Cosmere
5. Normal People- Sally Roony
6. The Cruel Prince series- Holly Black
7. Re-read of The Secret History- Donna Tartt
8. Re-read of Harry Potter
I will decide by popular vote
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I DONT KNOW WHAT TO READ
so you guys help me
1. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger
2. The Lottery and other Stories- Shirley Jackson
3. R-read of Grishaverse
4. Re-read of Cosmere
5. Normal People- Sally Roony
6. The Cruel Prince series- Holly Black
7. Re-read of The Secret History- Donna Tartt
8. Re-read of Harry Potter
I will decide by popular vote
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I DONT KNOW WHAT TO READ
so you guys help me
1. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger
2. The Lottery and other Stories- Shirley Jackson
3. R-read of Grishaverse
4. Re-read of Cosmere
5. Normal People- Sally Roony
6. The Cruel Prince series- Holly Black
7. Re-read of The Secret History- Donna Tartt
8. Re-read of Harry Potter
I will decide by popular vote
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I DONT KNOW WHAT TO READ
so you guys help me
1. The Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger
2. The Lottery and other Stories- Shirley Jackson
3. R-read of Grishaverse
4. Re-read of Cosmere
5. Normal People- Sally Roony
6. The Cruel Prince series- Holly Black
7. Re-read of The Secret History- Donna Tartt
8. Re-read of Harry Potter
I will decide by popular vote
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Here's a super nice and interesting Sanderson article. It actually mentions the wired article, as the author had time to call Sanderson and ask some of his feelings about it before publishing this one. I thought this one was really fascinating. Also it just went ahead and told us the tentative Stromlight five title!! Knights of Wind and Truth! I though it was gonna be Ketek of Wind, so i wasn't that far lol.
Also six entire years for Stormlight six?? adjsksdkjskubkuabkbkkjdagfkjgkfhjslshdjhsfkd;gsfkjdgajsgfjlds;fjlsdgfjh
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Heh
Great minds think alike
but fools rarely differ
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Here's a super nice and interesting Sanderson article. It actually mentions the wired article, as the author had time to call Sanderson and ask some of his feelings about it before publishing this one. I thought this one was really fascinating. Also it just went ahead and told us the tentative Stromlight five title!! Knights of Wind and Truth! I though it was gonna be Ketek of Wind, so i wasn't that far lol.
Also six entire years for Stormlight six?? adjsksdkjskubkuabkbkkjdagfkjgkfhjslshdjhsfkd;gsfkjdgajsgfjlds;fjlsdgfjh
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Heh just call me Elf
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Here's a super nice and interesting Sanderson article. It actually mentions the wired article, as the author had time to call Sanderson and ask some of his feelings about it before publishing this one. I thought this one was really fascinating. Also it just went ahead and told us the tentative Stromlight five title!! Knights of Wind and Truth! I though it was gonna be Ketek of Wind, so i wasn't that far lol.
Also six entire years for Stormlight six?? adjsksdkjskubkuabkbkkjdagfkjgkfhjslshdjhsfkd;gsfkjdgajsgfjlds;fjlsdgfjh
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Hold up Witless, I got ya
SpoilerHe began, “I appreciate the kind words and support. Not sure how, or if, I should respond to the Wired article. I get that Jason, in writing it, felt incredibly conflicted about the fact that he finds me lame and boring. I’m baffled how he seemed to find every single person on his trip–my friends, my family, my fans–to be worthy of derision."
But he also feels sincere in his attempt to try to understand,” Sanderson continued. “While he legitimately seems to dislike me and my writing, I don’t think that’s why he came to see me. He wasn’t looking for a hit piece–he was looking to explore the world through his writing. In that, he and I are the same, and I respect him for it, even if much of his tone seems quite dismissive of many people and ideas I care deeply about."
Sanderson went on, “The strangest part for me is how Jason says he had trouble finding the real me. He says he wants something true or genuine. But he had the genuine me all that time. He really did. What I said, apparently, wasn’t anything he found useful for writing an article. That doesn’t make it not genuine or true."
“I am not offended that the true me bores him,” he noted. “Honestly, I’m a guy who enjoys his job, loves his family, and is a little obsessive about his stories. There’s no hidden trauma. No skeletons in my closet. Just a guy trying to understand the world through story. That IS kind of boring, from an outsider’s perspective. I can see how it is difficult to write an article about me for that reason.”
"But at the same time, I’m worried about the way he treats our entire community,” Sanderson shared. “I understand that he didn’t just talk about me, but about you. As has been happening to fantasy fans for years, the general attitude of anyone writing about us is that we should be ashamed for enjoying what we enjoy. In that, the tone feels like it was written during the 80s. ‘Look at these silly nerds, liking things! How dare they like things! Don’t they know the thing they like is dumb?’”
As a community, let’s take a deep breath,” he advised. “It’s all right. I appreciate you standing up for me, but please leave Jason alone. This might feel like an attack on us, on you, but it’s not. Jason wrote what he felt he needed–and as a writer, he is my colleague. Please show him respect. He should not be attacked for sharing his feelings. If we attack people for doing so, we make the world a worse place, because fewer people will be willing to be their authentic selves."
“That said, let me say one thing. You, my friends, are not boring or lame,” he asserted. “In Going Postal, one of my favorite novels, Sir Terry Pratchett has a character fascinated by collecting pins. Not pins like you might think–they aren’t like Disney pins, or character pins. They are pins like tacks used to pin things to walls. Outsiders find it difficult to understand why he loves them so much. But he does."
"In the book, pins are a stand-in for collecting stamps, but also a commentary on the way we as human beings are constantly finding wonder in the world around us,” Sanderson explained. “That is part of what makes us special. The man who collects those pins–Stanley Howler–IS special. In part BECAUSE of his passion. And the more you get to know him, or anyone, the more interesting you find them. This is a truism in life. People are interesting, every one of them–and being a writer is about finding out why."
"In that way, the ability to make Stanley interesting is part of what makes Pratchett a genius, in my opinion. That’s WRITING,” he declared. “Not merely using words. It’s what I aspire to be able to do. People are wonderful, fascinating, brilliant balls of walking contradiction, passion, and beauty. I find it an exciting challenge to make certain that the perspective of the washwoman or the monk sitting and reading a book is as interesting in a story as that of the king or the tech-mogul.”
He then added, “And I find value in you. Your passion for my work is a big part of why I write. You make my life special. Thank you."
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Here's a super nice and interesting Sanderson article. It actually mentions the wired article, as the author had time to call Sanderson and ask some of his feelings about it before publishing this one. I thought this one was really fascinating. Also it just went ahead and told us the tentative Stromlight five title!! Knights of Wind and Truth! I though it was gonna be Ketek of Wind, so i wasn't that far lol.
Also six entire years for Stormlight six?? adjsksdkjskubkuabkbkkjdagfkjgkfhjslshdjhsfkd;gsfkjdgajsgfjlds;fjlsdgfjh
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Aww also did you guys read Sanderson's reply to the article
Its just the best, most elegant response ever. He took the high road
By the Survivor's Scars, Sanderson is just genuinely such a good guy
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Here's a super nice and interesting Sanderson article. It actually mentions the wired article, as the author had time to call Sanderson and ask some of his feelings about it before publishing this one. I thought this one was really fascinating. Also it just went ahead and told us the tentative Stromlight five title!! Knights of Wind and Truth! I though it was gonna be Ketek of Wind, so i wasn't that far lol.
Also six entire years for Stormlight six?? adjsksdkjskubkuabkbkkjdagfkjgkfhjslshdjhsfkd;gsfkjdgajsgfjlds;fjlsdgfjh
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Yeah i searched up "WIRED Sanderson" and i started reading it and
Oh
My
God
Guys get your pitchforks ready
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Here's a super nice and interesting Sanderson article. It actually mentions the wired article, as the author had time to call Sanderson and ask some of his feelings about it before publishing this one. I thought this one was really fascinating. Also it just went ahead and told us the tentative Stromlight five title!! Knights of Wind and Truth! I though it was gonna be Ketek of Wind, so i wasn't that far lol.
Also six entire years for Stormlight six?? adjsksdkjskubkuabkbkkjdagfkjgkfhjslshdjhsfkd;gsfkjdgajsgfjlds;fjlsdgfjh
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Wait what wired article
What did the wired article do
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Here's a super nice and interesting Sanderson article. It actually mentions the wired article, as the author had time to call Sanderson and ask some of his feelings about it before publishing this one. I thought this one was really fascinating. Also it just went ahead and told us the tentative Stromlight five title!! Knights of Wind and Truth! I though it was gonna be Ketek of Wind, so i wasn't that far lol.
Also six entire years for Stormlight six?? adjsksdkjskubkuabkbkkjdagfkjgkfhjslshdjhsfkd;gsfkjdgajsgfjlds;fjlsdgfjh
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SIX YEARS??
ILL BE WHAT 23 BY THEN
ZNDNKSMSOSOSSFBBFJDUEJSLWLWO
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Going to visist a museum for the very first time today!
So excited
Do you guys want photos?
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Going to visist a museum for the very first time today!
So excited
Do you guys want photos?
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hey we're playing mad libs (kinda)
someone give me a noun and a setting
literally any noun, a rock, a tree, a person named jimothy, a planet, go nuts
and literally any setting, 1930s america, fuedal japan, a spacestation slowly being sucked into a black hole, an alien world again, go nuts.
spoiler your answers, ill pick my favorites
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I just
Want someone who
I have chemistry with, who cares about the things i care about, who i could have long philosophical debates with, who likes darkness like i do, who lives in books and literature
Why is that so much to ask for
(I know its impossible to find a perfect boyfriend/girlfriend/ partner but just let me whine allright)
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Heh
No
Chemistry as in two people who are attracted to each other and are compatible and get along well
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I just
Want someone who
I have chemistry with, who cares about the things i care about, who i could have long philosophical debates with, who likes darkness like i do, who lives in books and literature
Why is that so much to ask for
(I know its impossible to find a perfect boyfriend/girlfriend/ partner but just let me whine allright)
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HAHAHAHAHA
ohh man *cackles*
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I just
Want someone who
I have chemistry with, who cares about the things i care about, who i could have long philosophical debates with, who likes darkness like i do, who lives in books and literature
Why is that so much to ask for
(I know its impossible to find a perfect boyfriend/girlfriend/ partner but just let me whine allright)
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Wouldn't that...be incest???
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ALRIGHT NERDS
i did it
i mixed
the song
nowe
i go write lyrics
i
i did it
yippee
here have the instrumental
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That was awesome! You definitely have mad guitar skills!!!
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*dramatic sirius black voice*
I DID MY WAITING
13 YEARS OF IT
IN AZKABAAAAAAAN
(ik he was only in for 12 but i was in for 13 okay)
IT IS OVER
MY FINALS ARE OVER
RESULTS WILL BE DECLARED ABOUT FOUR MONTHS FROM NOW AND THEN ILL HAVE TO START HUNTING FOR COLLEGES
but do you know what that means?
4 MONTHS OF BOOOOOOOKS
i have no work for 4 months!!!!
I get time to pursue every hobby! Like ill pick up my violin again and get dance classes and probably learn a language too hopefully
Im also getting green highlights in my hair today!!!! (Hopefully if my sister remembered to book the appointment)
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ALRIGHT NERDS
i did it
i mixed
the song
nowe
i go write lyrics
i
i did it
yippee
here have the instrumental
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I will listen when i get home!
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GUYS IM DOING IT
MY LAST EXAM IS ON MONDAY BUT I CAN'T HOLD OUT ANY LONGER
IM WATCHING SHADOW AND BONE SEASON 2
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GUYS IM DOING IT
MY LAST EXAM IS ON MONDAY BUT I CAN'T HOLD OUT ANY LONGER
IM WATCHING SHADOW AND BONE SEASON 2
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GUYS IM DOING IT
MY LAST EXAM IS ON MONDAY BUT I CAN'T HOLD OUT ANY LONGER
IM WATCHING SHADOW AND BONE SEASON 2
