Not really, thanks though.

And after that?

That’s a great example!

I discovered that the grouchy, irritable and angry part of me was not “just my personality”, it was an emotional overlay that colored the rational self which lay underneath…

To me it sounds like you have low levels of serotonin. It made me irritable and easily angered too.

Medicine that helps with that are SSRIs (antidepressants). You have to ask a psychiatrist about those. Or, if you don’t want to go full medical about it, try a 5-HTP over-the-counter supplement, which is a serotonin building block. And also ease up on masturbation… It drains your serotonin.

You don’t even have to take these for very long. They have a side-effect of making you sleepy, because serotonin is processed into melatonin. Take them on and off just enough to get some perspective on how artificial your mood is, which is when you’ll gain a level of control that will stay with you even after you’ve stopped taking the medicine.

Did you succeed?

We truly are lost…

“Behind an able man there are always other able men.”

It’s a Chinese proverb akin to the"shoulders of giants" idea.

There is no such thing as a pineapple tree. That’s an AI image.

Pineapples grow in an even more ridiculous way.

Dread it, run from it…

I understand the saliva has a benefit for mosquitoes, but not the swelling and the itching (the “unpleasantness” in the title). In essence, our bodies hung this not-otherwise-useful allergic response on something the mosquitoes couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t give up and which was firmly specific to their bites, to single them out.

If there was no saliva our bodies would be pressured by natural selection to pick some other mechanism to make their bites unpleasant. An allergy to their chitin or a phobia to the sound of their wings, etc.

Evolutionary pressure from mosquitoes has probably been no small thing.

Tomato / tomato.

They are ordered according to the midpoint position, it seems.

A two-track mind.

Sure you are.

I imagine it would be quite difficult to tie knots with frozen limbs and fingers, in the dark. And trying to get a second person on the door would have required the already freezing girl to dip into the water. I can see why they wouldn’t try it.

I’m kinda glad stainless steel corrodes in the end. Else it would become a micro-fragment polluter like plastic.

The one time when “swamp gas” is the answer, and you miss it. For shame…

‘Interesting’ analysis. Now do the same for an equivalent-power thermal power plant, over its lifetime.

From a video someone posted in this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTDcFxTq1Fw&t=127

Oh that’s sad. Who died?