Bigotry and fascism.

How cruel a joke it must be for a God to create beings that crave consistency in a universe where the only consistent thing is change.

If only there were [some document(https://www.project2025.observer/) that clearly outlined his plans in intense detail while he was running for president.

Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

Sartre with the fire explanation for this behavior.

I’m going to give you the BoD and say that I think your confusing how addiction works and how the body regulates itself. Also, I should be more clear that anything causing an intense reward response can be addictive. Not just any old response will do, it has be a rush.

Addiction isn’t just doing something repeatedly or enjoying something a lot. It’s a progressive hijacking of the brain’s reward system. It starts with an activity (like gambling) triggering a strong reward response. That response draws people to repeat that activity for the “high”. If the behavior is engaged in regularly, the brain adapts over time. The reward response becomes less intense (this is what “gaining a tolerance” is), causing the person to to engage in the behavior more frequently or intensely to get the same “high” as they did the first time. Eventually, the behavior stops illiciting a reward, and you start to get stressed without whatever behavior it is that originally made you feel high. The person is no longer seeking the behavior because their reward system is telling them to, but for relief from the stress and anxiety of NOT performing the behavior. This is where addiction occurs.

Gambling, sex, and drugs all activate activate this feedback loop in the brains reward system. In contrast things like drinking water or wearing boots just just don’t engage the reward system in the same way. You can experience this yourself by having an orgasm, drinking a glass of water, and comparing the difference in how you feel afterward. Drinking water and wearing clothes are biological necessities or habitual actions. They’re not neurologically reinforced the same way that high reward activities like gambling or sex are.

I think we tend to prefer to think of chemical addiction as the true definition because of opiods like heroin. In the case of heroin, you’re not activating your reward system so much as you’re introducing a reward chemical WAYYY more powerful than anything your body can produce.

Other drugs don’t replace dopamine tho, they just make your body release all of the dopamine it has at the same time, resulting in a similar, but less intense feeling. Getting addicted to these drugs is really no different, biologically speaking, than becoming addicted to a behavior.

Recognizing gambling as an addiction is not a slippery slope to naming more mundane things as addictions. It’s the result of decades of work in neuroscience by thousands, if not millions, of doctors.

Professionals disagree with you.

Like it’s in the definition lol.

Gambling An Addictive Behavior with Health and Primary Care Implications

I feel like it’s easy to conflate addiction with chemical addiction specifically. Anything that releases endorphins in your body can become addictive. Watching TV, playing video games, sweet foods, sex, etc, all have the potential to become addictive.

Nuh un I saw that episode of Rick and Morty and if the simulation crashes we all get a chance to escape.

I feel like the point of evolution is to stop this sort of thing from happening tho.

I’m am withheld by capitalism from making the choices I want.

Don’t forget about PFAS!

It must be where he keeps his motorcycle.

The Venn diagram of rich people and Epstein’s list is just a circle.

Is anyone else starting to get some real Pol Pot vibes from ICE?

Almost thought this was for wars until they said that the food looked bad lol.

But it literally did.

The rest of the world will be extremely lucky if this only hurts America…

Ubi mel, ibi apes = where there is honey, there are bees

That’s a pretty badass thing to say to someone trying to rob your house.

I’d add fascist to this list, but I see you already included loser.

I think they’re referring to that as sunbathing.

This dude can’t even stand up to other country’s saying no and he’s supposed to be the grand fascist leader??

This really is a pathetic ideology.