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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • First, what you did was attack his sexuality, and that’s still homophobia, even if you’re gay. Quit normalising bigotry. Second, “what is offensive” is an entirely personal and subjective standard, there is nothing that is “objectively offensive”. You can tell with the penguin test (if a penguin wouldn’t also find it offensive, then it’s not objectively offensive). Finally: they did you a favour, dude. Reddit sucks, that’s why we’re all here.

    Also, nobody cares how they moderated you. It’s not a comment on you personally, they don’t even know you - and that’s the answer to everything you posted here: they don’t even know you. Move on and enjoy the fediverse, or run around outside the orange fence like Eric Andre trying to get back in; your choice only really affects you, in the end.






  • Yes. I’m not sure what you’re disagreeing with? The discovery was that it is possible to record tinnitus from someone’s ear when we thought it was a neurological phenomenon. So tinnitus does actually produce a physical sound, even in cases that don’t have a known physical cause like muscular tinnitus (https://dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/hearing/tinnitus/ME.html). I’m just theorising what could be causing the physical sound in such cases.

    edit: oh, I see, this is in context of the question I was replying to. “Physical sound” doesn’t mean “it was perceived by something physical” it means it’s actual vibrations in the air. We thought tinnitus was just abnormal brain activity, not a physical sound; turns out that is at least partially wrong.


  • Nobody said it would have to be the cochlea or the eardrum specifically. Involuntary muscle contractions of the tensor tympani and stapedius muscles which are both connected to the ossicular chain of “hearing bones” inside your ear, for example, can generate audible sounds through involuntary contractions that change the tension of the eardrum. When processed by the auditory system, these contractions can be experienced as tinnitus. This is known as muscular tinnitus (https://dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/hearing/tinnitus/ME.html). So what I’m saying is, maybe there are other physical mechanisms of action that we didn’t even think to look for until the physical sound was recorded from a case that was expected to be entirely neurological.

    I’m not a medical professional, I just did some reading.


  • how could it be anything but physical?

    The sound? Well, ultimately sounds are just those hairs and your cochlea and eardrum and all that getting hit by vibrations in the air and sending signals to your brain which get interpreted; damage the equipment so it sends signals even when there’s no vibrations in the air hitting it, and you have your non-physical sound. Same way phantom limb syndrome works.

    However what if the damage doesn’t cause signals in the absence of sound? What if tinnitus is actually the cochlea itself (or something/s in the apparatus anyway) physically vibrating and producing that whining sound? Like a mosquito’s wings beating.



  • You have no idea of the context for this conversation (because I didn’t give any, deliberately, so as not to give away any hints as to my identity), and you’re making a false binary out of it. As I said in another reply, this is verbatim from a conversation I had with a real person. I have embellished nothing. If you don’t believe it happened, that actually makes me feel better, because confirmation of their pants-on-head insanity is helping me cope with blocking and deleting them.

    This guy also said that RFK Jr isn’t an anti-vaxxer; that the VA would do a better job with less money; that “good guys with guns” firing back in a darkened movie theatre shooting would not mean more bodies in the ground even in concept; that he’ll stand up for cops being attacked (but I’ll let you guess his reaction to January 6th); and that “the buck stops with me” means you’re responsible for your subordinates in the sense that you fire them if they fuck up, not that you’re responsible for the actions they took on your watch.

    Please, tell me again you don’t think this is real. It really does help.




  • And some of it is boiling salt!

    Which then boils water, of course.

    But some of it is electrons from photonic impact, no water involved! In the process of energy generation anyway. Statistically and perhaps somewhat ironically, the electrons from that photonic impact may well be used to boil water regardless… Humans just fucking love boiling water.