😭 you're very welcome you have no idea how flattering it is to essentially answer a tip of my tongue question about a neuroscience research paper.
Oh no this was a legit scientific study like 10 years ago.
It's not exactly current research but this is likely where this is coming from. The primary limitation I would say is that the sample size was adults and like you said most genetic traits are apparent from infancy. It could be a gene that doesn't activate until the brain gets to it's next level of threat detection, but it's also quite possible that fear or even demonization of snakes has some kind of real deep roots in some kind of early human proto-culture.
But yeah there was actually a rigorously scientific study behind this it's just the interpretation and whether or not it's been found to be reproducible or improved upon in the ten years since that's more important.
No but having grown up rural I've had the brake pedal flat on the ground for several seconds before I even consciously registered the deer eyes reflecting out from the bushes on the side of the road.
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...as a licensed US driver who finds public transit much less stressful.
See this is the thing. Iirc the debt collector was one of the people who clued me into the Jr/Sr thing. I said I was pretty sure he was dead and they were like "no that's Sr we're looking for Jr."
Yeah like there are definitely some drag shows you shouldn't take your kids to but there's also movies and concerts you shouldn't take your kids to. There's even kids horror movies vs the obvious r rated adult stuff. If they're old enough to know boys and girls are different they're old enough to understand that sometimes people do other shit for fun the same as they're able to watch fucking Casper and experiment with the idea of death. It's just a fucking genre.
That specific symptom is actually more consistent with something called obsessive compulsive personality disorder which has some overlap with OCD the anxiety disorder but usually presents with less bizarre obsession-compulsion links and usually less insight, because usually nothing they're doing is overtly nonsensical. The maladaptive / disordered aspect is more that they're allowing their obsession with rules to impact their relationship or even impose actively harmful restrictions on the people around them.
Well and sometimes control is good, right? Like if it's an apartment building where the units are owned by the tenants or condos or even row houses it helps to have an established self governed organization of some kind to keep ground rules for shared walls / roofs at the very least. And even in fully separate housing it can help if there are shared community areas like a clubhouse, pool, playground, etc. There are two main problems though:
First of all, self governance requires active participation of at least most but ideally all members. You run into that same problem with any kind of self governance and that's how even very good things like unions can get a bad reputation. If you don't actively participate in union discussions they can easily be corrupted and wind up as an even more insidious control tactic by the employer.
The second problem is specific to the history of HOAs in the United States. The concept itself was fundamentally started as a way to discourage racially integrated residential areas, then extended to discourage other types of minorities. Yes you see HOAs focusing on petty things like door color but more importantly you'll see them pushing other, more insidious restrictions. When you place restrictions on outdoor decorations you're often restricting specific religious and cultural traditions. If you're only allowed to put up lights within a certain window surrounding Christmas, you're pressuring people to not observe holidays with light displays that occur at other times of the year. When you restrict the amount of unmarried adults in a house you're pushing out poor people who need roommates and and cultures that live generationally, as well as homosexuals in areas where they're not allowed to get married / claim marital privileges.
So while there are some practical benefits, the history of HOAs requires highly active and intentional participation from everyone involved to overcome the dark history of the concept and there are very few situations in which that's worth it, especially in a community where the houses are not physically connected.
Oh no it gets flung around plenty in on-unit report and with your work besties. Some of it is commiseration about unpleasant patients, but it's also practically helpful to describe the background to float nurses or nurses new to the unit that the patient has some kind of long running problem whether it's financial or cognitive-emotional that's preventing them from managing their problems properly outpatient. But when you go to write that practical concept (of a patient who has a stable and predictable hospital course with a treatment plan that evolves minimally over multiple hospitalizations) you write "known to us."
Oh and fun fact, the professional way to say "frequent flyer" (for like written documentation or over the phone to other units and such) is "known / well known to me/us." So for instance "Mr Doe is well known to us from previous admissions to this unit with the last date of discharge being 3 days ago."
Said the actress to the bishop!
You know what animal kills the most humans (other than other humans)?
Mosquitos by way of malaria.
You know what animals kill mosquitos?
Bats, lizards, frogs, toads, and spiders.
Roaches, fleas, bedbugs, termites, and ants are other common household infestations that those spiders in your walls would love to (help) keep under control for you (when it comes to ticks we gotta talk about chickens but that's a whole different post).
Understanding the material world you've been subjected to means understanding which organisms in this simulation are actually on your side.
This has been a public service announcement.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52665422
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52612346
IT'S SO SIMPLE
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/53444691
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