Located 987 results from search term 'sleep'
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Commented in Sleep Simulation: The Future of Sleep?
You sure nailed it..Anyone who has two brain cells to rub together knows what the real agenda is here.
Am I the only one who sees the utter bullshit of that quote? First stating a truth that if we sleep less our lifespan reduces and right after that trying to state that if "we" reduce our hours of sleep we'll increase our lifespan.
Oh yeah,I did such an eye roll,had I not been seated,I'd have fell over. On a scale of one to ten,just how stupid and gullible do they think we are? The whole sleep thing reminded me of the eating insects nonsense that were just popping up everywhere. Nothing came of that afaik, and I doubt anything will come of this.
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Commented in Sleep Simulation: The Future of Sleep?
What I get from the article is mostly: less hours of sleep, is more hours of "being productive", as in: more hours of (wage) slave labor. I refuse to trade my hours of dreaming, resting and enjoying the best part of my life for some underpaying, high earning boss. Fuck. That. Shit.
Being more connected to our technology: shove that where the sun doesn't shine.
Then this:Sleeping is a big part of our lives, and it’s no secret that the less we sleep, the shorter our lifespan would be. But if we could find a way to reduce the amount of sleep we need, it would stand to reason that our lifespans would increase as a result.
Am I the only one who sees the utter bullshit of that quote? First stating a truth that if we sleep less our lifespan reduces and right after that trying to state that if "we" reduce our hours of sleep we'll increase our lifespan.
I admire the effort of sounding all utopian, but this pure bullcrap of an article tries to make us believe that we need to be more productive. Work work work work work, till you drop dead. In this world of overproduction, unequal divided resources, depression as one of the main diseases and also thanks to all that producing a more and more polluted world with a climate about to go haywire, yeah, let's sleep less and produce some more of that unneeded and unwanted shit.
Anyways, it's always nice to read that this kind of propaganda tries to manipulate us towards a dystopian world masquerading it as some sort of paradise.
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Commented in New research suggests psychedelic drugs can be almost as life altering as near-death experiences
During the first year and a half of covid I took several LSD trips and one mushroom trip. They changed my life for the better, even over a year after my last spiritual travel, the effects are noticeable, as in: can deal with solitude, have no depressive periods anymore, sleep better, have dealt with several emotional issues (like feeling a constant wrath and even hatred towards people from my past), started living day by day, can be compassionate without being emotionally attached to others and so on. Really groundbreaking, because some of those issues couldn't be solved in any other way. Trust me, I tried the talks to psychologists and therapies, they sorta worked, but they were very short term and not constructive.
Painting has changed and is still the most important thing in my life, but I sense colours a bit different and have an urge for contrast, brightness and abstraction. The latter can better be described as: I am daring more loose strokes and am able to disengage from that utterly crazy obsession with detail. It's still there, but the admiration of trying to create illusions of detail starts to get a hold of me.
My love-life is still a bit lacking (no money, no honey), but I sense that I can be open for affection, but then the same thing goes for regular friendships: they feel better and more meaningful. I even work on them, as in: visiting friends more, getting them over more and even make new friends. I was never socially deprived, but I hardly opened up, always a wall of much talking to distract from that innerself. Now I show feelings more and talk more about the things that are on my mind. Not just the silly talks or goofiness, but about things that I care about. My friends all like that, so it seems and that's very okay.
I can't say that I would advise such self-therapy to anyone, but people who have the same sort of things in their life could always consider such a route. :-)
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Commented in Microplastics found in 80% of meat and milk products, with experts branding findings 'unsurprising' as animal feed contains plastic - Vegan Food & Living
Stopping eating animals won't save us,as our clothes are made of plastic,furniture;plastic,everything our food come in;plastic,our water supply,plastic,seats,etc,in your car;plastic,your keyboard and mousde,pet toys,baby bottles,kids toys,all plastic...And the stuffed toys for kids,woven plastic....We breathe in this stuff,drink it,sleep in it,all our products come in plastic,eat with plastic cookery,drink in plastic cups,bottles,it just goes on and on and on. We are so screwed. Links? Oh sure,why not.
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Commented in Sleeping With Even a Dim Light Can Raise Blood Sugar and Heart Rate
I can;t sleep with any light in a room at night..My clock goes in a drawer...No sounds either except natural cricket/frog sounds in the summer and my white noise machine..Yet I've known people who can sleep with the tv on,etc.. Fascinating study.
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Commented in Putting Down Your Phone May Help You Live Longer
I think this is true. A few months ago I put my phone in the bathroom when going to sleep. This has caused me to sleep so much better and to get to sleep faster as well.
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Commented in Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes
How do these megalomaniacs sleep at night?
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Commented in The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well
Tis true! There is no substitute for getting a quality night's sleep.
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Commented in Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
AMAZING article. I really enjoyed reading this. It was so in depth and informative . I have a blog about sleep and there was so much that I didn't even know that you covered.
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Commented in Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?
I used to smoke about half a gram per day for years and with some help of "just" CBD I am trying to quit for two weeks now. To be honoust, it is not that easy. I have real weird withdrawals, like a messed up sleep schedule and an eating pattern that is slightly adjusting to regular. THC is great for peace and joy in my head, but it makes me lazy as fuck. I have way more energy now and as it seems, I am getting all the energy I missed out on the past three years. At once. So, is cannabis innocent or harmless? I think not. Is it good for you in small doses and with constraint? Yes, I think so. For medication it is good, but please do that with advice from a medical professional. It is so easy to go down a slippery slope of using more and more and more.
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Commented in Books to read
Wait, did you actually do the math? Eh, I don't need to go to work and who needs sleep anyway... Reading is now my full-time job
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Commented in MSNBC's Chris Matthews predicts Mueller will let Ivanka and Don Jr. avoid prison if Trump resigns
Don't nitpick the fairy tales. The Boomers were almost to sleep.
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Commented in What Happens When You See Regret in Someone’s Eyes
I live paycheck to paycheck - I just don’t dwell on that fact as The Determening factor of the measure of my life
The biggest breakthrough I had is when I embraced my life for what it is and decided to enjoy it
I no longer live in the vicious cycle of berating myself for failure or not being rich enough to be worthy of praise and self esteem. I don’t conditionally give myself permission to be happy only once I am successful enough. I don’t measure myself by someone else’s standards about what I ought to be, or ought to do or ought to feel
Instead, I whistle while I work, when I worry and can’t go to sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep
If you don’t like making a decision between a phone service and (whatever else was supposed to go there) spare a thought for those among us who have to make that decision between medication and food. And show a little gratitude you don’t count yourself among those
I can tell you are bitter about your circumstances and that’s bad for you. Nobody else cares if you’re unhappy with your life or not. Not internet strangers, not motivational speakers
I offer you this as someone who was were you are and moved passed it. It might not be what you would like to hear but it is a view point that comes from a place of experience and sincerity
You do with that what you will
https://zenpencils.com/comic/69-buddha-less-is-more/
PS don’t fall into the trap of believing an ism will solve your problems. That’s a fool’s errand
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Commented in What Happens When You See Regret in Someone’s Eyes
Smug motivational speakers, in their insipid speeches, urge rich and poor alike to sleep on the finest silks, to hire only the most beautiful, and to leave nothing behind for would-be scavengers. Don't let it get to you. When the revolution comes, bourgeois jerks like this will be lined up against a wall and shot.
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Commented in What Happens When You See Regret in Someone’s Eyes
So easy to tell people to “take that leap” when you’re worth $60 million and don’t have to worry about how you’re going to eat or where you’ll sleep.
I hate videos like this. It’s always a rich dude telling me to live my life to the fullest, to travel, to basically throw any sense of consistency and safety out the window and do whatever I want because it’s my “dream” or so I don’t have any “regrets.” The one thing they always lack, though, is a realistic sense of duty.
These people can afford to do whatever they want, because they have more money than they’ll ever need in their life. How do you tell someone living paycheck to paycheck to “start that business you’ve always wanted to?” How do you expect a mother and/or father of two to “just go somewhere and see what happens?”
These videos are for the affluent and the speakers themselves, so at the end of the day they can lay their head down on their golden pillow and say “I did something today” and not waste away in obscurity, because money isn’t enough for them.
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Commented in Dell XPS 13 now ships with Ubuntu 18.04 Linux
I'd really like to know if the power management works as well as a mac laptop. Does it go to sleep when you shut the lid and wake up and reconnect when you open the lid? Does it go from sleep to hibernate if the battery reaches below a certain level? How many times can you close the lid and put it to sleep and wake it up before memory cruft makes it require a reboot?
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Commented in Weekend lie-ins could help you avoid an early death, study says
Interesting, but I bet if you’re getting ~5 hours of sleep a night on weekdays, then a greater than 8 hour day is a pretty tall order for a weekend sleep. If there’s one thing your body loves, it’s patterns.
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Commented in Chimpanzees have much cleaner beds than humans do, scientists find
Yeah, when you sleep in the same bed for 10 years, you're sleeping in a graveyard!
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Commented in Today’s Catty Question: Who Thought Cat Cafes Were a Good Idea?
The Journal is paywalled, so here's the text:
A public cafe that combines the cat-loving cappuccino set with slumbering felines. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out: ill-timed belly rubs, great escapes, protests from animal rights activists and reluctant landlords claiming to be “dog people.”
These are the travails faced by entrepreneurs around the country who have opened more than 40 “cat cafes.” It can be a frisky business. “I wasn’t ready for all the things that can go wrong,” says Sana Hamelin, owner of the Denver Cat Co.
Ms. Hamelin once lost a cat inside the 1,500-square-foot cafe for two weeks, although “Gus” crept out at night to nibble food. A cat named Morpheus bit a hands-on patron. “You shouldn’t go for the belly rub,” Ms. Hamelin says. “The belly rub is dangerous.” Then there was the vandalism this summer. “Someone who hates cats threw a brick through the cafe window at 3:30 a.m.,” the cafe speculated in a June Facebook post.
Cat cafe proprietors took a page from Asia, which started the trend, and brought cats to U.S. cafes. These institutions typically rely on shelters to supply the cats, which can number a dozen or more. They often hang cat-themed art and serve coffees like “caramel meowcchiatos.” Patrons may pay a cover charge to interact and sign a waiver from all kinds of catastrophic consequences.
The concept is warm and fuzzy. Stressed-out humans get comfy chairs and time with free-roaming, mostly adoptable cats. The reality is hairier: soul-scratching attempts to win over neighbors and an operation that hinges on unpaid staff, cats, which won’t take orders, because they are cats.
Cafe rules can look like they were written by the felines themselves. Don’t make loud noises; don’t wake sleeping cats; don’t pull tails or ears; don’t pick up cats against their will; and “if you upset them and something goes wrong, please don’t sue the humans,” say the “House Rules” at Le Cat Café in Philadelphia.
The rub here is that cats can sleep 12 to 16 hours a day.
“It’s almost like going to a meteor shower and not seeing any meteors,” said Jeff Ivey, a San Diego truck driver who felt “ignored by the cats” who wouldn’t frolic on a recent cat cafe visit. “I’ll admit it,” he said, “I wanted to get in there and play with them and throw a feather at them.”
Rebecca Arevalo, a 59-year-old family therapist in La Habra, Calif., said she and her husband seek out cat cafes on trips. “We’re weird that way,” she said. At San Diego’s Cat Cafe, owner Tony Wang said an orange tabby took issue with a patron’s attempt at petting. He said the customer interrupted a “clearly grouchy” feline.
“He just jumped on her legs and hugged them,” Mr. Wang says of the 2016 incident. “It was not super aggressive, though obviously he’s got claws.”
Ashley Brooks and a friend raised $23,000 in a Kickstarter campaign toward the opening of Pounce Cat Cafe & Wine Bar in Charleston, S.C., in late 2016. By early 2017, Ms. Brooks’s skin was red and itchy. She sought treatment. “The doctor said, ‘Yep, you’re allergic to cats,’” she says. Aided by allergy shots, she is staying. “I’ve already sunk so much money into this business, I can’t just walk away,” she says.
Cats show no such loyalty. At Cat Café Mad in Wisconsin, a reddish-haired feline named Sunny outfoxed the door attendant and when the door opened, ran like a cat out of he...
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Commented in The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
hmm... I'm an adult out of college and making enough money to not be considered poor and my answers to some of these questions could make it seem like i'm having trouble making it.
Have you gone an entire day without eating in the past month? possibly, but maybe it's been more than a month
Have you skipped meals in the past month? multiple times, at least twice a week!
Have you slept in a place not intended for housing? does spending the night in my car because I don't want to get a hotel room count?
Have you not known from one day to the next where you would sleep? I got back from vacation and was snowed OUT of my house. I couldn't get any rental equipment out there, and the contractor quotes that I got were the same as 4 months of mortgage payments, so I spent a week not knowing where I would sleep until I found a friend who happens to have an empty yurt because she got married and moved in with her husband. So yes.
Not to downplay what a lot of students are going through, but the questions presented in this article are VERY biased towards positive answers. I don't know what the entire survey looks like. Only the questions in the article.
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Commented in Why Sirius XM Should Stop Playing Ted Nugent
Big believer in personal responsibility. However, I believe entertainers should be just that. (And shut the hell up on "issues")
I don't give a damn about their politics, religion, opinions, or who they sleep with. Not big on boycotting them because I disagree with them in any of these categories.
You and I seem to disagree on a lot of things, but I'm not going to boycott the great content (and opinions) you bring here. =)
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Commented in Nintendo Officially Says Mario Is A Plumber Again
Finally I can sleep at night again! :P
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Commented in Science teacher allegedly sent nude pics and bought marijuana for 14-year-old pupil
She looks sad. Maybe she'd be less sad if she'd paid attention in Don't Sleep With Students 101 class.
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Commented in US stealth bombers in Guam appear to be readying for a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea
By "progressive", I was referring to the self-described status of our education system. It is a fact that most 4-year Uni professors here have political beliefs that range all the way from from left to hard-left. I'm experiencing it now, any classes that aren't directly STEM related are as much about indoctrination as education. Their views infect what and how they teach. My views in this discussion in a US history 1112 class would likely lead to my failing it.
I think our viewpoints are irreconcilable. I'm second generation career military. My early reading was 30 Seconds Over Tokyo and the Time-Life series on WW 1 and 2. I later got into my father's books, Ghandi, Arendt, Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz and Kipling were the topic of many dinner table discussions. I've read a bit of the actual source material that your links are based on. Lengthy reading lists were part of the 4 different levels of PME I attended.
Ike went as far as he could, and lost. But that's what military leaders are supposed to do. Do what your stripes or stars can carry, pick your hill to die on, then shut up and color if/when you are overruled. History is written by the victors, true. but it also evolves over time as society changes. People in any era disagree on decisions made, especially in war. Later generations latch onto those disagreements as proof of their own thoughts. Times, morals, values change.
War is the natural extension of failed diplomacy. As long are there are humans with different ideas or ideology, there will be war. Don't misunderstand me, I was a war fighter, not a warmonger. I saw more than I wanted in '91 and didn't retire in time to avoid post 9/11. (I was retiring that December and had orders in hand when they went to stop-loss...I didn't get out until '06). The two-dollar bits of colored ribbon they pass out afterwards are expensively bought. I lost friends.
The fetishization of the military post 9/11 is sometimes hard to deal with, but people who have never seen the elephant will never understand those who have. I can't read this without crying
Let's not confuse targets with valid targets,
Civilians became valid targets in WWII the moment a lost BF-110 jettisoned bombs over London. That likely saved Britain and probably the war, because it shifted Hitlers focus. Because of the limits of air power that became evident in Europe, that didn't change between theaters. Today, with our smart bombs and GPS, drones and satellite surveillance capability, one plane with 2 250-pound bombs (with a CEP of inches) can take out a target that 500 planes with 1200 tons of bombs might have taken out then. And when, with all our gee-whiz capabilities, we still hit a wedding instead of a high-level meet of the bad guys, it's an atrocity. And because it is so, we put that on people who didn't have those capabilities.
There were so many pressures at the end of the war. The US didn't want the Russians in Japan, it was already apparent they weren't leaving eastern Europe. They (and the western powers) were already fully mobilized for total war and geography didn't favor the west. There was a lot more real estate to push them back than there was for them to push the allies back into the Atlantic. Russia got some of Germany's rocket, and nuke program scientists , and Truman wasn't sure how far along they were. It was inevitable that Russia would have nukes, possibly soon and a nuclear stalemate would have put the allies at an impossible disadvant...
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Commented in Swatting Mosquitos Will Actually Prevent Bites
I generally have the same experience. How, I just kill them all before I go to sleep. Ever have a live mosquito in the room with you with the lights off when you're trying to sleep? It sucks!