It activates the same chemicals in your brain as cocaine! not-built-for-this

Well, yeah, there are only three[1] a few neurotransmitters. That’s not saying much.

You know what else activates those chemicals? Practically everything. When scientists breed “knockout” mice without dopamine, the mice just stand there until they die of thirst, because there is no reward for… living.

It contains more germs than a toilet seat! NOOOOO

Germs like moist surfaces. We don’t want germs on our toilets, which is why we make them out of porcelain, which is hard, dry, non-porous, and easy to clean.

If it had more germs than your colon, then I would be concerned.

  1. @Neuromancer49@midwest.social corrected me ↩︎

  • WrongOnTheInternet [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Very briefly, you’ll often see references to

    • Vavilov being pushed out because of Lysenko
    • Lysenko being responsible for the 1930-33 famine, despite not being responsible for leading agricultural research like Vavilov actually was at the time
    • Stalin supporting the ideological aspects of Lysenkoism, even though there is a draft copy of the speech that Stalin cut to bits (including something mocking like “haha, and what is the class character of Darwinism??”)
    • zero reference to all the racist eugenists whose work was underpinned by genetics of the day
    • Lysenkoism being described as pseudoscientific even though, from what I have read it is not a radical interpretation of some of the experimental findings
    • aspects of it are quite correct (like young crops responding better to winter by exposing them to colder environments - which increased expression of a few genes that influence cold adaptions)

    Don’t get me started on the claims about the Lysenko influence on China’s great famine

    You read something simple that says China banned the use of chemical fertiliser following Lysenkoism, then read an article from 1958 that suggests China was pretty keen on fertiliser