This is a nice lecture on neuroscience, showing the effect of alcohol and marijuana on metabolism in the brain, also exercise and diet are discussed:
https://youtu.be/g_lCZ09uVXQ?si=ul879aubmdHxgVrM
https://youtu.be/g_lCZ09uVXQ?si=ul879aubmdHxgVrM
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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https://youtu.be/_3dhmMcj17w?si=vbw6dFnqnpLvVvip
This is a more technical account of how it all works:
https://youtu.be/Hmwvj9X4GNY?si=2ncGl55mrW5irJlZ
https://youtu.be/i1dAnpSFbyI?si=6-PiHD3X8LX7tfwG
https://youtu.be/juM2ROSLWfw?si=vzRSwXbGRpv3o04S
https://youtu.be/mfgCcFXUZRk?si=QLxIgRc4tzcbW2pJ
How about using pot and exercising regularly and eating right. I bet that would lead to a much more calmer and productive workforce.
If the Director had done that instead of drinking she could have avoided some issues.
We have have our differences, some of us want peace, some want war, some want fascisim, others want freedom, some want to remain in power others want equality, some want to use ups resources, others want to preserve them, some care about others, some care about profits. Some are what we call good people and some are bad people.
But we can all agree that football brings us together today and right now that is all that matters.
Does football bring us together? It puts a lot of bodies on the couch on Sundays. If it truly brought us together why do they need the tight security at the stadiums? One good thing, during the Superbowl, the crowds at Costco were pretty light.
Certainly heavy alcohol use (like drinking a six-pack every night) would also damage the brain over time, for example through Korsakoff syndrome, i.e.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korsakoff_syndrome
https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/what-is-dementia/types-of-dementia/korsakoff-syndrome
"If the Director had been using pot she might have avoided some issues, but she would have failed a drug test - it's still illegal at the Federal level."
The point is pot should not be illegal. For thousands of years, many groups of people used pot and other herbs and lived peaceful, fulfilled lives, such as the native Americans and Pacific Islanders. Alcohol, which is predominantly a European invention, causes violence and much worse health problems. I think if we had millions more pot and millions less alcohol, we would have much less violent, calmer, and even more equitable systems. I suspect that the Feds to keep alcohol illegal because they know that it creates more poverty and crime, and they want to suppress certain groups. As for pot causing mental impairment, I suspect it means it makes us less aggressive and less capitalistic, which is not an impairment but an improvement.
In fact, I think neuroscience is corrupted by capitalism, which makes someone mentally impaired if they do not go along with hyper-competitiveness, winner take all, and unkind ways of life, when in fact it is the opposite. For example, what do you bet that most Trump supporters do not use pot? See the problem?
https://www.livescience.com/48337-marijuana-history-how-cannabis-travelled-world.html
India might be an example of where it made people less aggressive, and less capitalistic, although it is also a poor country which historically had an oppressive caste system. I would agree there are aspects of Indian culture that we should emulate or admire of course, but marijuana does have detrimental effects:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_India
Stronger drinks were made possible by distillation methods which were developed in the Arab world, in the 9th century, the world alcohol is derived from Arabic in fact, as are many terms in chemistry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture
The Incas gave young children psychedelic drugs and alcohol before sacrificing them,
https://www.sciencealert.com/inca-children-destined-for-sacrifice-might-have-been-soothed-with-hallucinogenic-drugs
https://bigthink.com/the-past/inca-ayahuasca-human-sacrifice/
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/031815/united-states-considered-market-economy-or-mixed-economy.asp
A capitalistic system always ends this way with the rich controlling the rules to make themselves even richer. The myth of a fair system of competition is what keeps the charade going.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/economic-freedom-map-2023/
https://www.heritage.org/index/heatmap
In Europe for example, this highlights Scandanavia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Ireland, and the Baltic States as healthy economies with economic freedom. Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, the UAE in Asia-Pacific. US, Canada, Uruguay, and Chile in the Americas. Some close runners up are UK, Japan, Malaysia, and Poland.
The BRICs countries of course, do not do well at all on this economic freedom metric, nor does most of the "global south" countries, in Africa, Asia, South America: Europe, the US, and Australia are the successful areas for developing economic and human capital.