Wow. That’s really awful! I definitely feel some kind of way about not being surprised about that too.

My wife stopped wearing a pentagram and we took down our love your neighbor sign, you know the one that has that same phrase and several different languages…

Turns out the Christians are too unlike their Christ.

I never thought of it that way but your reasoning is not unsound. Hahahaha.

I like pineapple because when you eat it, it eats you; the bromelin starts “digesting” your mouth as soon as you dig in.

So fun. Also nothing else is more delicious than fresh sliced pineapple.

So it’s Soylent pink! I bet that’s delicious if you put it in the smoker.

I wonder if the Darwin award would make an exception and given award to a group…

Thank you for saving me the trouble of making exactly this comment.

This sounds like it’s weaponizable.

I have trouble understanding these types of papers and so I thought I’d ask gpt4 for some help with that. Here’s what I got, I figured I’d share:

The paper titled “Anxious individuals shift emotion control from lateral frontal pole to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex” discusses the neural mechanisms underlying the control of emotional behavior in individuals with anxiety. Here’s a summary of the main findings:

1. Background:

   • Anxious individuals often struggle to control emotional behavior, leading to excessive avoidance. This trait hinders learning through exposure.
   • The lateral frontopolar cortex (FPl) is believed to coordinate the control of emotional actions through connections with the amygdala and sensorimotor areas.
   • The study aims to understand the functional, structural, and neurochemical properties of the FPl that might explain the differences in emotional behavior control between high-anxiety individuals and their non-anxious peers.

2. Main Findings:

   • The FPl in highly anxious individuals is overexcitable, as indicated by the GABA/glutamate ratio at rest.
   • High-anxious individuals have stronger connections from the amygdala to the FPl than non-anxious male participants.
   • Despite these connections, high-anxious individuals do not effectively recruit the FPl during emotional action control. Instead, they rely on the dorsolateral and medial prefrontal areas.
   • This shift in neural activity is proportional to the excitability of the FPl and the strength of the connections from the amygdala.
   • The findings suggest that even mild emotional challenges can overwhelm the FPl in anxious individuals, leading to a “neural bottleneck” in controlling emotional actions.

3. Experimental Design:

   • The researchers used a combination of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS), Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI), and functional MRI to study the neurochemical, structural, and functional properties of the FPl during emotional action control.
   • Participants were exposed to a mild emotional challenge that required them to control their emotional action tendencies. The performance of high-anxiety participants was compared to a control group of non-anxious peers.
   • Both groups performed a social approach-avoidance task where they had to approach or avoid happy and angry faces by manipulating a joystick. Controlling these emotional action tendencies activated different brain regions in the two groups.

4. Implications:

   • The study identifies neural vulnerabilities in anxious individuals, suggesting potential targets for interventions to enhance control over emotional actions.
   • Understanding these neural mechanisms can provide insights into the development of novel treatments for anxiety disorders.

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