THANK you for acknowledging it. They have the same nose AND the same endearing “maybe if I play dead the film crew will go away” approach to PR.
I’d like everyone who’s been claiming Andre Burakovsky is somehow Nicklas Bäckström’s son to acknowledge the one true heir
LISTEN have you SEEN this boy??? Literally Nicky reincarnated. Like. Look at him. He and Nicky have the same look in their eye. Djoos will take time for his look to turn into “murder” like Nicky, as his is more “dissociation” right now (that’s how it be with this generation).
And he and Nicky have the same fluffy hair, AND they have the exact same reaction to Andre: they’re tired of his shenanigans but they love him. That face Djoos pulls in Andre’s “DjoooOOOooOoOoos” videos? I have absolutely seen that face on Nicky before.
Andre may be Nicky’s son, but Djoos is straightup Nicky’s clone.
The idea that Djoos will need time to mature into the full-flavored murder stare, like wine or something, is the greatest thought I’ve ever heard.
One day he’ll look up and make unwavering eye contact with the camera for the first time and blossom into a beautiful flower of silent violence
GOD how could i possibly have forgotten THE MOST OBVIOUS EVIDENCE??
GROUNDBREAKING scientific research here my friend
At the same time, this is getting scary and I do NOT like how they’re both looking directly through the camera at me, I KNOW THEIR SECRET NOW
this is all very good investigative journalism and high caliber analysis however the wording that djoos is nicky reincarted implies that nicky is already dead, which would in turn mean that he’s been dead at least since we acquired djoos, or maybe that he’s been a ghost/poltergeist/malevolent spirit all along???
You are not making me less scared. You all’re gonna get me Mysteriously Disappeared and you’ll have to live with that (for as long as They allow you to)
Also, being raised in the same town (Gävle) they have some very…. similar….. career choices.
Well, if I die for this information tonight, at least it’s thoroughly referenced
please if you do anything useful in your life, don’t scroll past this
watch it
PLEASE
tchaikovsky is proud
In case anyone is baffled by this, there’s a Tchaikovsky piece in which there’s supposed to be a loud sound but he never specified what you should use to make that sound. People have done all kinds of weird shit depending on how they think the sound should, well, sound. Hitting a large piece of wood with a sledgehammer is a relatively conventional one.
the fact that placebos can work even when you know they’re placebos is so fucked up. what the hell is up with the brain
like some kind of fucked up wrinkled goblin that won’t unlock the chemical secrets if you just ask politely, you have to give it some kind of pill. you can tell it that the pill doesn’t do shit, but it doesn’t care, it just wants the pill
A few years ago I had the privilege of proof-reading a dissertation on drug addiction interventions which touched on the placebo effect (because it turns out successful addiction interventions share the basic elements of the placebo effect: a desire to get better, a change in one’s beliefs about one’s condition, and a positive relationship with a trusted authority figure).
How the placebo effect works, in terms of feedback between the brain and (presumably) the inflammatory system, is still unknown. But the logic of why the placebo effect should happen is not that mysterious. There are two basic principles.
One, pain is protective. A lot of the conditions we take medicines for are in fact interim defence mechanisms. Pain stops us doing things that damage our bodies. Fever kills pathogens. Vomiting gets rid of poisons. Fainting cuts the work-load on the heart.
Two, healing takes resources. Before the body commits to expending those resources fully it needs to be certain they’re not needed for something else, like fighting off a secondary bacterial infection. And of course the circumstances in which we get sick in the first place are the same circumstances in which we might want to hold resources in reserve for dealing with further assaults on the body.
This means that our healing systems will stay in the interim condition until they get a signal of some kind to let them know that our circumstances have changed and full healing is a good investment now. What part of our body processes that kind of complex information? The brain, that’s what.
The information basically needs to take the form: “Something external has changed and we have confirmation that as a result we are going to recover from this condition.” Apparently our healing systems can tell when we’re just making it up to jolly them along.
The logic is presumably the same in most species, but in humans, being language-users, that external change can take the form of someone whom we trust to know what they’re talking about saying “These pills will do the trick. Drop into the pharmacy on your way home and hand them this bit of paper.”
Most likely the signal from the brain takes the form of some kind of hormone, triggered by a new emotional state.
The word for the subjective experience of that emotional state? Hope.
i became an alcoholic at 19 to cope with r*pe. at AA meetings im usually the youngest and only black person there. i didn’t accept that i really had a problem until i got a public intoxication charge after fighting in a bar.
get the help u need we talk abt drug addiction but alcoholism is just as dangerous you can hurt others and urself.
I can’t get over how much I love that there’s just a universally agreed upon strategy among the X-men that is just “throw wolverine at the thing”
I mean, he’s unkillable and made of knives.
That’s basically projectile fodder.
one overlooked aspect to the Fastball Special in regards to Just Throwing Wolverine At The Damn Thing isn’t just that Wolverine got claws from his hands but also that he’s HEAVY with the Adamantium inside him putting him at 300 lbs
just moving along like everyone else 