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  • Whitebrow@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAmerica No Rule
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    10 hours ago

    I think you missed the point.

    If you never tried cafe au lait, cappuccino and others, you’d never know if you liked them or not and wouldn’t seek them out or bother to experiment with the other drinks.

    Has nothing to do with being snooty, and has everything to do with sticking to the things you know and tried as opposed to going out of your way to try and discover new things.

    Point is some people never go out and explore new flavours at the risk of not liking something.


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    11 hours ago

    Means you had (likely) cruddy coffee that was normalized for you since a young age, probably with loads of sugar and or milk/cream to boot.

    Just the normal cycle for most people tbh.

    The comfort of the known combined with an underdeveloped palette is what makes it attractive to a lot of people

    It often changes and evolves with time as you grow older, kind of like when you try foods that you hated as a kid only to discover they’re really good.

    Granted that only happens if you explore and experiment, otherwise you never really grow out of it











  • The video is showing something called a freediving blackout, it’s a condition that gets triggered in divers such as the one shown, plus other factors such as hyperventilating prior to the dive.

    What happens in this case is the person loses consciousness because they don’t feel the need to breathe as they have purged a lot of the CO2 the body has prior, giving them “room” to not feel the urge to breathe.

    Again, as specified previously, assuming the person doesn’t die of anything immediate in the water, the body simply stops breathing.

    The problem is when it starts again.

    Your body, once “jolted awake” by the involuntary nervous system, will try to breathe, and it doesn’t know or care that you might still be underwater since you stopped swimming and didn’t get out of the water in time or weren’t rescued or washed ashore on some deserted island.

    If you’re out of the water at this point, you’re fine, usually. If you’re still underwater, you breathe in (involuntarily) a bunch of the water (or a bunch of “nothing” if you got your holes plugged) and that’s what kills you.

    Kind of ironic that in an attempt to preserve your life, your own involuntary bodily function is what ends up being the final nail.