>>106311812 >he never heard of bit rot
What, you really thought all the weird pixels on jpg were normal? Old photos degrade with time and now png are getting old enough to suffer too if your system is ancient.
>>106311895 >All they did is measure salivary alpha-amylase. It appears that was their only measure of "disgust." But alpha-amylase is merely a rough measure of sympathetic nervous system activation, and the sympathetic nervous system activates not just for disgust for all kinds of other emotions too, including surprise, fear, and generally any emotional state or situation involving alertness.
>It's kind of concerning how studies like these taken on surface level can easily be used to "rationalize" homophobia when the actual point and conclusion of it is not about that at all.
>The researchers themselves even mentioned that the stress response is not because it's normal and therefore justified to be disgusted by same sex kissing; the stress response is most likely due to how homophobia and prejudice is still so prevalent in society and heavily socialized to kids from a young age, that it results in a dangerous almost automatic correlation of "same sex attraction = disgusting" in the brains of people who don't even realize that they've internalized society's generally homophobic attitudes. It's a certain type of societal conditioning the same way Pavlov could condition a dog to salivate at the ring of a bell, except in society it's far more complex.
>>106311925 >alpha-amylase is merely a rough measure of sympathetic nervous system activation, and the sympathetic nervous system activates not just for disgust for all kinds of other emotions too, including surprise, fear, and generally any emotional state or situation involving alertness.
In other words: arousal