So I've mentioned the sharpie test and the tueller drill.

Another reason you are dead within 1.5 seconds of encountering your first fast zombie, is adrenaline.

Most people who get attacked with a knife and survive to talk about it, say they never even knew a knife was there.

Or that they'd been stabbed, until after the fact.
In many cases, they think they'd just been punched, and are completely surprised
One reason the adage is "the winner is the one who dies in the ambulance, not the gutter," is because it's entirely possible to receive a fatal wound, not realize it, and then inflict a fatal wound on the other guy without *him* realizing it.

A dozen times within 30 seconds.
The marker drill teaches how you *will* get cut, fatally, without realizing it.

In full adrenaline freakout, this is even more pronounced.
A fast zombie will be on you within seconds. You will get bitten and scratched, without realizing it.

You are dead the moment you encountered it.
Even *if* you are a huge zombie nerd, even if you have a gun on you.
The only way you do not get bitten, is the only way you do not get stabbed: to run like hell.
And, even if you are a huge zombie nerd, your reflexes are not to run screaming as fast as possible from anyone who acts strange.

Walking your dog would be difficult if it were. Just living in any city, really.
In other words: even if you were a huge zombie nerd, even if you had a gun, even if you had zombies on your mind, even if you're a professional sprinter: you're dead.
And, because of how sheerly improbable it is to survive 1.5 seconds into encountering your first fast moving zombie, it is certain that *no one else in your city did*
The moment that encounter ends, you've got bites and scratch wounds, and are already outnumbered by everyone who were not similarly incredibly lucky.
In zombie movies, a person who gets bitten will often try to hide the bite from others.

In reality, many people who were stabbed don't even realize it until afterwards.
Even if you were fantastically lucky and survived that first 1.5 seconds, the only way you are not eating someone's face shortly is if you picked flight instead of fight or freeze.
How many zombie nerds do you see talking about fighting zombies, arguing over how to fight zombies, etc.

Versus ones talking about sprinting speeds and comfortable running shoes and such
Literally the only way to not die, in seconds, with fast moving zombies is to run away from them as fast as possible.

Not as sexy as arguing about guns and knives and bats, though
And, in addition to not being as sexy and masculine, it's also not something that amazon prime will help.
Countless youtube channels on zombie weapons, forum arguments about killing zombies, amazon purchases of badass knives and such.

And all of that'd be as useless as having an actual gun in a surprise knifefight.
So it's interesting: why do so few zombie nerds argue about techniques for running away? Brag about sprinting speed? Lovingly share pictures of their expensive running shoes?
You'd expect serious zombie nerds to be debating cardio workouts, running shoes, bragging about their gym PRs, showing off their expensive running gear
You'd expect serious zombie nerds to be doing the exact opposite of what they actually do: think endlessly about killing zombies.

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An interesting thing about carp is that they can go into anoxic hibernation and switch to an anaerobic metabolism based on converting glycogen to ethanol.

The waste ethanol is diffused out the gills

https://t.co/V3D1umHf04

Carp can switch over to an anaerobic metabolism and quietly exhale booze until the situation gets better.

They basically evolved the same metabolic pathway as yeast, independently.

In theory, if you spent a few thousand years breeding carp for it, you could use them to make booze.

They'd be enormous, almost entirely glycogen deposits with a fish added as an afterthought.

The really interesting thing about anaerobic carp, is that they can go 4-5 months without oxygen by relying on liver glycogen.

You, a human, have only about 100 grams of glycogen in your liver, about 400 more grams in your skeletal muscles. Call it 500 grams total.

In humans, glycogen is also burned for energy. This is where the marathon runner's bonk comes from: you only have about 2,000 calories worth, and running a marathon burns those 2,000 calories.
The US immigration act of 1907 signed by Teddy Roosevelt: ableist as hell. https://t.co/ficeXOImo5


One theory for why the Spanish flu was so unusually lethal for young people:

They hadn't lived through the previous flu pandemic of 1889-1890 (https://t.co/OiDZYtdbWx) that killed about 1 million people. And thus had no carryover immunity.

It's suspected that the 1889 pandemic was not influenza, but a coronavirus.

The 1889 virus spread rapidly, killing mostly the elderly.

The 1889 virus was the first truly modern pandemic: people knew about germs, it spread via trains, it spread at the speed of modern transportation and commerce
So you want to generate interesting melodies.

1. Make a file called 1235.txt containing, one per line, all 24 unique permutations of the elements 1 2 3 5.


2. Cp 1235.txt to D.txt

3. Use sed to convert the numbers in D.txt to notes. Now you have 24 permutations of the major tetrachord in D.

4. Play them each. If it sounds like it increases tension, mark the beginning of that cell in 1235.txt with a +. If it sounds like it decreases tension, mark with a -.

Now those 24 melodic cells are divided into two groups: tension increasers and resolvers.

5. Rinse and repeat for all 12 keys.

You now have 13 plaintext files, filled with stuff like + 1 2 5 3 and - D E F# A

6. Figuratively roll dice to decide, given a +/- cell, what the next cell should be.

33% chance a + follows a +, etc.

Now you're outputting a stream of dynamic tensions: ++-+++-+-+---+ etc

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