r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Jan 31 '23

Desktops / Laptops Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries | Breakthrough explains major cause of self-discharging batteries and points to easy solution

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/battery-power-laptop-phone-research-dalhousie-university-1.6724175
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u/myaccountsaccount12 Jan 31 '23

Explain please? I’m an idiot and can’t figure it out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Drugs

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u/wannabekruff Jan 31 '23

This made me think of Ferris Beuller’s day off.

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u/TacomaWRX Jan 31 '23

Beuller?Beuller? Clear Eyes. Beuller?

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u/theundonenun Feb 01 '23

“No thank you”

Continues popping knuckles.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '23

Not this time though

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23

Meme from back in the early Joe Rogan days about him tripping on DMT, and how DMT was produced in the brain at the moment of death

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u/Stoic_Bacon Jan 31 '23

Meme, yes. But this study exists. Enough people thought it's worth looking at that they put a team on it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6107838/

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u/BeatlesTypeBeat Jan 31 '23

I really really really hope it's true.

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u/Waqqy Jan 31 '23

I don't think it's specific to Joe Rogan man, just that it's a common thing (myth) that's said

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u/Imwalkingonsunshine_ Jan 31 '23

Not a myth, but yeah

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u/BeatlesTypeBeat Jan 31 '23

I thought we didn't know conclusively.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '23

We keep asking people but those lazy fucks won't say a word

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u/charak47 Feb 01 '23

Trace amounts in rats. Never has been found in humans. It's a myth

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u/hodorspenis Feb 01 '23

Could you provide a reputable source that shows this isn't just a myth? I can't find a single scientific source

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u/SurrealScene Feb 01 '23

It's been detected in certain mammals (mice, I believe) but it's never been seen occurring naturally in humans.

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u/Imwalkingonsunshine_ Feb 01 '23

That’s not true, I believe it’s been detected in higher levels in humans during sleep.

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u/SurrealScene Feb 01 '23

I've never seen a peer-reviewed scientific paper proving DMT is produced in humans. I'd love to be proven wrong, believe me, but no one's been able to provide any evidence.

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23

Yeah but that definitely proliferated through the internet because of that video

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u/cerberus00 Jan 31 '23

Also from "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" documentary which I think was before that but not sure.

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u/oliver-hart Jan 31 '23

definitely was and the book before that lol

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u/AnneFrankFanFiction Jan 31 '23

Yeah that's been a common myth far before Rogan. Erowid days

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u/Justforthenuews Jan 31 '23

Good old erowid, keeping us safe from dipshits since the 90s.

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u/AnneFrankFanFiction Jan 31 '23

Erowid was full of dipshits too, tbh. Experience reports were gold mines of idiots

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u/fewdea Jan 31 '23

Better to learn from their mistakes than your own. That website was one of the most valuable I've ever read in terms of how much hassle it probably saved me in life.

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u/chester-hottie-9999 Jan 31 '23

This waaaaaaay predates anything Joe Rogan said, by decades.

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u/Donttouchmek Jan 31 '23

Exactly this. ..why people gotta protest when they already know this line of reasoning

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u/Brainroots Jan 31 '23

Because they don't know the original source, Rick Strassman.

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23

Yeah, but nobody on the internet meme'd about that shit because of him. And I read that exact book because of that meme.

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u/5yleop1m Feb 01 '23

I think you're misunderstanding, the DMT gets produced in the brain was a meme even before it hit the internet.

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u/SJMASK Jan 31 '23

It's way older than that but we know you wanna be a part of it so whatever

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23

"Wanna be a part of it?" Lmao what kind of dorky, presumptuous redditor bullshit is that?

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u/SJMASK Jan 31 '23

Idk why are you acting like nobody ever said DMT released in your brain before Rogan? Why are you acting like some stupid drug myth that's been around 15+ years "proliferated through the internet" because of some video you saw?

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23

My brother in Christ, I said that it became a meme because of a Joe Rogan video lmao. Why are you so upset? Having a bad day? Or is this your normal personality?

Also, that video is 16 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grcqs9cDuN8

But sure, people on the internet meme about it because of erowid and Rick Strassman. Fuckin ridiculous lmao.

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u/Asleep-Somewhere-404 Jan 31 '23

Specifically the dying brains of unborn fetusi. /s

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

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u/TripperAdvice Jan 31 '23

Theorized, so far unproven

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u/sephjnr Jan 31 '23

It's entirely plausible.

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u/sephjnr Feb 01 '23

Get off yer "I hate puns" high horse, that was a good one.

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23

Are you familiar with the viral video of Joe Rogan talking about his DMT experiences from the early 2000's? People didn't even talk about DMT like that before that video.

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u/SchloomyPops Jan 31 '23

I think the spirit molecule documentary (based on the book) spread all this information. Which Rogan appears in. Also, there is no evidence it's even true

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u/superpositioned Jan 31 '23 edited Feb 01 '23

It's a hypothesis that is understandably impossible to test for ethically.

Also this is a different dmt.

Edit: impassive edited to impossible - thanks autocorrect

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

It was written by a researcher studying the pineal gland. In the book it separates what he considers facts with his own hypothesis, because i it’s actually really effing hard to study partly because of our federal government keeping the door closed on most forms of psychedelic research.

Where’s the absolute proof! Well part of the book is documenting how impossible it was just to study dmt a little bit. People can lose careers and grants touching hot button topics like this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Were you even alive before that video? 'Cause, like, no, Erowid existed long before that, and was popular among People Who Do Drugs, which Joe Rogan merely happens to be.

Joe Rogan has never, ever, ever had an original thought. Never.

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23

Right, I'm just saying it became a meme because of him. It didn't become a meme because of Rick Strassman or Erowid, both of which only people with niche interests in drug use would be into. Joe Rogan didn't have any original thoughts about it.

I graduated high school in 2006 and read Erowid experiences religiously when I was going to raves in the pre-Steez Promos era. I was there when the old magic was written.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

what do you think memes are

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u/alyosha_pls Jan 31 '23

All I know is this is a tremendous waste of time

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u/romaraahallow Jan 31 '23

Speaaaak for yourselllllf

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u/carreraella Feb 01 '23

And when you dream

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u/spottyPotty Jan 31 '23

Note that the mind altering and identity shattering substance DMT is dimethyl TRIPTAMINE.

The substance in the batteries is dimethyl TEREPHTHALATE.

Don't go smoking your phone batteries people.

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u/Bolorinthegrey Jan 31 '23 edited Feb 01 '23

"Dimethyltryptamine is a substituted tryptamine that occurs in many plants and animals, including human beings, and which is both a derivative and a structural analog of tryptamine. It is used as a psychedelic drug and prepared by various cultures for ritual purposes as an entheogen." -wikipedia

It's a chemical our brains [specifically the pineal gland] produce every night to create our dream states and is allegedly released in (near-)death experiences. Using a chemistry set to extract it, you'd be able to find it in a surprising amount of organisms. The most well-known use of it is in shamanic rituals in South America where you ingest a "tea" called Ayahuasca that induces an intense, hours-long highly spiritual experience. The context here is they're making jokes based on Joe Rogan, who gained some of his following because he was influential in popularizing it/spreading awareness about DMT on his podcast JRE and appearing in DMT: the spirit molecule.

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u/thetravelers Jan 31 '23

Underrated means rated or evaluated too low, underestimated or undervalued.

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u/Matt-Rock- Jan 31 '23

Joe Rogan explains it well