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- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 4 days ago:
“Why can’t we live in a world where women don’t have to think about these things? It’s heartbreaking to hear of things women close to me have dealt with,” Chaney said. “It would be nice to work towards a world where there is no difference between the heat maps in these sets of images. That is the hope of the public health discipline.”
I’m not convinced this phenomenon would disappear in a world where women don’t have to think about these things. It could be an evolutionary psychology thing. Would have to repeat the experiment in different societies and environments to find out.
- Comment on Beans 5 days ago:
I take offense to that. I’m a guy who hates cats but still doesn’t think they should be declawed.
- Comment on ESL homework 1 week ago:
The “???” suggests they didn’t get the joke. Like come on, not even a sarcastic “very funny, 2/5”?
- Comment on ‘Non-negotiable’: Iran says missiles off the table in talks with the US 2 weeks ago:
Suicide is better than the Iran regime deserves.
- Comment on Coal is Extremely Dumb (by Hank Green) 3 weeks ago:
The online shop thing is just usual YouTube sponsor stuff (though it’s more self-promotion since he runs the store, it’s some charity thing), and he sometimes plays Connections at the end of vlog videos like this.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 10 comments
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 3 weeks ago:
Can you believe that’s how sheep feel all the time?
- Comment on We need to talk about Nigel Farage and Russia. 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a text, it’s a video. You can download it with yt-dlp if you don’t want to just open the URL for some reason.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 weeks ago:
Lots of trees there. That place still looks pretty nice in the summer.
A quick web search had someone say it’s Yaroslavsky District, Moscow and while I’m not entirely convinced (having trouble matching the photo to a map), in the summer it will probably look similar to the photo of Yaroslavsky District on Wikipedia.
- Comment on ✨️ DIVA ✨️ 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Few Years Ago Watching The Environmental ‘The Mobilized News’ Show on ‘Free Speech’ & It had an Episode with John Mankins Saying, Since ‘60s Supposed to have had Solar Energy from Space Solar Panels 5 weeks ago:
Neoliberal greed supplanted so much of the 60s futuristic optimism.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 1 month ago:
Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.
I believe there’s some research that confirms your anecdote in that kids with reading comprehension difficulties had a much easier time reading when they were both reading and listening to the text at the same time.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 1 month ago:
audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain
This doesn’t mean they’re the same thing. This is an area of ongoing research (because audiobooks have only recently become very popular) so there are surprisingly few studies on the topic, but the general consensus is that they’re not the same thing. For example, while reading you go at your own pace and can easily re-read or skim words or sentences, but you can’t do this when listening to audiobooks.
I’d link you to a nice essay I read(!) on this last year in a Finnish newspaper, but it’s in Finnish so most users here probably won’t get much out of it… Actually what the hell, I’ll link it anyway: www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000011260022.html
- Comment on World-first 560°C Carnot battery unveiled as SPIC launches ultra-high-temperature heat storage 1 month ago:
State Power Investment Corp has a pretty unfortunate acronym.
- Comment on Tankie 1 month ago:
Just wait until you hear what happened to the guy standing in front of the tank in the original photo.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 months ago:
The I in LLM stands for “image”.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
That makes more sense. I was thinking printing money only to pay pensions, which honestly seems like something European social democrat parties might actually do.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Them being born in a certain period is actually very relevant here, because the state pension system as it works in many EU states (and, to my understanding, many other countries like Japan too) allowed boomers specifically to pay in way less than they are getting out. This was then conveniently adjusted so that millenials and the younger half of gen Xers pay in more than they will get out, because their payments are used to finance the pensions of those above them on the ladder.
In most/all of these countries boomers are a massive voting bloc and politicians are consistently either doing nothing about the issue or making it worse. While there are populistic aspects to it, young Europeans have a plenty of valid reasons to hate boomers.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
I imagine you’re not being entirely serious, but I fail to see how that is anything but yet another inventive way of kicking the can down the road so that boomers don’t have to deal with it.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
You’re saying that as if it makes any difference whether I talk about boomers or pensioners. The two are currently synonymous and we live in the present, not in the future. In the future when boomers are dead, if this problem still exists I will be using some other word.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
I see you’re talking about US numbers, but the US doesn’t really have a state pension system in the same way that many other countries doo. Maybe that’s the confusion here.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Yes, and once boomers start dropping dead, gen Xers will be fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their slice of the state pension ponzi at the cost of everyone below them on the ladder the same as boomers did. That does not change my point at all.
There is no fair and equitable world in which state pensions can continue working the way they work now. The system was built on the expectation of infinite growth with every generation being larger than the last.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Neither of those are billionaires.
Gerontocracy is fundamentally an issue of the few holding more than their fair share of wealth and power at the expense of others and pulling the ladder up behind them. It is a class issue same as everything else.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 months ago:
Most billionaires are also boomers. The class war and the war against gerontocracy are one and the same.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 months ago:
Inspired by this post I spent a couple of hours today trying to set this up on my toy server, only to immediately run into what seems to be a bug where <video> tags loading a simple WebM video from right next to index.html broke because the media response got Anubis’s HTML bot check instead of media.
I suppose my use-case was just too complicated.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on It really is 2 months ago:
Good guess! I suppose my comment reads like a verbatim quote from one of his videos.
- Comment on It really is 2 months ago:
If there’s complex life on one of the ice shell moons like Titan or Enceladus, it’ll be way weirder than anything in the ocean could ever be.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s kind of ironic that after complaining about prayers with many words, Jesus goes on to tell them to instead use the Lord’s Prayer, which in itself is just an incredibly long-winded way of saying “hi god give me a good and virtuous life”.
- Comment on New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people 3 months ago:
Do not put words in my mouth to present a false dilemma.
Naturally I hope this medication is found to be safe for this purpose after further study. However, these processes are stringent for a reason, because the possibility of it proving to be unsafe after being in widespread use for many years could have disastrous consequences on the health of a large number of people. The history of medicine is full of such cautionary tales.