RustyEarthfire
@RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world
- Comment on bird flu 3 months ago:
Seems to mostly be called “Screaming Seagull” or “Inhaling Seagull”
- Comment on Perverse incentives leave young Australians locked out of community housing, study finds 4 months ago:
This isn’t a “perverse incentive” – the government explicitly and directly encourages this behavior.
It seems odd to blame the housing orgs here for doing what the government asks them to.
- Comment on Well, Athens wasn't built in a day. 5 months ago:
Sisyphean Effort is actually a thing
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 5 months ago:
omg Toad, you can’t just ask people why they’re purple!
- Comment on Free P-Values 6 months ago:
Is this p-hacking?
- Comment on Just So 6 months ago:
Yes, that is precisely what I was attempting to say. Thanks
- Comment on Just So 6 months ago:
The problem is there isn’t anything “useful” for understanding humans. Yes we can come up with plausible evolutionary justifications for behavior like cooperation, but they are basically untestable and useless for predictions.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 6 months ago:
That assumes “you” are just the conscious part. If you accept the rest of your brain (and body) as part of “you”, then it’s a less dramatic divide.