shneancy
@shneancy@lemmy.world
just me
- Comment on This is really touching. Your eyes will moisten 1 day ago:
maybe they were just posting as they were shitting
- Comment on Does your boss even love you if he doesn't portray himself as the big minion and you as a baby minion? 1 day ago:
consider, the more jpeg the better
- Comment on Natural laxative 2 days ago:
did divorce help you poop?
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 3 days ago:
if Aang had to kill Ozai he wouldn’t be smiling and waving after Zuko’s coronation, he most likely wouldn’t even decide to try again with Katara, the story would be forced to turn very dark, very fast, and would need to be given time and space to breathe
final minutes of the last episode are not the time to have a character break their core values, not without a season’s worth of set up to get you to that point
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 3 days ago:
the thing is- Aang himself understands that his strict adherence to his values is not always a positive thing, i remember in one of the comics (or a later season) he outright calls it his own flaw
if not for the lion turtle giving him an alternative moments before, he’d have to either kill, or watch the world be destroyed
he later has to face that flaw again (actually this time) in the big graphic novels that came out, they’re really good btw. give them a read if you have the time to spare
- Comment on Hey there 4 eyes 3 days ago:
::O
- Comment on welp 4 days ago:
no he didn’t
- Comment on The holy journey 6 days ago:
i swallow it after 15min lol
- Comment on The holy journey 6 days ago:
huh alright, i remember reading somewhere that it’d take longer/have worse effects if you sucked on a tab instead of just keeping it rested somewhere in your mouth. never really thought to look up if it’s true or not as yk, keeping a piece of paper rested on my gums is just easy so, always went with that
- Comment on The holy journey 6 days ago:
hell yeah
- Comment on The holy journey 6 days ago:
alternatively you can just keep a tab on your tongue or between your gums and you won’t have to wait a few hours, just roughly one hour
(lsd absorbs wherever it is in your body, but your mouth is closer to your brain where you want it ending up)
- Comment on Things used to be simpler 1 week ago:
different trans man here, it’s not the penis, i’m fine with my bottom bits,
but i’d still like that cocaine please, maybe this stimulant would actually wake me up instead of making me sleepy >:|
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
it’s just shocking enough to stay in your mind without making you numb to it
it’s not violent or gore-ish, your brain won’t block it for your own good. it’s just a niche kink
- Comment on yeet 1 week ago:
the thing that mentally exhausts me the most is guilt - guilt of undone chores, guilt of unfinished projects, guilt of unfulfilled “potential”. attempting to rest when surrounded with guilt is exhausting too
i’m working on it of course, but it’s a rather slow climb, with plenty of holes on the way. and if it was just internal that’d be half the problem it is, because on top of all the personal guilt i also need to push back against the culture of grind and constant productivity (which is, in itself, a big source of guilt)
the only way is through
unless i give in to the temptation, fake my death, and join a buddhist monastery in tibet or something idk - Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 week ago:
well, since we’re getting into technicalities - they would be on acid, but they wouldn’t be tripping
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 week ago:
back when LSD wasn’t demonised by the US government and people were free to study it - scientists found out that after about a week of taking the same dose you’d feel 0 effects. our bodies build up tolerance to LSD crazy fast
idk how true that is but i’ve seen people online say that if you want the same effects day after you need to double what you took the day previous
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 week ago:
LSD is a substance of extremes, the drug simply opens your mind and shows you what’s inside, it doesn’t care if you like the view or not
so we’d see more loving people yes, but the hateful people would have fear invoked in them like never before which would only fuel them
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 week ago:
depends on the dose, if someone chugged water to get themselves above 100ug then they’d notice. but if they stayed ~50ug for the first few days then indeed nobody would notice, especially because after said week they’d have enough tolerance for that amount to do fuck all
- Comment on Be ungovernable 1 week ago:
then you make it a feature! “visit the swearing parrot enclosure! be cussed at by various birds! we’ve tried stopping them, but they didn’t care”
- Comment on Mama! 2 weeks ago:
and where is the galaxy taking us then?
- Comment on If Luigi Mangione is considered a "hero", then Punisher, Dexter Morgan and Jigsaw should be considered "heroes" too. 2 weeks ago:
the archetype you’re looking for is “Anti-hero”. a kind of hero with grey morals and questionable ethics - but whose actions still have a mostly positive result
typically - a hero will try to rehabilitate a criminal first, throw them in prison second, and only kill if they’ve exhausted all other options. killing is usually shown as something that the hero struggles with greatly
an anti-hero will often skip the “when will murder be my only option?” ethical dilemma regular heroes have and go straight to the killing. in their stories casual killing is either shown as normal, or serves as a plot point that’ll come back to haunt them later (“i killed that man without thinking, but now he turned out to be innocent”)
this is not the only difference between the two of course, but i don’t want to type an essay
- Comment on Shitpost 3 weeks ago:
eh, not everyone will get the meaning the first time they encounter a new usage, but if it makes sense to most people it’ll be used more
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 3 weeks ago:
the test wasn’t personalised for me, IQ tests can’t be personalised as the IQ result is derived from how far you deviate from the base 100. you can’t reliably figure out the standard or compare people to it if you give every other guy a different test
the only personalisation you get is tests that cover lower or higher results. the most generic ones focus mostly on +/-2/3 standard deviations and become inaccurate at the borders. if you’re a genius, or mentally disabled then you need a different test if you want to figure out how big of a genius/disability you got
but yeah good idea to ask an actual professional, hope you find the answers you seek
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 3 weeks ago:
fair points Mr AssTits, but there’s one thing i’ll nitpick - if you are always given a culturally neutral test - how are you supposed to check the various types of intelligence, when the culturally neutral test is just a bunch of logic puzzles, it only tests for logic. it’s impossible to test for debate ability, or musical abilities, or any other abilities with culturally neutral methods. even for a debate skill you need linguistic skills and langauges are heavily influenced by cultures they function in.
i took an IQ test with a licensed psychologist, WAIS for adults to be specific, and it was indeed based on the polish school curriculum. it supposedly measured 3 metrics: logic, language, emotion (not exact names of those metrics, forgot those). logic was just logic puzzles & memorising stuff, langauge was word definitions, and i assume an analysis of how i expressed myself, and emotion was honestly dumb and included sayings and idioms which??? i’m neurodivergent i get these wrong all the time, but i can read emotions and behave maturely quite well. then an average of these was taken and presented as my general IQ
i came out of there thinking how it’d be impossible for me to score well if i didn’t have the privilege of attending good schools, or just being lucky (there was a section of culturally important figures, one of whom was Maria Skłodowka-Curie who also happened to be a patron of my primary school so, yeah i kinda knew a lot about her)
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 4 weeks ago:
T–T
if even one person learnt something new today i’ll consider that a win
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 4 weeks ago:
it was at -1 when i saw it, which is what prompted me to attempt to give a step by step process leading to the conclusion you gave as it seemed to me folks just lacked context
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 4 weeks ago:
IQ testes only test logic puzzle solving skills (& memory sometimes), so there is no way for you to measure your own actual intelligence, let alone your autistic kid’s
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 4 weeks ago:
to those downvoting this comment -
your IQ test results might as well be your zip code
for a proper explanation, check out Bell Curve by Shaun
for a personal interpretation & in large part summary of the above material:
IQ tests are not a general smartness tests, that is impossible to measure. IQ testes measure your ability to solve logic puzzles, and that supposedly measures your logic itself (at least the tests that have no cultural bits, the ones that include cultures also have some testing of your memory based largely on your country’s school curriculum. more on why that’s a problem later)
can someone be naturally amazing at logic? of course, they can, but that skill needs to be nurtured, or at least allowed to flurish. and this is supposed to happen in schools.
now what happens when a person with the potential to score high in an IQ test doesn’t enjoy the privilege of peaceful learning? what happens when their family life is difficult? what happens when during their schooling years they have to focus on surviving, instead of learning and nurturing their skills? well, they score lower, of course. their potential doesn’t disappear, but it gets used in a different direction, to help them survive in life. and logic puzzles don’t play a big role in survival so that particular skill is not tended to and therefore doesn’t develop as well as it could in ideal circumstances.
now let’s look at racism. we’re not talking about day to day racism, though that also plays a part, but institutionalised racism - the one that keeps pushing minorities into poverty, and keeps them there harder than white people, because as we know, poverty is a trap that’s difficult to get out of even for those not pushed into it with institutional racism.
add the two together - IQ tests measure your logic puzzle solving skills, which develop only if you have access to decent schools & you’re allowed to learn without interruptions, without having to worry for yourself or your family. institutionalised racism pushes minorities into poverty, which means they lose access to good schooling, and have to worry for themselves and their families from an early age.
this in turn results in minorities scoring lower on those tests, but not because they are stupid, but because their intelligence has to be used for surviving, and they are not allowed to comfortably indulge in solving logic puzzles to develop the skills that IQ tests look at to “measure intelligence”
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 4 weeks ago:
i never joined mensa, though i had the option to. and yeah you just confirmed all the reasons why i hadn’t lol. entitled dudes who believe so hard that results of a test make them better than others that they are approaching actual delusions of superiority, having to sit among people like that would make my blood boil
well, i suppose it’s a logic puzzle skills test, not an emotional intelligence test.
i despise how IQ is almost revered by the overall society, and i hate how, despite everything, that stupid result does make me feel good about myself, tempting me to feel better than others
- Comment on My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day 4 weeks ago:
god i wish ancient enemies wouldn’t lead to modern problems, signed - a polish person