Beebabe
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- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 day ago:
It’s more of a “haven’t experimented” with the alternatives yet rather than them not being good. Mainly a time issue for me.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 day ago:
I do a lot of data entry stuff and have some custom sheets and graphs I’ve made for individuals over the years. Time, mainly.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 day ago:
I really like libreoffice honestly. In my job I have to use docs but I find myself copying from libre office most of the time. Prior to that, I used to create all my visuals with office and do my graphs in excel. So I’ve tried a few different ways to do things. Libre reminds me of old school products and I kind of like that. Plus it does what I want with shapes. Which is nice when I need to make visuals. I still use excel though, for now.
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 1 week ago:
This is a really good question. I wouldn’t say we are prisoners always, but circumstances at birth and even prior to birth (during development) play an enormous role in shaping us. For many, to escape the circumstances of birth are insurmountable. Things like medical conditions or extreme poverty in isolated locations and no access/opportunities to change or grow. Or lack of resilience even if there is access.
Now, imagine you have all the potential in the world, but still have to overcome poverty. That means more resources are required to gain similar positive outcomes as your better positioned peers. It means an automatic higher risk of negative outcomes, and almost guaranteed trauma and health impacts.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, same bag of dicks.
- Comment on Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, “hysteria”…
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 4 weeks ago:
1, always
- Comment on What life hack helped you this year? 5 weeks ago:
Mine is rice cakes and seltzer. Fall asleep before hungry comes back.
- Comment on There's a thin line between charisma and manipulation 1 month ago:
Depends. And it can change based upon environment and philosophical needs. Lots of variables/case by case. But the tl;dr is charisma is just pairing yourself with positive social feelings…so the sight of you becomes rewarding for many people.
- Comment on There's a thin line between charisma and manipulation 1 month ago:
You don’t specifically need charisma to change behavior. Charismatic behavior makes you a reward. Hence people are more likely to engage to please you. But there are other ways to be rewarding.
- Comment on There's a thin line between charisma and manipulation 1 month ago:
Manipulation and coercion are different.
Manipulation is altering people’s motivations until they do the thing you want them to do even if they think it’s their idea in the end. This includes benign changes to environmental conditions. For example, making classroom A entirely analog and classroom B digital fun cracktopia. Some individuals are really rewarded by one or the other.
Now, I want to alter (change, not necessarily increase or decrease, this is subjective)the motivation to go to cracktopia specifically so i bring those conditions in line with classroom A, analog. The motivation will therefore be altered and reward will be signaled by some other thing. There is no overt punishment or coercion here, just altering of motivation.
Coercive control necessarily involves aversive items such as punishers or failure to withdraw aversive conditions such as holding a nose until a mouth opens. Or physical full hand-over-hand prompting. Might there be a reason that is acceptable for this? Yeah, some people need help with items of hygiene even into adulthood and even with years of intervention and therapy require physical assistance.
That is to say, both coercive control and manipulation without coercive control can work to the benefit or be extremely detrimental.
- Comment on There's a thin line between charisma and manipulation 1 month ago:
You don’t need any charisma if you can alter motivation. As a behavior analyst nobody likes but everyone listens to.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
Yeah good point. I’m interested to see how it will work out, and whether it will become less convenient to have a whole gaming setup anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
It’s time for me to build a new gaming pc. With the current cost and this…(keeping in mind I’m no computerologist) I may just get the Steam Machine.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 month ago:
5 minutes or so.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 month ago:
These guys just need to stick with toys and leave women out of it.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
The initial impression of the new Arathi zone, before really getting close enough to see details was a “I can’t believe this is wow” moment on first impression. There are a couple areas like that where it really throws me. But in a way, yes, it looked so surprisingly good and a tad different.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 month ago:
Wow had been interesting lately. The last expansion I played, there were legitimately zones that I thought “I can’t believe this is wow” compared to the vanilla zones. You can still tell after a moment, but it is just a lot more detailed. I do love the point you make here. It reminded me of my first experience with uncanny valley in a game. I prefer not to have that experience tbh.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 1 month ago:
Second pot of coffee.
- Comment on If you truly love your girlfriend, then you need to buy her an expensive engagement ring. If you don’t have the money, then you don’t deserve to be in a relationship. 1 month ago:
This is to make people mad right? I just want someone to cuddle and finish getting old with. I buy my own baubles.
- Comment on #RatFuckTheTimes 1 month ago:
Idk about other people, but the recent op/ed on women ruining the workplace (they had to change the title 3 times) just being allowed in print by them certainly lessens my opinion of their institution.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 1 month ago:
Education, perhaps? I know it’s under attack as well. Maybe there are some opportunities though.
- Comment on Why not just move to a gated community 1 month ago:
It’s called response effort. The idea is that an action in particular is less likely to occur because it’s more effort than you’re motivated to spend in that moment.
Ever have a few things you could easily do, you’ve done them before, you’ll do them again another time, but that one time the extra steps make it not worth the effort?
It works a surprisingly large amount of the time especially where impulsive behavior is concerned.
Similar thing with locking our doors etc however there are additional motivational forces at play. Yeah they aren’t vaults, but if this one is locked and barricaded and it’ll take 10 minutes to negotiate vs the next one down being open…it’s an easy choice.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 2 months ago:
I gave mine a good blow out like a Nintendo cartridge
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 2 months ago:
Deleted my original response to this…post because it was somewhat emotional. Anyway, here goes.
It is fine and good to ask questions. Any decent teacher wants you to ask clarifying questions. Pretending otherwise is really dishonest.
Yea, you will find good and bad teachers. I suspect it’s much harder to find good teachers in areas where the profession has been vilified by people/posts like these, where books and ideas are being banned, incomes are hilariously low, and thoughts are being outright policed. In those places you’ve almost certainly seen a brain drain.
Ultimately a lot of us could be making money elsewhere, but we like what we do.
I would be more wary of someone vilifying the accumulation of knowledge and those who want to share it.
Boomer meme.
- Comment on What if reincarnation is real, but you were probably plankton in your last life, so you don’t remember anything anyway? 2 months ago:
Guess I was a bad plankton :(
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
Replies have certainly taken on a more Reddit-like quality to some things. Like rude for the sake of being rude.
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 2 months ago:
Reminds me of that article about fellas suffering from endometriosis.
- Comment on Trump's Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show 3 months ago:
I work in behavioral health, and most of my kiddos have a diagnosis. There are a handful of junk studies around this topic that have the same group of people with conflicting financial interests, have shit methodologies, or confounds (such as other therapies) etc.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 months ago:
Well it’s Tylenol in the work bag because I can’t have too much of either in a single day. Also because I don’t need to have that one and a lunch (which I never get).