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- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 5 hours ago:
Intelligence is such an elusive concept, but here goes anyway…
Knowing stuff makes you knowledgeable. You’re either born intelligent, stupid or somewhere in between. No amount of studying will ever change that, unless studying also involves copious amounts of alcohol. In that case, you’ll only get dumber.
Anyway, studying gives you information and tools, and what you’re talking about is a bit of both. If you go through a training system like that, you’ll be equipped to process and evaluate information, but none of that changes how intelligent you are. Sure, you can sound really smart to other people by using fancy terms and explaining complicated things. Those words alone don’t make you intelligent. Having the innate ability to understand that level of information does.
I’m sure there are really smart people living in rural parts of India where they don’t learn to read or even count very far, but they can do really clever stuff when hunting birds or weaving baskets. Even though they didn’t receive much education beyond what they learned from the local villagers they can still be intelligent. If they were born in a wealthy family in UK, these people would probably go to Oxford and graduate with a PhD in no time.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 2 days ago:
Practice juggling. Buy 3 juggling balls (you know those bean bag types that don’t roll away), and keep them with you. Don’t use tennis balls, because they have a tendency to bounce and roll. When you have some downtime, start practicing. Watch a few video tutorials to get the hang of it.
If you can have a backpack with you, consider bringing a tablet with you. If you have one with a pen, you can draw. Watch a few more tutorials, and learn to draw something you like. Landscapes, portraits, fantasy dragons, pokemons whatever.
Tablets are also fine for reading ebooks. Check what your local library has to offer. Maybe you can borrow library books and read them on your tablet.
- Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part? 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part? 4 days ago:
Wow! By several orders of magnitude too. I knew plants came later, but this is a pretty extreme example.
- Comment on Which came first: the kidney bean or the kidney body part? 5 days ago:
That’s a pretty solid answer from one perspective. However that still leaves me wondering what the answer would be from an evolutionary perspective. Did early sea creatures already have kidneys?
- Comment on People using fancy characters in their online username ironically makes them harder to be searched 6 days ago:
At least on Lemmy, you don’t really search for people except in very rare cases. On Mastodon, users are more important than the topics they talk about, so over there it’s a whole different ballgame.
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 6 days ago:
Yeah but the older generations probably never even thought of watching a series in reverse order.
- Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 1 week ago:
That’s a common theme in psychology. We’ve built this house of cards on opinions, observations and beliefs. Neurobiology and statistics are gradually beginning to pull the rug under the mess we call psychology.
It took us a few hundred years to go from medieval alchemy to modern biochemistry, and the same should apply to psychology as well. Check back in a hundred years or so to see if it’s any better. My guess is, it’s going to take 200 years to figure out what autism even is, how to classify it, how to test for it and so on.
We have a very long way to go, so the current terms are only marginally useful. Don’t take them too seriously just yet.
- Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 1 week ago:
What about squares with rounded corners then? Some could be very sharp, and some could be extremely rounded. See where I’m going with this?
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 1 week ago:
People tend to disagree about everything, even the shape of the earth and the effectiveness of vaccines, as mad as they may sound. As a result, a federated encyclopedia would probably diverge and fork numerous times, resulting in countless competing versions. How would you merge them back together?
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
Oh trust me, stuff you didn’t even imagine could exist can be found in that wretched hive of depravity and fornication. If you never click any of that, the algorithm won’t know how dirty your mind is. On the other hand, you could also do the exact opposite and click on everything horny. That will turn your whole feed into a 100% NSFW experience. Let’s just say that it’s a surprisingly versatile site.
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
We are witnessing the next step along the way to a completely fragmented web. Sort of like the DataKrash, but in slow motion.
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
That’s partially true. If you use the official mastodon app, you get the following feeds; following, local, lists and followed hashtags. If you use the web UI, you can also see the federated feed. A different client app, like Ice Cubes, gives you a trending feed as well.
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
Nah. Mastodon can handle that.
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
So, if you can’t even use Xitter for porn is there anything left? What even is the propose of that site any more?
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
I’ve only heard about UK Australia and certain states in America. If you live in Kazakhstan next to Borat, you should be fine.
As always, EU is complicated, so we’ll have to wait and see how that works out.
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 1 week ago:
Compliance depends on the instance. Pick an instance where the admin doesn’t give a dingo’s kidney, or an instance located in a country where the local law doesn’t require age verification.
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 1 week ago:
Can confirm. These are the three cancers of the internet. Amazon is the fourth.
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 1 week ago:
Microbes eat filth, so they are filth. Bugs eat the microbes, so bugs are also filth by extension. Rats eat those bugs, foxes eat the rats, humans eat the foxes etc. It’s just filth all the way.
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 1 week ago:
True, but this kind of psychopath level behavior is very telling. You’ll know exactly how much they respect you.
- Comment on Creepy companies don't ask for your consent. 1 week ago:
When those companies roll out new features, are they opt-in, opt-out or sneaky stealth assassin features that just stab you in the back one day without any warning?
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- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 week ago:
It’s a bit more complicated than that though. Most people can’t buy a property, because they don’t have enough money. In order to go around that problem, they either borrow money or rent the property. Either way, some extra money always goes somewhere.
Some of it is justified, because you need to go around the problem not having enough money to buy a house. However, there are many cases where that extra expense is absolute wild and rooted in greed.
Actually, if you happen to own the property, some extra money will go to periodic maintenance and miscellaneous expenses you never even think of if you just rent the place. You just don’t pay for those things every month a little bit at a time. Instead, you pay a large bill once a year or an enormous bill every 10 years.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 2 weeks ago:
Boiling it in nitrogen is so much more fun.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 2 weeks ago:
Gastronomy and botany can’t agree on anything…
- Comment on what does it mean being nice to your coworkers to you? 2 weeks ago:
On top of that, knowing a bit about your colleagues makes it more comfortable to work with them. It will be easier to approach them and ask for help or advice when you need it.
Obviously, everyone isn’t quite that social, so you need to respect the boundaries — your own and theirs. If you can come to an understanding about what can be shared, how much, and when, then you start to see the benefits. The atmosphere becomes more chill, and you’ll have more energy to get stuff done.
Alternatively, you may find out that you don’t want to be around some people, and that’s valuable information too. Some people are toxic, and getting to know them a little bit will help you make more informed decisions in the future. If you never chat with anyone, those toxic people might end up hurting you later.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 2 weeks ago:
Just a random coworker, nothing more important than that. We’re not even on any projects together, and I think I would rather keep it that way.
Having thought about this case a bit more, the risks are definitely uncomfortably high. Avoiding him seems like the best option. Besides, he rambles on an on about some drama that isn’t really helpful in my job anyway. Not really the kind of person I need around me.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 2 weeks ago:
There’s this guy who talks way too much about himself and how he is right about something and how other people don’t get it and so on. I was just wondering if I should start avoiding him like the plague.
- Comment on It's weird that we "take a shit". I don't know what other people are doing, but i definitely leave a shit, not take it 2 weeks ago:
That’s the bizarre thing about English. Maybe native English speakers don’t really think about it, but as someone looking at this mess from the outside, I can tell you that it’s really nice when verbs and nouns are distinct.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 weeks ago:
I know they definitely are into rubber and strapping though.