Echolynx
@Echolynx@lemmy.zip
- Comment on This is real 1 day ago:
Ever since weed was legalized in my area, downtown has been an array of weed smells on every other street. It’s quite upsetting. Idk how it’s even possible for it to linger in open air in a way that cigarettes don’t.
- Comment on This is real 1 day ago:
You say that, but…
I just got an email from my building saying that someone has been smoking weed in the hallways and in apartments (with shared HVAC); it reeks.
The first floor is a daycare center for kids with special needs.
I guess some people really need to be told that these things are not okay.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
I know there are different types of vaccines, but really, experience should be enough to prove this assumption wrong many times over. I guess people just don’t get their flu shots…
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
What you were taught “Flu shots give you the flu”
What we know now A common misconception…
“Updated understanding emerged around 2020”
Updated for whom? Anti-vaccine idiots?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
I just picked up a book on this! There is, of course, an incredibly racist history to the use of these concepts.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 2 weeks ago:
That seems somewhat circular to me. Sure, if you define it that narrowly.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
Is there a Best of Lemmy? This should definitely be on there. Kudos.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 3 weeks ago:
Curly hair, so it often looks shorter than it is. I let it grow until it gets heavy enough to be annoying. 6 months to a year, maybe.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 3 weeks ago:
I think intelligence could be malleable to a degree. Neural plasticity is pretty powerful, and we’re still on the cutting edge of figuring that stuff out.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 3 weeks ago:
Memory is often used as a facade to demonstrate intelligence that lacks thinking, though.
- Comment on What are some franchises with characters that personify countries? 4 weeks ago:
Scandinavia and the World (comic)
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
The Sky is trying to kill you?
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 5 weeks ago:
I remember those, it was a subverted ‘How to’ channel. Maybe hacks in the name?
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 1 month ago:
Unfortunately my account never managed to work/register properly. And now it never will. :(
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 month ago:
Treasure Planet and Atlantis are two of the best. They go well together too.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Didn’t Ramanujan write to a Cambridge professor? His English would be great. Colonial India—a lot of elites would’ve had knowledge of English.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Literally a Renaissance man.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Interesting that he said that, given how much he dunks on philosophers.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Agreed, Leonardo had that natural sense of curiosity and wonder that I can imagine being completely infectious.
- Comment on do what you love 1 month ago:
Bertrand Russell has an intro to philosophy book that is quite accessible.
- Comment on do what you love 1 month ago:
It gives you critical thinking skills, which are already in quite short supply…
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 1 month ago:
There was actually a second weasel that did.
- Comment on [Video] Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism 1 month ago:
Nowhere is truly safe at this point. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 1 month ago:
Fair point. Probably not very separate to begin with, but definitely so now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Seconding the bread for sure. German bread (especially rye) is a real treat, and most larger supermarkets have bakeries in them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m also from the Midwest and I lived in Munich for a year. It’s a lovely place. The groceries were cheaper and fresher/better quality, the food was great, public transit was incredibly useful (I’m not sure how it fares in/to Grunwald, but the transit in Munich is quite extensive). At least near the city, most neighborhoods are fairly walkable and have nice neighborhood shops, cafes, etc.
If you’ve been to Aldi in the US at all, definitely check out a German Aldi. It’s next level and amazing. Fresh sliced bread, falafel, mango lassi… I miss it.
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 1 month ago:
Truth to the legends… there’s a reason two separate religious codes banned consumption of pork.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
Yup. Everyone turns to 1984 as the dystopia of our time, but it’s really Brave New World, and it’s always been. Even Huxley said as much in a letter to George Orwell, lol.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 2 months ago:
Exactly. Everything needs to be peak consumerism, or else their model of “line on the graph infinitely goes up” shatters. It’s a Brave New World dystopia.
- Comment on THIS is always the correct response 2 months ago:
Don’t have to move on platonically, though. More friends is always nice.