arctanthrope

@arctanthrope@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  when I see people bragging about their high IQ it reminds me of those people who buy sports cars and then take them around to shows on a trailer with 5 miles on the odometer to talk about how it has 750 horsepower and a top speed of 300mph

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who's gonna tell him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  one of the most retroactively embarrassing moments in my life is in like 2015 or '16 I was doing some dumb team-building thing for some school-adjacent activity, and the task was to create a “new Mount Rushmore,” basically as a group nominate four people who are doing good and important work in the world. I suggested musk. at the time most people there hadn’t heard of him, so I gave a little spiel about how he was the “founder” (which I thought was true at the time) of PayPal, Tesla (which people were just becoming aware of), and SpaceX. every time I remember it I cringe and hope nobody else does. although most other people in the group suggested Beyonce as someone doing “important work for humanity” so idk if they have much of a leg to stand on to criticize my choice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think equally important is letting students know when they’re being taught a simplified model, and that serious academic discourse of the subject is still evolving and/or involves much more nuance (which is pretty much always). some people who do pay attention in science classes nonetheless think that what they learned is gospel and never re-examine it, or stubbornly refuse to acknowledge when said nuance is relevant because it seems to contradict the simplified model they’ve cemented in their brain as the whole truth. the kind of people who say things like “I know there’s two genders because I learned it in high school biology” and apparently never considered why there would be collegiate and post-graduate studies on biology and gender (or why those are two entirely different fields of study) if we all already learned everything there is to know in high school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPad babies grew up and are now finding psychs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saturn’s coming back around for older gen-z’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  not necessarily. for example we say things like “the lion is the king of the jungle,” but that doesn’t mean there’s only one lion per jungle. sometimes we refer to an archetypal singular to convey something about every member of a group

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it always bugs me that this phrase isn’t even grammatically correct. mitochondria is plural. it should be “the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this isn’t new, “making smaller marks on a rock” has been mankind’s method for expanding data storage for thousands of years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asking the right questions...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  exactly, the real Luddites weren’t opposed to technology, they were opposed to wealthy factory owners using technology in a way that eliminated or cheapened their labor to extract more profit. what Sanders and most others are citing as threats posed by “ai” are actually perfectly in line with the Luddites, but they’re not allowed to say so because the actual history of the Luddites has been smeared and propagandized to make them look like unreasonable morons who are scared of things they can’t comprehend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me feel like a man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s not a joke, the National Socialist Party of America was headquartered in Chicago. there was a famous supreme court case about their right to hold a demonstration in the mostly-Jewish suburb of Skokie that took place in 1977, three years before the movie came out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  would it be possible to solve this problem by making different inks? or would any ink that doesn’t have this problem just inherently be non-permanent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power word: STUN!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Netflix startup sound