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- Comment on Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford and the rich pay to evade. 2 weeks ago:
Totally.
Also, it’s kinda funny to strictly follow this logic, because it means that the rich still struggle to get justice if the criminals are the rich.
- Comment on Okay... so how do depressed people even have relationships? Did they get depresion after they already got into the relationship or did they actually went dating while having depression? 3 weeks ago:
Depression has lots of ways of manifesting.
One way of describing depression is an unwillingness to engage with life and to feel, because the person has learned that engaging or feeling will lead to pain. This is the functional contextual definition.
Another one comes from Martin Seligman, who defines it as an unwillingness to try things because the person has learned that engaging in something will lead to failure.
In either definition, the unwillingness is contextual. In other words, someone might be depressed regarding work but not their partner. Or someone might be depressed regarding their family but not their partner.
- Comment on is it really worth it 3 weeks ago:
Is it really worth it?Image
- Comment on is it really worth it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It would be crazy if someone died of a heart attack while crowd surfing and hundreds of people just unwittingly pushed a corpse around. 3 weeks ago:
In some concerts you’d get peed on anyway en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Against
- Comment on [REPOST] Worker Gets Around His Casual Office's 'No Shorts' Dress Code Using Malicious Compliance 5 weeks ago:
TL;DR: man wore skirt
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 5 weeks ago:
Just so you know, you’re not alone. When avocados have been introduced to new markets (like the USA some time ago), people need to learn how to engage with it. People need to learn how to buy it, how to open it, how to include it in foods.
And, as you’ve heard, indeed it’s not meant to be sweet and instead it’s just like fat. And it’s very healthy fat.
I agree with what someone else said: I’d try making a simple guacamole recipe and eating the guacamole with nachos or tortillas or something like that!
Also, as someone else said, it’s totally fair if you don’t like guacamole. Some people don’t and it’s alright :)
- Comment on Evidence seems to indicate that research causes cancer in mice. 1 month ago:
lol
- Comment on If contemporary professional comedians were magically taken to the Paleolichic, they'd probably work much earlier in the day. Back then, there were no Late Night Shows or well-lit comedy clubs. 1 month ago:
We hear you. We see you. We feel you.
At snek_boi, we tend to hold ourselves to the highest standards. We are sorry to hear that your experience with us was anything less than alright.
We want to ensure our time in the shower is used as efficiently as possible. No dilly-dallying. No half-baked thoughts. In and out. Swish and flick.
Rest assured, we are escalating this internally to ensure a swift resolution.
As a gesture of goodwill, have a good one.
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- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 1 month ago:
I think that, with boomers, you’ve got something special happening: boomers were brainwashed by Reagan, by neoliberalism.
But it’s also worth pointing out that the evidence shows a clear trend: hard-earned wealth is tied to progressive values.
Broadly, richer people who worked for their wealth are more progressive than poorer people. Note that THIS IS TRUE LESS AND LESS THE MORE THE WEALTH IS SOURCED FROM EXTRACTIVE PRACTICES. But, assuming the wealth was earned from work, it holds true. The effect work-wealth has on progressive values is multiplied with education and interconnectivity from living in cosmopolitan spaces or having access to the internet.
- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 1 month ago:
In fact, if you look at the evidence, the reality is the complete opposite: generations are becoming more progressive because they’re getting better educated and they understand the world better.
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 41 comments
- Comment on telepathy 1 month ago:
Idk. Looks kinda painful ngl
- Comment on Suspension Of Disbelief should be studied more 1 month ago:
I agree that it may seem as if it’s not studied much. But there’s actually quite a bit of research! You might find some by looking up functional fixedness, psychological rigidity, and cognitive rigidity.
- Comment on Really tall people see others differently. For example, they see more of others' heads and less of others' bodies. They also see more of the background. 1 month ago:
Inspired by lemmy.ml/post/43326881
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 27 comments
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Or prion diseases or parasites that invade brains.
- Comment on A lot of people know what to think. Much fewer people know how to think. 1 month ago:
I like that your post actually aligns with the literature on education. In particular, it aligns with the work of John Hattie. He says that, roughly, the progression in learning is:
- Know that
- Know how
- Know with
He’s quick to point out that learning doesn’t follow this path rigidly. Instead, it’s more staccato. But, still, understanding the progression is useful.
I guess a modified post would be something like:
A lot of people know what ideas to think. Much fewer know how to think ideas. Even less know how to think with their ideas.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 1 month ago:
I agree that doing less can achieve certain goals.
I guess it depends on what your goal is.
If you want to avoid getting glued to the screen and being influenced by advertisements, your recommendations are spot on.
However, if you want to make it costlier for surveillance capitalism to entrance everyone, then other options might make more sense.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 1 month ago:
Indeed, it is quite ironic, as another commenter said.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is exactly why some people are against calling so-called platforms like that.
Platforms assume everyone can speak freely and in relatively similar conditions. But in reality your message gets amplified if it keeps people glued to the software.
Platforms are more like distributors. They choose what to distribute more of. And they often choose to distribute the most vile of voices.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 1 month ago:
A response is in! :)
- Submitted 1 month ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 74 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Trying to figure out what post belongs where, I do think your post belongs in this community.
You didn’t break any rules.
And you posted shit (Trump) in the shit post community.
As usual, I think everything is politics and nothing is not politics. We’re always deciding what deserves attention and what not, what identities to bolster or forget, what worldviews we bolster and which we forget.
So in general I think the division between “politics” and “non-politics” is a bit like the difference between “things that can be thought of” and “things that can’t be thought of”. Everything belongs in the first category and nothing belongs in the second.
I think the more important discussion is whether your post was a shit post. And I totally see it as one.
- Comment on Anyone has videos of JD Vance getting booed? I can’t find proper booing videos, but those supposedly exist 2 months ago:
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, in that video it’s not clear to me that those are boos. Maybe I’m missing something.
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on People don't really know their own motivation for their actions 2 months ago:
You’d probably be interested in relational frame theory.
It explains why people may be unconscious of their motivations. But it doesn’t rely on explaining the human experience in terms of brains and neurons. Instead, it explains the human experience in terms of thoughts and cognitive rules.
It’s a bit like the difference between a chemist and a historian. You could explain 9/11 in terms of chemical reactions, or in terms of the political pressures.
To be clear, both are useful.
But for some reason, psychological chemists often overshadow psychological historians. Or, more appropriately, biopsychology often overshadows functional-contextual psychology.
- Comment on Everyone is a terrorist when you're terrified of everything. 2 months ago:
I once met someone who had paranoia like this.
It was so sad.
Sometimes they had moments in which they weren’t paranoid. These moments were like tiny windows of light into their lives. When the window was open, they’d reach out and be present.