pleasestopasking
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- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 weeks ago:
Did someone say it was a conspiracy?
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 weeks ago:
Who said that? Lead poisoning is still rampant in some communities.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 weeks ago:
Even though leaded gasoline and leaded paint have been outlawed for decades in the US, it’s still a big problem in poor communities. Lots of old houses still have lead paint. Lead abatement is expensive and many people may not even know it’s something you need to do.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 weeks ago:
and we can stop exploding nukes
We might be going backwards on this one
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 weeks ago:
They really aren’t power users though. Tech is a) generally more reliable and b) so locked-down that so many young people never learned how to troubleshoot
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 2 weeks ago:
We don’t know about the longer term consequences yet, just like we didn’t about lead.
Not saying it’s a definite but I wouldn’t be surprised.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 140 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This doesn’t answer your question, but I’m curious. You say your writing is good but your reading is bad. In my experience reading and writing are so intrinsically linked, and reading is the easier of the two. If it’s possible can you explain the difference for you? I just find it really interesting!
- Comment on ICE stands for Internal Combustion Engine 3 weeks ago:
Melt ICE, let’s fuckin go
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like the problem with AI generated content is it’s so easy for anyone to generate stuff, so there can be a huge amount created with little effort. There is high quality AI-generated content, but whew there’s a lot that’s total slop.
I don’t know what the best response is, though. Requiring disclosure of AI-generated comment doesn’t seem like it would help because that’s going to be mostly honor system. User-flagged could be used to brigade/suppress posts. Really it’s probably just a matter of blocking users and communities where you see consistent slop.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad this helped you but damn it’s depressing. People should not have to resort to ChatGPT for therapy
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Have you ever been screened for bipolar disorder?
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 5 weeks ago:
The longer I live, the more I start to think that maybe the “intelligent life” are the creatures frolicking in the woods, not knowing what “fascism” or “rent money” means.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I was coming in here to respond “uhhhh no” but it being meat makes sense, because I don’t eat it
- Comment on Did the green "brat" album cover come from the hexadecimal color code for B4DD1E (BADDIE)? 5 weeks ago:
🤯 that is fucking incredible
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I wonder if part of it is that you get a procedure done and you love the results, and it wasn’t actually as scary as you thought it was. So then you do another, and another, and another. And then when someone goes wrong, you get caught in a trap of trying to “fix it” and it goes downhill from there.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 1 month ago:
Probably depends a fair but on what else you eat with it. Like how drinking water doesn’t help but milk does.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 2 months ago:
Or they just don’t care and think people will stay with them out of habit.
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 2 months ago:
Error
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 2 months ago:
I wish
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 2 months ago:
Soup is a salad with way to much dressing
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 2 months ago:
No lies detected
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 2 months ago:
You’re no fun
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 2 months ago:
No…?
I mean I’m not a genius or anything but I know some things about some things. When I can help someone with those things or just shoot the shit about cool things I know, it makes me feel good.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 months ago:
I’m with ya. I was shocked to learn that there are people who don’t use it. Keyboard typing with your thumbs feels like Blackberry energy.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 months ago:
Swipe typing is the cursive of smartphones. I love it, it’s so much faster than regular typing (for me at least). I didn’t realize how uncommon it is until several people commented on me using it.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 months ago:
There are people who don’t have an inner monologue, they just think in abstraction. I have a friend who is like this. She tried to explain it to me and I just couldn’t even comprehend what a paradigm shift it is from how I thought all brains at a basic level worked.
It’s like when I learned that some people actually see images when they “picture something in your mind’s eye.” Had no idea that was literal.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 months ago:
I think this is finally being corrected, but for decades kids have been taught “whole word reading” rather than phonics. The basic idea is that instead of learning how to sound out words, they should look at the first letter and guess what they think the word might be based on context/pictures. The proponents of this method claim kids will memorize words as “whole words” and eventually be able to read.
So, they can’t actually read. But they know how to look like they can read.
When you can’t read it’s not enjoyable, so you read less. When you read less you come across fewer words, which you don’t really know how to decode anyway because you were never taught.
Anyway these kids are now adults, and even the ones who are smart still struggle with spelling and reading.
Check out the podcast Sold a Story, really interesting investigation on this topic.
- Comment on We should create a Floptok-like community/instance on lemmy 3 months ago:
Just made me feel elderly is all