meyotch
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- Comment on Alpha males 2 days ago:
One of the most discouraging moments in my training was when I was looking into the literature around Decision Support Systems, in the context of Geographic Information Systems as a tool for supporting complex efforts.
Over and over, no matter the specific focus of a study, the authors would reiterate that no matter the quality of the information produced by the decision support system, decision makers were more likely to go with solutions supported by people the decision makers considered to be peers, even when the hard data showed that the opposite course was more justified.
In short, CEOs and similar almost always care more about the opinions of other CEOs than being true to the scientific ideal.
So to go back to the name of our species, ‘homo sapiens’ as a name is aspirational, not reflective of fact.
Perhaps ‘homo recumbens’ would be more appropriate as a descriptor, but I prefer we keep the current name so as to at least give us something to strive for.
- Comment on Alpha males 2 days ago:
You have to use parables to teach moral concepts to most people. Sociology is very valuable as a science, but if you come at the general public with unvarnished findings you are going to have a bad time, few will listen to you.
The old alpha male trope is a parable that serves some narrow interests. The newer counter parables about how that is BS are based in observations from sociology, later generations of more rigorous animal behavior studies and related fields.
You are correct that good scientific work is the source of what we need. The equally difficult truth is that those findings will only make their way into general consciousness through parables.
This one weird fact drives nerds crazy, but for newer, better ideas to take hold in society they have to be translated into simple stories.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 1 week ago:
It’s okay to take up space.
I have felt similar ways at times earlier in my career, finding gossip and ‘social grooming’ taxing.
The only way I found that I could move past it was to stop resenting the effort they were demanding. It was just acceptance of the reality of getting by in a world full of people with different needs.
I just want to learn, too. I found a way to expand my universe of learning interests to include figuring out what makes different people happy at work and in life.
It’s just practical to accept social reality. Other people have resources you need and they can block your progress in this world. Or they can support it.
It turns out that I like people and learning to understand them. Hell yes they are a lot of work. I have learned a lot about myself in the process and the world seems much less alien and frightening than it did when I was withdrawing.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
That’s true. My answer was US centric. But if you are on the run from the law and want to expand your mind, what better place to do it than the US?
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
Yeah do that! They are free and I have a collection of library cards from every place I have lived. You never know when you will be on the run from the law and need to, I don’t know, read a book or something.
- Comment on Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon 1 week ago:
That sounds really hard to pronounce. Do you think he is up to it?
- Comment on Count yourself lucky 1 week ago:
They did not choose to serve. Service chose them. They are heroes who set aside their own needs to build a better world for all of us, even knowing they may not be able to enjoy that future themselves.
Fucking legends.
- Comment on Dirt Man 1 week ago:
God she was an epic baller of a person too. An amazing personal story and she herself was a deep well of insight and compassionate wisdom. It comes through in most everything she wrote or said.
- Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites 1 week ago:
Watch these satellites get DESTROYED by an invader!
- Comment on Chinese researchers suggest lasers and sabotage to counter Musk’s Starlink satellites 1 week ago:
Three questions actually.
Can we use it for porn?
- Comment on What companies manufacture ancient musical instruments? 2 weeks ago:
The hurdy gurdy is certainly an ancient instrument. I have become enamored of this kit maker.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 2 weeks ago:
It’s just a US American thing. It is a question less frequently asked when traveling abroad. Many Europeans and South Americans have mentioned it to me over the years as a reliable way to ‘spot the American’.
Our culture is broken and we are widely considered to be gauche and rude by others in the world.
- Comment on advertisement 3 weeks ago:
Nah, not dumb. It’s a ridiculous posture with lots of comic potential. Come on, Buster, let er rip!
I just happen to be an exercise nerd who enjoys ruining a good joke!
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 3 weeks ago:
In my corporate experiences, these decisions were made unilaterally by the C suite without discussion.
- Comment on bad board games 3 weeks ago:
I suspect the game would just never end and properties would change hands again and again.
Progressive taxation is a negative feedback that creates a tendency toward an equilibrium.
Winner-take-all rules (as currently played) are positive feedbacks that lead to runaway effects, like me flipping over the board and setting up the slip and slide as a more pro-social activity.
- Comment on advertisement 3 weeks ago:
It totally works. Yoga has a pose called camel that is the unsupported version of this. You are essentially up on your knees but bending back so your hands can reach your heels. It strengthens a lot of the small muscles needed for continence.
It’s a difficult pose, yes. It shouldn’t hurt if done correctly. There are supported and modified versions such as our fellow here is doing that have similar benefits.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 3 weeks ago:
A shit-scented mustache
- Comment on It’s the little things 4 weeks ago:
Lambs to the cosmic slaughter!
- Comment on Dodgeball and all things related 4 weeks ago:
I made a topical post in the new community! It is time sensitive!
Halp!
- Comment on We've all done it and it never ends well 4 weeks ago:
Having worked in two different global corporations with email lists numbering in the thousands of members, well…
Let’s say it did provide occasional comic relief as various vice presidents would reply to the reply-alls in an attempt to get the cascade of (often intentionally) idiotic replies to stop.
Good times.
- Comment on holee shiet 4 weeks ago:
The structure you describe is called a Soleta. If you are interested, space nerds have explored the possibilities in some detail.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the whims of the few? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, you get it. I aim to trivialize the oligarchy. I think the idea that we can make the world better at nearly zero cost. The only cost is the therapy bills of the former billionaires, as they work through their butthurt at being reduced to mere opulence.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 31 comments
- Comment on Sounds funny but THIS is how it actually is 4 weeks ago:
I cannot un-hear this.
I need to listen to it but i think adding ‘again’ at the end matches the original cadence better.
I’m going to learn to sing this. It will come in handy for comic value certainly.
- Comment on I LIKE CORN! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a very creepy experience to walk through a corn field at night in July.
Definitely no place for children. If you see any, run like hell. ;)
- Comment on Sounds funny but THIS is how it actually is 4 weeks ago:
The satisfying plop of a placenta hitting the floor really makes the night shift more enjoyable.
- Comment on I LIKE CORN! 4 weeks ago:
A plant can use water efficiently, in terms of getting a lot of CO2 in exchange for the water they transpire, and still use a lot of water.
Corn grows super fast at peak season.
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 4 weeks ago:
For me, this is making things much much less nuanced.
- Comment on Time pass 4 weeks ago:
These fellows seem fun
- Comment on I am gorge 5 weeks ago:
I prefer the second option. That means he is alive and can still find love as a wiser but sadder monkey. There is more room in a broken heart.