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- Comment on Grippy handles too. Luxury. 2 days ago:
Where do these grow? Why are insects scarce? Is it cold?
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 week ago:
You simply apply your problem solving skills as an adult. You want students to understand how to do these things. Well, how do you do these things? Then teach the students the method that you use. That’s the simplest version. But there’s been a lot of research about how to teach things, so following the best research is the better version.
I think I gave a small example of teaching problem solving in my 3rd paragraph where I described tutoring math. But you can use any problems instead of simply math problems.
Really, I say this as a very introverted person with a strong STEM background, I think the most important skills children learn from school are their interpersonal skills, but we rarely teach them directly. So, you can work through typical problems in class, like for problem solving, say, you want to use the gaming console, but your sibling is using it. What can you do?
Similarly, how do YOU know when something is misinformation? Just teach the children to take the same steps you do. “I doubt this information because based on these previous incidents, I’ve seen that this person has a reason to lie about this.” Or, “If I think about it, there is somebody who is profiting from people acting on this information, and so I that makes me dubious about this.”
How do you know when a conspiracy theory is very unlikely? The more important it is and the more people who must participate in it, the less likely the theory is to be true. That’s why you can write off flat earth theories almost instantly with very little knowledge of science.
You can teach critical thinking via debate class, for example, but I think there are some other methods, too. Critical thinking is probably the hardest to imagine a way to teach.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 week ago:
If we want children to learn these things, we should teach them these things directly, instead of relying on science classes. I’m not saying we should get rid of science classes, but the people who are saying these stupid things did actually take science classes in school.
We desperately need to teach classes that are specific. I learned a lot about problem solving from math classes, but I was shocked when I tutored other kids, and they only learned the math, but had no idea how to approach problems. And I don’t mean just word problems, but literally even if you just give them multiple equations and variables.
My tutoring often went like this: “I can’t solve this!” “What information to they give you? What answer do they want? What can you do with the stuff that they’ve given you to get the answer?” And then they get the answer. Literally no math involved in the tutoring for math class.
So, we need required classes, early, like in elementary school, that specifically teach problem solving, critical thinking, how to detect misinformation, and what I’ll call empathy. By “empathy”, I mean the ability to imagine yourself in another person’s shoes so that you can predict why they’re doing what they’re doing. It’s essential for detecting misinformation because you need to trust somebody at some point, so you need to understand how to tell who is more likely to be trustworthy. I also think we should teach children meditation techniques.
- Comment on Serial killer 1 week ago:
That “parallel” diagram… what am I looking at? The voltage is on the left, and presumably the load is on the bottom and that’s supposed to be a resistor placeholder. But the wire connects all the way around bypassing the killers, so I guess killers must be some sort of capacitor and this is some sort of killer-driven filter?
- Comment on Bruh... 1 week ago:
One option is to speak like him, but choose to remain mute for the rest of your life.
- Comment on Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘ 2 weeks ago:
High voltage: “I am still taking the path of least resistance. If you wanted me to use a wire, then you should have given me an appropriate wire.”
- Comment on Gotta Catch 'Em All 2 weeks ago:
So a Pokémon expert would get this correct, even with zero pharmaceutical knowledge.
- Comment on Birbs & Dinos 2 weeks ago:
In evolutionary taxonomy, reptiles are gathered together under the class Reptilia (/rɛpˈtɪliə/rep-TIL-ee-ə), which corresponds to common usage. Modern cladistic taxonomyregards that group as paraphyletic, since genetic and paleontological evidence has determined that crocodilians are more closely related to birds (class Aves), members of Dinosauria, than to other living reptiles, and thus birds are nested among reptiles from a phylogenetic perspective. Many cladistic systems therefore redefine Reptilia as a clade (monophyletic group) including birds, though the precise definition of this clade varies between authors.
- Comment on Sea Level 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what that video said, exactly, but both water and dirt move because they are both affected by tidal forces.
Tide is caused when an object, like Earth, is large enough to experience a difference in the effects of orbital gravity from one end to the other. The center of gravity of an object does not experience tidal forces.
Since most of the Earth’s surface is water, and the water is on top of the dirt, the water should be affected more by tidal forces than the dirt underneath it.
The video may have been talking about how the dirt affected by tidal forces also pushes the water, causing a compounding effect or something.
- Comment on Serious Research 3 weeks ago:
In college, I had a website in my email signature, and the website was about etiquette in emails. I did this because I had to frequently communicate with a person who typed in all caps, and I hoped that he’d read it at some point. But anyways it wasn’t a well-known domain, nor was it one that I had registered myself.
And then, somebody sent me an email asking what kind of sick sense of humor I had, and it turned out that the link now went to a hardcore porn website. Not the best link to have in your email when you’re using it to try to find a job.
Thinking about it now, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a prank by somebody who knew me.
- Comment on Biblically accurate tree angel 3 weeks ago:
Next year, they’re using a scientifically accurate star.
- Comment on Nat 20 3 weeks ago:
Here’s another thing that doesn’t make sense about that post:
If you play Dungeons & Dragons, this object probably stops you in your tracks.
If you just play Dungeons & Dragons, then it looks like the hundreds or thousands of other d20s you’ve seen. Barely worth a look.
On the other hand, if you just like dice, like a lot of TTRPG people do, then it might catch your attention.
- Comment on Welp 4 weeks ago:
They’re called integrals, so it should be no surprise that they’re integral.
- Comment on Sad, melancholic even. 4 weeks ago:
It just occurred to me that were a person to complain about life giving them lemons, that’s basically like how Homer Simpson complained about finding money when he was looking for a peanut. It’s indeed true that money would be unpleasant to eat directly, but that’s not how it’s supposed to be used, anyways.
- Comment on Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms 4 weeks ago:
If I’m to believe that second person didn’t misspeak, they had “mental breakdowns” with an “s”, so multiple breakdowns, over the thought that their eating lettuce could cause a nuclear apocalypse.
They must really like lettuce. If I had a mental breakdown over the fear that my eating a specific food would cause untold human death and suffering, including my own, I would likely not eat that food again until I could convince myself it was safe.
- Comment on Soup 4 weeks ago:
They tried something that was 5% noodles, 5% vegetables, and 90% water, and decided that the result was water.
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
if you don’t need penicillin does it actually help you at all?
No, it has virtually no chance to help you, and most probably can only hurt you.
First, it kills indiscriminately. If you’re not sick, what are you killing? Your own healthy gut flora. That’s what.
Second, what if you are slightly ill? Guess what? It still probably won’t help. Doctors don’t just throw penicillin at you in random amounts. They prescribe a specific dose that has been shown to be effective. Having one untested dose of unknown quantity isn’t going to help.
Third, when you’re given antibiotics, you are told to take it over a number of days, and to take the entire amount, even if you feel better. They do this for several reasons, but one of the reasons is that, if you only kill some of the bacteria, but not enough of them, the remaining bacteria have a small chance to evolve to become resistant to antibiotics. By taking antibiotics without the guidance of a doctor, you have a small chance of making yourself even more ill with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I want to emphasize that this is a very small chance, but unlikely things will happen when given enough chances.
- Comment on DAE name their characters by their official name? 5 weeks ago:
I think that there is a time factor and a complication factor. Like the longer the game lasts and the fewer characters available to name, the more people who will name and customize characters.
I wonder how many people completed Skyrim with the name “Prisoner”, though.
- Comment on "Jurassic" Park 5 weeks ago:
Welcome to Cretaceous Park!
- Comment on Assumptions 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen videos of horses and deer eating small animals. I don’t remember which was which but one just picked like a pigeon up off the ground and started chewing.
Anyways, the point is that the herbivores we know today will often eat meat if it’s an easy meal. There’s no reason to think that a brachiosaurus would be any different.
- Comment on It really is 1 month ago:
Remember that story that some egghead science person decided to look closely at their own back yard and discovered a bunch of new species?
This reminds me of that. We’d assume that it’s more rare to find some unknown animals in the sea than it is to find some unknown animals in your suburban backyard. Or at least I would think that’s a natural way to think. But it’s really not that different. If you walk through your backyard, you might step on an animal that is rarer than the chirodectes maculatus.
- Comment on The problem with common names 1 month ago:
Wikipedia continues to not disappoint:
The name ‘hellbender’ probably comes from the animal’s odd look. One theory claims the hellbender was named by settlers who thought “it was a creature from hell where it’s bent on returning.” Another rendition says the undulating skin of a hellbender reminded observers of “horrible tortures of the infernal regions.” In reality, it’s a harmless aquatic salamander.
And this:
Other vernacular names include snot otter, lasagna lizard, devil dog, mud-devil, mud dog, water dog, grampus, Allegheny alligator, and leverian water newt.
Lots of fabulous nicknames there.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
A seagull alone may be dumb and have very little memory of the past, but I am sure that A Flock of Seagulls can remember all the way back to the 1980s.
- Comment on Paul Krugman. Former Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1 month ago:
I would suggest that in that example, he is predicting the future, while in the video, he is speaking about what can already be observed.
From my perspective, the idea that the internet growth would have slowed drastically by 2005 was obviously a shit prediction no matter when he made it. But it’s just a prediction about the future.
I think observations about things that can already be observed will always be more accurate than predictions about the future.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 1 month ago:
The issue is that Americans on the Left would be offended to learn that their political leader was a complete hypocrite, so they assume that Americans on the right would feel the same way. Meanwhile, the truth is that Americans on the Right only pretend to have moral standards, while in actuality, they will simply follow their leaders regardless of what they do.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 month ago:
Sony has been shit for much longer than 20 years, kiddo.
It’s interesting. I did a quick search, and couldn’t quickly find many complaints about them before 2000, but technical people complained a lot about Sony products back then. The biggest complaint was that Sony did everything themselves. So, every component inside a piece of electronic equipment was made by Sony, and every time they could get away with it, it would have a custom footprint or custom specs, so that it was impossible to find replacement parts without getting them directly from Sony at huge markups.
- Comment on Generate Your Own electricity with This Revolutionary Bike! 1 month ago:
Usually, when we hear about these sorts of things, somebody points out that humans are very inefficient at generating energy. So, there are two circumstances where this sort of equipment is a good idea.
First, is if you were doing the work anyways, like you want to exercise anyways, so generating power as a side-effect is a great idea. Essentially, you want a solid piece of well-made exercise equipment that can also save you a couple of pennies a year from charging your cell phone as a gimmick.
Second is if you want to have power for short periods even though you’re off-grid. This is a human powered generator where exercise is a side product.
To me, everything about this bike is expecting it will be used for the second scenario, to use it as a generator. The unusual form factor is designed for portability over ergonomics. Those silly feet on it don’t give a whole lot of stability. You don’t need to charge up its battery from an outlet or use solar panels if your plan is to use it in your apartment.
So my point is that the reviewer talks as if its primary use is the first use case, and gives it all sorts of glowing marks based on its suitability as a general exercise bike. It’s just weird, and makes me think that the review is not impartial.
- Comment on What's the main device to hammer in a nail? 1 month ago:
As you say, the question presented to Fry doesn’t mention a question at all. Only an answer. So, you could make an argument that any answer could be the answer to something, and therefore you’d have to choose a 100% chance, which isn’t an option.
On the other hand, it asks for the chance of “picking the correct one”, clearly meaning “the correct answer”. So, as there is no answer that is the correct answer to everything, the correct choice would be 0%, which is an option.
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- Comment on Why are blocked users allowed to vote on my comments? 1 month ago:
I realize that I’m coming in a month late here, but you don’t have to implement Reddit’s horrible system, either.
I’d argue for something like: If you block somebody, then they’d be able to interact normally with your comments that existed up until the time of the block, assuming that they already participated in the thread. Meanwhile, you’d be more restricted, unable to respond to any of their comments at all. So, even if you respond to their comment and then block, because the comment was before the block, they’d be able to respond to it, but their response would be hidden from you, and you’d be unable to respond to it. Anything after the block would act both ways, keeping either user from interacting with the other, except to allow them to block/unblock each other.
There would be some weird ways around it, but I think it would stop the block-griefing behavior that’s rampant on Reddit. If they did use weird techniques to get around it, then admins would just have to ban their entire account.