mortemtyrannis
@mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Lmao 3 days ago:
I watched it, interesting video and accessible approach to the topic.
I couldn’t help but walk away from the video thinking about how many kids enter STEM/non-social science degrees at college and get to fully fledged adulthood before the realisation that social science is pretty fucking important and touches every aspect of our lives.
I probably have a chip on my shoulder because of how much everyone shits on social science as a low paid/dead end career but it’s upsetting an astrophysicists opinions about social science seems to be taken more seriously than an actual social scientist (this is more based on her previous video about gravity being a social construct but a lot of social science constructs are weaved into the Fermi paradox video as well).
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 week ago:
I have no doubt there are therapeutic applications for hallucinogens and psychedelics just as much as there are recreational uses for those drugs as well.
My contention is really directed at those who think these are some kind of out of body spiritual hack to “unlock” knowledge.
It’s smacks of Joe Rogan nonsense.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 week ago:
I really object to this idea that hallucinogens unlock some kind of higher plane of existence that can’t be experienced by people who don’t do these drugs.
If it were true that people who did hallucinogens did gain some kind of additional knowledge why is it they aren’t achieving things at some obviously higher rate?
If you want to use recreational or therapeutic drugs be my guest, just don’t come back telling me you’ve uncovered the secrets to the universe…
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 week ago:
One thing I took away from learning more about philosophy was to be unsure of pretty much anything except my own existence.
The idea that there is an objective mind independent reality is a nice idea and neatly fits my worldview but there are compelling arguments for this not to be the case.
I’d only ask what makes you so certain of this “uniform and self-consistent reality” because if you’re relying on your senses to gather information for this fact I regret to inform you that humans senses are awfully unreliable.
- Comment on Turbine go brrrr 2 weeks ago:
I swear we are going to be travelling to other planets and the biggest issue is going to be how do we stop water leaking into space from our steam turbines
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I swear we are going to be travelling to other planets and the biggest issue is going to be how do we stop water leaking from our steam turbines.
- Comment on Have a good day <3 3 weeks ago:
That’s what good pushi looks like.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 1 month ago:
On Lemmy you can advocate for violence against literal Nazis.
- Comment on 17 years* 2 months ago:
This definitional is a meme.
My pet hate is people who say things aren’t memes when they definitionally are.
Screenshots of twitter posts are a meme genre.
You may not like that fact but it’s true.
The scientific content is debatable I’ll give you that.
- Comment on The Current Situation (Sorry Americans) 2 months ago:
I’d be happy if Australians learnt about Australian politics.
This country is filled to the brim with politically ignorant luddites who think they are informed because they solely consume Murdoch media.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 3 months ago:
No you’re wrong the eyeball is so complicated the only explanation is a divine being created us!!!
(Im being very sarcastic)
- Comment on UK university degree no longer ‘passport to social mobility’, says King’s vice-chancellor 3 months ago:
Nah just a Professor who makes £442,000 per year
- Comment on Add a third, larger bar for "knowing the right people" skills 3 months ago:
I’d actually be a little concerned if this was the case.
It could mean your application is so trash only really desperate employers are willing to interview and hire you which opens you up to working for shit employers.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 5 months ago:
Wait until you hear that universities are just literal paywalls to seperate social classes so poor people can’t get good jobs that once were apprenticeships.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 5 months ago:
A dremel won’t work on tungsten rings?
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 7 months ago:
Political Economy is the real economics degree.
- Comment on US education 8 months ago:
Looking back when I was growing up I think the most nefarious thing about books like this is that printing gave a lot of implied legitimacy because it was expensive to print a book.
Speaks to how much money these people had to miseducate people.
- Comment on US education 8 months ago:
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- Comment on GET BOMBADEERED, IDIOT 8 months ago:
I’d like to know more.
- Comment on Scott Morrison receives Australia's highest honour for leadership during [COVID] crisis 10 months ago:
This cheapens the prestigiousness of the entire AC award.
You’d be embarrassed if you were also an AC recipient.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 11 months ago:
Fuck the irony of a child calling themselves the grammar police.
The internet is a lie and I take no one seriously.
- Comment on Anon finds a hut 1 year ago:
Also the lighting. If it’s dark outside how do you light up a person looking into a window in a way they appear as a painting instead of weird shadows.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 year ago:
A dot point list would have made this more readable. Just saying.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 year ago:
How people can walk out of a university with degrees and not understand how all areas of knowledge contribute towards each other and link together in ways that are not immediately obvious astounds me.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 1 year ago:
Or you know, we could plant trees…the original carbon capture device.
- Comment on Anon tries to sleep 1 year ago:
I’m an active union organiser and volunteer emergency service worker.
My day job is responsible for helping people with extremely disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Comment on Anon tries to sleep 1 year ago:
I don’t know if this is something to be proud of tbh.
You’re basically saying ‘my life is secure; fuck everybody else that hasn’t got what I have’.
I’m glad you built a good base for yourself, now help lift up others. It doesn’t stop sucking for everyone else just because you check out.
IMO you have the obligation to create the environment that allows what you have (an existence without worry for politics) for everyone.
- Comment on Samsung TV's voice assistant is suddenly in Russian, happening worldwide (it seems) 1 year ago:
I hope the TVs make a recovery.
- Comment on New No Man's Sky update adds walkable gas giants among "trillions" of new planets, just in case you were running out 1 year ago:
This does not excuse the blatant lies the developer told to market their game prior to release.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
This won’t embolden white supremacists at all…