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- Comment on 9 hours ago:
i was told there’s 3 different approaches to therapy: talking about your feelings, changing the way you see the world, and giving step-by-step advice for doing things in daily life.
maybe you just need to try the other 2 approaches
- Comment on Corn me up, snake 🐍🌽 10 hours ago:
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 1 day ago:
He made the worst possible metric about which to measure everything, and created a global system of narcissistic organizations selling their souls to publish to these journals.
In the words of Sydney Brenner (a biologist, it’s in the article): the system is “corrupt”.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 1 day ago:
This article in the Guardian is definitely worth a read if you’re not intimately familiar with just how it got this way… It’s 8 years old so it won’t cover recent history but does give you an idea of how it started.
A very interesting read!
So, what i take form the article, is that Elsevier and other publishers are most similar to a search engine or index: They give you a list of all interesting articles in a field, so you don’t have to search through the millions of scientific articles produced each year yourself.
That makes it kinda similar to google, which is also very profitable, which also turns a profit by giving back user-supplied content to the users. Just that Elsevier charges for that “indexlist” functionality directly, while google takes the game one step further and harvests data, which it then uses to display targeted ads.
- Comment on Zero Chull 1 day ago:
You know what, why wouldn’t it be the same on all social media platforms? Maybe our news are all posted by bots/bangladesh people too?
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
get them jobs
jobs are ableist. i don’t see why people revere them so much.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
from my experience, netflix is one of the few companies who actually produce hot new shows somewhat regularly. it’s weird to me how everybody keeps shitting on them.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
It genuinely floors me that few medium and large-sized companies don’t use Linux for desktops.
our university does. at least on most computers.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
especially if it’s a windows phone :D
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
I like the analogy with a surgeon or a firefighter.
Of course, the surgeon has to be available in case somebody needs an operation. But the best that can happen to society at large is that the surgeon is never needed because nobody’s sick.
Same with firefighters. Of course they have to be there to fight fires, but it’s better if houses don’t start to burn down in the first place!
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
“Companies aren’t innovating anymore and it’s costing the economy”
companies aren’t innovating anymore because physical limits have been reached. Moore’s law holds no longer true. Transistors can’t be packed more tightly into space anymore while also making the computer chip cheaper at the same time.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
I’d argue it’s actually more the fault of the politicians than the CEOs, because the politicians cut taxes for the rich and set the rules of the game for companies to operate it; companies merely take opportunity of the exploits presented to them.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
i had a samsung s4 mini (one of those really old phones, which are closer to a nokia brick than a modern smartphone IMHO) for years and it worked well. it lasted for 5+ years minimum. i bought a new samsung smartphone in 2022 (second hand though) and it shipped broken. randomly shut down, some kind of power issue. i never bothered to return it because it was rather cheap anyways and i had installed a custom OS on it at that point, which voids the warranty.
I bought a motorola afterwards but am only semi-happy with it. everything seems to work well with it, but i don’t feel like it’s a good phone. it feels kinda sleazy, somehow. i’m not sure whether it’s only because of the color scheme it uses or sth else, but it doesn’t feel alright. i’m still looking for a new phone.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
any recommendations for long-lasting phones?
for desktop computers it used to be acer (laptop) for me. i bought one in 2012 and it lasted close to 10 years, which i consider really long. even then, i didn’t buy a new one because of hardware defects, but because the hardware specs were long out of date. i bought a new acer (laptop) in 2021 and it enshittified heavily, lasting only 18 months before i had to buy a new computer.
then i bought a thinkpad and have been happy with it ever since. it’s been running for at least 2-3 years by now and shows no signs of aging at all, even though it’s already second-hand. great device.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
Relying on turnover sales and nothing else.
The best way to grow the economy is to develop spaceflight. If you fly to mars, there’s millions of acres of free real estate waiting for you. Time to construct and grow the market.
There’s no more meaningful growth on Earth possible, because the physical limits have been reached. This effect has been predicted as far back as in 1970 with the report: The Limits To Growth. We’re finally seeing the effects of that now.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
From a macroeconomics perspective, the best way forward is to give people money (handouts) so they can buy more stuff. More consumerism -> hotter economy.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 1 day ago:
Smartphone companies are trying to push phones with planned-obsolescence on people sothat people buy new phones more frequently, and that’s a bad thing for the consumers because they have to spend more money.
The best way to respond to that is if consumers prefer buying smartphones from companies who have produced long-lived smartphones in the past. That means if company A produces shitty, short-lived smartphones, people indeed buy a new smartphone after a short while but from another company B who is willing to develop better quality.
From a macroeconomics perspective, the best way forward is to give people money (handouts) so they can buy more stuff. More consumerism -> hotter economy.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 day ago:
i find it helps finding interesting people to talk to :D
- Comment on Yes, I definitely do see the irony of this being posted to X 1 day ago:
TBF accounts coming from “Nigeria” and “Bangladesh” are probably not actually foreigners sitting there and writing english messages on social media one-by-one. It’s either bots behind VPNs, or people behind VPNs.
- Comment on Yes, I definitely do see the irony of this being posted to X 1 day ago:
i’ve said before that we’re faced with two options:
- either introduce a system that can tell you what account is run by an actual human being and which account is not. that could be done in an anonymity-preserving way with codes that you have to get in person (like, from a local library) and then use as a cryptographic signature for online accounts. it’s a bit techy, but doable.
- or we accept that machines casually pass the Turing Test and we’re probably talking to AIs online.
- Comment on Yes, I definitely do see the irony of this being posted to X 1 day ago:
so did youtube
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 day ago:
This is really about how much abstraction you have in your thinking. I’ve seen people be very heavily on the #1 side when i was a kid, and it was always baffling to me that people seem to be unable to talk about objects if they don’t have very detailed descriptions of superficial details that seemed completely irrelevant to me.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 day ago:
Some people also don’t have an internal monologue.
I have an internal dialogue.
- Comment on Following your dreams 2 days ago:
- Comment on Anon is 5'1" 3 days ago:
In my experience, medieval enthusiasts are either one of the two: very calm and chill and cool dude, or some sort of nazi, but honestly, it’s mostly the former in my personal experience. actually, it’s like 98% very calm and chill dudes. i have met many great friends that way.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 3 days ago:
cottage cheese and mozzarella are indeed milk colored
yeah i somehow completely forgot about them lol, you’re right
- Comment on Racism restaurant 4 days ago:
well, i live in central europe, and i’ve never seen cheese that’s the same color as milk (on the inside, below the crust). it’s mostly yellow or yellow-white.
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 4 days ago:
i didn’t get it either lol
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 4 days ago:
In 1973, Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés set out to test a hypothesis. He had been struck by the connection between violence and sexuality in monkeys. “Most conflicts,” he noted, “are about sexual access to ovulating females.”
But would this apply to humans, too? To find out, Genovés asked a British boat builder to make a 12x7 metre raft called the Acali on which he planned to sail with 10 sexually attractive young people across the Atlantic from the Canary Islands to Mexico.
To spur conflict onboard, Genovés minimised opportunities for privacy.
The boat would have no engines and would sail towards the Caribbean, just in time for hurricane season. Genovés knew that the Acali was sailing into danger but thought science justified the risk. “I believe that in a dangerous situation people will act on their instincts and I will be able to study them.”
He put women in charge, in part to reflect what he thought was growing gender equality. The raft was captained by Maria Björnstam and Edna Reves was ship doctor; men were given menial tasks. “I wonder if having women in power will lead to less violence or more,” mused Genovés. “Maybe men will become more frustrated when women are in charge, and try to take over power.”
Not that Genovés’ raft was an antidote to the patriarchy. With a Caribbean hurricane brewing, Maria, the experienced ship’s captain, recommended they pull into a port to sit out the storm. Genovés, fearing the ruin of his experiment if they did so, mutinied and took control of the raft.
But Genovés was symbolically castrated later, on the Atlantic crossing. A huge container ship bore down on the little raft and he panicked. Only Maria kept a cool head and organised flares to ward off the looming ship. After that, the guinea pigs turned on the scientist: Maria became captain again.
Overthrown, Genovés retreated below deck and collapsed into depression, made worse by news on the radio that his university wanted to be dissociated from the scandalous Sex Raft headlines. While lying there he started to cry for the first time since childhood and had an existential epiphany, writing: “Only one has shown any kind of aggression and that is me, a man trying to control everyone else, including himself.”
wild
Was the Peace Project a failure? Fé argues it was a great success, even though the anthropologist couldn’t see it: “He was so focused on the violence and conflict, but he had it right in his hands. We started out as them and us and we became us.”
For Lindeen, it’s poignant that Fé praises the experiment. “If only [Genovés] had listened to why people were on the raft – Mary escaping an abusive husband, the racism Fé had suffered – he would have learned about the consequences of violence and how sometimes we can overcome it by overcoming our differences.”
- Comment on Fuckin' PSYOP 5 days ago:
i thought the indians already put a dot in place to denote zero?
From the wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_system
Indian mathematicians, such as Brahmagupta in the 7th century, played a crucial role in formalizing arithmetic rules and the concept of zero, which was later refined by scholars like Al-Khwarizmi in the Islamic world.
