Dasus
@Dasus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cope 3 hours ago:
Sexual awakening at 69.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 day ago:
The point I’m making is that I believe that people who have mac skills will need to also learn Windows skills just because it’s so much more commonplace.
Just like lefties can be more empathetic on scale, because they have to face the disappointment of things not being designed for them (us, but I’m more mixed-handed than pure lefty).
It’s not about the orientation of the hand, but the phenomena surrounding having to orient your hand / use a certain hand in a certain way.
Just like I don’t believe that Mac as an OS is inherently changing the kids significantly.
Please do apply adequate scientific rigor here! Image
And to be fair, I don’t really know anyone who’s only ever used a mac for those exact reasons. We had a few kids in graphic design school be like “well I mostly use Mac as my personal computer is a mac”, so they weren’t as used to using Windows, since they hadn’t done it since school.
Like if you compared the linguistic capacity of people in the US, I’m pretty sure that no matter what you choose as the primary language, those kids will still know English (as we’re talking about USA here), and if they know English, then they’re at least bilingual, which has a lot of cognitive benefits. But you wouldn’t be saying that specifically speaking some specific other language makes the kids smarter.
Some languages might give certain advantages, like say some aboriginal language which doesn’t have left/right but always uses cardinal directions. Due to them doing that it’s insanely hard to confuse their inner sense of direction, even if you chuck them if a van and drive them around blindfolded.
So I’m not saying using Macs can’t have some such small specific advantage, but I doubt it, and think it’s just general adaptation skills, which do correlate with positive cognitive development.
- Comment on sushi delivery 1 day ago:
I’ve heard the argument several times, yeah.
I still wouldn’t eat teflon and have slowly changed to mostly stainless steel, which is superior in cooking if you know how to use it. Gonna get myself some cast iron as well but I’d like a larger kitchen to properly start kitting out. What I want in the end is silver cookware.
The point is, your “facts” are probably more correct than science in the 50’s, but the fact is those “facts” are still essentially company propaganda to make people not panic over having eaten off of neurotoxins for 50 years.
Or like, are you so naive you don’t understand companies like DuPont lying through their teeth?
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 day ago:
I think early exposure to several different OS’s means you’re at least not too poor, and lack of money does correlate a lot with illiteracy of all sorts.
- Comment on sushi delivery 2 days ago:
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- Comment on How many virtual machines can you nest? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 days ago:
May be, may be. But also the whole “one Finn equals ten Russians” meme has been around longer than living memory.
- Comment on POV: The year is 700 B.C. You are a Celtic Briton man in Britain. There is an agricultural famine. 2 days ago:
It’s only cows milk that us lactose intolerant people are affected by
Yeah that’s not true
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 days ago:
Yeah I’ve heard this one before and I like it.
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 days ago:
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 days ago:
The US is the strongest force within NATO, so with Russia getting more aggressive, Europe and Canada need to quickly build up a stronger army.
Strongest single nation, yeah, but then you address Europe as if it was just one nation, when our combined military might is much more than any single nation is thought to have.
For instance think of how much we Finns fought Russians, when we started with practically nothing to defend ourselves with. Currently we have the largest (and most accurate) artillery in Finland and NORDEFCO and EU defense initiatives. So we got the top of Europe locked down pretty tight.
The US has the largest defense budget and is the most powerful navy, obviously, but we know what to do in our woods. Things even the infamous US marines kinda suck at sometimes. A group of conscripted cooks took down a helicopter of landing marines, that sounds worse than it is, basically the marines just landed and the well camouflaged food group took positions and won the battle or smth some years ago. Now I think it’s been the US helping us, idk how different the Baltic Sea is to ocean operations, and Idk jack shit about navy either as am army. yle.fi/a/74-20153073
Anyway wanted to paste something and the older article was now behind paywall so that’s just hyping up Finn US cooperation in helping bust the Russian shadow fleet
Luckily military protocols and treaties aren’t as easily influenced by politics as well, politics. I mean, they are, obviously, but there’s usually just a hint more reason being utilised. That’s what I loved about being in the army. So simple.
- Comment on Totally 2 days ago:
Astrology, psychic healing, seeing auras, channeling. All of the major bullshit that came to prominence in the new age movement (thanks Ms Blavatsky).
Maybe it’s a societal difference, but genuinely the women I know in STEM fields would perhaps do something like that as a funny bit of entertainment, but never to the level of denying surgery from a child.
- Comment on Totally 2 days ago:
Seen it and done it, doesn’t help.
- Comment on Totally 3 days ago:
but a fairly well known microbiologist
Holy shit I’m worried for (what I assume are American) scientific circles.
Idk why she’d forgo the actual medical treatments. Did she consider them risky or what?
- Comment on Totally 3 days ago:
Is the answer exercise when you’ve a problem with getting enough nutrition out of the food you eat?
I bet for someone not having fats absorb properly sounds like a positive, but if you had to sit on the shitter as much as I do, I think you’d reconsider.
I’ve yet to find an exercise that would help.
- Comment on Okay, I won't 5 days ago:
Well that does explain a bit, thanks.
- Comment on Okay, I won't 5 days ago:
What’s with the spamming bro. I’m browsing all and I might as well be scrolling your profile.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 5 days ago:
Have you ever heard of frisbee golf, or disc golf? It’s popular in places. Perhaps there could be a course somewhere near you? Then just talk a friend into coming and soon you won’t even notice the exercise you’re getting on accident because you’re looking for a throw that kinda went wrong and now you’re having to find the damn disc because youre definitely not going to give up on finding your best one.
But also when you succeed, it’s fun.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Hedge weight
- Comment on This is a GREAT idea 1 week ago:
“Hey, are you the manager who made Janet do a double-shift on Wednesday…? Yeah, you suck!”
The moment he’s out the door “Hey Janet, what the fuck was that about?”
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 1 week ago:
And this would be larger with better education.
Because it’s not always about the “potential of the student” if there’s no support or validation.
Finland didn’t have a gifted program, you’re not supposed to be better at anything than others. Except in sports, where it’s the whole thing.
There were special programs for slow kids. But none for fast ones.
First grade teacher put me in an empty classroom to read by myself when everyone else was just learning what sounds different letters make.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 1 week ago:
Does this guy count? He’s been per-reviewed a bunch I reckon.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Well the only language that is currently officially using it.
I don’t think you can really say that one guy on Lemmy constitutes anything worth a mention on Wikipedia, as it’s not the language using it, per se, but the specific user.
But yeah, sure, technically.
- Comment on Condiment udders 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
I’ll agree it doesn’t really answer the “why”, but how is it implying anyone lying?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish and modern Icelandic alphabets, as well as modern transliterations of the Gothic alphabet, Middle Scots, and some dialects of Middle English. It was also used in medieval Scandinavia but was later replaced with the digraph th, except in Iceland, where it survives. The letter originated from the rune ᚦ in the Elder Futhark and was called thorn in the Anglo-Saxon and thorn or thurs in the Scandinavian rune poems. It is similar in appearance to the archaic Greek letter sho (ϸ), although the two are historically unrelated. The only language in which þ is currently in use is Icelandic.[1]
- Comment on Condiment udders 1 week ago:
- Comment on Time is of the essence! 2 weeks ago:
Can it bring mw food
- Comment on Share your poops! 2 weeks ago:
I’d love one.
Not for social media, but in general .
