whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on The meme is the price tag. 1 day ago:
Yes, it seems right now the only thing holding back that change is researchers treating paid journals as prestigious and adding clout to their name and publishings, and lacking a system to engage in peer review outside is journals and conferences. ArXiv is basically halfway there to registering users and publishing, they just need features for registering as a peer review, engaging for a review, and judging as acceptable or not. Most of that could be covered by votes and comments like Lemmy but limited to an accredited community of peer researchers.
- Comment on The meme is the price tag. 1 day ago:
Published by Elsevier their parent company 2023 financials: www.relx.com/~/…/relx-2023-financial-review.pdf nothing noted as funding research or science that I can see, it would probably eat into their 37% profit margins.
- Comment on The meme is the price tag. 2 days ago:
Good point, check pre-prints like arXiv or yarr like scihub before checking with the author, maybe save you both some time.
- Comment on Amazing 1 week ago:
Old episodes of tropic thunder
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
Hate requires you to consider them first competent with shared common values that inform their beliefs and actions. Otherwise it’s mostly pity and disgust that they have no values other than authority and loyalty like a criminal enterprise, and usually can’t tell if they are being evil on purpose or by accident/inaction/ignorance.
- Comment on Zero to hero 1 week ago:
How do I have anything if I have nothing of something?
- Comment on Mad Palaeontologists 1 week ago:
Pretty sure that’s from the spiderman x-men crossover where spiderman becomes a teacher at Xavier’s. It’s a pretty short run with just a few issues and a really good read imo.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 2 weeks ago:
Clearly not a trustee to the beneficiary… filibuster
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 2 weeks ago:
Descarting those gams around
- Comment on When investing your money, what is considered a good rate of return? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re beating USD inflation rate for holding cash then you’re at least not losing money. Good returns can be anywhere from like 6-10% depending on the risk involved, but if you have a significant amount of capital to invest over a long term like years you can expect much higher for riskier ventures. The usual idea is start riskier when you’re young with individual stocks, BTC, startup or small business ventures, etc; then gradually shift to lower risk index funds, utilities, CDs, bonds, retirement savings like 401k annuity pension etc low risk financial products as you get closer to a retirement goal.
- Comment on evangelism 2 weeks ago:
Business homps trying to do math with no understanding or background smacks of clergy trying to do philosophy or athletes composing a symphony, sure you can try it but practically nobody is interested in your uninformed amateur gibberish nonsense.
- Comment on I miss him 3 weeks ago:
The only natural predator of Grimaces and Noids
- Comment on How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ? 3 weeks ago:
Micro fiber cloth for glasses and screens
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 3 weeks ago:
You’re describing something more like civil service than ubi I think. But if I was financially independent without a full time job I would focus on hobbies like music and find some advocacy cause to help support, probably separation of church and state or ai for everyone with easier to build and use models on consumer hardware, there’s a few open source projects out there I’d like to understand better and contribute to if I had more time.
- Comment on just say no!! 3 weeks ago:
Pfft luddites, flat universe is the new hotness
- Comment on Most obscure movies you've ever seen? 3 weeks ago:
Begotten is probably the most inaccessible I’ve seen. Least known I used to do some 48-hour film festival we’d watch everyone’s in a local theater at the end and most of those never get a general release so any of those are the least available or seen. Most indies I’ll watch these days are horror or slice of life type movies.
- Comment on How much do people still follow media reviews today? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a video game journalist I have similar tastes to and trust for recommendations. Used to have one for movies now I usually listen more to directors for recommendations, never found one for TV. I usually get music recommendations from friends.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 4 weeks ago:
But if there’s a star it usually means ground/Street level and not the top floor.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 4 weeks ago:
0 index versus 1 index, the classic counting collections conundrum.
- Comment on Corvids 4 weeks ago:
Is there a taxonomy for all black birds? If you could come up with one what would you call it?
- Comment on A bad influence 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft has become really effective at developing malware like Windows, edge, teams, etc and selling it to corporations to spy on employees and contractors
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 1 month ago:
Same, if I have unlimited data it’s none of their business what that data is
- Comment on Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana? 1 month ago:
I could see 50+ years from now some Johnny Appleweed from Humboldt County with a family history in black market grow/distribution op running for President.
- Comment on Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs 1 month ago:
I agree with the rest but it’s not just modern gaming it was happening back in the 90s on consoles and earlier in arcades. One of the first games I played was an obvious cash grab by Marvel, Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge for the Gameboy. It was barely playable.
- Comment on meow_irl 1 month ago:
It’s not the same after Jessica Walter died, but for a while there it was something
- Comment on Brown recluse 1 month ago:
Probably depends what kind of casting is poured into the spider mold
- Comment on Here I go hate criming again 2 months ago:
Contemporary generational labels have arbitrary boundaries and their members would be just as arbitrary. Generational labels applied in an historic context are able to categorize in more meaningful ways around specific events or beliefs that the generation demonstrated. Without that demonstration its the new astrology.
- Comment on Plant Natives 2 months ago:
That is terrifying, thank you
- Comment on I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster? 2 months ago:
I’m curious even with the different ways of stressing syllables if there is also a casual link between population density and speaking speed, similar to walking speed differences measured in rural and urban environments. Like if there is some mechanism like walking quickly to get through timed crosswalks vs larger group conversations with less time to get your point across or jump in without interrupting.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 2 months ago:
From the wiki article describing the play/movie the phrase comes from:
“In the story, the husband secretly dims and brightens the indoor gas-powered lighting but insists his wife is imagining it, making her think she is going insane.”
Imo it’s when someone is deceived by a person who lies about the actual state of affairs/reality to make the other person question what they experienced as credible. I don’t think that’s the same as when someone helps question beliefs in general because skepticism is good to make sure we aren’t self deluding, but if that person is lying about reality to manipulate them it becomes bad/gaslighting.
Another example I think is from it’s always sunny in Philadelphia in the episode where Dennis and Mac go to live in the suburbs and Mac asks Dennis if he hears a beeping the audience can hear and Dennis says he can’t until he blows up saying of course he can when berating Mac. Dennis is angry at Mac and in retaliation he gaslights him about the annoying beeping sound to manipulate him into questioning if the beeping is real or an audio hallucination.