dandelion

@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith II⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  no denying that people criticize women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), but there are series of “dear Faith” email posts that collectively seem a bit unlikely in their tone and situation, which is what makes me think it’s more likely they’re fake than real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith II⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor

  I have heard horror stories about how specific formatting has to be for a thesis or dissertation, though - and often those rules are very specific to a particular university or even department. So it’s also possible for rules like that to be local and not from a universal standard like the APA guide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith I⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  it could be an internal organizational title, but it definitely doesn’t sound like an academic position and not a part of a normal email signature either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith I⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, the line “at this rate, the only original part of this thesis is your name” implies the issue is not just failing to cite sources, but having no original thoughts or contributions - maybe it’s exaggeration for humor’s sake, but I definitely did not read this as simply forgetting to cite sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith I⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never worked in academia, but I’ve spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts … this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith I⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  this can’t be real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Faith II⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the context is all there … Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was “rainbow colored”.

  Apparently the thesis advisor did not like the presence of color and advises using APA style guideline on how to style & format the tables: apastyle.apa.org/…/tables

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  to be fair, stir bars are totally forbidden food - they look delicious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I LOVE EATING STIR BARS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  1. those are huge stir bars
  2. my body is about to become organ smoothie 😱
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  look at Mr. Rogers over here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, you’re right - white blood cells justify bigotry is a much better argument than “my sky daddy said so!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never understood this. If something foreign enters you your white blood cells go after it like a dog in heat, Would this not mean that our cells are smart enough to discern bad from good?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, in fact our moral reasoning comes from the function of white blood cells and their extreme xenophobia - it is an important lesson to learn that foreign = bad, white = good … oh wait, hmmmmmmmmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone have good recommendations for thigh highs and skirts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  came here to say sock dreams, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A succulent meal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sent this to my nephew, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a glitch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  flat earth is pushed by the global elite pedophiles, after all - it’s what they want us to believe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a glitch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this feels like a potentially sincere attempt to recruit people into an anti-science conspiracy movement - this doesn’t really feel different than the kind of reasoning you see with moon landing denialists or flat earthers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downvote this post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is this your least favorite emoji: 📉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downvote this post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Blahaj instances are just focused on creating a safe space for trans and other minority users, and downvotes are one of the targeted ways bigots can harass, so it’s just disabled for that reason. That said, trans folks don’t tend to strike me as snowflakes - we get a lot of hate and flak IRL and on the internet so a lot of us are pretty used to it. It’s just nice to have a space where we don’t have to worry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downvote this post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t, my instance only has upvotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These patients saw what comes after death. Should we believe them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is not the digestive function of some lower life form we’re talking about here. These are implications that reach all of humanity,” said Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and co-author of the 2011 book “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences.”

  “Do we have some evidence?” he asked. “And how strong is that evidence that we have life after death, that our consciousness survives bodily death?” Long — who was not involved in either the NEPTUNE paper or the critique — said he has studied more than 4,000 near-death experiences.

  🙄

  the “sweeping critique” was:

  Of note, they did not discuss major NDE features that seem incompatible with their physicalist theory, such as veridical out-of-body perceptions during NDEs (Holden, 2009). Furthermore, some NDEs include encounters with deceased persons of whose death the experiencer had no knowledge, or whom the experiencer had never met; accurate information acquired about the deaths of these deceased persons challenges the interpretation of these visions as hallucinations (Greyson, 2010c; Khanna et al., 2018).

  Martial et al. (2025) acknowledged that, in developing their coherent overarching model, “We have excluded dualistic theories from our discussion owing to the lack of empirical neuroscientific evidence and the fact that a fundamental tenet of neuroscience asserts that human experience arises from the brain”

  psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-82154-001.html

  ruling out supernatural explanations and approaching science with an empirical and physicalist approach shouldn’t be that controversial, and the fact that some oncologist is willing to believe in a supernatural after-life doesn’t exactly change anything :-/

  Out of body perceptions are common aspects of altered states and dissociative episodes (and dissociation is a frequent change in mental state that happens during trauma such as a near-death-experience, I’ve had this happen to myself during acute physical trauma). Out of body experiences don’t really prove anything supernatural.

  And I’m highly skeptical that during NDEs that accurate information was acquired about deceased persons that they did not know before - that is the kind of claim that if found to be true would be all over the news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the worst case yet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the worst case yet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the worst case yet.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🥔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and don’t roll over and let the semen drip into your vagina, because anal sex can still cause pregnancy if not careful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your name better be Caleb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  sometimes people can be a great sexual partner, but poor relationship material, maybe it’s something like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your name better be Caleb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your name better be Caleb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you can tell it’s not dudes she fucked because the scores are so high

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  pretty sure redditors who 1. have disproportionately been banned from reddit for some reason or another and 2. feel some sense of victimization and seeks anti-reddit solidarity on Lemmy are going to have significant overlap with incels and misogynists. Lemmy has overwhelming millennial tech bro vibes ime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick young ants send out a 'kill me' scent to prevent deadly epidemics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been sending off “kill me” scents my whole life; humans are as merciless as they are stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SipsTea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  good job sweetie, I’m sure you’ll make an excellent bottom 😊