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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He/him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the catch! Fixed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He/him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ada’s man speaks like this. Ada’s man has no pronouns. Ada’s man gave up pronouns ever since becoming Ada’s man.

  At first it felt manly. After all, Ada’s man was next to Ada. And Ada only let men next to Ada.

  Still, Ada’s man thinks it’s kinda weird to not be able to use pronouns.

  In fact, Ada’s man sorta regrets the whole thing.

  Ada’s man is often made fun of. Ada’s man has heard he speaks like cavemen. Ada’s man often feels dumb and excluded.

  The worst part is work. Ada’s man had to intervene at work. Ada’s man had to redact reports at work, removing all pronouns. This made Ada’s man feel humiliated. Ada’s man was made fun of by coworkers, bosses, and customers. The caveman comment was repeated again and again.

  However, over time, Ada’s man was accepted. Why? To start with, Ada’s man was a good worker. But more importantly, they (the coworkers) felt Ada’s man was in a toxic relationship with Ada. They knew Ada from Ada’s man and from Ada’s social media. And Ada sounded like an absolute pile of garbage.

  Over time, the cavemen comments stopped. They referred to Ada’s man as Ada’s man. And they saw Ada’s man with pity. They just hope someday Ada’s man would be unshackled from Ada’s man’s Ada.

  Months went by. Ada’s man felt the weight on Ada’s man’s shoulders. This didn’t feel like a good way to live. But Ada’s man is a man, and Ada’s man wants to be with Ada. It’s just that Ada’s man wonders if there could be a different way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nice guy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This kid should read Mitch Prinstein’s work. Bottom line: high-status people have worse lives, while likeable people have better lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dropout uses Vimeo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you do when you're lacking direction in life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some recommendations that have changed my life and many others’:

  • Learn to WOOP, by Gabrielle Oettingen
  • Learn about the Procrastination Equation and CSI-Approach, by Piers Steel
  • Read and internalize A Liberated Mind by Steven C. Hayes

  With what you described, some ACT values work may help.

  Please let me know if you have questions :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to dust properly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Static is your friend.

  Buy microfiber dusters and mops. Buy a couple and see if it’s enough. You want to always have clean ones available. So buy more than what you need for a single cleaning session.

  For carpets, you can get a sweeper. They also use static and they’re fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fiber. Fiber helps you feel full, so it is harder to over-eat fruit in comparison with chocolate bars, gummy bears, or even fruit juice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨find⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So moving 😢 I’m at a loss of words

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is a good source to read about thought experiments?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To frame thought experiments and their limitations, Dave Snowden’s Cynefin and perhaps works on pragmatism, contextual functionalism, and relational frame theory, books like ACT in Context.

  Now, as to thought experiments, there’s Daniel Dennet’s Intuition Pumps.

  This is tangential, but maybe you’d be interested in George Lakoff’s framing. Lakoff would argue that frames are at least sometimes exactly the same thing as a thought experiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I posted a longer response but I think it didn’t get through or something.

  Basically, I look at this from the point of view of Cynefin, and Estuarine Mapping. If you look at base and superstructure elements, you can look at them as ACTANTS of the system.

  Whether you choose base-superstructure or Cynefin just shows that sometimes we can describe the same phenomena in different ways. And I take this idea from both Mary Midgley and Donna Haraway’s positioned knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How could we look at social dynamics? One way is Dave Snowden’s Cynefin. From that perspective, complex systems have actors, constructors, and constraints. The three of them are called ACTANTS. How do ACTANTS relate to base and superstructure? Well, each ACTANT of the system could be classified as base or superstructure.

  Why am I saying that each ACTANT could be classified as base or superstructure? Because we should be open to the possibility that there are different ways of looking at the same thing in the world. We can look at a mountain from the north, from the south, from the base, or from the peak. Similarly, we can look at social relations as base and superstructure or as complex Cynefin systems (or other points of view!).

  How do you know whether to classify ACTANTS into base and superstructure or not? Context. Use the pragmatic criterion: Is it helpful to classify the ACTANTS into base and superstructure in this particular context?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s three ideas that come up:

  This reminds me of the Fool’s Choice: you either lie and keep friends or you tell the truth and lose friends.

  Similarly, I suppose that people who see kindness as a sign of naiveness have not learned how hostage negotiators do their work. A good hostage negotiator will act kindly, but they’re anything but naive.

  Finally, I suppose whoever is deciding to ‘walk over kind people’ has lots of fears and a fragile identity they need to protect.

  Let me know if you’re interested in learning about where these ideas come from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good evening I choose getting the job done.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a diversity of vehicles in a single picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RPGs that are optionally pacifist?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Amazing! I stopped playing Baldur’s Gate because I dislike the combat. How do I avoid it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My grandpa was born and raised in an industrial town that didn’t have access to pools or anything like that. He decided to learn to swim by reading a book and practicing in his living room. He would lay down on a bench or a seat and practice the motions. Every year, he’d go to a nearby town that did have a pool, and he’d sit for hours hearing how kids were taught to swim. He’d then go back to his living room and practice based on that.

  So, how did he swim? Luckily, looking at him swim was something I could do with my own eyes. And just by the look of it, you’d never tell he learned on a bench.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was surprised by these stats⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After careful forensic analysis, I have concluded the entire thing was created by a single person. I call this the One Author Theory (OAT). Let me present to you OAT’s evidence.

  First, notice almost every tally is similar to its immediate neighbors. They have the same color and the same thickness. This suggests the tallies were all made with the same marker and with similar techniques.

  We can see similar techniques elsewhere. First, notice that each category has tallies. Then, within each category (for example shit), focus on the rightmost tallies. Notice that the tallies tend to curve in a similar way. This suggests those tallies were created under similar conditions, with a similar technique.

  You may have noticed that the piss tallies are thicker and straighter than the jerk it tallies. This may suggest my One Author theory is wrong, but my theory does incorporates this fact. The fact is explained by a change in technique. Therefore, the OAT cannot stand on its own. It requires another theory to grab onto. This other theory is the Progressive Degradation of Commitment (PDC) Theory.

  I will now give evidence for the PDC Theory. Notice the shit category. Its topmost row has a consistent left-to-right pattern. The tallies become smaller and smaller. They also become curved at the end. This suggests a consistent loss of commitment.

  The PDC Theory appears to struggle with the jerk it category. After all, the bottom row starts with small tallies and progressively has its tallies grow tall and straight. This we shall call the Jerk It Anomaly (JIA). However, concluding that the Jerk It Anomaly (JIA) proves that the PDC Theory fails is incorrect. If one uses the PDC Theory correctly, it can actually explain the JIA.

  How? First, we need to remember that the PDC Theory shouldn’t be limited to rows. We saw an example of this when PDC Theory explained piss’ thickness in relation to jerk it’s thickness. In other words, PDC Theory can scale. It can explain rows of tallies but it can also explain columns of categories. So, if we apply PDC Theory to the entire work, we can assume that the entirety of the last column (jerk it) was built under stress. The author could’ve been pressured for time. It is unlikely, but not impossible, to speculate that the author felt a sudden urge to attend to his unfinished business, be it pissing, vaping, shitting, or jerking it. In either case, the PDC Theory comes out intact.

  Ultimately, the OAT uses the PDC Theory to address validity threats like the JIA. The author may have attempted to dupe us into thinking the census was representative of a population. However, the One Author Theory lets us see that the author’s work is more representative of their purposes, capabilities, and proclivities.

  It’s important to notice that this does not necessarily reduce the author’s merit and the piece’s impact. Future studies could evaluate to what extent this apparent census creates a sense of community and connection in the bathroom stall goers. The author of this very analysis, for one, would very much appreciate to shit and piss (but vape and jerk it) in a bathroom stall with this apparent census.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your approaches to donating?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s actually research on this. There are groups of people that donate more than others. There are two groups of people that really matter for this: people who have protection values and people who have democratic values.

  People with protection values care about themselves and their people (their family, their clan, their tribe, their religion, their nation). People with democratic values care about humans in general, regardless of their religion, nationality, what family they come from, etc.

  So, who donates more money? People with democratic values.

  You can check out Christian Welzel’s Freedom Rising for more on this :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are ghosts never racist?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ghosts are the creation of our minds. And it turns out that our minds are flawed machines. This was shown by someone and they won a Nobel Prize for it (Daniel Kahnemann). Turns out, that flawed machinery is precisely why ghosts aren’t racist.

  When you think of something, you run a simplified simulation of the world. When you run these simulations, you don’t think about other things. For example, when people fantasize about achieving something, they usually run the simulation of having gotten the job and the money or having solved the tough problem. However, they usually don’t think about the path to achieving that goal. This is called the planning fallacy. It’s also called the Motivation Wave in Behavior Design.

  Another example of these simplified simulations is the halo effect. The halo effect starts when you notice something good about someone. Maybe they’re attractive. Maybe they’re on your same team or political group or religion or whatever. The thing is that you end up building a good preconception of that person. You assume they’re kind and smart and many other positive things. Again, your mind is running a simplified simulation. Even if you notice bad stuff about the other person, you may ignore it because our mind is a flawed machine and it’s stuck with the idea that the other person is good.

  So, how do simplified simulations lead to non-racist ghosts? Well, we all share an idea of what a ghost is. We tell each other ghost stories or we watch movies with ghosts in them. All of that feeds the simplified simulations we run when we think of ghosts. And we don’t include racism in those simulations.

  This doesn’t mean that we can’t escape simplified simulations. This is a tough problem that many people have tried to solve in many different ways. These attempts have resulted in an arsenal of methods: psychological flexibility exercises, mental contrasting, pre-mortems, the Delphi method, red team blue team exercises, weak signal detection, etc. Notice that all of these tools try to transform our preconceptions.

  Of course, a very simple way of transforming our preconceptions is to prove them wrong. I suppose in the case of non-racist ghosts, it’s a matter of creating racist ghosts. This project, however, brings up the old adage: just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

  If you’re interested in simplified simulations, I recommend Lisa Feldman Barret’s books. You can also check out Daniel Kahnemann, Gary Klein, and Dave Snowden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This post tickles a fond memory of mine. I was talking to a right-wing libertarian, and he said there should be no research done ever if it couldn’t prove beforehand its practical applications. I laughed out loud because I knew how incredibly ignorant and ridiculous that statement was. He clearly had never picked up a book on the history of science, on the history of

  • electromagnetism (it would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn’t have a generator nearby when his eyes were being operated on with LASIK; generators are a technology built by basic research that didn’t have practical applications in mind)
  • quantum mechanics (it would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn’t have semiconductors in his phone, or if he didn’t have access to lasers for his LASIK surgery, both of which are technologies built by basic research that didn’t have practical applications in mind)
  • superconductivity (it would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn’t have superconductors for an MRI if he ever needs it, a technology built by basic research that didn’t have practical applications in mind)
  • radio waves (it would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn’t have radio waves for his phone and computer’s wifi and bluetooth to run his digital business, technologies built by basic research that didn’t have practical applications in mind)
  • X-rays (it would be a shame if the poor libertarian didn’t have x-rays to check the inside of his body in case something went wrong, a technology built by basic research that didn’t have practical applications in mind)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc)⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People do or don’t do things depending on three variables: motivation to do it, the ability to do it, and the prompt to do it.

  • Motivation could be lacking in some cases. People need to understand the purpose of turn signals. However, I don’t think there’s an anti-turn signal discourse going around. At least as far as I know.
  • I don’t think it’s ability, because activating turn signals is relatively easy for most people.
  • I think prompts could also be lacking.

  How do we change this?

  The Behavior Design answer would be something like this: We need to patiently and kindly train people to recognize prompts to the turn signals. “When you get to the corner, put your left hand on the turn-signal control and move it up. Then turn right.” We also need to celebrate it the instant they do it. “Perfect”. Of course, you need to have a good relationship with whomever you’re doing this with.

  Now, that is not the only solution; there are many. We might have one solution if we zoom in on one person. We might have another solution if we zoom out to a whole city or country.

  In any case, if we want to solve the problem with Behavior Design, you could check out Tiny Habits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How good are amphetamines for brain fog?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides talking to a doctor, would she be against doing cognitive training?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. So the terms of service have not changed, and yet people are saying that they did. I wonder if there are criticisms that are still valid. For example, the terms of service that you linked:

  • do not let me use a VPN (¶6.4)
  • do not let me use glitches (¶6.4)
  • do not let me own the game but instead give me a limited license to it (¶2.1-2.2)
  • do not inform you about updates to their terms of service (¶10.2)
  • force me to enter arbitration and do not let me be part of a class action lawsuit or have a trial by jury (¶17.5)
  • link to their privacy policy, which:
    • does not let me opt out of having my data bought, merged, and sold through ad networks or data brokers (§ Categories of Information Collected, § How We Use Information and Our Legal Grounds, § Sources of Information We Collect, and § When We Share Information ¶ 5— all sources combined)
    • does not attempt to deliberately minimize data collection to protect user data (with the only exception of children’s data, their purposes are extremely vague § How We Use Information and Our Legal Grounds, they do not anonymize data, and they broadly do not make the attempt to do so— I cannot provide a citation because there is no attempt to do this in their privacy policy)
    • does not specify the purposes of gathering and using information about any installed application on my device (§ Categories of Information Collected)
    • does not let me opt-out of data collection categories for specific purposes (cannot give a direct citation because they simply do not do it; instead, they wrote vague types of information they collect —such as “details about… other information related to installed applications” in § Categories of Information Collected, as well as vague purposes in § How We Use Information)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What grass starvation does to the perma-online⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like you really don’t like it. What makes you say that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The original LILO & STITCH had a famous ad campaign where Stitch ruined different Disney classics. Director Chris Sanders explains the story behind them.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally did this because of money…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What causes individual variation in what animals you like?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad you like !snakes@lemmy.world.

  We have different thoughts and memories with different animals. We hear what people say and they can become our own thoughts. We live life and it becomes our own emotions.

  Sometimes the memories take charge of the ship and we’re in for the ride. Sometimes our thoughts take charge of the ship and we’re in for the ride.

  Mindfulness can help us choose, regardless of what our emotions or thoughts say or do.

  If I had to choose one book to recommend, maybe check out How Emotions are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barret. Read it and you’ll have clear answers to your questions and more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the reply! So Excel maybe is not as fast as the meme would suggest, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you. I love ggplot2. And I’m good at it. So it’s my software of choice when doing data analysis and when making graphs.

  However, I understand that there’s an upfront cost to pay to use it: learning to code, tidying data, etc…

  And beyond that, I don’t really do data analysis with spreadsheet software like Excel or LibreCalc. So I don’t know if a proficient LibreCalc user would be able to compete with a proficient ggplot2 user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: do you think this could improve with practice? Or does the ggplot workflow necessarily makes it all slower?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there democratic countries whose democratic institutions survived an auto-coup attempt?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at the human empowerment model, it will all depend on whether the technological conditions, the educational resources, and the connective resources have gotten worse or not. If not, then people will mobilize and the massive protests will demand change, regardless of the government’s forceful opposition.

  The critical question is whether the institutions of a nation are more or less democratic than its people. The World Value Survey clearly shows that some people like hierarchy, strict gender roles that confine people into little boxes, and clearly-defined “me-versus-them” boundaries. Those people will not protest against dictatorships. The rest will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my dreams in colour⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please mark it as NSFW :)