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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ideally nutritional facts would be given both per 100g and per some reasonable serving size (as well as clearly specifying the serving size), but if I can only have one give me 100g.
  Note that while only the 100g figures are required by law, most products in Europe include the ones for serving size as well, so I’m not sure what shitty labeling people are supposedly prideful of.
  Personally I would also like a section for figures per the entire package but that’s exceedingly rare.

  US labeling is perhaps more convenient more often, but it also frequently misleads/hides information from the consumer which I think is much worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think people 500 years just suffered in misery until someone invented therapy?

  For the most part, yes. At least in this context. Granted, functions similar to those covered by therapy (teaching, guidance, healing, realignment) have been carried out human-to-human for probably millennia.
  But the proportion of people that were helped before there were systems and science was likely much lower than today.

  You can’t teach people what it is like to be someone else. If you have a therapist that can ONLY relate to you in terms of theory, you’re going to have a bad time

  Therapists (especially good ones) aren’t unable to relate to you beyond theory unless they have literally experienced circumstances similar to yours. Empathy + experience goes a long way. Compatibility is an important factor which is why you’re encouraged to keep looking until you find someone that matches, but they don’t need to share your philosophical views in order to be effective.

  That is to say, a depression that doesn’t come from distorted thinking but thinking TOO clearly […] they might try a bunch of tools to “fix” the depression […]

  Well, if you went to them because the depression is making you suffer and you would like to get rid of it, they should try to help you deal with it. How that is best to be achieved is of course a dialog between you and your therapist, but even if the root cause is “thinking too clearly” there are ways to mitigate the depression.

  There are entire fields of therapy that have been entirely lifted from other philosophies. CBT is basically stoicism. ACT is basically Buddhism

  Philosophy and psychotherapy are completely different subjects of study with mostly disjoint areas of applicability. Sure, one draws heavily from the other, but that’s not exactly particular to psychology - philosophy is the mother of all science, after all.
  There are areas of philosophy that are particularly rich in resources (e.g. ethics), but even if there are philosophical schools that tell you how to live, for most people they aren’t concrete/practical enough to be applied (not to mention the time needed to sift through dozens of philosophies, and the risk of choosing one that is unhelpful; or worse, misunderstanding it).
  Most people need help with this which is why we have a field that actually has the human psyche as its central subject of study.

  Therapy works, it helps a great number of people, and for most of them philosophy is not a viable replacement.

  There are great therapists out there, but I think they are DESPITE the systems in place to train and certify them, not because of those systems

  Absolutely not. I don’t know if you have qualms with specific institutions in a particular country - those might well be justified. But organizing and systematizing a discipline leads to increased quality of practitioners rather than the opposite. Without training, most therapists would be significantly worse, especially during the early years of their career. Without certification, you’d get many more people doing the job that are simply not qualified for it.

  Therapy is hard and unfortunately many therapists are mediocre or worse. There are probably also many institutions that overall don’t produce high quality professionals. But I think laying the blame on the education/certification system as a whole is misguided.

  As Daniel Mackler has said, “it is easier to become a good therapist, than to find one.”

  As I said, just now, “it is easier to become a good therapist if you study and get certified than if you don’t”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Call Me. Ever.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  Tap for spoiler

  we’re apparently all just painting hypotheticals/anecdotes so here’s mine

  You probably didn’t need an immediate answer, but you wanted one. You also pressured me into making a quick decision based on 2 paragraphs of new information you just dumped on me, expecting me to not only remember all of it, but immediately understand and integrate it into my decision making process.

  I’ll probably remember half of your info dump at best and the likelihood of you getting the answer you were hoping for just went down hard because I feel slighted by your ambush and because I don’t feel informed enough to give you a “yes”.
  If I did say “yes” we might be in bigger trouble though, since I likely misunderstood or forgot something.

  Put it in writing and make both our lives easier.
  You can still call if I didn’t reply after 10 minutes.
  You can even include your deadline in the message if you have one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to lose weight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The kneejerk reactions are justified IMO. You don’t need to “minimize” peas and carrots to have a healthy diet. Obviously they shouldn’t be all you eat, but that holds for pretty much all foods - balance is key.

  There’s several issues with your source.

  First, it would have been nice of you to link to the relevant figure so others aren’t forced to comb through the whole thing.

  Second, it’s important to point out that this data only shows correlation. The data is interesting for sure, but one should be cautious about demonizing a particular food group based on this alone, considering that the main point of the study was to analyze the health benefits of particular diets rather than food groups.
  (note also that fast/fried foods got a positive score, which makes me further apprehensive about drawing quick conclusions from this data)

  Third, this study focused on health professionals only. I don’t know why it shouldn’t generalize to the general population but it is not a given that it does.

  Most importantly, it is not clear (to me at least) that peas and carrots are part of the category “starchy vegetables” according to this study. I couldn’t find any explicit description of the categories, please let me know if there is one in the study or one of its sources.
  From what I could find online, peas can be considered starchy vegetables, but carrots usually aren’t. For instance, this site classifies both carrots and some types of peas as non-starchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a really good point.

  I’ve also found myself messing up the run back but committing to the fight anyway with a few masks down. You can either heal back up by breaking the cocoon, or practice starting the fight low and keep the silk for later (one of the best changes from the first game IMO is making the cocoon an asset in contrast to the ghost that would harass you).

  Another aspect is the run back itself. When you struggle a lot with a boss (as I often do), you will have to do the run back so many times that you passively start getting better at traversing the map. And even if the specific combos you used on the boss itself don’t necessarily translate to other bosses, the movement skills likely will keep being useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t personally watch the interview in question (or forgot by now) so I don’t know what they meant, but it definitely feels like lore wise Silksong can stand as an independent game with what I’ve discovered so far.

  Regarding difficulty, Hollow Knight isn’t the only game that could have prepared you for Silksong I think.
  I think what it helps a lot with is familiarity and mindset. The overall game loop is very similar.

  That said, I think it’s wise to give HK a try before buying Silksong. It’s a cheaper game, worth playing through if you’re into these kinds of experiences and if you don’t enjoy it, chances are Silksong will not be much fun for you either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me too.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I don’t really disagree with anything you laid out here.
  I’ll just add that I think we don’t yet have the conceptual frameworks to fully describe (and by extension - understand) the problem in the first place.

  Yes, strong emergence seems like magic, as does dualism. But if there is no magic, consciousness feels like the closest thing to it; so who knows?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me too.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see what points you’re making, but it’s unclear what you’re arguing for. It would be helpful if you made that explicit, too.

  My best guess is that you don’t think that consciousness is emergent. What then, do you consider the nature of consciousness to be? Are you perhaps agnostic on the matter?

  I agree that strong emergence sounds like magic and I’m therefore highly sceptical of its existence. I find consciousness one of the most intriguing and mysterious phenomena we know of - I don’t really think I understand it to a degree where I can make confident claims about its nature. But dualism sounds like magic too, so weak emergence seems to me the most reasonable and likely mechanism, not least because it’s one we actually observe in reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, Reddit fucked us all after we gave them our knowledge for free.
  Trick people into thinking they’re contributing to a commons, steal the contributions and run. Very understandable that many people decided to retaliate after the betrayal.
  I really hope decentralized knowledge bases take off. Aggregating niche knowledge from experts and non-experts everywhere the internet touches is such a valuable proposition!

  I had like one useful comment posted to Reddit. I’ve left it up, and once every few months I get a comment being appreciative for the info.
  Reddit gets the traffic because of Google indexing the original post of a user with the problem. People are going to visit it regardless of whether they’ll find the answer or not. In fact, if they don’t find it, they’re more likely to keep browsing posts in the hope of finding something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t just say “perchance”