sircac

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The main point is to be able to handle uncertainties in a normal basis, the greyness of reality, despite the temptation of blacks and whites of our minds.

  For sure it costs a lot. The consideration of the superposition of possible truths and the weight of potential biases is a huge burden without granted full coverage, but allows you to accumulate a landscape of plausibility of things: yes, is not 100% precise and is still built by personal prejudices but, with a systematic acceptance of new bits of information regardless of how comfortable they are, it can grow a mostly reliable understanding of reality with a variable amount of temporary uncertainty on some facts… and you can still convert greys into quasi-b&w once they reach a decent amount of independent evidences, you now, to free a bit your RAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are movies where the time loops over and over considered time travel movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, when the loop takes place there is a travel in time taking place… but not as in the standard time travel films.

  I think is important to point out that in the Groundhog time loops the travel is only of the memories or the information, there is no energy-mass traveling (though information is a kind of energy, let me skip physics here), and the traveler at the beginning of the loop has not carried anything from the future but the memories of the previous loop, did not age or suffered physical modifications (there may be exceptions, sure).

  So I think that is a kind of time travel, but a sub-genre where the travel is less material than in the typical time travels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think lemmy will ever be popular?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care, I just want a nice place to wander, nothing is forever, but the longer, the better, regardless of popularity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “To shoehorn something” is a literal common expression in Spanish, lately often used to indicate a deliberated misdirection of a debate into a different argument at the minimum occasion (usually via any fallacy)… and there are even shoehorns literally with long sticks for the elders…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Current reddit is not like “reddit” anymore for a while… nothing is forever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not from that field, and I think it depends a lot of the field, country, etc, but research is not an idilic world at all and deal with huge flaws from the real world, institutions, society and economics, not aside of human being’s flaws, so it can be deeply disappointing in some aspects. I believe is a natural in any guild (there is shit everywhere, e.g. police require internal affairs for a good reason, but not only, they suffer from funding restrictions, metrics for promotion, etc, and the same can be said for medicine, politics, etc) so in the end it may be your ability to deal with real world shit… and luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, is not like I can really chose what I “like” (my standards) beyond a certain point, most of mine at least are not a rational decision, not fell like I can really force me into tastes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “celibate by virtue of my own standards” … I was not aware I belonged to a club which viral acronym does not exist yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me understand littering⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To the many comments, and my concerns to the tolerance of certain things, I would like to add that many people cannot efficiently nor autonomously handle (most or some of) their own frustrations and decide to vent them out in many ways, like throwing them to others, like when a simple cashier burdens a customer’s frustration for a (fair or unfair) complain, and littering is another way to do it, screwing “the systemic unfair world” or just looking to impact it in some way or another if they cannot handle a strong feeling of irrelevance. Consciously or not, is a coping mechanism that some people will use, while sometimes is something normalised to the point to be unconscious (people threshold for or concept of cleanness varies a lot).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am caucasian, get sun burnt easily… I left the emojis (faces) its Simpson color (are there other?) but hands… I cannot stand the cirrhotic yellow hands/arms, and need to switch their color at first occasion… I also tend to select black hair people though I am slightly brown… and many caucasian friends of mine use black hands… so I would say that in my environment your hypothesis is rather a background underfluctuation than a potential valid one…