Haha yeah, I was literally talking about this with a friend earlier.

The corporations (at least in Canada) have successfully managed to monetize KINDNESS. That’s what tipping culture is!!! Reduce base pay like anything, because “hey, people are kind- they’ll donate the rest of that wage we reduced anyway”.

Capitalism is incompatible with a functioning society.

This article is so clearly not acting in good faith.

• None of the cited data that tries to assert "less cognitive ability " has any sort of control group??? Huh???
• Sure, some studies (with proper control groups n stuff) are cited. But they’re specifically for other topics like mental healgh due to social media usage and so on. None that have anything to do with cognitive ability. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU TRY TO PAINT SCHOOL LAPTOPS AS A NEGATIVE.

Down vote me all you want, but the folks in the comments must be a little ashamed for spreading and supporting sensational bullshit cuz it supports their worldview. This behaviour is no different than boomers posting “articles” about how climate change is bullshit and how vaccines cause autism.

And not ONE person critically analyses this article??? Seriously??? Everyone’s on the bandwagon of “yeah yeah, tech is destroying them keeyds and making them stupider”. So uncool.

I’m a bunch of wave functions increasing entropy.

I respond with, “Yeah Happy happy”

Just use private tabs?

Browser history can be so useful (for looking up visited pages), and I dunno, archiving stuff just has an appeal of its own!

While he was my introduction to the leftist political space, I never understood why he was so intellectually lazy. I’ve never seen him actually research something, learn something and so on. He just now looks like an entertainer, or a cheerleader instead of someone actually willing to engage in good faith convos.

Russia running out of gas is the funniest thing

Does anyone remember the Great Lakes analogue in the Geronimo Stilton books?

Lake Lake, Lake Lakelake and Lake Lakelakelake

Wellll there’s still a hidden variable (which is hidden in the plan seat list of whatever, that contains who that seat belongs to).

We haven’t been able to prove such hidden variables present before collapsing the wave function yet.

If God is real then God must die.

If God is real then God doesn’t love the creatures on this planet. This sentient creature created a reality filled with suffering of the highest order.

A counter argument to this is this:

We cannot understand God’s plan as we aren’t capable of understanding it because we aren’t God.

This argument is quite stupid in my opinion. Zeus raped people. Is Zeus bad? I think we can agree that Zeus is bad. If a super advanced alien created a human zoo, put humans in it without their consent and also put in wasps whose stings make the humans want to kill themselves. Would we say that the alien is benevolent? Would we say “oooh, Mr. Alien is too advanced for us to perceive their plan, but Mr. Alien definitely loves us”? No, we would try to escape and kill that alien so that it can never harm us ever again. Why does God get special treatment then?

I’m not sure if ur profile picture is real, but in case it is: You, sir have a magnificent beard!

I mean it’s so clear how these folks haven’t actually gone out and talked to real people. People have very different beliefs, most which aren’t logically consistent. People don’t give a shit about “reading theory”.

If you want to do something (which could be as simple as working in a group project), you need to build coalitions. Focusing on issues that you agree upon and building up from there.

This purity bullshit is just so tiring lmao

You know… The obsession of American MLs with “enlightening the people” by posting propaganda in places meant to be fun is really really annoying.

I don’t give a shit about your American politics. I’m in this community to look at pictures of beans and jeans. There are communities dedicated specifically to American politics, where people will engage with you properly.

I fail to understand time and time again how people can tolerate those little annoying squeakers. They aren’t even cute ffs.

That being said, firecrackers just suck. Animals, babies, the elderly, folks sensitive to loud noises, folks with war related PTSD, the environment, all of this has to suffer because “oooo prettyyyyy”.

There are other forms of celebration and entertainment that do not have such negative externalities. Example: the opening ceremony of Paris 2024.

owo

Quite a few assumptions being made and quite a lot of hyperbole.

• The richest man in the world is not representative of the human race. Also, settling Mars (within timelines that musk is suggesting) is not treated seriously by any institution with significant power.
• We aren’t putting earth’s ability to host life in jeopardy. Not even close. Yes, human caused climate change is bad. Worst case outcomes lead to most human settlements going under water and extinctions in a manner that the planet has seen only a few times. But again, not even close where we need to abandon earth cuz we “ruined it” or whatever. Not even nuclear war would lead humanity to come to this conclusion.

As for why a civilization should be interested in spreading out as much as possible in case it wants to survive:

• spreading out reduces the probability of extinction. Right now, one gamma ray burst that’s close enough, and that is aimed at earth can render the entirety of humanity extinct. But if we were more spread out, not all humans would have to die. The same logic can be applied to relativistic weapons aimed at earth.
• spreading out gives us access to a lot of resources. Earth’s gravity and atmosphere makes it hard to manufacture and launch megastructures. Megastructures can allow us to create really cool stuff.
• many humans find exploring the universe really cool!

If alien species are anything like us, I highly doubt that they’d come to the conclusion that you’ve posited.

Anthropocentrism

As “trains”? Lol would’ve been peak !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Thanks for the writeup! Interesting project indeed!

IT REALLY IS!!!