november 1d ago • 100%
Kind of seems like a contradiction
They don't care. There's no point in calling conservatives out on hypocrisy. Only a very small number of them will give a shit, and those will be the ones who were already having doubts.
november 2w ago • 100%
You don't have any Retroachievements because you're bad at video games.
I don't have any because RetroArch sucks and also I'm bad at video games.
november 2w ago • 100%
You mean this guy could have saved us from Google's browser monopoly? The world could have been so different...
november 3w ago • 95%
I see what the problem is.
Here, this should be more agreeable to you:
The New York Times is full of shit (Opinion)
november 3w ago • 90%
Least reactionary lemmy.world user.
november 3w ago • 100%
This is really disappointing. The Working Designs translation is nostalgic, sure, but it's also garbage.
november 3w ago • 72%
What's the point of preserving artifacts if there's no one to look at them anymore?
november 4w ago • 100%
Holy shit, they remembered Eternal Blue exists.
november 1mo ago • 83%
As opposed to the extremely non-emotional arguments such as "But I like how meat tastes" and "cheese tho" and "for every animal you don't eat I'm gonna eat two"?
november 1mo ago • 72%
"Psh, you think humans don't murder other humans? Tell me you don't pay attention to history without telling me you don't pay attention to history."
november 1mo ago • 100%
How can anyone like reading those samey-same replies constantly?
november 1mo ago • 75%
What do you propose as the solution, then? Without any up-front disclosure of the triggering content being present, how can anybody make the choice whether or not to expose themself to it?
november 1mo ago • 65%
There’s evidence that trigger warnings actually worsen anxiety and are counterproductive
I'd be interested in seeing these studies.
The way to treat anxiety is to face the source of anxiety to try and change your relationship and reaction. The best way to do this is via controlled access that exposes one to the trigger gradually in a context that has no risk of harm (eg a media depiction, discussing the concept, building up to discussing the source of trauma that led to the phobic response if applicable)
Trigger warnings enable active avoidance. This sensitizes one to the aversive stimuli and makes the phobic response stronger. As a result when one encounters the stimulus (eg a friend, family, celebrity etc commits suicide, suffers an eating disorder, etc) your resilience to the trigger is now even lower and the response is more likely to be more significant than it was before.
These two paragraphs seem to contradict each other. Controlled access in a safe setting like a media depiction sounds great. That's exactly what trigger warnings are for. How can you possibly do controlled exposure without knowing if the content is there or not?
Trigger warnings enable active avoidance.
Incorrect. Trigger warnings inform you that the content is present in the media you're about to watch. What you do with that information is up to you.
november 1mo ago • 97%
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African and British entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the development of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system.[1] In 2002, Shuttleworth became the first South African to travel to space, doing so as a space tourist.[2][3][4] He lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship from South Africa and the United Kingdom.[5][6] According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2020, Shuttleworth is worth an estimated £500 million. --Wikipedia
This explains so much.
november 1mo ago • 100%
I was reading Matt Parker's new trigonometry book and they made some remark about triangles in spherical geometry and I went "wait, what if you did this"
november 1mo ago • 77%
They're not curved; the space they're embedded in is curved.
november 1mo ago • 100%
I didn't even think of that. Another good question!
november 1mo ago • 60%
I'm not asking about a Dorito shape.
I would have asked this on a math community but I couldn't find an active one. In a spherical geometry, great circles are "straight lines". As such, a triangle can have two or even three right angles to it. But what if you go the long way around the back of the sphere? Is that still a triangle? (Edit:) I guess it's a triangle! Fair enough; I can't think of what else you *would* call it. Thanks, everyone.
My eyes were bigger than my stomach... At least I'll have leftovers.
Have you ever heard someone describe their cat as "magical"? They weren't being hyperbolic. You see, cats are **obligate carnivores**. This is a kind of animal whose metabolism runs on **magic**. Their digestive systems use **clairvoyance** to determine whether the meal they're eating came from another animal. Nutrients have nothing to do with it -- if you try to feed them lab-synthesized taurine, the ancient curse laid upon their kind by the Egyptian sorcerers who bound them all those millennia ago will **lay waste to all mankind**. Bet you feel stupid now, huh? Checkmate, vegoons.