Haha. Nah, I wasn’t being serious. I was making a reference to the “-typical” in the term neurotypical and thought it was funniee to point it out - like a wink wink nudge nudge thing

I do this and it makes me wonder. It doesn’t seem normal typical but it makes a lot of sense to me

Alright let’s do this Lemmy pals

1. Socrates willingly takes hemlock after being cancelled for going viral

2. Plato covers Socrates in written text (and goes viral)

3. Aristotle does his own thing… getting fuzzy

4. Aquinas makes… arguments

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That’s funny, I’m most relaxed and distracted when I’m avoiding some work I was supposed to do months ago

Idk… I find pi AI incredible and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in having a low-stakes conversation about their mental health or just to have a general conversation about what they’re feeling. I honestly don’t use it enough (like when I’m super bummed and have no one to talk to). So far, it’s always been 1000% helpful

I’m just happy they learned what peer review means. I doubt even a third of Americans know what it means or its impact on their lives

Yeah that wasn’t at all the impression I got from their first comment

Do people use breed and generically modify interchangeably? Are they actually the same

You just helped me realize all the people that make a big deal out of getting monthly “security” updates for their phones are probably just dumb teenagers!

I hate mandatory updates with a fiery passion

Glad it wasn’t too bad for you/y’all.

Unfortunately, I wiped my computer Thursday night before our company mentioned anything. lol. I ended up finding out about the issue on Lemmy/Reddit. My company didn’t send anything out until this morning - which I still find insane, my laptop crashed and started looping around 7p (took them like 12 hours).

My laptop just rebooted while I was working so I assumed some program I’d installed caused it (explorerpatcher). I tried everything, safe mode, system restore, uninstall updates. I figured the only option left was to reinstall windows. Done it plenty of times on my personal PC

Oh well, lesson learned. Shit’s totally fucked now. It won’t even connect to the Internet. lol. Definitely a Monday problem though

Good thing back in the day there were probably very few cult leaders…

Does anyone wonder about how the story of Jesus being plagiarized from the Egyptian myth of Horus affects the narrative about the Jesus that supposedly lived and died a century earlier? You know the one that happened to have incredibly important political value for the established leaders of the time?

No? Me either. Praise Horus!

Great post, OP!

Thanks for adding the reddit comments as well! There were actually some super nice and compassionate replies there

Ngl, I did not actually expand the picture to see the caption. I just saw the main image about knowledge. Post-docs absolutely get fucked and I do feel bad for them.

I quit one year into my PhD because I was miserable in grad school. I have to assume most post-docs have some crazy resilience or some kind of mental issue/trauma that keeps them going and going. I guess that’s probably true for most people but post-docs do some seriously hard mental work and basically get shafted the entire time (at least in the US).

Unpopular opinion (apparently): I value the overpriced, yet imo absolutely priceless, education I received when I was in college/at a university.

It’s honestly unbelievable (to me) how much people in the US look down on learning and getting an education

I just listened to this, it’s actually a bit before your timestamp, but based on the context of the conversation there having, it seems like they’re talking about actually seeing the dead Palestinian kids. When she says “them” it seems to me like she’s saying we’ve now actually seen decapitated kids, whereas as before we only had hearsay

I figured it’s due to using a vpn or ad blocker or something

Idk about less than human; moreso, we just see them/each other through a racial lens - one rooted in our respective culture(s) and understanding of history (which is itself usually heavily-written/influenced by earlier European culture/historians).

That said, most Americans tend to use racism as a synonym for prejudice (as opposed to the academic definition of racism; i.e. an “organized system of race-based” prejudice). To probe this line of thought, I’ve recently started asking people whether they would consider a black American (wo)man growing up in 1845 (pre-Civil war) or in ~1930 (peak KKK membership; ~5 million Americans) racist for their likely negative views of the average white American. I’ve yet to get an answer, which is a bit of a bummer. Personally, I think most people realize it would be silly to call a black American slave racist for being prejudiced of their fellow white American citizens who they know only as brutal slave owners/traders. (Did y’all know pirates would use African slaves to launder money since they had a stable monetary value?)

Sorry, if it’s a bit of a tangent. I find this stuff super interesting. Highly recommend “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Tatum and the doc “Exterminate All the Brutes” on HBO to anyone interested. Then come and chat with me about your thoughts! No one I know cares about this kind of stuff. It’s all rap battles and dumb culture war crap, but I digress (further)

Uhh, did I say it was bad somewhere? I don’t think I even stated my opinion about it. lol. Wtf u talking bout?

It’s usually white people that say it’s not bad/offensive and/or that everyone should be allowed to say whatever they want or they’re just words, don’t get so offended, etc.

I’m just teaching my white friends and fam their own history. Personally, I think it’s worse and more offensive that they don’t know or care about the atrocities their ancestors committed than the modern use of the word cracker. That said, it’s offensive like seeing a piece of trash on the street - it won’t ruin my day or anything but I’m well aware it’s stll trashy

It’s one of my favorite things to teach white friends and (extended) family when they say they don’t care about being called cracker, or are “never offended” by words

“Oh, you’re right. I don’t really like that!” - my cousin in law. lol. The look on her face was honestly priceless

There’s plenty of good books out there for anyone interested in learning how to communicate with others, especially those you disagree with - I recommend You’re Not Listening or I’m Just Saying as good starting points

[✓] I’m not a robot