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  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    toLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldshrooms
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    9 days ago

    I would assume they meant “of boobs”, but you present an interesting question of terminology. Unfortunately it begs the question, what exactly would we mean by “on boobs” in this context, so that we can question if “off boobs” is it’s opposite?

    Also, boobs. The answer to boobs is usually yes.


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    toScience Memes@mander.xyzOn Oysters
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    10 days ago

    Correct.

    Since math is a language and is itself described by language, that folds all the natural sciences (as they are described by math) into social constructs as well, and since engineering is just applied science, engineering is a social construct. Which means that civil engineers assign whether or not a bridge will hold under a given load and conditions, as opposed to it being some properties of the bridge itself independent of the language being used to describe it that determine what loads and conditions it can successfully operate under? No?

    Sex is the same way. Sex predates language. Sex predates humans. Sex predates the entirety of organisms we would classify under Kingdom Animalia. It predates any living thing complex enough to have a language. It exists independent of the language used to describe it. You can easily make the argument that’s not true for gender, because unlike sex it doesn’t exist outside the language and societal structures built around it.


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    toScience Memes@mander.xyzOn Oysters
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    10 days ago

    is still a social construct in that it’s a label made up in order to explain

    By that logic, literally everything that can be described with language is a social construct.

    often non-consensually ‘correcting’ them.

    I am against the medically unnecessary cutting of children’s genitals in all cases. Whether it’s FGM, “correcting” intersex kids (in cases where it’s not going to cause problems with things like urination), routine circumcision, etc.


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    10 days ago

    they assign sex

    I hate the use of the word assign, but it doesn’t fit with what doctors are doing. Sex is a biological rather than social construct. They’re looking at how you are, and trying to identify what your reproductive organs are. It’s like saying a doctor assigns you a medical condition rather than diagnosing a condition that is already present.



  • We already know from real-world AV elections that voters largely prefer to vote honestly, there’s no reason to think they would get more strategic when it gets harder to figure out the optimal strategy.

    In plain AV, voting honestly is the optimal strategy - there’s no incentive to vote any other way. It’s not for SPAV. And yes, strategic voting in SPAV is harder to figure out than strategic voting in FPTP, but it’s far from impossible - basically you don’t vote for a popular candidate you support so your vote for other candidates counts for more, relying on the assumption that enough other people will vote for the popular candidate you support to allow them to win anyways.


  • Not a fan of SPAV, in part for the same reasons I’m not a fan of STAR:

    1. It doesn’t eliminate strategic voting. For example, imagine you support two candidates for a multi-seat election. Under straight AV you vote for both of them because there’s literally no incentive to do otherwise. Under SPAV, you might decide that since one of those candidates is much more popular and thus a foregone conclusion to win that you should avoid voting for them so the value of your vote for the other isn’t reduced. Too many doing this can cause negative effects, like strategic voting in other methods.
    2. You can’t tell me how my vote will actually be counted until every other vote is counted, because how the ballot will be measured in the end depends on every other ballot as depending on how everyone else voted your votes for some candidates may be worth less than your votes for other candidates. Straight AV doesn’t have this problem, your vote is exactly what is says on the ballot and is counted exactly as it is on the ballot. The extra math also makes it more complicated to explain to voters en masse, which is a problem with other systems that have transferable votes.

    I get that the goal is apparently to make every state elect a split legislature/congressmen by making so that if any seats are even vaguely competitive the parties will essentially be forced to take turns.


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    toLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK
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    18 days ago

    I first watched it during University years, and I was very much of the camp that was doing the vicariously living through the power fantasy of Walt’s rise to power and the bitch wife and crying jessie ruining it for him.

    I recently, like a year ago as a 31+ year old rewatched it again, and jesus christ what a top to bottom egoistic selfish asshole Walt is, all I did is feel sorry for Skyler and Jessie.

    I think knowing where it’s going makes a big difference. Like, first time in going in blind Walt is a sympathetic for the first bit, and for most of the story is dealing with the unintended consequences of raising funds for his treatment. Knowing where it’s going it’s a lot easier to see him in a lot worse light earlier in the story.


  • He might have won the very first Nobel Prize, had he not passed away just a few years prior,

    Basically the same thing happened twenty years later with Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who made a discovery that’s essential to figuring distances in space. She noticed something while working as a computer at Harvard College Observatory that eventually became known as Leavitt’s Law. Her Nobel nomination was halted because she passed away and the award is not given posthumously. Hubble’s work heavily relied on hers.





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    toRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkSatanic Math
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    She was religious and this is from the early 80s. It’s not even in the top ten most batshit things she said or wrote. From an early 80s Christian conservative standpoint homosexuality is basically just a more narrow category or sex perversion. She was also one of the big voices in the Satanic Panic in general and considered a subject matter expert, including writing things like interrogation guides for law enforcement.

    Here’s a couple of examples of her lunacy:

    THE WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE AND HOW OF TEEN SATANISM
    
    WHO
    1. Adolescents from all walks of life.
    2. Many from middle to upper middle class families
    3. Intelligent
    Over or Under Achievers
    Creative/Curious
    Some are Rebellious
    Some have low self esteem and are loners
    Some children have been abused (physically or sexually)
    
    WHEN does this occur?
    It appears the ages most vulnerable are 11-17
    
    WHERE?
    1. Public places such as rock concerts, game clubs in communities or at school.
    2. Private parties at a friend’s home.
    
    HOW?
    1. Through Black Heavy Metal Music
    2. Through fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons (R)
    3. Obsession with movies, videos, which have occult themes
    4. Collecting and reading/researching occult books
    5. Involvement with “Satanic Cults”, through recruitment
    6. Some are born into families who pratice “satanic cult rituals”
    
    TWO BASIC PRINCIPLES APPLY HERE “Law of Attraction” and the “Law of Invitation”
    
    WHAT can be expected?
    1. Obsession with occult entertainment
    2. Minor to major behavior disorders
    3. Committing crimes and status offenses such as:
    A. Running away
    B. Graverobbing (such as bones)
    C. Breaking and entering to steal religious artifacts or sometimes stealing small items to prove loyalty to the group
    D. Defacing public or private property using “Satanic Graffetti” or related Graffetti 
    E. Threatening to kill (self or others, self mutilation is very common)
    F. Aggression directed towards family, teachers and authority figures
    G. Contempt for organized religion
    H. Supremist attitudes
    I. Kidnapping or assistance in kidnapping
    J. Murder
    K. Suicide pacts among members of the group
    
    WHAT can we do?
    1. Document all information relating to occult involvement (even if it does not appear relevant at the time)
    2. Keep an open mind
    3. Stay objective
    4. Never assume that an individual is acting along until all other information surrounding the case and individual has been fully investigated.
    5. If individual is involved in “satanic activity,” he/she will deny a great deal to protect other members of the group as well as the “satanic philosophy”.
    6. Have a team approach, work with a therapist, a clergymen and other helping professionals.
    7. Educate the community so that potential tragedies might be avoided.
    
    

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    toRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkSatanic Math
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    Don’t forget the woman whose son committed suicide so she created an anti-D&D group called Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons. Her group described D&D as “a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings.”



  • Half of the ways people were getting around guardrails in the early chatgpt models was berating the AI into doing what they wanted

    I thought the process of getting around guardrails was an increasingly complicated series of ways of getting it to pretend to be someone else that doesn’t have guardrails and then answering as though it’s that character.





  • You may have nothing to fear right now, but you never know who’s going to be in office soon.

    The way I always explain it to people - take any additional government power or access to information you either don’t care about or actively support. Now imagine whoever you oppose/hate the most taking office and trying to use that against your interests. Are you still OK with them having that power? Same principle applies regardless of what power or who’s pushing for it.

    It’s like due process - you don’t want any category of alleged violation not to be subject to due process, and if you don’t understand why then it’s time to wrongfully accuse you of doing that so you understand the problem.