• Turducken@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Perfect use of this format. "I don't know" is the foundation of wisdom. See: reddit where too many think they know.

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    • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You can basically half American salary numbers because we have to pay for a lot of stuff that Europeans usually don't need to pay for. $57k in America is struggling if you live in a city. Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

      • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

        You guys have cars while being poor? Sorry but seems stupid to me

        • JohannaChittarra
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          1 year ago

          Welcome to our country that has utterly failed to invest in public transit outside of a few major cities, such that we must be dependent on cars. Love it here. amerikkka

        • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          You are correct. We are forced to have them though. There's no mass transit and everything is two hours away on foot. Most new cars now are $40k unless you get like a base Sentra but the median income is only $60k.

      • DudePluto@lemm.ee
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        What are we considering in vs out of city? Does in city mean just downtown, within city limits, within metro area? And what are we considering a city - 300k population?

        • culpritus [any]
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          1 year ago

          Less than 30 minute commute, if it's less than that the price of housing goes up ~20% for each 5 minutes you would save.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The biggest lesson from neuroscience: Most psychology is BS and the entire field is little better than pseudoscience.

      • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
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        I think this is a very incorrect take. I don't think neuroscience has been able to make a single claim against psychology yet, nor any real and predictable claims at all which place it above psychology in application or correctness. Psychology of course has problems, and I'm very open to discussions of issues with methods and shit. But don't act like neuroscience has much of anything to say about it. They're entirely tangential fields with one at the experiential level and the other at the technical/non-experience level. Common mistake of thinking you know too much from the meme

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        • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          If we weren't talking about a brain, but instead a piece of computer software, neuroscience would be digging into the source code to figure out how it works. Meanwhile psychology is like watching a bunch of YouTube videos of people demonstrating the software.

          One provides answers. The other provides guesses.

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            • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              It's a metaphor, my god. You want a less technical version? Neurology is like a farmer analyzing his soil to figure out it's pH and NPK content to determine what crops will go best. Psychology is studying decades worth of Farmers Almanacs. The point is, only one deals with hard, definitive numbers.

              I will grant that my view is a matter of opinion, but it is my firm belief that any science that can not answer it's own questions with solid, irrefutable, numerical answers is an undeveloped science.

              You may take that as an insult, in which case 1. It's not meant as one, and 2. Get over yourself. It's an observation. I'm not saying these fields aren't important and won't eventually develop far enough to have such answers, but as they are, right now, they are filled with deficiencies.

              Because there are no hard, irrefutable, numerical answers, these fields inherently invite biased studies with conclusions searching for evidence rather than the other way around. And while this may not be the norm, it absolutely exists and can be used to justify anything. Then other studies cite that study which cites that study, and on and on. And since it can't just be disproven with an equation, its much harder to refute and correct.

              It's educated guesses. Maybe some day they won't be guesses, just like we don't guess that 1+1=2 or that oxygen and hydrogen can combine to make water; but for right now, they're guesses. And no amount of saying that's offensive to those who study it will change that.

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                • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  Nothing good is going to come after an opener like that.

                  Yea, and nothing good will come from a shitty meme attacking a choice of metaphor rather than it's content. Which is what you did to start. What a great picture you posted, is that supposed to represent the strawman you built rather than form any actual argument other than "no you're wrong"?

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          • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            I'd dig into you here but comrade @UlyssesT@hexbear.net managed to perfectly. You use the analogy because you believe in what the metaphor represents (that brains can be better analyzed at the level of neurons to understand what they are, while dumbass psychologists think you can get it from experiential analysis). The computers are always of course a metaphor, but you're influenced deeply by the thought processes which arise from the simplification of human experience (or any living experience) to a mathematical basis which computers also use. There is no reason to believe this or take the analysis at that level as any more serious than experience (which we also can't prove but I can feel something so I believe it)

      • machiabelly [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Really? What psychology has been disproven by neuroscience? Are psyc people resisting it or are they working together? Considering how much psyc has changed the world and helped people I think the idea that it's BS is a little strange.

        • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          we don't understand the brain very well, psych is somewhere between leeches and luminiferous aether.

          if it was more well understood then people won't need to go to 15 fucking different therapists before finding one that helps (if you're lucky), antidepressants would do better than batters do at baseball, you wouldn't need to try dozens of different medications to find one that works (if you're lucky), and they'd take effect more quickly.

          • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Capitalism doesn't put money into social sciences so social sciences are leeches and humour theory pseudoscience. It's unknowable, because the money just isn't there. The free market had decided.

            • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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              1 year ago

              There is money in psychology, but it's all put into making people act more normal. This can be good and useful for some people, many people need aderall to comfortably live, and it's good to stabilize depression, but these being driven by profit means often the underlying problem isn't fixed(in the cases this is possible) and society remains ableist(for issues that are endemic). Other social sciences can be kind of a crapshoot. Many anthropologists are doing very good, important, meaningful work. But not all. Archeology is a land of contrast, and sociology is good when not practiced by privileged westoids.

            • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              i mean, (some) painkillers, muscle relaxers, and lots of other drugs work pretty fucken good. we don't have a great understanding of general anesthesia but all that stuff works most of the time in a way that is simply not the case with brain stuff..

                • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  cool i just want to not feel shitty all the time and i felt like this when i had a stable financial situation and a partner so i know it's not exclusively because of capitalism, which means the psych field needs to step up its shit, not just help build the guillotines.

  • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    There's a reason they call a hypothetical model that unites the standard model (quantum mechanics) and gravity (relativity) the Theory of Everything.

  • duderium [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Christopher Caudwell has some pretty excellent critiques of bourgeois science. Scientific progress has stalled because it is no longer profitable for the bourgeoisie, and the world’s best scientists are all bootlickers, at least inside the imperial core. There’s a reason the best physicists in the 20th century were all communists. But China thankfully is turning this situation around.

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Every American researcher works for advertising companies, even if they don't realize it.

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      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        At this point I take Simulation Theory about as seriously as someone saying "So, Creationism, but like, with a few more steps and a sci-fi horror twist!"

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          • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            I mean I would like to escape the simulation, or at least match it, maybe add some mods to change some of the characters around. I think the quality of the simulation would be improved if I was a large breasted tiger lady with an ass that just won't quit

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              • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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                1 year ago

                My mind broke trying to follow the logic of someone dumb enough to think that letting Elon have nukes or randomly blowing them up in our atmosphere are a good idea or that enough explosions will crash Paper Mario in real life..

                So trying to think like someone who believes all three. Hurts

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I'm in geoscience. Physicists are nerds. Touch grass, ya dweebs. We wear hiking clothes on campus and we aren't going on fieldwork until July. It's called dedication.

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  • culpritus [any]
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    1 year ago

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a44776417/study-contradicts-newton-einstein-theory-gravity/

    maybe there is a modicum of progress?

    • PreachHard@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      From my understanding MOND has some pretty big hurdles to overcome as a model. When speaking to my PHD friend he still feels it's hammering away at a model to further fit observations; it might prove useful but is certainly no smoking gun for us to wave a flag that we're onto something. It's a 40 year old concept that hasn't born much fruit yet.

      https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1112.1320/