Joyful
9mo ago
If I remember correctly, magnitude is actually half of reality, not more than reality. (its been at least 15 years since I read the abstracts of the research from the 60s? 70s?).
For example, if the average person guesses that a black man is twice as likely to go to jail as a white man (stereotype), the reality would be that he was 4 times as likely. The gist was that we actually understereotype, that a pattern has to be really obvious to become a stereotype. But this research became taboo a long time ago and I haven't seen anything recent.
Joyful
9mo ago
Looking at the people on the conservative side, the loudest champions of a traditional moral order seem to be grifters, or at least hypocrites where they say one thing, and do another in their personal lives.
This is boo outgroup.
I'd say the loudest social media voices right now are Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro. Who specifically do you mean are hypocrites and grifters?
Hypocrisy has always been a lazy accusation. Better to be a person who believes there should be a standard and personally fails to meet it than someone who rejects all standards.
Joyful
9mo ago
Furries annoying everyone as usual: https://www.loweringthebar.net/2025/04/dragon-lawyer-files-complaint-with-cartoon-dragon.html
Joyful
11mo ago
In library school this topic was taught as "dealing with our homeless patrons" and balancing their right to use the internet freely like the dignified upstanding citizens they are with preventing children from seeing them masturbate in public.
Joyful
11mo ago
Adding that I think its a time thing, any kid that goes on puberty blockers for more than a few months will never proceed through all of the puberty phases (even if you give them cross sex hormones) and they hit their 20s unable to orgasm. Not to mention the nasty damage it does to their brains (possibly an entire standard deviation of IQ).
Joyful
11mo ago
Woman here. I find nothing arousing about men kissing. Women who are into gay anime do exist but this is far from universal.
Joyful
11mo ago
I loved the Shadow series. Much better than the non-ender books in the original series!
Joyful
11mo ago
bloody the nose of one of America's two main rivals
Does anyone think Russia is a rival? For what? Hearts and minds? The world wants to move here. We have multiple states with a bigger GDP. Slavic population is going to keep shrinking.
Not saying they don't matter, nukes and resources matter, but rival is over-egging the pudding.
Joyful
11mo ago
Kindle has a time to finish chapter/book estimate setting that is usually pretty good. Other than that i read about 100 pages an hour fiction.
Joyful
11mo ago
For non-fiction I'm making my way through "Bad Therapy." The gist is that it isn't just awareness, mental health really has been declining since Gen X (as measured by teenage suicides, for example) and that a lot of the treatments and interventions we do to young people are making them more unhappy not fixing things. It is causing me to rethink a lot of my own experiences and theory of mind beliefs.
I finished "How to Invent Everything" and it was a fun rundown of technology, although I'd quibble at a whole chapter on music theory (you don't need music theory to invent music!) but the exclusion of photography was the only gap that bothered me.
For fiction this week I read the Country House Murders anthology in the hopes of discovering a new author to scratch the Agatha Christie / Dorothy Sayers itch, but not really. I'm also rushing through Clytemnestra's Bind, which reminds me of the amazing Circe* and spending time in an ancient world is always great for the brain. Also some random Tom Clancy that isn't that interesting.
*Selfishly, the author of Circe, Madeline Miller, seems to spend most of her time on her day job and not enough time writing fiction.
Joyful
11mo ago
I like stormlight archives but I feel that the writing gets worse as we go along. There must be a line between character development and pop psychology, and it feels like along the way EVERY one of the main characters has to go through multiple rounds of "processing" their "trauma". To the ridiculous extent that Kaladin actually invents group trauma therapy for soldiers with PTSD! I loved book 1 Shallan but she gets worse. Loved early Dalinar, he gets worse.
Sandersons mind is an enjoyable place to hang out but honestly his wheel of time ending was stronger than his own books.
Lol. Charitable. How about being able to not only live longer but also live better lives due to improved social networks. Men who lose their wives are emotionally screwed, women who lose their husbands are widows and mostly fine.
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