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I can’t stand being around fishermen that place their live catches on the bare open floor and watch the fish drown in terror after having their entire weight carried by a piercing and dragged into a new world in which they’re immobile while likely burning and drying out at the same time. It makes me check out.

It’s still up!

I don’t have a neuralink installed.

you’re welcome!

These bitching ass motherfuckers be discovering everything.

These awesome people are pioneers. 😂

“Yo, dawg. These scientists be out here scraping the floor of the ocean! in Antractica! Whattttt? They finding animals that didn’t even exist before. That’s what’s up.”

Anon was being a PoS. Ofc they knew they meant Call of Duty.

I set times of the day I have to eat by. If my lunch time limit has come and I haven’t eaten yet, I gotta stop and eat. Makes me be aware of what time it is too, so double good. Last night, I had no intention of eating because the kitchen was busy and my stomach was hurting, but I had promised myself I would eat no matter what, so I got take-out.

Also, because I’m pretty out of it for a bit after eating, it makes me divide my day into smaller sections so I can plan better.

Literally me to my gf: You want to eat again? Didn’t we just eat like 6 hours ago?

Imagine being 6 years old and your mother hugging you while crying. You have no electricity. It’s night time. Artillery shell explosions followed by the crumbling buildings and injured crying in pain are the only break you get from your mother’s sounds of sobbing. They’re destroying your entire block, but what you feel is terror. You can look out a window and see flashes. You don’t even know what politics or weapons of mass destruction. You’re just there scared until you die. You wonder what you did for this to happen. Now imagine hundreds of that same experience per night.

That never makes it into the news. I would love to see people’s responses. Show the child and mother live. Then, people are randomly asked, “Push button to kill this person immediately or you will be put in jail and shamed for life.” Let’s see how they react to that guilt for eternity.

There’s a quote from Game of Thrones that I think of often. The setting is that 3 brutal high-class leaders have to decide which one of them will die as punishment. They start getting nervous, so Tyrion says:

It always seems a bit abstract, doesn’t it, other people dying?

I find it validating.

Tenure-track professors typically have a time limit to prove their worthiness of tenure. At the end of that limit, they apply for tenure and either get accepted or practically fired. One way to prove your value is by publishing in “high-impact” journals. There are all sorts of methods to measure the impact of a journal objectively, such as how often its articles are cited in other articles whose impact scores are also measured. These professors that are in serious debt and have spent their entire lives aiming for this position are practically prisoners trying to get out of the whole they inadvertently dug themselves into. A lot of publications are by those professors, so they are aiming for the highest possible impact scores.

Another group is made up of highly acclaimed professors. They all know each other personally and sit on the editorial boards of those high impact journals. Before they officially submit an article, they send it to their colleague that’s on the board or knows someone on the board for review, make revisions, then submit for publication. This likely leads to a bias I like to call “a hook up”. These professors practically own the journal, so they have no reason to start a new one.

The rest of the professors (mid-level tenured professors) would be the ones likely to create a new journal that isn’t privately owned by a publishing company. Being mid-level and tenured, their only drive to excel is their personal desire to improve the field, so they’re not as driven by necessity as the tenure-track or personal drive to excel as the highly acclaimed professors. So the reason it doesn’t happen is the ones that would make it happened are over-shadowed by the ones that promote the currently established ones.

I think for a new one to come out, we’d need a schism among high-level professors or some major systemic change in academia that impacts the drive for publication.

Jarvis

She had a metallic butt plug at an MRI and that thing didn’t rip through her body out of her? Why does the media even have access to her story? How did they find out this happened, how did they have the legal permission to publicly report it?

One of the surprising outcomes of finally receiving medication for ADHD was my ability to actually focus on tasks through to completion. I stopped avoiding tasks because I knew I would be able to complete them through to the end without a meltdown. I had no idea how pervasively ADHD was affecting my life.

Why are they called drones instead of remote-controlled whatever? What’s the difference between a drone plane and the remote-controlled planes flown by hobbyists at the park?

I see a lot of hate for them on Lemmy, but I find hem quite helpful with earning how to work with computers and also summarizing general info I search for on the internet. Rather than spend 20 minutes reading thru various websites on a topic know nothing about, I can simply ask an LLM. Eve if they are known to make mistakes, I can accommodate that possibility if the stakes are high enough by looking into it further.

I don’t understand war criminals. What’s the point of killing innocent people just there? Even if you absolutely don’t care about them, killing them consumes effort and resources. It can also backfire as it may create a strong backlash by survivors tat find out.