Whats_your_reasoning @ Whats_your_reasoning @lemmy.world

In case you can't tell, I'm passionate about rationality and critical think

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That's what you get for not buying the very latest edition of the textbook. /s

Seriously though, you're clearly trying to actually comprehend the material, but even the professor was too checked out? I wish I were surprised, but that's just upsetting. Nobody takes responsibility for education anymore, not the instructors, not the administration, and none but maybe a handful of students who get zero support from either of the above. I've learned more from reading on the internet for free than I have from any classroom. But learning for free on one's own doesn't give someone a fancy paper that attracts employers. Gotta spend money to make money, yet again.

You're right. The illiteracy is everywhere. It's a very troubling sign.

I wonder, were there any other points in history, post-literacy, where a significant amount of people went to school yet still lacked literacy skills? If it has happened, would it even be recorded? Or is this aspect of modern society truly novel?

It'd be nice to know how such a situation would've been rectified in the past, but I get the feeling the solution would be the same thing I've been calling for since my own childhood - a comprehensive public educational system with a focus on critical thinking.

They probably didn't link it by default because of Rule 4. However, I think there should be an exception when other users ask for links. (Maybe the rule should be, "No unsolicited self promotion"?)

For the record, I would also like to see this rant.

When search engines started putting lists of videos in response to every query, I fumed. Trying to find a solution to the game issue you're having? Here, scan through this 10 minute video and hope you come across the part that discusses your specific issue! Oh, it didn't actually talk about the thing you need? Lol well at least you watched some ads.

I think next time I have a game issue, I'll be asking about it here on Lemmy. Yeah, the audience isn't as big as on Reddit, but we'll never know the depth of the knowledge fellow Lemmings have to offer if we never ask.

It's all pathetic. Devoting one's time to following someone around just to downvote them is a pathetic way to live. It's not less pathetic if they comment - the lack of comments is just something I've observed.

It might have been easier to learn about if shows didn't censor it out from the start. How are people supposed to talk about something if it's deliberately removed? It's like people went, "Americans don't already know about this food, so let's make sure they don't learn about its existence."

I remember 1997 on The Simpsons, when Marge wanted to open a franchise. One of the options (which her rivals took) sold pita. I was a kid, and this was the first time I had ever heard of pita and tahini. They were simply described as "pocket bread" and "flavor sauce." The introduction of new foreign food items didn't upset or confuse the audience.

It's simply bizarre that riceballs are treated like some particularly incomprehensible thing.

Also, research may have taken longer (and involved trips to the library), but anyone who wanted to learn about something in the 90s still could've done it. It wasn't pre-literate, just pre-internet.

No need to apologize! That's a cool self-fact. :)

"Conveniently placed shrub" became a running gag in my 4th grade friend group because of this.

I've heard that from others (and thought that) before, too. But I've come to believe there are simply some sad, little trolls on here that are either too cowardly or lazy to comment. It's pathetic.

I never saw the movie and don't know the context, but I wanted to see the gif so I looked it up. Is this the one?

When I was a teenager, I bought a DVD that had a few Sailor Moon episodes that I had never seen before (being from the U.S.) In these episodes, Makoto (or "Lita" AKA Sailor Jupiter) develops a crush on Haruka (or "Amara" AKA Sailor Uranus) and has to cope with her being unattainable. The DVD included both an English dub and the original Japanese with English subtitles.

In the original Japanese version, the crush is treated as romantic in nature, with Makoto's friends telling her that Haruka already has "a girlfriend" (Michiru AKA "Michelle" AKA Sailor Neptune.) In the English dub, Makoto wants Haruka to be her "best friend," with the rest of the Sailor Scouts telling her that Haruka already has "a best friend."

The visuals all stay the same, complete with roses and Makoto's starry love-eyes. The romantic implications are so obvious it's painful.

The original U.S. dub of Pokemon was the same re: riceballs. It didn't make sense in the 90s, and it doesn't make sense today. The worst thing that can happen is a kid asks their parents if they can try onigiri.

Oh no! Now we either have to tell our kids "no," or we have to do the research to find somewhere that makes/sells it, or attempt to follow a new recipe ourselves. How will U.S. culture, composed of nationalities from across the globe, ever survive this tremendous upheaval!?

In all seriousness, onigiri is delicious and I wish there were greater demand for it across the U.S. Even in my ethnically-diverse blue state, I only know of one place that makes onigiri, but it's far and a pain in the ass to travel to.

on this Monday to Friday plane!

If I were stuck on a plane (let alone one with monkey-eating snakes) for 5 days straight, I'd reach a breaking point, too.

Duffman became beepman, every beer became blurry…

Considering Duffman's signature hip movements and the funky Ohhh yeaaah~ music that always plays whenever he arrives, someone who doesn't know Duff is supposed to be a beer might get a very wrong idea about his job.

It's such a shame when people downvote factual things, simply because they don't like to hear them.

In this case it's especially poignant, since the topic is about a person that censors and/or punishes people who say things they don't like.

or specifically, one part of you is Thai?

I'm imagining a scenario like with Ray Gillette from Archer, where a non-Thai person gets a robotic hand prosthesis that uses skin from a Thai person, making only that specific part of them "Thai."

Is anyone else disgusted by the term “elites”? It plays right into the mindset of the wealthy oligarchs, who sincerely believe they’re better than the rest of us.

Such people aren’t “elite,” they’re useless parasites that wouldn’t be able to exist if they weren’t sucking the wealth out of us. It’s time we stop using a term that kisses their asses.

What’s the excuse of the banana guy for making a shitty piece with no effort?

You're talking like there's some rule about the effort required in order for something to qualify as "art," as if the time-saving aspect of AI-generation is what disqualifies its images. That's not how art works, and that's not the issue with AI.

For a lot of people, art is about expressing themselves. If you have an absurd idea to troll art by doing something inane like taping a banana to a wall, that is still expressing one's self even if it seems low-effort. You don't have to like it or agree with it, just as you don't have to like or agree with what another person says.

The AI art doesn't appear out of nothing. Someone sets the actual content of the art in motion

And unless the human takes great control in the generation of that image, other humans may feel something lacking in the result. At best, AI art resembles something made by someone who has the hand-eye coordination and technical skill required to make visual art, but who lacks the passion and training that allows them to connect emotionally with an audience.

You really don't see the nuance to that? A human uses art to satirize the way other humans use art. A message is being conveyed. The message might be, "Fuck your idea of art," but that's still a message being sent from one human to other humans, through the medium of art.

An AI can't do that. An AI can't understand the emotions underlying the concept of protest art. You can ask it to make up some absurd idea, or even to generate a realistic image of it, but it's not likely to resonate with humans as well as human-made art does.

It's okay if this all sounds like gobbledygook - not everyone connects to art in the same way. But those that get it know exactly what I'm talking about.

My boyfriend can smell when someone drank alcohol hours (or even days!) later. He seems to smell it in a person's sweat, so we suspect he senses some kind of metabolite.

As to me? In-person I seem to emit a comforting, trustworthy aura. Children and stray animals approach me like they just know that I'm a safe space for them. As a result, I've acquired quite a list of no-kill shelters in my phone. I also ended up working in children's therapy.

Adults who share my wavelength can also recognize it in me, and I can recognize it in them - we're drawn to each other in the same "inherently trustworthy" way. I suspect it's an aspect of neuro-divergence.