angrystego @ angrystego @lemmy.world

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Probably the same as I do with finite time - stress myself about things I cannot influence. Or perhaps I'd finally have time to learn not to do that - it's a task for several lifetimes, I'm afraid :)

I'd study it in humans first - the advantage is they can talk. I'd study the way brain works in nostalgia feeling humans. Then I'd try to find the same or similar functionality in dog brains (which are fortunately similar enough, because dogs are evolutionarily relatively close to humans).

Let me again state that feelings are subjective even in humans and you could argue that what others really experience can be different even though it manifests the same externally. I'm knowingly ignoring this phylosofical side of the problem and I'm proposing a practical scientific way to approach it.

Other human beings are the same problem, no one can tell how others really feel. Let's get solipsism out of the way, so that we can talk practically.

Human beings share a lot of genetics and brain functions - we can study that. And they share a lot of genetics and brain functions with dogs too! I don't think nostalgia in dogs has been studied yet, but I do think we can get an answer one day.

Don't get me wrong - I know there are many desperate people now. I'd just like to see the comparison to pre-revolution France to see just how similar the situation really is based on hard data.

Motheric

Yeah, I might not remember it exactly, but I've heard that about 9 out of 10 people of all our history haven't died yet. Which can be neatly misinterpreted as a surprisingly optimistic chance of not dying.

I wonder where the line of being able to afford food and housing would be in each graph and what is the percent of people bellow that. I think that's the important factor signifying how desperate people really are.

You're being unnecessarily hostile. Are we on the internet or something?

Exactly, that was my point.

I didn't like all lecturers, but I did like all the information, there was no lecture with boring informations for me. I get it. I didn't confirm your experience, therefore I must be lying. There's no way someone could be built differently from you. I suppose I should play the game and say I didn't like at least something, even though that's not true, to make myself more relatable.

I'm flattered, but I'm not in the mood right now. I'll be in my corner worrying about constitution redoings...

Are you ready for some tearing up and redoing of constitution now?

I'm just telling you about my anecdotal experience. You don't have to believe me. It changes nothing - I loved my lectures to bits. For me, it was such an improvement from high school where I was often bored! At uni, I studied what I was really interested in and even could choose from different lectures. Not every lecturer was good, so I sometimes got bored because of that, but not because I wouldn't like the subjects they were teaching - I enjoyed every bit of information I learned about at uni. I'm sorry it was so different for you that you can't believe this could be real for someone.

Edit: I think I found a better way to explain myself: Imagine a nerd learning all the nerd stuff. That was me.

In some countries you don't pay for education and many people absolutely love the lectures. You can study something because you love the subject. I myself enjoyed every single lecture I had and I often attended even lectures that I didn't need in my curriculum, just for the delight of learning things. I understand there are people that study just to get a degree and employability and don't really like their specialisation that much. That's ok. But studying what you're passionate about can be very fulfilling and it's ok too, nothing snobbish about it.

Those are self-explanatory:

Wow, you're right, it IS like Revelations!

It IS called grape fruit, not for its taste though, rather for the way the fruits grow in grape-like racemes ;)

That was before it has been fixed, now it's a neutrino.

They're hybrids, surprisingly though, they're not man-made, or not directly. People introduced oranges and pomelos to Barbados. But the plants then crossbread of their own will in the wild, creating grapefruits :)

I do agree it's easier to tweak the fruit.

Yeah, that's because grapefruits are pomelo and orange hybrids. And it's the only American native citrus. The parent species were brought to the Americas from Asia. They escaped from plantations, crossbread in the wild (in Barbados) and that's how grapefruits were born.

Also, pomelos are one of the few comercial citruses that are not hybrids, it's a botanic species (unlike oranges, lemons, limes and tangerines)