entropicdrift @ entropicdrift @lemmy.sdf.org

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Damn, never playing Elden Ring? Your loss ig

So why not just say "stress is bad for you" instead of "cortisol is bad for you", if plain language is better?

It would be more accurate, too.

That's on the low side of "Normal weight" per the BMI chart.

I'm 33, 5'7" and 175 lbs. Technically overweight, but I still look fine. It really really depends on your build.

Anyway I'd take that screencap as proof of verbal/emotional abuse.

It is a wild oversimplification to suggest that oxytocin is love/happiness and cortisol is stress/anger/fear.

I'm not saying picking yourself up emotionally when you're down is bad, it's like, the most obvious advice that almost anyone would give.

I'm saying the science here is shit. It's woo-woo masquerading as brain chemistry knowledge by co-opting a few key words and phrases.

If you're gonna give cliche advice, just own it instead of dressing it up as science when it isn't. It's insulting to the audience's intelligence.

What in the four humors?

This is not how human brains work. It's a wild oversimplification of one of the most complex hunks of meat on the planet, to the point of silliness.

I'd say The Shadow is even more so, but definitely ye-olde world's greatest detective Batman qualifies.

Lmao, pretty sure they meant 5 mothers per 100 years is the norm across recorded history

Probably both. Idiots rarely see beyond their level of reasoning

Let me try:

"Shadow potato" - I guess a little

"Shadow fart" - ehhhhhhh, no

"Shadow cancer" - I mean it sounds metal, but contemplating extra-hard-to-find cancer just feels bad

I guess it makes most things cooler, I did have to stretch my brain decently hard to find any counterexamples.

You think the social media propaganda machines all grinding into gear to pump out pro-trump propaganda isn't going to help his popularity?

I envy your positivity

Ehh, no. WSJ has always been conservative. They just hide it somewhat behind the pretense of being business/market oriented.

The very definition of reactionaries.

On the other hand, stability is the main draw of any government job. Without the guarantee of continued employment, most people wouldn't want to put up with the lower pay and extremely slow career advancement prospects of government work.

So who will they hire? People who can't get any other job, e.g. even more incompetent people.

Same as most autocracies. The system of incentives lines up such that the innermost circle gets absurdly over-rewarded in order to not turn on the leader. In other words, it's corruption by design in almost all autocratic systems, and even when the autocrat manages to avoid that, regression towards the mean means it ends up that way within a couple generations at best.

Don't forget stronger unions!

Lions tend to be bad enough at hunting that that is their population control lever.

As an EV owner, you're not wrong about heating the cabin taking like 30% of the range, but the battery heater is a drop in the bucket by comparison.

I would say that in most cases a person's commitment to continuous education is more important than what they went to school a decade+ ago. There have been plenty of SWEs that I've run into with relevant degrees that never bothered to study since getting their degree and most of them were mediocre at best.

Meanwhile I've been a professional software engineer for 9 years now with no college degree.

In tech, it pretty much is a scam, or at best a classist gatekeeping requirement that anybody interested in getting real work done will ignore or handwave away. At least till you get up to the level of having "publish x number of papers per year" as part of the job requirements.

This.

I've been much happier abandoning games and shows even if I'm 95% done just because they stopped being fun. Completion is overrated