snek_boi @ snek_boi @lemmy.ml

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This makes me think that malware will be able to be in an iPhone even before it is taken out of the box. I wonder if this will become an issue in the future. I suppose time, good research, and effective journalism will let us know.

Sorry about appearing as if I was assuming something about you and sorry about appearing as patronizing. I should've said that I wondered what lead you to say what you said.

As to accuracy, maybe I can explain what lead me to say what I said. In Yuval Harari's Homo Sapiens, he shows that coordinated human action requires imagination. We all need to agree that certain imagined things are reality, such as money, nations, institutions… The mechanism by which this happens, I think, is through our capacity to relate any concept in our mind and take it as true. This is based on Relational Frame Theory and Steven Haye's work on how human cognition works. This is what leads me to say that people are not ironic or duplicitous in their claims that superstition is real.

Let me know if you have questions about anything else ☺️

Fair enough. I should've been more accurate.

Here's a revised version: Through years of research done with the World Value Survey, we know that religious beliefs fade from everyday life when people have more money, education, and connectivity. A good source for this is Freedom Rising by Christian Welzel.

I agree with you in the sense that reality should be faced, not supplanted by imagination. However, shaming and disrespecting is a spectacular way of antagonizing people. We know that religious belief naturally fades when people understand the mechanisms of the world. I think it's more impactful and sensible to invest time in science literacy than superstition shaming.

I don't know about their reasoning, but I wonder if they refer to opportunity cost. By doing something unproven, it can harm life. By ignoring reality instead of facing it, life costs more.

I wonder if you have not spent time in religious and non-secular communities. I have, and they are not joking. They have great conviction. It is so powerful that it guides many of their everyday and life-trajectory decisions.

After all, humans are able to conjure imaginary situations and take them as reality. Why wouldn't that happen with superstition? Why would taking imagination seriously only apply to corporations (imagined entities), nations (imagined communities), or intrusive thoughts that cause anxiety (imagined situations)?

Wow. I didn't know this. Are there GUIs to convert images with mozjpeg?

The way string of any material is woven should be durable. But plastic can be a magical material. It doesn't cool when wet, regardless of whether it's got fat on it (unlike wool, which requires lanolin). And its cheapness makes it readily available to billions of people.

To be clear, yes, we should avoid overproduction and overconsumption of plastic. Yes, we should research cheap ways of making durable and waterproof/still-warm-when-wet clothes that are biodegradable. Yes, we should require good filters in every washing machine and dryer so that we don't get full of microplastics.

So you're saying I can eat it, right? Gotcha. 😉

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, pronounced "act") not only helped me with generalized anxiety (which I no longer suffer from), but it also opened the door to fascinating research that I have been reading about ever since.

It is transdiagnostic because it exploits the fundamental building blocks and processes of cognition. In other words, it helps everyone who has mental health problems, as long as they are verbal (so nonverbal autistic people may require other therapy).

It is also 'superdiagnostic', because it improves peoples lives regardless of whether they are diagnosed with a mental health disorder.

Anyone who wants to have more flexible cognition and change their behavior, all with an empirically validated approach, could benefit from ACT.

I don't really understand what you're saying. Could you rephrase it or elaborate, please?

Ah. This makes sense! Thanks!

Sometimes I don't either...

I'm not sure adblockers change the OS they report. Other tools I know for a fact do it.

Edit: However, as @aebletrae@hexbear.net mentions, adblockers don't have to change what OS is reported to change the overall statistics. They explain how in a comment below.

You could check out NixOS :)

I found this: "With its plug still intact but threatened by warm water upwelling, the Ice Tongue prevents the majority of West Antarctica land and undersea ice from collapse and seabed displacement, respectively. The changes are profound and terrifying. The land-fast ice is gone in front of PIG and Thwaites before the melt season begins. This is not going to end well."

Here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/29/2195755/-Pinning-point-five-collapsed-the-sea-ice-barrier-buttressing-Thwaites-and-Pine-Island-Glacier

I'm glad that you have such a nice experience with your pens, but I don't know if this is a showerthought :(

What could you lose?

I get that this could be making fun of the idea that a hypothesis is different to a theory, but there are epistemic stances that don't distinguish between either. From that perspective, both a hypothesis and a theory answer the question of "What do you think is happening here?"

lol yeah, dishwashers require a high upfront cost. But I think they are cheaper in the long run because they use less water (and maybe less electricity?) than washing dishes by hand. I did a quick search online and it seems to be the case. However, I wonder if those first links are wrong.