taiyang @ taiyang @lemmy.world

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Mm... he's an antivax loon but I'd like to remind people that other respected organizations (e.g. WHO) don't recommend it for healthy children who have had at least one dose. I'm not sure about 2025, but that was the guideline at least back in 2024.

Pregnant women are suggested to have at least a booster, once per pregnancy, though. At least, according to WHO.

Nah, academics love their publication biases.

Wait, I mean journal publishers. Publishers love their publication biases.

Edit: I just remembered it was like 16 years ago I talked about this to a mentor. They wanted a FOSS solution for all those unpublished papers, but nobody ever bothered to put in that effort. A shame, really.

Always hate when it suddenly tries to collapse on ya when you're in the tub.

What I'm hearing is we should joke about alimony and suicide? Dark.

I'm kidding! You're right, although I want to add that I've even heard the worm thing as a reason for his bad decisions, etc.. Cover there, too, as plenty of people with no brain damage make terrible choices and have horrible anti-science views.

I like that framing. I've noticed I'm a builder, although talking about myself is just most accessable strategy. In academics, at least, it's allowed me to instead pivot from myself to a theory or observation or something so building isn't quite as self centered.

In a sense that's what you're doing by providing that post, too. Best of both worlds to add to a conversation without diminishing the original. Master conversationalists can usually do that back to back to back, keeping a conversation going.

I mean, it's actually healthier to an economy to keep the well trained immigrants but you know how racist af people are. These aren't just professionals, they're pre-wealthy professionals and often have seed money to lead start-ups, lol

But racism and xenophobia are self destructive.

Having actually worked in academia, though, this actually does have a kind of fucked up capitalist answer (and it really isn't merit) which is most true in public universities more so than Harvard: international students pay more. A lot more, in fact... so much so that my alma mater of UCLA has marketing campaigns in places like China.

As others point out, though, this isn't zero-sum. More money theoretically means more subsidized US students (and more seats in general). At UCLA, this is especially true since any Californian making less than a certain amount can pretty much get a free ride (and even if not that, highly discounted tuition). I myself being a beneficiary of that, too, btw.

Now, private schools on the other hand, they probably pocket that cash. USC being my most local example, but I bet Harvard does the pay to win shit, too. I think it's correct to take issue with how they operate, but MAGA is misleading people as they always do in any form of class warfare.

Makes sense that he's now saying no more politics. I'd say he should throw money at the Dems except Lord knows those people don't need more billionaire donors, either.

Can we just have a government of the people, please?

In other words-- your sexting is safe, friends.

I mean, while we're being pedantic, you can never cut exactly 2/3 an apple for everyone, down to the atoms. Even with homogeneous apples.

That's why you get the knife subscription plan.

Same, but given the time sink I'd like an abridged experience. I heard they doing that with DQX so why not FFXI?

The Subway training videos have gotten pretty weird, it seems.

Couple other things to add to this beautiful list others have: meta gaming and chat.

They barely added achievements and only for a couple games, while steam has that, guides, community art, and even a newish notes feature in case you're playing an OG game that makes you track stuff. Guides have kind of been better than more traditional sources.

Chat is... better on steam, although discord kind of supplanted it. Game based emoji, stickers, etc. It's actually very good, though, with support for couch coop stream gaming, etc, with voice comms.

One could also point to the generous family sharing function, but I'm not sure what Epic does in that regard. DRM is DRM though. Do keep in mind, though, the philosophy behind Steam is to make DRM palatable by adding features. Epic philosophy (on paper) is to give devs a higher cut, although I've heard devs feel more supported by steam-- especially since they aren't afraid to throw obscure indie games into a users discovery queue.

Language learning is just a hobby when you've got universal translators.

Real talk the main driver of advances are usually healthier environments, better nutrition and access to knowledge (e g. Via tech). I don't think Z or alphas are getting better in those regards, kind of inheriting the opposite.

I technically meant that in regards to not seeing the research lately, but... lol

16 points, so about a standard deviation. That's big, but your own varience can be just as high; the original point of IQ is a measure of how well you'll do in school to detect who may need additional attention (and not an inherent intelligence) so later aged tests include more on knowledge base while earlier tests are more about things like pattern recognition, mental rotation, etc. Infact, it has to get recurved regularly as each generation tends to be roughly 10 or 15 points higher (although idk about gen Z).

All this is to say that a slump of 16 points doesn't have to be shit like lead poisoning or gas fumes (although that certainly doesn't help, and pollution matters), it can simply be the US education system isn't good at teaching students. Cross culture studies already show that, as do differences between the rich and the poor. Or hell, just playing Tetris raises IQ, lol.

It'd obviously help if this wasn't a click bait article, though. People wanting to know why need to read a lot of actual research to know the myriad of different things that impact IQ and not just "haha US stupid."

Plus we've had that shit in research since I was in grad school over a decade ago. People acting like machine learning is new. Smh

I just figure people are venting. AOC posts aren't really the right place, though. I like her videos, and she does give my students hope for what it's worth.