Fyi
Wd40 isnt a lubricant. It’s a cleaner. It works for a very short time as a lubricant.
Most people do think it’s a lubricant, mostly because wd40 marketing plus it will technically lubricate in the short term. And sometimes cleaning will fix the problem.
A simple 3-in-1 oil will last. It’s an actual high viscosity lubricant.
At least it’s kinda cute. Unlike the other body mites
One is torture.
The other is a means of survival.
It’s acceptable to kill for survival.
It’s not acceptable to torture and hurt for sexual gratification that can be gained solo with no one else involved.
Research Statistics. Those used for experiments. I had poor math skills since forever. But I wanted to go into research knowing I would need to take multiple stats courses and not just cram and pass but actually learn it.
I spent a lot of extra time re learning high school level algebra. Order of operations that I had never really learned.
I probably spent 15 hours of extra time outside of class (first stats class) each week just trying my hardest to learn. Watching YouTube videos over and over. Doing example problems over and over.
Not gonna lie. There were a lot of tears and I often questioned if I was capable. But I felt like I had to try.
I found this one guys YouTube channel for stats and at the start of every video he gave a little pep talk. At first I rolled my eyes but by the 2nd video I think I was needing it and it honestly helped so much to hear someone say. “Yes this is hard but you are here trying and I’m going to hold your hand while we figure this out.”
I ended up with 1 point shy of a B+ for that class. Me who had failed algebra twice. Who avoided math like the clap.
That was for my B.A. While working on my masters I was required to take another stats. And funny enough had fellow students asking me for help. I found this so amusing I laughed and had to explain I wasn’t laughing at them. But at the fact someone wanted me to help. They thought I was competent.
When working on my PhD I was a teaching assistant for a stats class and found many students coming to me for help.
The thing is. I struggled so much. It was so hard and confusing. Anything about stats that could confuse me , did.
So when students got stuck on something, I knew exactly what they were getting mixed up about and could help give them examples to fix their problems.
I think being bad at math and struggling so hard to learn it has ultimately made me a decent teacher of stats. Or at least a good tutor.
I also feel like I really get stats. I don’t have a vague basic understanding. I really get why different tests are used in different scenarios and what needs done first and why.
Whereas I find a lot of fellow students don’t grasp this part of understanding statistics and often need someone else to tell them what test to use.
I don’t know if everyone learns this way. But for me, I think being bad forced me to be more attentive and understand deeper just to be able to do it at all.
I’m so confused. I said I’m tired of what-aboutism.
We have to focus on what’s happening now.
I didn’t say we deny the things that caused the present situation.
I said I’m tired of hearing every time there is a discussion about Trump’s bad decisions and actions that are making things really bad, someone chimes in with what about Biden or Obama. Of which neither are currently the president nor can run for president again.
I don’t deny their part in the current state.
I’m saying that I don’t have the time or energy to engage with people constantly using Obama and Bidens actions as an excuse for why we can’t criticize trump.
Of course things today are a product of many people and institutions failing.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t talk about how to fix those problems.
I’m saying I’m tired of What-aboutism as it’s not productive and is purely intended as a distraction and division.
I don’t know how much clearer I can make this.
Surely you don’t think it’s important to discuss Obamas failings every time trump does something stupid to somehow excuse Trump’s actions or downplay them. ?
The Nazi genocide is a present issue. It’s happening right now.
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I’m not saying we forget I’m saying every time someone criticizes trump , someone jumps in and says "yeah but Biden this. Or Obama that. "
I am not saying they were perfect people or those criticisms aren’t valid. But they are not what we need to focus on.
Now if instead someone is running for office and someone says “this is what they have voted for in the past”. - then yeah. That’s valid right now.
That’s not what-aboutism. That’s considering a person’s history for deciding if they should be in office in the future.
This sort of conversation is important. Like Gavin newsome. He has a long history of support for Israel and billionaires. We need to talk about that.
We don’t need to constantly hear about poor decisions previous people in office made who aren’t in seats and can’t run.
Unless you are interested in political history.
We all have limits with information and attention. I prefer to focus on the present and trying not to repeat mistakes. Work on fixing current problems and future problems being caused by the current administration decisions being made.
We are all tired of what-aboutism.
We gotta focus on the present situation.
Cats
There is actually some science to this phenomenon of creativity.
It’s called “aha!”. That’s the actual technical term in psychology research. With the explanation point. Aka “eureka moments.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_effect
So basically what happens is you are at your most creative when your brain goes into the “default mode network”. Which can (simplified) be described as loose, undirected thought.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network
For instance while showering. Taking the dog for a walk. Sitting in traffic. It can be any time when your mind wanders aimlessly.
The reason this increases creativity and unique problem solving is because when we intentionally direct our thinking, we box ourselves in with related concepts already associated with the idea we are working on.
To truly think unconventionally with more unique creativity, one has to stop thinking of the issue intentionally yet still have the goal of that problem in the unconscious.
It’s a difficult state to get to intentionally unless you know how your own mind works and can put yourself into an unfocused mindset intentionally.
Explaining a problem to another person can sometimes re conceptualize a problem and help solve it.
But being in a “mentally unconstrained” state is also very helpful.
I can say I often have some of my best ideas for projects or solutions to things I’ve been working on , as I’m falling asleep. To the point I have to get up and write things down all the time.
High quality ideas.
Another pattern is people can also have a lot of creative ideas when procrastinating from a task they don’t want to do.
The task at hand looms and the mind distracts itself by mind wandering. Increasing aha! moments.
Sitting on the porch in the middle of the night in October/November. With a blanket. Or any other cooler month.
People don’t realize. That yes. You can bring a blanket outside. To your porch.
And no one is around at 3 am and it’s so silent and eerie. And perfect. Even in the city, there is way less people. But outside the city it’s dead silent. Like everyone disappeared.
It feels… Different than the rest of the time.
3-4 am is the most interesting hour of the day.
Try it next time you wake up with a full bladder in the middle of the night. Or have insomnia. Don’t go back to bed. Instead Grab your blanket. Step outside.
I use Boost. Has a little rocket ship logo. Used to use it for reddit until they banned 3rd party.
So it’s been around for quite a while.
When I switched to Lemmy I was chuffed to find it worked with it.
I think it works quite well.
Ever see the underside of these on a fishtank side?
I did once at a fish pet store.
I remember it looking like a hundred tiny suction cups.
But I can’t seem to find a good photo. This was the best I could find. Check out a real one if you get a chance.
Luetinet Riker
Obviously.
I saw a decent video on this recently. Here it is. https://youtu.be/Hm9ADZ28Wgo
The person reviews the research paper and data.
Imagine for a moment that you have never seen a photo of yourself , ever. Or anyone who is a human.
Your whole life you grew up in a white room with other animals like you in cages.
The problem with using 2d images in animal research is that it is assumed that animals understand what photos are.
But they probably don’t. Or at least they don’t rely on them or interpret them like we do. From a young age we watch tv. Read picture books. Look at photos albums. Even draw each other.
Animals don’t have those experiences. Especially lab animals. They don’t even have the experience of seeing billboards or posters.
This is a huge problem in forming any type of conclusions from animal research like this.
It’s not impossible. But their perception is not like a humans.
They don’t see a photograph of a bird and recognize it’s their kind they are looking at.
They probably just think it’s a screen or paper. Or something like that.
Because 2d is unnatural. They likely have limited ability to understand it’s a representation.
Even humans have to learn to interpret representations (I can explain this more if someone asks).
How do birds identify each other?
Sounds they make ? Location? Movements ?
I’m not sure exactly but I doubt it’s solely visual face recognition.
Even dogs use smell more than visual face recognition.
It’s still an interesting study. But we just have to keep in mind the limitations I mentioned when interpreting the results.
I just replayed it last month.
Was bummed that I went through it about 2x as fast as the first time.
Just as good as I remember though.
I made myself wait to replay it for 5 years hoping I could enjoy it anew.
But I remembered too much. Still, such great world building. I also took more time to read all the documents this play through.
Oh also. I came across this recently. It’s fan made reports of OOPs. Very entertaining.
You think thats coming out this year ? They are slow at everything.
I like a lot of types of games. But remedy games are probably my favorite. New control game coming out this year. Control resonate It’s at the top of my list. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3669870/CONTROL_Resonant/
Moonlight peaks. Basically an animal crossing like game but spooky and you can hook up with the villagers.
Also waiting for Light No Fire. Same creators as no man’s sky. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2719590/Light_No_Fire/
The new Bendy game. Bendy and the ink factory. Really liked the first two though the 2nd gave me mad motion sickness. Super dark spooky theme , rubber hose style. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2613150/Bendy_and_the_Ink_Factory/?curator_clanid=44893488
Very much anticipating the new silent Hill snowfall game. I really liked the last two.
https://youtu.be/Py3_sAx3l_o
The creators of Soma have a new one coming out. Ontos.
Looks promising. Soma also gave me mad motion sickness. Hoping this new one won’t. https://youtu.be/ll4ZPxUzPhc
I can’t say for sure if the seizures are painful but I think, for our dog, they were.
The type she had made her muscles go rigid.
Just holding muscles that tight for a few minutes would surely be painful.
Often people don’t recall the experience of the seizure, only that they had one. I don’t know if it’s the same for a dog.
A friend of mine who has epilepsy told me that he has an insanely painful headache after he has a seizure.