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ContriteErudite

@ ContriteErudite @lemmy.world

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  • Oh nooooo

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  • I'm 99% sure the narration is AI-generated using Watts's voice, and I don't think it was quoting Watts directly. The on screen text needed quotation marks to show what, if any, words were taken directly from Watts. Misleading, yes, but I don't think intentionally so.

  • Oh nooooo

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  • Entire too relatable. I grew up in much the same way. Having that feeling as my baseline, my "normal", made everything else feel wrong, but I could never fully put my finger on why. I developed a sense of stoicism so that I could get through each day showing as little outward reaction as possible. However, I confused that stoicism for calmness and stability; inside my mind everything still roiled as my instincts and senses were always watching and waiting, preparing for the next time things became dangerous.

    Decades of living with that level of hypervigilance paired with the effort needed to put forward a stoic exterior has worn me down. The physical symptoms of chronic mental and emotional exhaustion are debilitating; the body really does pay a toll for the mind's wounds. Maybe if twenty years ago I had the knowledge and resources that I do now, I could have done something to stave off what I'm going through.

    All this to say: if you aren't already, please seek counseling as soon as possible. Don't make the same mistake I did; just like the smoker who denies that their habit it harmful, if you don't work to heal your psychological wounds now, then it will eventually catch up to you. Be well, and take care of yourself.

  • Supreme Court rules that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs are illegal | CNN Politics

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  • It was supposed to be once the bread and circuses became unaffordable, but we're all so overworked that we don't have the energy to punch up.

  • DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice

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  • Many Americans proclaim that they are a "Christian" nation, even though its own founding documents prescribed no religious alignment. It's not hard to figure out why.

    When the printing press was invented, the Church was against it because it did not want the knowledge of the scriptures to be accessible by commoners; it wanted control over how the scriptures were interpreted to keep the common folk acted in line with the Church's interests.

    For the most part, their fears were unfounded. Even today, with near-universal literacy rates, the average religious American has not actually read their holy book. They rely instead on preachers and the media to interpret the text for them, hence America's widespread endorsements of the "prosperity gospel" and "empathy is a sin".

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    The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel

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  • Mostly because flush electronic door handles aren't as safe or reliable as non-retractable handles. They fail more often than their mechanical counterparts, especially in emergencies like crashes and fire.

  • 17 years*

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  • Only idiots, morons and the sexually depraved invest in it.

    Damn, I'm only two of those things!

  • ‘Make America Go Away’: The red hat that’s all the rage in Greenland

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  • I'm sorry that you and yours have had to put up with that kind of stuff for so long. When I was a kid I really believed that we'd have gotten over all of this racist bullshit by now, but I was always a little too starry-eyed for my own good.

  • Mama!

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  • On the side of the Earth facing the sun, the magnetosphere extends about 40,000km into space. On the side facing away from the sun, the solar wind stretches the magnetosphere into a tail that extends well beyond the Moon's orbit. The ISS orbits at an altitude of about 400km; it is well within the magnetosphere.

    Because it is above the majority of the atmosphere (and also because it just barely passes through the lowest part of the Van Allen radiation belts), astronauts in the ISS are exposed to higher levels of radiation. However, the ISS has shielding specifically designed to minimize radiation, and astronauts living there are considered to be within safe levels of exposure.

  • Get this filth out of my sight

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  • This is a very wholesome(?) case of "username checks out"... 😅

  • Oklahoma City Council approves controversial resolution to ban new bike lanes

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  • Sad Ganymede noises

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  • Thanks for clarifying; I know tone is hard to convey on the internet. Sarcasm and "gotcha" replies have been the default tone since the beginning, even if that's not the poster's intent. I honestly was curious what you meant :)

    My favorite thing about this community is that while I come for the memes, there's almost always something new to learn in the comments. Or a knew line of inquiry where I can start looking into videos or articles to learn more.

  • I've got a fever...

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  • This is what I love about this community. Come for the memes, stay to learn something new.I'm double-dipping for dopamine.

  • Science wins again

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  • This thread reminds me of an Asimov short story where someone discovers that humor is just a vehicle for psychological experimentation being done on humans by an extraterrestrial intelligence. Now that humans know where jokes come from, it's no longer a useful tool to the observers and is removed from the testing environment...

    "The gift of humor is gone," said Trask drearily. "No manwill ever laugh again."And they remained there, staring, feeling the world shrinkdown to the dimensions of an experimental rat cage---withthe maze removed and something, something about to be put in its place.

    http://blog.ac-versailles.fr/villaroylit/public/Jokester.pdf

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    ContriteErudite @lemmy.world

    I've got a fever...

  • Sad Ganymede noises

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  • I've often thought that 'clearing' it's orbit is misleading. I believe the definition ought to be changed to 'controls' or 'governs' its orbit. This allows for objects in stable L4/L5 locations without inviting the caveats that 'clearing' needs.

  • Sad Ganymede noises

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  • Help me understand the point you are trying to make. Are you trying to hand-waive categorization as superfluous to developing broader understanding?

    Natural satellites fall within the primary body's Hill sphere, where the gravity of the larger mass dominates. The Earth/Moon system co-orbits the sun. Saturn has two satellites that orbit each other, and that system co-orbits Saturn.

  • Sad Ganymede noises

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  • The Earth/Moon system does not qualify as a binary planet because it does not meet the L4/L5 instability threshold. In a system of two orbiting masses, the larger needs to have at least 25x the mass of the smaller for the system to have stable L4/L5 points. Earth is ~80x more massive than the Moon, allowing the system to have stable L4/L5 points, and is therefore a satellite system.

  • What do you think of people who CONSTANTLY talk about religion?

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  • There once was a poster onlinewho stacked strawmen neatly in lineon a slope slick with spinthey kept sliding right indeclaring each fall a design

  • TIL that Baba Yetu, the grammy-winning theme song to the video game Civilization IV, is The Lord's Prayer in Swahili.

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  • It's true. I've stopped using sounds and songs that I enjoy as my alarm because of this. I haven't used an actual alarm clock in years, but the sound of a circa-2000 electric alarm clock buzzer going off instantly activates my fight or flight mode.

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  • There was a post not too long ago discussing boobs and how people react to them. One of the responses was from a foreign aid worker in Haiti after the earthquake. In Haiti, it's not uncommon for women to walk around with uncovered breasts. At first, the poster said, they found it extremely distracting, because boobs were everywhere. After a few days uncovered boobs stopped being novel and sexy, because they were everywhere.

    Once their assignment in Haiti ended and they returned to their home country, boobs started being sexy again... all that to say that while they are a secondary sexual characteristic, it is a cultural construction whether or not they are seen as overtly sexual.