It does not make you a bad person to correctly interpret what someone means.
When your racist uncle complains about “thugs”, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that he means black people.
When you see what you know to be a very old brand, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that “doctor”, to the brand-makers, certainly meant “male doctor”.
It’s Cory Doctorow’s pet name for it. Like most terms he comes up with, it’s almost too brutally honest to say in polite company.
Fingernail Spiderhole
It’s wild that linear perspective was invented.
Like, for a long time, this was a completely reasonable way to depict the world.
But if I think about my mental model of what I’m seeing at this moment, it’s automatically in linear perspective. It doesn’t feel like I even need to try, it just is that way.
It makes me wonder what other concepts are shaping (or could shape) my perception in such comprehensive and indelible ways.
“Women are the most vulnerable in the world and the most vulnerable are the most vulnerable”
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2020/05/19/yanss-179-the-memory-illusion/
Julia is famous among psychologists because she was able to implant false memories into a group of subjects and convince 70 percent of them that they were guilty of a crime they did not commit, and she did so by using the sort of sloppy interrogation techniques that some police departments have been truly been guilty of using in the past.
“…and you relieve whatever you want to relieve”
Does this imply the existence of Willem DaFriend?
https://scottbarrykaufman.com/who-created-maslows-iconic-pyramid/
And his credentials:
Scott Barry Kaufman is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world … Dr. Kaufman hosts the The Psychology Podcast which has received over 30 million downloads and is frequently ranked the #1 psychology podcast in the world.
When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow’s unfinished theory of transcendence, sprinkled throughout a cache of unpublished journals, lectures, and essays, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In this groundbreaking book, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unraveling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating these ideas with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well lived.
That’s actually a misconception. Maslow didn’t envision it as a chain of prerequisites, and he never portrayed it as a pyramid.
12-year-old who was just introduced to the trolley problem and only understood the concept of “being responsible for harm you cause” but not “being responsible for harm you choose not to prevent”.
Ash was the shooter all along.
Economy’s doing great though apparently.
Also a favorite of mine, but that meaning is usually transitive. So it “precipitates <something>”, not simply “precipitates”. A more syntactically equivalent synonym would be “causes” or “leads to”.
Like “slightly misusing a word on Lemmy precipitates a nerd-off”.
I was a mild antinatalist for a while. Personally wanted kids, but felt the world was too broken to pass to a new generation that didn’t ask for it.
And then – I know this sounds dumb, but whatever – I played Horizon: Zero Dawn.
Parenthood in a time of armageddon is a central theme, and it’s not subtle about it. Every story element is named in a way that alludes to either parenthood or annihilation. The overarching plot describes the moral challenges of…
…planning a next generation of humans to rise from the ashes, thousands of years after the previous generation went extinct. They died to an AI catastrophe, but it works just as well as an allegory for climate change.
Is it ethical to even subject a new generation to this, knowing what we know about how we fucked things up? If we’re gonna try, do we have a duty to put in a kill switch in case things go off the rails again?
Obviously, the game sides firmly with the new humans, but it doesn’t dismiss these questions out-of-hand, and it’s okay with ambiguity and hypocrisy even on the part of Project Zero Dawn’s chief architect.
The ending scene still gets me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJ_vSCJdO0
Taxes are how currency gets its value. So if you plan to stop using taxed currencies, then sure.
Dance Dance Soviet Revolution
“Nobody uses hard drives anymore. Have the intern replace all mentions of hard drives with solid state drives.”
If my time consulting is anything to go off of…
The agency provided several options. The client liked 3 of them and wanted them all smooshed together.
Client opened up the agency’s .pptx and moved some things around until they had this monstrosity and said “There! That’s what I want. See how easy that was? Why do we even pay you?”
The designers quietly held back the urge to quit on the spot, but the lead said “Absolutely, that’s a great decision, we’ll have a final version for you tomorrow!” And the designers took great joy in delivering precisely what the client asked for.