[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I mean, from the abstract it looks like what the study did was localise the specific network of right hemisphere neuronal clusters that, when damaged, predict religious fundamentalism. Since they only studied patients with TBIs, they weren't testing the claim that brain damage increases the likelihood of fundamentalism. The rate of fundamentalism in the general population could, hypothetically, be higher than among TBI patients (i.e., if brain injuries actually reduce fundamentalism) and this study's insights would still hold.

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Australian here, heard it all my life. Also, in our dialect you can use fuck to mean pretty much anything, as long as it's clear from context what sentiment you're going for

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

Sounds amazing. Could you provide a link or at least enough names that I can google it?

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nah, that's great because you can so easily escalate to heavy talk. Disagree with the political opinion. Insist car culture is just pointless fashion fads. Dive into the morality of reality TV.

Either they disengage and you're free, or you get to have an actual meaningful debate instead of echoing hollow platitudes.

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

The actual results are in the text. 56% personifiers among autists vs 33% among not autists, p<0.05. Self report is p=0.06.

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Scientific papers are often titled "What it's actually about: something witty." This one is about object personification and so after the colon they personify the paper itself by giving it an emotion.

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The perfect colinearity of most of the lines is very suspicious too.

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

Allow me to introduce: Firefox vim keybindings extensions. So many more shortcuts if you don't need to worry about typing characters in normal mode.

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine just used it to write a script for an Amazing Race application video. It was quite good.

How the heck did it access enough source material to be able to imitate something that specific and do it well? Are we humans that predictable?

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

How do you sort the content without votes? How do you pick out the good stuff from the spam?

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago

"New lab rule: no Ph.D. defences in poetry form."

Still passed and had a grand old time.

[-] ArcticPrincess@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

I read this as:

Wealthy, coddled city-dwellers---for each of whom thousands of animals, bred for fatness and compliance, are raised in factories and systematically slaughtered---upset to witness sustainable, traditional harvest practices. Floating corporate safety bubble apologises for failing to protect their naivete.

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