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What? by Gloomy in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 23 points 1 month ago

It's such a shame. Children have so much curiosity for the world.

Adults should realy nourish that, not kill it.

I've worked with children in that age range (6 and older) and it's realy crazy what they come up if you give them a bit of room to experiment with their ideas.

Ich habe fertig mit Politik in Deutschland by Gloomy in c/dach@feddit.org

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Danke für eure Beiträge hier, alle miteinander.

Ich finde mich in vielen davon wieder und das tut mir gerade irgendwie echt gut.

Das schlimmste ist für mich, dass komplett absehbar ist wohin die Reise gehen wird. Die Minority World ("Der Westen" TM) wird weiter nach rechts rücken, Stück für Stück, bis die Demokratien zerbricht. Der Klimawandel wird nur milde abgebremst weiter gehen und mit jeder neuen Krise die dadurch ausgelöst oder verstärkt wird (Migration, Krieg, Produktionsketten die nicht mehr funktionieren, Wasserknappheit, Naturkatastrophen. Um nur die offensichtlichen zu nennen), werden die Menschen sich noch mehr von einfachen Parolen und symthomatischen Problembewältigingsphantasien einfangen lassen.

Ich schreibe das, während meine Frau meine zwei sechs Monate alten Kinder neben mir am Stillen ist. Es macht mir Angst, in was für eine Welt sie hineinwachsen werden.

Rip by Gloomy in c/memes@sopuli.xyz

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

SEWARD, Mark – Died at Gooseberry Cove, Trinity Bay, on the 2nd inst. [January 1891], Mark, youngest child of Thomas and Rosanna Seward, aged 4 years.

SEWARD, Peter – Died on the 10th inst., Peter, second youngest son of Robert and Mary A. Seward, aged 2 years.

SEWARD – Died on the 14th inst., infant child of James and Mary A. Seward.

SEWARD, Richard – Died on the 15th inst., Richard, youngest son of Joseph and Louisa Seward, aged 4 years.

SEWARD, James – Died on the 19th inst., James, second youngest child of James and Mary A. Seward, aged 2 years (Evening Telegram, January 29, 1891)

https://swahsociety.com/records/obituaries/obituaries-1880s

Donald Trump has fully embraced sharing AI generated images of Kamala Harris. by Gloomy in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 29 points 2 months ago

I get the sentiment and it's cool you put some time into this. That said I think it looks go much like him leading the protesters. The composition isn't ideal for the message, you know.

Not want to be an asshole, it's just what seemed off to me, becuae when I saw this in my feed it looked like a very much pro trump image on first glance.

"Star Trek is woke now" by Gloomy in c/tenforward@lemmy.world

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 28 points 4 months ago

This sums Dico up perfectly for me. I consider myself "woke", I share the values they are advocating in Disco very much. But it's just. So. Shoved. Into. It.

It's not subtle, it's not something coming naturally to the story in most cases. It's just badly writen into a already badly written overall show.

And that, to be honest, is a shame.

Was geht eigentlich auf Reddit mit den ganzen Atomkraft-Fans ab? by Gloomy in c/dach@feddit.de

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 19 points 5 months ago

Das ist mir, gerade auf Reddit, auch schon massiv aufgefallen. Da wird sehr stark Stimmung betrieben.

Ich muss aber ehrlich zugeben, dass ich bei dem Thema noch keine klare Position gefunden habe. Ich kenne ein paar Fakten, bzw. meine sie zu kennen und sehe durchaus sowohl die Vorteile als auch die Nachteile.

Die Popularwissenaftssendungen und Youtuber, die ich dazu kenne (Nate Hagen und Sabine Hossenfelder fallen mir spontan ein) sind auch eher Pro-Nuclear.

Vorsichtiger Zwischenstand mit meinen aktuellen Halbinfos wäre, das Nuklear zwar realtiv ungefährlich aber viel zu teuer ist und das Geld besser in Erneuerbare gesteckt wegen muss. Dann heißt es aber immer es brauche eine Grundlast und die haben wir ohne Batterien oder Hydro halt einfsch noch nicht...

Kennt jemand eine gute Zusammenfassung der verschiedenen Argumente oder hat jemand eine Quelle welche die Pro Argumente wiederlegt? Muss nicht speziell für Deutschland sein, ich bi ln allgemein noch unsicher ob ich Atom als Lösung sehe.

📄 rule by Gloomy in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 23 points 5 months ago

Wait... You can't transfer money with a banking App???

Rule by Gloomy in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 28 points 5 months ago

No, the person is right. It's realy fucked up to eat and kill another sentient beeing to feed yourself, if your could just as easy not do so.

So you think grass and cows are comparable here? I'd be careful to judge others people's intelligence if I where you.

CDU-Umfrage zum Verbrennerverbot [zu wegen "Manipulation"] by Gloomy in c/dach@feddit.de

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 17 points 5 months ago

Krisenmanagement

High Court In India Rules That Viewing, Downloading Child Porn Is Not A Crime - The Publica by Gloomy in c/world@lemmy.world

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Porn addiction is also not a thing. Outside of religious and moral crusaders, you won't hear the phrase. Psychologists that specialize in human sexuality do not refer to porn addiction. When you look at the background of the people talking about porn "addiction" in the US, it always goes back to religion and morality, not clinical research.

I was interested if this holds up and unfortunately it is a thing in the medical world, albeit not a big one. I found this study, which gives a good overview over the topic.

I'll quote the whole Introduction, because I find it quite interesting and it gives a good overview.

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With the inclusion of “Gambling Disorder” in the “Substance Use and Addictive Disorders” chapter of the DSM-5 [1], the APA publicly acknowledged the phenomenon of behavioral addiction. Furthermore, “Internet Gaming Disorder” was placed in Section 3—conditions for further study.

This represents the ongoing paradigm shift in the field of addictions that relates to addictive behavior, and paves the way for new research in the light of cultural changes caused by the new technologies.

There is apparently an existing common neurobiological [2] and environmental [3] ground between the varying addictive disorders, including both substance abuse and addictive behavior; this can manifest as an overlapping of both entities [4].

Phenomenologically, behaviorally addicted individuals frequently exhibit a problematic consumption model: impaired control (e.g., craving, unsuccessful attempts to reduce the behavior), impairment (e.g., narrowing of interests, neglect of other areas of life), and risky use (persisting intake despite awareness of damaging psychological effects). Whether these behaviors also meet physiological criteria relating to addiction (tolerance, withdrawal) is more debatable [4,5,6].

Hypersexual disorder is sometimes considered one of those behavioral addictions. It is used as an umbrella construct that encompasses various problematic behaviors (excessive masturbation, cybersex, pornography use, telephone sex, sexual behavior with consenting adults, strip club visitations, etc.) [7]. Its prevalence rates range from 3% to 6%, though it is difficult to determine since there is not a formal definition of the disorder [8,9].

The lack of robust scientific data makes its research, conceptualization, and assessment difficult, leading to a variety of proposals to explain it, but is usually associated with significant distress, feelings of shame and psychosocial dysfunction [8], as well as other addictive behaviors [10] and it warrants direct examination.

Concurrently, the rise of the new technologies has also opened up a pool of problematic addictive behavior, mainly Internet Addiction. This addiction may focus on a specific application on the internet (gaming, shopping, betting, cybersex…) [11] with potential for risk-addictive behavior; in this case, it would act as a channel for concrete manifestations of said behavior [4,12]. This means inevitable escalation, providing new outlets for established addicts as well as tempting people (due to increased privacy, or opportunity) who would not have previously engaged in these behaviors.

Online pornography use, also known as Internet pornography use or cybersex, may be one of those Internet-specific behaviors with a risk for addiction. It corresponds to the use of Internet to engage in various gratifying sexual activities [13], among which stands the use of pornography [13,14] which is the most popular activity [15,16,17] with an infinite number of sexual scenarios accessible [13,18,19,20]. Continued use in this fashion sometimes derives in financial, legal, occupational, and relationship trouble [6,21] or personal problems, with diverse negative consequences. Feelings of loss of control and persistent use despite these adverse results constitute “online sexual compulsivity” [22] or Problematic Online Pornography Use (POPU). This problematic consumption model benefits from the “Triple A” factors [23].

Due to this model, pornography-related masturbation may be more frequent nowadays, but this is not necessarily a sign of pathology [21]. We know that a considerable proportion of young male population access Internet for pornography consumption [24,25]; in fact, it is one of their key sources for sexual health [26]. Some have expressed concern about this, addressing the time gap between when porn material is consumed for the first time ever, and an actual first sexual experience; specifically, how the former can have an impact on sexual development [27] like abnormally low sexual desire when consuming online pornography [28] and erectile dysfunction, which has spiked dramatically among young men in the past few years when compared to a couple decades ago [29,30,31,32,33].

We systematically reviewed the existing literature on the subject of POPU to try and summarize the various recent advances made in terms of epidemiology, clinical manifestations, neurobiological evidence that supports this model of problematic use, its diagnostic conceptualization in relation to hypersexual disorder, its proposed assessment instruments and treatment strategies.

Minus one ➖ by Gloomy in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 27 points 8 months ago

Minus one

Germany Looks to Stop the Far Right From Assuming Power by Gloomy in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The Netherlands will very likely have a right wing government and will be heading down the same path. Same with Italy, Sweden, Denmark.

With the next European election this year the right wing parties in the European Parliament will gain a lot of traction.

We could be heading down the American path and lose a lot or the progress we made over the last 2 decades.

I will be a father in a couple or hours. Between the right taking to power and accelerating climate change i am just so fucking worried in what kind of world my kids will grow up.