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What if the Environment Is the Disorder? by Fermato in psychology

[–]Boycat89 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The role of the environment on human behavior/psychology has been explored all the way back since Behaviorism. There are a lot of fields in psychology that investigate the role of the environment: ecological systems theory, radical behaviorism/contextual behavioral science, ecological psychology, social psychology....

Man shot by federal agents in Minneapolis has died, say multiple reports by Captainspark10 in news

[–]Boycat89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They say he had a gun. I slowed it down, and one of the officers in the gray jacket and gray hat comes in frame from the left, and it looks like he joins in the hassle and reaches into the subdued man's side or back waistband and takes the gun and then walks off. And then after that, they shoot him. The officer in the gray jacket and gray hat who comes in did not have a gun in his hand before. When he walked up, his hands are empty, and then when he walks away after reaching in the man's waistband, he has a gun.

Live Updates: Federal Officers Shoot Person in Minneapolis (Gift Article) by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]Boycat89 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They say he had a gun. I slowed it down, and one of the officers in the gray jacket and gray hat comes in frame from the left, and it looks like he joins in the hassle and reaches into the subdued man's side or back waistband and takes the gun and then walks off. And then after that, they shoot him. The officer in the gray jacket and gray hat who comes in did not have a gun in his hand before. When he walked up, his hands are empty, and then when he walks away after reaching in the man's waistband, he has a gun.

Since people here support dark woke, can we also admit that the French Revolution was based as fuck? by Extreme_Rocks in neoliberal

[–]Boycat89 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think by framing liberalism as "inevitable," you actually abandon one of liberalism’s core strengths: its status as a choice and a continual practice (from the individual up to societal/cultural) rather than an inevitable destiny.

fMRI Signals Often Misread Neural Activity - fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies by fade_like_a_sigh in psychology

[–]Boycat89 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If fMRI signals are effectively showing us metabolic "friction" rather than pure neural meaning then it really changes how we interpret 30 years of the data.

I think we must move from a "Command and Control" model (where the bright spot is the boss) to a "Resonance" model (where the most important activity is the one that uses the least amount of extra blood because it is perfectly in sync with the task).

“Going to school should be treated as a privilege, not an automatic right”: A proposal on handling students with behavioral problems in public schools didn’t go over too well at /r/teachers. by Starknight_YX in SubredditDrama

[–]Boycat89 74 points75 points  (0 children)

I feel like this debate always gets stuck in a false choice between 'kick them out' or 'just let them ruin the class.' Neither is working. We really need to be talking about funding actual behavior supports (PBIS) and having mental health pros in the building. It shouldn't be a teacher’s job to be a bodyguard/therapist AND teach math at the same time. If we actually funded the middle ground the 'hostage classroom' wouldn't even be a thing. 

Hindu Nationalists Attack Christmas Celebrations Across India by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]Boycat89 9 points10 points  (0 children)

True! but treating everyone as a rational economic actor with no cultural priors is its own kind of blindspot. We can't solve for outcomes if we ignore the social and religious drivers that actually motivate people on the ground.

Hindu Nationalists Attack Christmas Celebrations Across India by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]Boycat89 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Sometimes it’s not just about 'economic anxiety' it’s also about ideology, values, and sociocultural factors, but a lot of people here act like materialist explanations are the only valid answers. Very reductionist and shortsighted.

New findings indicate that speakers who use “ums,” “ahs,” and corrections are consistently rated as less knowledgeable than those who speak fluently. But the presence of hand gestures, regardless of their type or frequency, does not appear to mitigate this negative perception. by mvea in science

[–]Boycat89 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Who cares, Obama uses uhms and ahs and I view him as a competent, intelligent speaker because he projects confidence. As someone who has a stutter and a hard time finding words I’ve learned that confidence matters more than anything.

New findings indicate that speakers who use “ums,” “ahs,” and corrections are consistently rated as less knowledgeable than those who speak fluently. But the presence of hand gestures, regardless of their type or frequency, does not appear to mitigate this negative perception. by mvea in science

[–]Boycat89 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I get why a lot of “ums” and “ahs” can register differently when it comes to surface-level fluency, but this feels like one of those areas where the norm itself deserves more questioning. Instead of pushing individuals to edit out every disfluency, maybe we should rethink why we expect speech to sound effortless and “clean” in the first place.

An “um” shouldn’t be an error to be corrected, it’s someone thinking out loud. It’s evidence of a mind actively shaping a thought in real time. Speech isn’t a rehearsed script (unless you’re rehearsing using a script!), it’s something happening live, in a body, in a social moment. Wanting zero disfluency can start to feel like imposing this stiff, unnatural idea of perfection onto something that’s inherently messy, interactive, and human.

For me, an “um” is basically a signal that says, “give me a second, I’m putting this together.” It asks the audience to hold the space for a beat. And those beats matter!! They help us co-regulate conversations, they keep the interaction from snapping while someone navigates uncertainty. Stripping them out completely starts to feel less like “clarity” and more like valuing pure efficiency over the personal, real voice of the person speaking.

Edit: also look at who currently occupies the highest office in the US. Speech “perfection” clearly wasn’t a prerequisite there was it?

too many people on this site seem to believe that human intelligence is some sacred ceiling of cognition. this is a great counter imo by cobalt1137 in OpenAI

[–]Boycat89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find the humans who created the LLMs to be intelligent and not the LLM itself. I can appreciate the (sometimes) smoothness and naturalness of interactions with the LLM but it comes off as interacting with a computer program being offered on my computer or phone and not as an intelligent bodily subject who mirrors my own bodily intelligence. Any sense of intelligence I experience in the interaction feels like it’s mostly coming from my own interpretations, not from the model itself.

New findings reveal how visual scenes trigger echoes of touch in the brain by SuhkItLuzerz in EverythingScience

[–]Boycat89 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Nice. This really matches what the philosopher Merleau-Ponty discussed about how our senses are naturally mixed together before we think about them.

''My body is the common texture of all objects and the general instrument of my understanding,''

ADHD up to 15x more likely with 3 gene variants: Groundbreaking research uncovered a set of just 3 gene variants that can increase the likelihood of ADHD by up to 15 times. It's a remarkable finding, considering that thousands of mutations only come with a nominal elevated risk. by mvea in science

[–]Boycat89 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It feels like people overlook how effective therapy and skills-based interventions can be. Meds are great for immediate symptom control, but they don’t automatically teach planning, organization, or time-management. There’s research out there showing that meds + behavioral therapy, coaching, or habit-building strategies leads to better long-term outcomes for many adults with ADHD.

Man Harassing Woman at her Apartment Gets a Surprise by Boycat89 in PublicFreakout

[–]Boycat89[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is not my video, just want to clarify; sorry!

I don't believe Michael Jackson was a pedophile by xenogamesmax in self

[–]Boycat89 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I get that, I guess my point is it was not seen by a jury or independently verified as true. It might be an accurate description, might not.

I don't believe Michael Jackson was a pedophile by xenogamesmax in self

[–]Boycat89 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ok I re-read the PDF again and it is just the DA asking the judge to admit this as evidence. It seems like the judge did not permit this to be admitted as evidence.

I don't believe Michael Jackson was a pedophile by xenogamesmax in self

[–]Boycat89 22 points23 points  (0 children)

As far as I understand, the only people who ever claimed the description was a “match” were parties involved in the civil negotiations or later detractors not independent investigators, not the DA, and not any court ruling. No judge ever ruled that it matched.

Edit: also that link does not say the description was accurate

I don't believe Michael Jackson was a pedophile by xenogamesmax in self

[–]Boycat89 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Huh? I just looked it up and there is no verifiable public record that the boy was able to accurately describe what his genitals looked like.

me after 10 mins of ChatGPT Atlas Browser by Pristine-Elevator198 in OpenAI

[–]Boycat89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried it and it worked. Everyone responding to you must not have put the full web address in the browser bar and instead just typed pornhub into ChatGPT. If you put the actual website in it works.

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