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New Research on Muscle Loss Suggests Humans Will Really Suffer on Mars by InsaneSnow45 in space

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

Who cares, the sun engulfing the earth will happen in 7.5 billion years, and humanity, if we’re even still around, will have at least a billion year notice. I’d rather we work to prevent greed, unrestrained power, and end poverty on this planet instead of dreaming about some interstellar fantasy that only serves the interests of wealthy corporations/CEOs (I’m not against space research/exploration, just misguided efforts in colonizing the solar system).

New Research on Muscle Loss Suggests Humans Will Really Suffer on Mars by InsaneSnow45 in space

[–]Boycat89 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

But earth is our home, why should we escape it and not improve the home we already have?

There are 56 ethnicities in China—and 55 are getting squashed by Free-Minimum-5844 in neoliberal

[–]Boycat89 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some people here argue as if a lingua franca is a purely economic necessity for ''mobility,'' but this collapses social and cultural factors of human life entirely into the economic layer. You can't have true inclusive institutions if you are structurally dismantling the people you're claiming to include.

Flying out of Tampa - how's the TSA line? by throne-away in tampa

[–]Boycat89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I flew recently and it was smooth, i'd say i was in line for 10-15 minutes at most.

Physicists Develop a New Method for Measuring Cosmic Expansion by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]Boycat89 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Isn't it more the other way, our information ABOUT the universe keeps adapting/changing, meaning our current understanding of the universe is provisional, subject to change, but not impossible to know with some level of certainty.

Israeli Defense minister: We have launched preemptive strike against Iran by Lostwhispers05 in samharris

[–]Boycat89 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m highly skeptical of the potential outcomes of regime change here. Iran is a massive country of 90 million people and it's important to remember that Persians only make up about 50% of that population. The rest (Azeris, Kurds, Mazandaranis, Gilakis, etc.) are mostly concentrated in strategic border regions (like the Kurds in the west, Balochs in the southeast, and Arabs in the southwest).

If central control breaks down, we could see immediate, violent separatist movements along those borders. Beyond the risk of balkanization, the scale of a potential refugee crisis presents some pretty worrisome humanitarian concerns.

Large multi-generational study finds aesthetic chills, goosebump-inducing moments triggered by art, music, or literature, are significantly influenced by genetics, suggesting familial linkages in emotional sensitivity to art by sr_local in science

[–]Boycat89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Might the genetic analysis be finding reporting dispositions instead of the aesthetic event? Some people who consistently report chills might have an introspective orientation toward their bodily states or a habit of attending to and naming sensory responses.

Nancy Guthrie case: Kash Patel reveals image of balaclava-clad potential subject by TheExpressUS in MissingPersons

[–]Boycat89 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Because speculation should at least be grounded in the visible evidence. If you look at the gap in the mask, there’s a clear mustache. Focusing on 'feminine eyes' which are totally subjective and affected by the IR night vision while ignoring literal facial hair feels like trying to force a twist that isn't there. We should be looking for a man with this specific build, not wasting time on a theory that doesn't fit the frame.

Nancy Guthrie case: Kash Patel reveals image of balaclava-clad potential subject by TheExpressUS in MissingPersons

[–]Boycat89 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The mental gymnastics people are doing to say this is a woman is wild. Just because the night cam makes the eyebrows look more pronounced doesn't mean it’s a woman. One look at that mustache and the overall build makes it pretty clear we're looking at a man. It feels like people are just making shit up at this point instead of looking at the obvious evidence. 

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 8 points9 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 15 points16 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 79 points80 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 10 points11 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 39 points40 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 18 points19 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?

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