ArcticPrincess

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Knowing the distribution of what entire households watch is very useful. It's not about spying on you personally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[citation needed]

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks! Appreciate learning something new!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That sounds awful, I'm sorry you have to go through that. They have those extra leg room exit row seats, but they seem to allocate them at random instead of to tall people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You say you stand up right away because you've been jammed into your seat for hours, so I'm wondering why you didn't stand up during the flight. Then you wouldn't be jammed in for hours...

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