Sign language bar?

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Ad allergy - when the API went I tried default and fled screaming into Lemmy pursued by 100 “hot singles” ads.

Good and evil are subjective - the idea behind “humans are a virus” is an implied negativity. Thus the counterexample mapping to a good virus ;)

https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/good-viruses-do

Not all viruses are evil, so it might hold up?

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It’s risk vs harm:

Men suffer from higher risk (non-consensual alimony, scams, and catfishing (etc) are all too damn common) but lower harm (these are all nasty, but manageable if you look after yourself and follow basic safety).

Women suffer from lower risk (violent men are not as common as the media makes out) but much higher harm (sorry but dead or trapped in physical abuse trumps the lot, not much you can do to protect against these).

Psychology says the women are going to be a lot more cautious (we fear big losses with low odds more than small losses with high odds).

Gents, just take it on the nose that cautious ladies are playing a smart numbers game. Ladies, make sure to make it up to the gents later on in the relationship (we love chocolates too, especially the “sorry I suspected you of murder” kind).

So, I in no way support what the USA has just done (essentially forced vassilisation of another nation to appease oil magnates), but god damn that comment was funny.

Lemmy doesn’t always get sarcasm - please don’t stop though!

A running joke could be renaming the genders as “solo” and “co-op” for MMOs.

In some fields (e.g. mathematics) old papers hold up well. However, in fields like psychology where the landscape shifts a lot that’s probably a good shout!

Honestly, I always poke the stats no matter how good the journal. The best way to read any article is as a skeptic (the onus is on the writer to prove their point), and any small irregularity is something to be queried.

No matter how good the journal, it’s only as good as the reviewers, and reviewers are humans too. Odds are a paper in nature is all above board, but I’m somewhat of a pedant when it comes to checking test conditions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-19418-4.pdf

Paper itself above. Need a deeper reading with my notes but on the surface the stats are so-so. They check normality, but don’t confirm linearity (use of pmcc will not be valid without - there are also a few other conditions to check for hypothesis testing with PMCC if memory serves), use of a continuous test (PMCC, ANOVA, unpaired t’s) for discrete (likert) data is also little controversial, but generally condoned.

As for the conclusion, not a psych phd so I’ll assume they know their stuff!

One of those little truisms folks forget is that optimising software takes a LOT longer than making something that just works.

I’m a very generous marker, generally I look for any merit and credit where I can within the scheme.

A 0 is a very strong statement saying “you produced nothing of value”, and it’s very very rare to hand out. In the case of a deduction, normally you tell them their grade pre-penalty to at least signal what was worthwhile with the aim of helping the student grow.

A personal reaction in an academic style is analytic in nature and rarely autobiographical. It links the content to the literature shaping one’s views.

The brief also specified it as critical, which at undergrad levels means exploring literature views and synthesizing rather than just vomiting a stream of consciousness unrelated to the course content.

No academic sources

Use of first person throughout

Academic writing conventions not present

More a reflection than reaction

Sorry but unless this is a foundation student they’re getting a 35%.

What a terrible day to be literate.

Find out what (or if they drink) first!

Interesting - time to go poke one of the politics lecturers and see what ramifications they had.

To the average person on the street their lack would likely mean little, though I’ll miss the interesting coin designs of the pound.