I was actually a participant in a study like this, literally decades ago tho.

We did exercises on a giant vibrating pad, like a flat sybian.

It just barely qualified as a quantifiable difference, and I always suspected it was due to micromotions to stabilize. Like how we shiver to burn energy to generate heat.

Like, whatever you were doing, you could just do another rep and that wipes out the gains of the fancy equipment. But then people won’t buy the fancy equipment.

Bikers will blow money on negligible gains all day

Yeah, it’s not that people don’t like the lemmy.ml users, or even really their mods…

It’s (at least one of) the admins.

If they see something they don’t like on their server, they delete it and give a very very short ban. Because they don’t want those people gone. They want them enraged and chomping at the bit to come back.

It’s ran like a troll instance, and it’s not alone.

The only time they permanently ban someone, is when they see someone in a neutral place they can’t control talking about it. Advocate for people blocking them, and they don’t want anyone signed up to their instance seeing your comments

What are you even on about?

You legitimately think wealthy people can never move cities because they have to personally be there to overseas the buildings they own? And that all wealthy people own a bunch of buildings, but only in the city (not just state) they live in?

Like, there is just so much that seems to need to be explained here…

What?

Everyone wealthy enough to pay those taxes can afford to pay those taxes.

Saying they can’t is a lie to the non-wealthy. And I honestly didn’t think anyone was naive enough to fall for that.

But apparently you all really thought the richest people in NYC were gonna have to leave due to taxes?

They absolutely could run, whether that means selling their property, hiring people to manage them (they already do that), or whatever other way to facilitate leaving.

They can leave, and they can afford to leave and live almost anywhere else for cheaper.

They just don’t want to.

It’s an important distinction because it highlights the truth about every future argument the wealthy make: they’ll yell and cry and say it’ll be disasterous, and then nothing happens.

But your comment isn’t correct in any way, I guess people just up voted it because they agree with the spirit of it?

I mean, way before Biden too tho

There’s a huge rabbit hole with HDMI certification…

Like, display port is better in everyway, but people make a shit ton of money off putting “HDMI certified” on products, so that’s still the default.

If it bursts the world wide economy collapses, because most “wealth” is loans against stock, which are then invested in stocks driving the price up.

I think we’re past a trillion sunk into the ponzi scheme just in AI stock, but if it goes down banks call in their loans triggering automatic sales of whatever collateral they used.

Billions and billions being sold automatically regardless of price would cause cascading crashes…

But if it works…

Corps can fire the majority of their employees and starving desperate people turn to Mad Max after a few consecutive missed meals.

Huh?

Explaining something doesn’t mean it stops happening, and everything has an explanation unless you just want it to be “magic”…

You know the only thing more ridiculous than buying a toilet with a built in camera?

In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside

Buying a camera to attach to an existing toilet, that has a monthly device fee that costs more than a fucking toilet does.

I saw a video where he “introduced” someone to the FIFA president…

Trump was talking to them and said “you want to meet the president of soccer?” And before they can answer he yells at this jabroni to come over, never looks in his direction again, rambles a little about how impressive he is, and then just wanders off.

“I’m like you know what, I’m going go run for Congress. This is crazy because that’s kind of like discrimination! Like putting you in the back of the bus, or you know, ‘hey, you’re Jewish, go into the bathroom, here’s a ham sandwich.’ It’s like, illegal!”

To clarify, the video is still up on YouTube…

The “discrimination” is he thinks it should have millions of views. And instead it only has 35k.

We have a lot more than five senses…

Close your eyes and clap your hands, now how did you just do that?

Proprioception is a sense of where our body parts are in relation to each other, and how we can walk without staring at our feet the whole time.

What you’re looking for is a “gut feeling” which is often your subconscious, but your gut has a shitton of neural cells too. And can function like a “minibrain”.

https://www.science.org/content/article/your-gut-directly-connected-your-brain-newly-discovered-neuron-circuit

Most likely it’s an actual “proto-brain” hold over from before organisms even had heads.

But anyways, most likely it’s coming from your subconscious, there are things it puts together and recognizes, and especially if danger is around then it’s just gonna flash a warning light and not walk your conscious mind thru the logic that tells you why there’s a warning light. Because it’s better to respond fast and later work out why the warning light was flashing.

So, an example would be before I learned about the correlations between prenatal testosterone, in group bonding, and facial width; it was a joke among a specific friend group that “don’t trust guys with skinny faces”.

Not that low prenatal testorone makes someone untrustworthy, just that in situations where you need to 100% count on people to have your back, the people most likely to not are the ones that are not biologically wired to blindly defend what they recognize as “us”, their in group.

But this is a thing on a wider social scale, guys with “rat face” are often cast as villains and betrayers in media, because on some level even tho we consciously don’t recognize why, we all just instantly distrust to some extent. Not from conscious logic, but individual lifetimes of experience and us just automatically picking up the pattern.

Prenatal androgen exposure, approximated via 2D:4D, was associated with prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous research in older children, higher exposure was related to stronger prosocial tendencies, which corresponds to earlier findings on fairness in adults. Our findings point towards a potential role of sex steroids in the early development of children’s social behavior, but they have to be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size of the current study. Nevertheless, they underscore the importance of integrating biological and psychological perspectives, while also highlighting the significance of studying the development of prosocial behavior within peer groups.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378224001245

It’s not just this specific issue:

After Newsom failed to sign the bill in October, he said, “Last year, I vetoed a substantially similar bill, stating that it would limit the ability of health plans to engage in practices that have been shown to ensure appropriate care while limiting unnecessary costs. That is still the case with this bill – despite my call for a more tailored solution. This bill’s expansive coverage mandate, in conjunction with a prohibition on UM, is too far-reaching.”

Newsome is a neoliberal, and he’ll always put profits over people.

Never forget as soon as trump took office again, Newsom had Charlie Kirk and Alex Jones on his podcast sucking up to them and saying Dems need to be more like MAGA.

He didn’t pivot back to anti-maga until maga refused to let him join.

Newsom isn’t fit to be president, but he’s not fit to hold any other political office either. We can’t afford to waste time with these shit birds

does it not then have the potential to water down enough districts to make them swing districts,

That’s how gerrymandering always works…

You want to get every district to where you’d barely win, and jam all the extra people who would vote against you into as few districts as possible that they will definitely win.

The obvious danger is if you gerrymander too much, and a wave shows up, you could potentially lose everything because you no longer have any “safe” districts.

I’ve been saying since the beginning that we’re better off letting them do all this redistricting ASAP, that way we can start the groundwork to win enough of those close districts to take the whole state government

Probably like Disney/Hulu

They’ll try a bundle deal to see if people pay for it, then if not slowly bleed shows from one service to another.

Maybe eventually combine them but they’ll try to keep paying for both as long as possible

The term “blood libel”, I don’t even know what it mean, to be honest,

At least you kind of asked what it meant…

Would have been faster to look it up tho:

Blood libels often claim that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos, an unleavened flatbread which is eaten during Passover. Earlier versions of the blood libel accused Jews of ritually re-enacting the crucifixion.[10] The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically, blood libel claims have been made in order to account for the otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victims of human sacrifice have become venerated as Christian martyrs. Many of these – most prominently William of Norwich (1144), Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (1255), and Simon of Trent (1475) – became objects of local cults and veneration; the cult of Hugh of Lincoln gained the support of Henry III and his son Edward I, giving it official credibility and helping it to be particularly well remembered. Although he was never canonized, the veneration of Simon was added to the General Roman Calendar. One child who was allegedly murdered by Jews, Gabriel of Białystok, was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

It’s just wild to me that so many people would spend more time typing a comment admitting they were ignorant of something, than it takes to just search it online so they could stop being ignorant.

And it’s not just you, it’s happening more and more.

So since I provided a source for what blood libel actual is, can you share why you made that comment instead of just typing “blood libel” into a search engine?

I don’t think it was overestimating, more just not realizing that the term “blood libel” isn’t a widely recognized antisemitic concept

Yes…

I overestimated people by thinking if I explained what “blood libel” is, I didnt have to literally say “blood libel is___”

They’re implying the original tweet means threat to kids isn’t from the genocide, and instead it’s the bigoted (and false) stereotype that there are secret Jewish rituals that kill children as blood sacrifices.

When I said “bigoted (and false) stereotype…” You could substitute that for “blood libel”. I just pre-emptively explained it not everyone knew what it was.

And rather than ask questions, a bunch of confused people furrowed their brow and down voted.

But you asked questions, so now you know:

Blood libels often claim that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos, an unleavened flatbread which is eaten during Passover. Earlier versions of the blood libel accused Jews of ritually re-enacting the crucifixion.[10] The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically, blood libel claims have been made in order to account for the otherwise unexplained deaths of children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

If it pops it takes the whole stock market with it and no one is retiring, probably ever again. Same with home ownership, it will exacerbate every problem we’re currently facing.

But if it actually works…

Corporations will fire virtually all their employees, what few jobs remain will see their wages crumble because there’s so much compeyfor such few jobs. Just instead of all of us being fucked, only 99.9999999999% of us will be fucked and a very few people will have successfully hoarded the wealth of an entire planet.

What else are we going to do? Stop spending hundreds of billions a year on a pipedream?

Then what? Spend it on education, housing, Medicare, and a functional society where everyone fundamentally has enough to lose that crime basically elimates itself?

Ironically enough it all comes down to the message from that Movie where Ferris Beuller played an AI at video games:

A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY

but you seem to believe there is something else going on?

…

Whoever Rachel is, she was clearly referencing Gaza and the ongoing genocide.

Eve then (likely intentionally) misunderstood and acted like Rachel was talking about Jewish blood libel. Which is a bigoted belief going back millenia that part of traditional Jewish religious rituals include child sacrifice.

Evan then “dared her to explain why that would be antisemitic”.

My point is that is not as effective as clarifying what was going on and why it’s not…

But I can admit when I’m wrong, clearly I was overestimating people.