In a college classroom with only women, we did a student survey that asked how many believe in astrology. It was 50%.

I’m curious how that boils down in a coed institution, or a research 1 school or something.

Boy, I could really use another global lockdown in my life… 2027, let’s go!

A friend had me play a favorite of his called Alundra. Kinda plays like a dark Enix action rpg from SNES, but it’s quite janky and awful.

Do I personally have a personal hell to recommend to people? Hm… first that comes to mind is N64 Rocket: Robot on Wheels! It’s from the Sly Cooper folks before they learned how to make a game. Lol.

There are a few conflicting frameworks, plus what I describe is normative behavior rather than people with diagnosable conditions (depression in abnormal psychology tends to be more a dysfunction of the brain). I teach social psychology to undergraduates, so I’m familiar with the other frameworks at a fairly broad level-- the one the person you responded to is a bit of an older perspective, but the direction you’re taking I’ve heard discussed.

Still, it’s difficult to get into the details in a Lemmy comment on a shower thoughts thread.

None the less, I mostly don’t like the fragile/secure ego approach because it’s harder to measure something like that, meaning there’s less evidence that’s what’s going on.

I will say more generally though, our brains seek out acceptance and avoid rejection, much like we do physical pain (fMRI confirms it’s the same part of the brain). That includes good things, like behaving cooperatively, and bad things, like confirmation bias. Self-esteem, similarly, cuts both ways-- it makes us feel better without needing external sources of esteem, but it also rejects external threats to that self esteem.

I simply worry that excess of anything leads to bad outcomes, like certain politicians we’re dealing with now. But now we’re getting more into my opinion and less about the research.

If you’re curious, the textbook I use is open source. https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/

It’s not perfect, though. I find it covers the topic well enough not to need to force my students to buy a text.

There’s a few studies that link low self esteem and depression with accurate understanding of the world and oneself. Lookup depressive realism. It’s actually mildly depressing!

Incidentally, using high self esteem may also lead to looking down on others, defensiveness, inability to critically analyze oneself, among other things. That’s just kinda how it goes when you think highly of yourself…

No, that’s Intelligentsia design, which is only available in select cities.

Or, it’s faster but you need to zigzag through residential streets and eventually make dangerous left turns into traffic without a light or stop sign to stop the heavy traffic in both directions.

Oops, it took too long to turn so it’s no longer faster-- why didn’t you just stay in the main boulevard? Silly human.

The Mormon missionaries can finally poop with the door closed! Hooray!

I know the point of Tom Morello being included is because RATM is completely misunderstood by conservatives, but it makes me giggle because he did a song for Final Fantasy XIV because a friend he played D&D with also knew a guy involved and it just happened.

But progressives can have hobbies. It’s fine. Lol

I learned early on not to fabricate stories that I’ll lose track of. I love lying by omission, though, as you can tell half the story and it’s easier to keep track of that way.

Granted, I generally didn’t do things I needed to lie about and have always been upfront with questionable actions, like selling pirated anime CDs in high school and stuff. My parents are way worse than I’ll ever be, though, and when I got kicked out of the house, it was usually because my dad was drunk and delusional, not because I did anything wrong.

That’s how I feel like a lot of them now that I’m off the major ones (I stomach Bluesky, but only sometimes). Granted, I think the reddit comics subreddit is where she got recognition, but that’s true of a lot of web comics.

They do say bringing a loaded handgun to an interview is a real power move, though. Highly recommend.

Happened to me yesterday, actually, that a large truck stopped suddenly at the end of an intersection and I, behind them, had to stop in the intersection without knowing when or if we’d move again since I couldn’t see anything ahead of the truck. A good seven or so seconds later and the light turned yellow so I had to cut to the right (mostly parking) lane to avoid gridlock. Went ahead a few cars to an opening to get back into a driving lane, cutting ahead a little.

My “I’m sorry” horn is really just my shy hand wave out my window though. I don’t use AC nor have tinted windows so I think they generally see how I feel, I think. More often than not, it’s a “thank you” horn though, as people often have to let me out of my own driveway since I live on a major street and there is rarely a time there aren’t cars idling outside waiting for a light.

Ironically, the comic artist Red Dot lives a weirdly healthy life while her character is mostly just a wine lady, but her fans get to know way too much about her sentient butt plug.

I mean, there were like three announced just today so I don’t even know if this rule can apply. Although I didn’t even believe a person named Jaye P. Morgan was real, before my time but really? JP Morgan?

But yeah, my count is like 5 high profiles in just three days.

Say what you will but at least he keeps his lamp in an unlocked chest in case it’s dark outside or under a castle.

That’s gotta be a wild 911 call. “It’s happened again!”

I don’t mind 720p at all, but I play a lot of old games and usually upscaling to 720p on PlayStation 2 games and stuff makes a tremendous difference.

Anything older, CRT filters. Bloom and interlacing make games like Super Metroid very eerie.

Can confirm; I teach statistics and allow take home exams. I don’t even really need guardrails on the math-- if you cheat via LLM, your answer is almost always hilariously wrong.

Capital -> Dandy -> Swell -> Keen -> Groovy -> Rad -> Slayed (although I’d have picked Bussin’).

I wish I knew more going back even into the nineteenth century. I recently read the Arsene Lupin books (1905), and although that’s French translated to British English, I found the slang charming. Although I think cool was only used in regards to someone being calm and controlled…