JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@qoto.org
BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.
Joined Nov 2022
@virginiaheffernan ... David Koch enters the chat....
@girls_can I am so glad I found a STEM server.
I have three geeky fun threads this morning alone that have me chortling.
@girls_can Ah, you could have mentioned the pizza up front and not caused me major brain cramp trying to figure it out.
@sonictyrant@mstdn.social
Sorry man, great idea, but already done.
@Santaclaus m, mostly just strange.
@girls_can , physicist here. In our field it goes from right to left...
It's a law.
@georgetakei, it isn't them being polite, they see you are American, and it's pity.
@EvilWriter @GardenOfEden@mstdn.social , I think the French started legal proceedings a couple weeks ago. The EU isn't waiting for any one case to be resolved. I suspect the bird will find it's range severely limited.
@deNew_John < get it. I am keeping my twitter account, but I just stopped using the app. I still have a myspace account, and a facebook one, and even an AOL one... I just don't check them very often.
@deNew_John , why wait?
@deankarrier , I feel seen.
@EubieDrew @jlindley , I don't know. How else can we explain mob behavior, or the rise of authoritarian governments, or peer pressure, or any other herd mentality??
Fascinating lines of thought. My position 15 mins ago was mere projection, and now I am unsure.
@EubieDrew @jlindley I think there are far more people who are, or want to be pedophiles than we can imagine. I remember a study from not long ago about rape, and how a good 20% of all people think rape is something everyone secretly wants to do, or have done to them. Even if told they are wrong, they stand by this theory, and assume others are lying. Maybe 10% of the general population supports pedophilia, and can convince another 20% that the real pedos are the 'others'?? I don't know, but I still think it is some variation of projection.
@jlindley @EubieDrew I was going to say "projection" too, without mentioning any churches. There is just something guilty about someone who randomly starts to accuse others of insane crimes.
@trinsec I think we all have them. How do we ferret them out and eliminate them without getting pissed off at the world?
@trinsec , I don't have a fear of mice. They honestly don't bother me very much. The fear is discovering them in my food, specifically coffee. The interesting point, to me, is that it is so specific, and not based on any clearly identifiable experience. And, could be a surfacing of a fear I had repressed? And how would I identify the root cause, or the existence of other irrational fears? How would I respond if those irrational fears were challenged by someone other than me? How would other respond if I challenged their fears? And people have MANY irrational fears.
@trinsec , when I mentioned my fear to my wife, she told me about spiders in her coffee. Thing is, in her case, that happened. In my case, it possibly derived from mouse traps, and that's all I can think of. I am curious how this developed, and how the same thing can develop in others.
@georgetakei 15 mins is better than I can do. :)
OK, someone out there knows the answer to this. I have a sudden irrational fear of finding dead mice in my coffee. Specifically, in my coffee cup. I haven't found any mice in such a location, and I don't think I will, logicly. But the fear exists. I doubt there are easy answers as to why, or how to rid myself of this, but I also find it interesting that I have developed it. What other fears might I have that I can't identify as totally irrational? What fears do others have that they are incapable of seeing as irrational, and how does an outsider address those fears without pissing them off?
There is a Doctorial thesis in here someplace...
BS in Physics. Will not tolerate hate. I am active here and on Post.
Joined Nov 2022
