🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo I agree with a lot of that. You also reminded me of another reason I believe it became associated with the division of human sexes is that the two energies are required to be in balance with each other for the act of creation (perhaps seen as positive organization of matter) to take place, just as both male and female bodies are required for procreation. This is opposed to the imbalance of these energies which causes dissolution; excess male energy is how we view aggression symbolically and excess female energy as anxiety.

@realcaseyrollins

Materialism for the win

@freemo

Men: Material wealth and strength

Women: Emotional wealth and strength

@freemo Another interesting conversation! (Especially for a dabbler in symbology). I think the fundamental difference is that femininity (associated with water or geometrically, the circle) is a spiritual stance of accepting information; which is why it is associated with empathy because to do so you must take in the information being given by other people in order to empathize with them. Masculinity (fire or geometrically a line) is the opposite, a blocking out of information so that one can act (since the world produces a huge abundance of information that we cannot possibly process, we are required to block out some to not be overwhelmed all the time). Thus action (getting from point A to point B, like a line) is considered masculine and reception (ability to contain like a circle or a receptacle) is considered feminine. What is unclear to me is whether the association to human sexes came from the geometric association (the main distinguishing feature of the sexes, the genitals, resembling a line for men and a circle for women) or if some observations of generalities in human behavior led to the association (men being more prone to action without as much thought and women being more likely to "overthink" things, or at least think more than men do). That is my concise answer, believe it or not

Just read, wrote, and translated my first sentence in Hebrew and I've got to say, I get why Jews are so happy now xD

Shalom!

פרח גדל בגינה

So #Musk open-sourced the #Twitter recommendation algorithm today, and as I 100% expected, it's got a ton of machine learning that won't be transparent to anyone as to how it works.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

@freemo @Clementulus @pj But explaining risk factors to patients so that they can think ahead and avoid putting there lives at risk in the future would be something your previous statements lead me to believe you should support.

I am fine with euthanasia and personal freedom of choice regarding suicide. But, informing people so they can plan ahead to avoid spur of the moment irrevocable decisions seems like a good idea.

If they call sub sandwiches grinders and hoagies more on the East Coast, why is Jersey Mike's Subs not called Jersey Mike's Grinders? 🤔

And no, I'm not high. Also, this is a joke. I'm sure people on the East Coast call them subs too.

@freemo @rrb @pj An interesting discussion. As someone who works in policing in canada I have been exposed to a lot of information about gun use in crime and the pros/cons of gun ownership and use in general. One of the aspects I think that you overlook when arguing that people would be safer if everyone carried around guns is that the vast majority of altercations, whether physical or otherwise, come about when otherwise reasonable individuals become emotionally disturbed or incensed (drugs and alcohol often contribute to this), then they make decisions they otherwise would not. A huge percentage of assaults/suicides by guns occur in residences where they are not safely stored, because individuals in the midst of an emotional episode can grab them and use them without a chance for a second thought. Suicide is also a huge one, you are *far* more likely to successfully commit suicide if there is a gun in your home and seeing as how the rate of suicidality in most developed countries keeps on increasing, probably the best reason to not own a gun is to protect you from yourself! And I think the argument for America being a naturally more violent country than other developed nations is not adequately supported by evidence, people in canada get into altercations all the time, but so few of them involve firearms that they are less likely to turn deadly, in fact, the communities within Canada that have the most fatal altercations are the very ones with the highest prevalence of gun ownership! Not having easy access to guns is certainly helping to prevent a ton of needless gun deaths. While it is true that a dedicated individual can acquire the necessary firepower to commit an atrocity, like what happened a few years ago in Nova Scotia, that event took years of planning and preparation; what gun control helps to prevent are the deaths that occur from more temporary insanities.

@freemo @pj I like the idea of mandating insurance and letting the market work this out. If you maintain things well, cost should be low. Risky behavior would cause cost to be prohibitive.

@freemo ...also wherefore, whence, and whither.

The first paper from my PhD student Helen Olawole-Scott has now officially come out in JEP:G! 🥂

#proudsupervisormoment

Expectations about precision bias metacognition and awareness.

https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-57855-001.html

@futurebird @freemo this reminds me of the economics professor who let his class opt to be capitalists or socialists.

The capitalists got their own individual grades. The socialists' grades got averaged, and everyone got the average.

The capitalists always outscored the socialists. Often the socialists flunked, and had to retake the class as capitalists the next time.