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| Topic | I did not know there's a shit ton of people on medication |
| COVxy 04/09/17 9:10:37 PM #21 | Anti-psychiatric medication views are pretty awful for society as a whole. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you think the term "Mansplaining" is sexist |
| COVxy 04/09/17 4:03:30 PM #32 | Pogo_Marimo posted...
No, I view any use that is literally not appropriately applying it as misuse. Like, it was literally created for a very specific purpose. Pogo_Marimo posted... In fact, this topic is wonderful proof that this term literally causes more harm than good. So how is it useful for "labeling" the issue? This would happen regardless of the labeling. Think hard about topics about sexism on this board. Have any of them not been marred with "but women can be sexist too!". Like, yes, of course they can, but that's not the fucking point. We're discussing a very particular instance of sexism, one that particularly happens in areas of high education in technology or the sciences. Further, if we're going to throw out any term that has been appropriated widely as an insult, we have to throw out pretty much every label in existence. SJW, alt-right, democrat, republican. etc... --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you think the term "Mansplaining" is sexist |
| COVxy 04/09/17 3:45:12 PM #30 | Pogo_Marimo posted... I know why the term came to be. I have made that abundantly clear. And yet you are clearly not demonstrating an understanding of it. It has nothing to do with making a good point And the fact that you continue to talk about it in reference to a dialog, continues to mean that you aren't really appreciating how the term is useful. Because it's not just someone being treated with condescension, because that happens to everyone. It's not labeling another person in an active conversation to shut them up. It's simply labeling a phenomenon that needs to be discussed. We can call it 'condescension', but that doesn't cover it. We can call it 'sexist condescension' but it still doesn't quite cover it, as it is primarily a woman's issue. Your dislike of the term comes primarily from people who misuse it. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you think the term "Mansplaining" is sexist |
| COVxy 04/09/17 3:36:19 PM #28 | _ShinnoK_ posted... So it basically means correcting a woman? Also that seems more of a friendly correction. Maybe I should be harder on women so I'm less sexist. "No bitch lol, you're wrong, it repels water" There's gotta be some sort of irony in here that you are interpreting the woman as incorrect in an example which was designed for her not to be wrong. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you think the term "Mansplaining" is sexist |
| COVxy 04/09/17 2:51:08 PM #26 | PostCrisisJ2 posted... COVxy posted...People try their best to not get the point when it comes to the term 'mansplaining'. Which I think kind of demonstrates why it could be useful in the first place. Pogo_Marimo posted... COVxy posted...People try their best to not get the point when it comes to the term 'mansplaining'. Which I think kind of demonstrates why it could be useful in the first place. The original point of the term was not to counter any arguments. The original point was to point out a situation that seemed to be pervasive within certain circles, primarily within academic circles. Which is when a man would approach a woman and make a point that both often had codified language and was clearly a point that any reasonable person should assume is within the speaker's knowledge. As a toy example, the idea is female grad student presenting a poster at a cellular biology conference about some newly discovered form of water transport in mammalian cells. "Okay, but Hun, the cell membrane is composed of a phosopholipid bilayer, which makes it hydrophobic, meaning that it repels water." The occurrence of these types of events were common enough that the community derived a term to describe them. That's all. This isn't some sort of nefarious term that was created to undermine men's opinions, though it has been appropriated by certain groups who have used it as such. Marklar posted... You're responding to a troll Are you calling me a troll? Wish I knew where you got that idea. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Do you think the term "Mansplaining" is sexist |
| COVxy 04/09/17 2:20:59 PM #15 | People try their best to not get the point when it comes to the term 'mansplaining'. Which I think kind of demonstrates why it could be useful in the first place. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Putin funded unrest in Ferguson apparently |
| COVxy 04/09/17 2:16:19 PM #37 | Antifar posted... COVxy posted...Someone's been reading too many Chomsky interviews. https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/4/full_interview_noam_chomsky_on_democracy It's just funny that you started criticizing the focus on Russia investigations just as it become a trendy topic with those on the far left. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Putin funded unrest in Ferguson apparently |
| COVxy 04/09/17 1:56:29 PM #34 | Someone's been reading too many Chomsky interviews. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Just saw ghost int he shell |
| COVxy 04/09/17 1:19:35 PM #6 | ReignFury posted... Are there boobs If we're being honest about things, this seems to be the primary complaint about the movie on this forum. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Despite whining about casting Ghost in the Shell has made back production budget |
| COVxy 04/09/17 12:43:04 PM #11 | People like to pretend like Ghost in the Shell was a particularly deep movie, when, in reality, it was deep in comparison to the extant mainstream anime. It didn't deal with the question of consciousness and AI with anymore elegance or profundity than season 1 of Westworld has. In fact, the elements are even somewhat more mature in Westworld, which of course isn't a philosphical tour de force to begin with. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is it possible for DNA to contain human memories? |
| COVxy 04/09/17 10:41:01 AM #10 | It's a "it's possible but unlikely and even if it were true it would contribute so little to what we think of as "memory". Essentially, such a mechanism has been found in another mammal, but it was found in such a domain and species specific facet that it seems unlikely to generalize to humans. But, of course, that doesn't mean it won't be. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is it possible for DNA to contain human memories? |
| COVxy 04/09/17 10:16:12 AM #4 | fire810 posted... "The original continues below. MIT researchers have shown, for the first time ever, that memories are stored in specific brain cells. By triggering a small cluster of neurons, the researchers were able to force the subject to recall a specific memory. By removing these neurons, the subject would lose that memory." This passage doesn't imply anything about this question in particular. fire810 posted... "Scientists have long assumed that memories and learned experiences built up during a lifetime must be passed on by teaching later generations or through personal experience. However, new research has shown that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA. In mice, they've found that certain olfactory receptors that are primarily generated through epigenetic action can be passed down to offspring. That's sort of the extent to the possible evidence for this. Epigenetic events that underlie long term forms of plasticity, the one's we think as the primary mechanisms for memory formation, haven't been found, and wouldn't be expected to be hereditary. In fact, even that earlier mouse study was a shock. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | My strange nursing supervisor told me she could see people like those Matrix |
| COVxy 04/08/17 7:51:33 AM #11 | GODTIER posted... The idea that quantum mechanics and consciousness go together has been around since like the 1920s or something. It's newagey pseudoscience bullshit, and its peddlers are most often making a buck selling their bullshit to gullible people. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | People demanding games offer 80 + hours of gameplay |
| COVxy 04/07/17 7:49:24 PM #15 | Didn't you just create a topic the other day praising open world mechanics, partly for this reason? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Seattle mayor accused of child molestation |
| COVxy 04/07/17 7:47:29 PM #13 | I think my point was pretty clear. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Seattle mayor accused of child molestation |
| COVxy 04/07/17 6:47:47 PM #11 | Calling a sexual encounter with a 15 year old "child molestation" is deliberately misleading. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | What you guys think Ghost in the Shell (Scarlet)? |
| COVxy 04/07/17 3:09:29 PM #6 | I don't know why people pretend like the original was a super deep movie. It's pretty much as deep as any modern sci-fi movie. I haven't seen the live action movie yet, but I feel like people are betting too much on nostalgia. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Never trust anyone over 40 that has never been married |
| COVxy 04/07/17 3:05:53 PM #15 | chill02 posted... HellsingOrg posted...hitokoriX posted...You don't trust a lot of people I mean, not that the statement in the OP has any merit, but that doesn't contradict that statement, logically. Everyone good is married before 40 ~= Everyone married before 40 is good. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Just saw a drug deal calling the police |
| COVxy 04/07/17 8:44:29 AM #5 | Imagine being someone who posts the same 2 or 3 gimmick topics over and over on CE. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | What is so offensive about the pepsi ad? |
| COVxy 04/06/17 8:55:26 PM #26 | People have rods too far up their asses, tbh. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 5:05:13 PM #35 | iosifsvoboda posted... Didn't you yourself just say you had to have a colleague photocopy an article? No, I didn't. Typically the way it works is that if an article is not available, either because the article is so old and so uncited that it isn't digitize or your university doesn't happen to have that particular subscription for the particular year that article was published, the university library will find it for you, either in their own archive or via another university, and upload it for you. You put in a request and typically within 24 hours you have the article you want, no matter how obscure and old. Either way, this is an incredibly rare occurrence. I put in like two requests a year. And it's important for the lay public to have access to the scientific literature. It's not really hard to learn a jargon, first of all. Second of all, many important findings are completely accessible to a lay person. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 2:23:48 PM #33 | iosifsvoboda posted... How can you make an informed hypothesis, test, data, interpretation and conclusion when you don't even have access to the community you are a member of? The community largely has full access, except for non-digitized articles, which are a rarity. And even then there are systems in place to get them. What topic primarily geared towards is those not within the science community to gain access. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 1:44:58 PM #31 | iosifsvoboda posted... teepan95 posted...iosifsvoboda posted...When you have to have someone else somewhere else photocopy a study that would greatly assist in your pursuit of truthlikeness because you dont have access, the purity of each and every step of the scientific method is greatly affected. How does the first affect the purity? It's more like it's slightly harder for researchers. You are starting with your conclusion that science is corrupted and trying to reason backwards, that much is clear. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 12:09:37 PM #27 | iosifsvoboda posted...
The system has flaws and puts too much weight on the researchers themselves, but what does that have to do with disbelief in the results of science? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 10:44:30 AM #22 | iosifsvoboda posted... That bathwater is getting a little dirty ;) The fact that you see anything said in this topic as reason to discredit the scientific enterprise demonstrates that you don't really understand what you're reading. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I drink about 2 caffeinated beverages a month. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 10:43:01 AM #22 | DevsBro posted... You can form a dependency if you're not careful. I don't see why dependency is necessarily bad. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 10:19:32 AM #20 | Cubs_WSC15 posted... COVxy posted...Cubs_WSC15 posted...anything illegal about this? Usually sharing single articles, especially for educational purposes, constitutes fair use, and so each individual link doesn't violate copyright. At least, that's my understanding. I could be wrong here. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 10:14:39 AM #15 | Cubs_WSC15 posted... anything illegal about this? As legal as doing Google searches. It's just a super scraper as far as I can tell. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I drink about 2 caffeinated beverages a month. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 10:11:28 AM #14 | I'm around 4-6 cups of coffee a day. When it gets warmer out and I start doing my own cold brew, all hell breaks loose lol. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/06/17 10:08:42 AM #11 | Last bump for more access! --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Why does grade school wreck your writing ability so badly? |
| COVxy 04/06/17 9:12:40 AM #4 | The worst thing that preprofessional writing has done to me is punish conciseness and clarity with page minimums. It took a lot of work to recover from that. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/05/17 9:24:40 PM #10 | FlashOfLight posted... They really have to embrace modern methods I mean, it's not really that conservatism is the issue. The issue is that people are profiting on the current system, and researchers don't really have free choice to select or not select journals. So the contingencies are just hard to break. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/05/17 9:08:05 PM #5 | FlashOfLight posted... I still think many important documents are guarded jealousy without rhyme and reason, and should be widely be made available and open, but some colleges and universities have very draconian policies when it comes to their documents. Paywalls have very little to do with universities, but with journals. The journal system is pretty awful. Universities and individuals pay for subscriptions, researchers pay journals to include their work for publication, and journals utilize researchers as a free resource for peer review. But it's not like people can protest and be like 'I'm no longer gonna publish in these journals' because you'd be sacrificing your career. More or less, the system is relatively fucked, and fixing it, if it'll happen at all, will only take place over a long period of time with large cultural shifts in the scientific community. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/05/17 8:38:30 PM #2 | Up for knowledge. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | New tool to get beyond paywalls for scientific papers. |
| COVxy 04/05/17 8:00:07 PM #1 | http://www.nature.com/news/unpaywall-finds-free-versions-of-paywalled-papers-1.21765 Great resource. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Mexico installs 'penis seats' in an attempt to cut down on sexual harassment |
| COVxy 04/03/17 8:35:23 AM #13 | FlashOfLight posted... foreveraIone posted...Good things aren't free. Trend? The Times has always been a subscription service. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | I dislike it when movies and shows make evil something hereditary |
| COVxy 04/01/17 7:17:37 AM #11 | I can't think of a single movie like this, tbh. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
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