part of me has a knee-jerk reaction seeing this kind of topic in the new yorker of like "oh god is 'slowing down' going to be the next commoditized lifestyle after 'mindfulness?'" but still this is pretty good

this was also mentioned in mia mulder's latest: it's amazing how there are entire sectors such as advertising that are entirely superfluous to human wellbeing

as a proponent of sleeping and hanging out it's always nice to read people smarter than me make rigorous coherent arguments for it

Another piece of evidence proving my belief that economics is a completly fake and yogshit "field". The other professors and guys they cited in the article all basically said Yeah what he did wasnt actually bad, we all do that shit, but he should have put a foot note saying that he was making every thing up, like the rest of us do. Fuck economists 🖕🖕

baldfacedly telling a critic in a zoom call "oh i used excel autofill lol" then being like "oh sorry i forgot to disclose that i used excel autofill for my data... whoopsy daisy :(" is a hilarious way to admit falsifying your research

this is interesting but i wish i could make heads or tails of what the original paper was even about lol

this is like that star trek episode where they use the holodeck to figure out what happens if you go warp 10, then it turns out actually doing that turns you into a lizard

reminds me of the fake data on the study about dishonesty kerfuffle a while back. (whole site is pretty good actually. here's a four-parter focused on one particular researcher)

bergamot essence in the wrong for being bad for humans. 4l tea drinkers proceed as usual

i don't think this person did anything wrong to be fair

ok, i may not read this in a timely manner but i skimmed it and it's stuff i already knew because i already follow the east asia news cycle and have been thinking about the impact zero covid has on my family since january 2020. i guess hearing it from a white man drives things home for certain groups of people?? not to be bitter, but i am bitter

yeah i agree. not perfect but i still found it to be an interesting read and do worry that kids are not being given adequate opportunities for explorative play.

...especially when i hear about stuff like schools cutting recess time in order to push for better test scores

no lol i would never span

yeah i'm not sure if the citations are listed incorrectly or if theyre backing up their assertions using only marginally related articles which do not actually explicitly reinforce their point 🤷

also dislike how "obesity" is always the first thing on the list of health stuff they want to solve but eh what can you do

yeah there are some citation problems in this article. the study that they cited for "Studies have also associated rough-and-tumble play with better problem-solving scores in boys" is a... meta-analysis on studies about time spent outdoors and its correlation with myopia. (which is incidentally a bit amusing to me because well we already know that)

tentatively, i agree with their conclusions, but the paragraph about "watchwords" reducing the confidence of children and their interest in play is totally unfounded based on the article that they cite, which is just a proposed experimental protocol! based on that and the article's tone in general, i do get the impression that the authors aren't quite impartially weighing up the risks and benefits of risky/unstructured play in the way that i would hope to see in an academic article

this is fascinating but i thought this was spam. best diet ruined me

before i read this, gonna say that my grandpa died feb 2020 and no one could enter china for the funeral that we couldn't even hold anyway

even if it’s a hosted blog still kind of surprised to see this as an “editor’s pick” on forbes tbh but i suppose i can’t complain lol

like, it kinda hurts to be told to have some grace about being misgendered (we're giving concessions for fucking what exactly) but like. for instance, even though i don't actually come across this problem (my native language doesn't have gendered pronouns, and i don't talk to people anyway), it's still really easy for me to put myself in the Struggling Cis Ally spot. genuinely i would write stories plural about trans characters and mess up their pronouns. gender's fucking stupid.

thus, i guess what i would do is to have a boilerplate response for both honest mistake mess-ups and "okay sigh we're indulging in your fantasy but urrgh" kinda mess-ups (doing mental calculus to figure out whether a person is one or the other would just be psychologically unaffordable). about this i'm reminded of sarah z's recent queerbaiting video. about how the ostensibly same kind of anger actually wrongly hurts "easy" targets more severely than the capital that subsumed it. so then, kindness towards people making honest mistakes probably goes a longer way than aggression towards an assumed bad actor.

the enlightened centrist argument would probably be not to assume anything about people. but if you do assume, i guess err towards kindness. unless it's someone you have personal grievances with, in which case they're ontologically evil

woah!

Seen you around there!

cool place with some cool folks btw

i'm amused you call it his bunker given his discord is called the goblin bunker lol