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Comment on Why a tire company gives out food’s most famous award in ~food
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Comment on No one's names were changed at Ellis Island in ~humanities.history
Tyragi Link ParentI believe it is studied! Looking into where a lot of countries names come from in English is one particular facet that I've looked into, like how Nihon became Japan. As you surmised, the game of...I believe it is studied! Looking into where a lot of countries names come from in English is one particular facet that I've looked into, like how Nihon became Japan.
As you surmised, the game of telephone can have a lot to do with what words end up translated.
From this Wikipedia article - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan
"During the Heian period, 大和 was gradually replaced by 日本, which was first pronounced with the Chinese reading (on'yomi) Nippon and later as Nifon, and then in modern usage Nihon, reflecting shifts in phonology in Early Modern Japanese.[1] Marco Polo called Japan 'Cipangu' around 1300, based on the Chinese name,[5] probably 日本國; 'sun source country' (compare modern Min Nan pronunciation ji̍t pún kok). In the 16th century in Malacca, Portuguese traders first heard from Malay and Indonesian the names Jepang, Jipang, and Jepun.[6] In 1577 it was first recorded in English, spelled Giapan.[6] At the end of the 16th century, Portuguese missionaries came to Japan and created grammars and dictionaries of Middle Japanese. The 1603–1604 dictionary Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam has 2 entries: nifon[7] and iippon.[8] Since then many derived names of Japan appeared on early-modern European maps."
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Comment on No one's names were changed at Ellis Island in ~humanities.history
Tyragi Link ParentTake my name for example. The earliest record we can trace our name back to is good ol Abraham Zieve arriving at Ellis Island with his Hebrew last name anglicized wrong. Instead of Ze'ev, it's...Take my name for example. The earliest record we can trace our name back to is good ol Abraham Zieve arriving at Ellis Island with his Hebrew last name anglicized wrong. Instead of Ze'ev, it's recorded as Zieve.
Was this due to English illiteracy? Was this due to non-standardization of Hebrew to English translation at the time? Did he purposely change it to stand out?
Honestly, all of that is lost to time as far as I can tell. All that's left is the earliest proof I can find, that first record at Ellis Island. I'll still use the phrasing 'changed at Ellis Island' personally, as 'Mistake made likely before Ellis Island but completely untraceable before hand' would be technically correct, but I feel needlessly pedantic.
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Comment on "[diagnosis] is something you have, not something you are" in ~health.mental
Tyragi Link Parent"X is something you have, not something you are." I feel is kind of clumsily worded as well. "I am more than X, but X is a part of me." - I think this is a more apt phrasing, but there's still a..."X is something you have, not something you are." I feel is kind of clumsily worded as well.
"I am more than X, but X is a part of me." - I think this is a more apt phrasing, but there's still a fair bit clunky there.
I am not just ADHD myself, but goddamn it sometimes when people ask me 'Why are you like this?!' it's so refreshing to be able to say 'ADHD' and be done with it.
I feel like this is more apt to non-mental issues, like physical disabilities. I have crippling eyesight issues, but that isn't who I am. But mental illnesses can be so broad and encompassing it absolutely can dominate who you become.
I like art. I wanted to draw. Badly. I always fell short and failed compared to my sister.
My sister was neurotypical, I'm ADHD.
I found out when I was thirty that my horrible hand eye coordination and drawing skills are in large part due to coordination being so heavily affected it can be considered a diagnostic criteria for ADHD.I feel like I kind of got pushed into my hobbies by my limitations, and now that I have something extrinsic to help understand, I know I don't just have to blame myself for things I literally cannot control.
I am not my ADHD, but my ADHD is an integral part of who I am and who I grew up to be.
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Comment on One woman's controversial fight to make America accept drug users for who they are in ~health.mental
Tyragi Link ParentIt's also an easy out to not fix our problems. Step 1. Make those society has failed so miserable they can't help but be tempted to use drugs. Step 2. Criminalize drug use. Step 3. Only enforce...It's also an easy out to not fix our problems.
Step 1. Make those society has failed so miserable they can't help but be tempted to use drugs.
Step 2. Criminalize drug use.
Step 3. Only enforce said drug use laws on said failed members of society.And now you have the framework of the War on Drugs! AKA the 'War on those the establishment does not like'. Originally crafted to suppress counterculture and ethnicity, it was embraced whole heartedly by the Prohibitionist faction as well.
Do you like drugs?
Are you a respected member of the community?
Then stay in line and you'll be safe!Of course, I am vastly oversimplifying things, but I'm always so frustrated with the fact that there can never be honest discourse on subjects where a very easy hard-line can be drawn that usually ignores half of reality for populist points.
We can never have an honest discussion on drug use, because no one stands to gain on advocating for those shunned by society unless they have power. And ironically those in power often can be drug users, but the 'right' kind of drug user that isn't labeled a drug user.
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Comment on Rats have an imagination, new research finds in ~science
Tyragi Link ParentI've looked into degus for this reason! https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/degu-care Typical life expectancy is 5-8 years, up to 13. Chinchillas have an expectancy of 10, but can live up...I've looked into degus for this reason! https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/degu-care
Typical life expectancy is 5-8 years, up to 13.
Chinchillas have an expectancy of 10, but can live up to 20!
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Comment on Rats have an imagination, new research finds in ~science
Tyragi (edited )Link ParentHeck, degus can be given ADHD through social trauma! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-016-1244-7 While I do hesitate to project thoughts and emotions towards others, since while...Heck, degus can be given ADHD through social trauma! https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-016-1244-7
While I do hesitate to project thoughts and emotions towards others, since while you can always speculate wildly different scenarios upon others with little to no negative feedback, I feel like this is overall a boon to our understanding of ourselves as well.
Think about this - when did hands evolve? And I'm not talking about specifically human hands. There are a number of species with arms that are suspiciously good at gripping and manipulating objects. Primates, racoons, possums, rats, all use 'hands' in similar ways. From eating, grooming, transportation, and just what have you, these are not just paws! But wait, possums aren't even placental animals, they're marsupials...
In fact, we've had hands the whole time! Paws with footpads and hooves may be the name of the game today, but paws didn't evolve into hands, synapsid and mammalian appendages were more hand-like from the get go - https://science.time.com/2013/02/08/found-humanitys-great-grand-rat/
https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/revealing-genome-common-ancestor-all-mammalsRats have imagination - that has HUGE implications for literally every branch of mammalian ancestry, and possibly beyond that! Did synapsids dream and fantasize? Can insects?!
What if everything has a rich inner world we yet barely understand?
While I can be prone to wild speculation, the fact that we know magpies and ravens are wicked smart - already able to problem solve to such points that we've observed tool use - I feel points to imagination on their ends as well. https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/common-raven#:~:text=They%20have%20a%20deep%20voice,aid%20in%20defending%20their%20territories
And ravens can talk! https://youtube.com/shorts/YsBHcMbcO3M?si=b_Rv5rS8xLeP6SIb
We know they have speech, and can communicate threats effectively enough they can put out warrants for public enemies. I didn't know until just now that they can also use hand gestures as well! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ravens-use-hand-gestures/
Bumblebees play - engaging with objects with no value, and we see similar patterns of play reduction in immature and mature bumblebees that we do with humans - https://www.science.org/content/article/are-these-bumble-bees-playing-toys
Ants form teacher and pupil relationships, and it has even been found that teacher ants will help pupil ants to memorize landmarks and take things slowly so that pupils can digest information before moving on - https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna10806078
All of this to say - if animals are this intelligent, shouldn't they all be able to imagine? Imagination is simply entertaining notions of what may be - a form of abstract pattern recognition.
We know that all these species can learn, play, communicate, problem solve, and build complex societies.
Shouldn't we view them as siblings worthy of respect?
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Comment on Wind farms are building datacenters to offload electricity in non-peak hours in ~enviro
Tyragi Link ParentAnd it's not just wind - Microsoft is in the speculation and planning phases of using nuclear power to become the backbone of their data center and AI pushes - putting bets both on Small Modular...- Exemplary
And it's not just wind - Microsoft is in the speculation and planning phases of using nuclear power to become the backbone of their data center and AI pushes - putting bets both on Small Modular Reactors and Fusion Reactors - https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23889956/microsoft-next-generation-nuclear-energy-smr-job-hiring
But honestly, I'm just disheartened with the fact that Federal Research is at all time lows in proportion to the federal budget - https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/Budget_Federal.png
For profit must chase things they expect to eventually be able to milk for much more than their investment costs.
But even in day to day life, I see so many returns on things I never expect to be repaid on. I invest my time in likely dead ends, or things I think might be one offs but want to do it right rather than doing it sloppily and possibly struggling in the future if it ever becomes relevant again.
Our future should not be decided by what's viable, as you never know when research into bug microbiomes could result in new ways to make bio reactors more efficient and safe like the research here on trying to optimize biome balance for the intended metabolic reactions - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1385894721031685
Or finding out bumblebees like to play! Why could this be important? What possible profit could be gleaned from knowing we could set up bee attractions? But that's not the point! The point being that we're still vastly in the dark about the world around us - if bees can play, bees can think and learn, and we also learned that playing is a fundamental part of cognition, I believe being part of a reward mechanism built into psychology to encourage growth of pattern recognition and familiarization.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347222002366
So, now we have a new set of possible test subjects for cognition research that are fast at reproducing and have built in controls for limited biodiversity within a sample population!
Termites we're still learning architectural design techniques from - https://www.bbcearth.com/news/what-termites-can-teach-architects&ocid=twert
You NEVER know what research has the potential to improve our lives, which is why we should always strive to ask questions we've never thought to ask, reassess assumptions, and never be afraid of hitting dead ends. But I feel like all of these are the exact reasons why capital based research is a horrible policy for the world at large.
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Comment on Please be dying, but not too quickly: a clinical trial story in ~health
Tyragi Link ParentHmmm, I think reframing this could help. A clinical trial knows their requirements, and is actively seeking applicants. There's a known quantity of clinical trials currently ongoing and approved...Hmmm, I think reframing this could help.
A clinical trial knows their requirements, and is actively seeking applicants. There's a known quantity of clinical trials currently ongoing and approved by the FDA, and ostensibly a database of such trials and requirements on their side.
On the other side, you have a person literally dying or in such dire medical straits that they are considering experimental studies as a compassion case. Compassion cases themselves require exhaustive processes to burn through known treatments to prove that they need this last resort before they and their practitioner can be considered.
Why is the onus on the side of those least able to navigate such conditions?
What I see is an absolute failing of the FDA to serve the citizens it works for. A solution was implemented that in no way serves the patients or clinics, and they both are being failed by the regulatory body in the perfect place to serve as an in-between to help both trials and patients meet their needs, but is funneling money to something that is obviously failing everyone.
Speaking as someone who works in healthcare data, the system is broken on all sides. Even within a health system data accessibility and visibility is abysmal, let alone as a patient.
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Comment on Headphone recommends that actually block out voices in ~tech
Tyragi LinkI tried these out when I forgot my headphones at work, and liked them so much I immediately used my work tech budget to purchase a pair - Polycom Voyager 8200 UC -...I tried these out when I forgot my headphones at work, and liked them so much I immediately used my work tech budget to purchase a pair -
Polycom Voyager 8200 UC -
https://www.poly.com/us/en/products/headsets/voyager/voyager-8200-ucThey have pretty good ANC, and block out noise pretty well, but are not 'I am in a soundproof room' like I think you're looking for. What's really nice about them is that they're really built for a noisy office environment, and have some features that are specifically work focused.
The things I appreciate are -
- Adjustable ANC Mode with physical slider
- Small wireless receiver with clear mute and connection status light
- GOOD simultaneous Bluetooth and wireless connection
- I own a pair of SteelSeries Arctis 7 Pro headphones that I find the handling of Bluetooth and wireless to be clunky and unintuitive, vs these where I don't have to think about the fact that my phone and PC are simultaneously connected.
- Hold, mute, and volume adjustment in 'easy to find while not looking' locations
- Little background noise when using the mic in a noisy office
Native Teams integration -
- Picks up calls when putting headset on, and intuitive media
- Places your mic on hold when taking your headset off
- Announcements of being muted while talking and incoming calls
That being said, there are some cons -
- Rare audio routing issue requiring reboot from driver conflict
- Firmware updates were finicky
- Getting a call both on phone and PC simultaneously, it will not pick one or the other to pick up and requires manual intervention.
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Comment on Seeking advice from atheist/nonreligious parents: How have you raised your kids to be freethinking amidst a highly religious community and/or extended family? in ~life
Tyragi Link ParentI'll agree with this! Not a parent, but raised quasi-jewish with a plethora of religious exposure, I think broadening horizons does wonders for expanding their breadth of understanding - working...I'll agree with this! Not a parent, but raised quasi-jewish with a plethora of religious exposure, I think broadening horizons does wonders for expanding their breadth of understanding - working with Austin Area Interreligious Ministries, I was exposed to a cornucopia of religion including Zoroastrianism and Druism, further reinforcing the commonality of difference.
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Comment on For those with adult ADHD...how do you get by? in ~health.mental
Tyragi Link ParentI will warn people - Strattera can cause depression, both my SO and I tried it when she was starting on medication and I was getting back on medication. Massive downspirals on both of our ends,...I will warn people - Strattera can cause depression, both my SO and I tried it when she was starting on medication and I was getting back on medication. Massive downspirals on both of our ends, and I realized when I was taking it in high school what depression symptoms were actually a side effect of Strattera. Take this with a fistful of salt, as both of us have naturally depressive tendencies.
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Comment on For those with adult ADHD...how do you get by? in ~health.mental
Tyragi Link ParentADHD/suspect ASD fellow here with a ADHD/suspect ASD significant other - she was diagnosed while we were dating mid-pandemic during grad school as well, and there's a LOT that we've learned since...ADHD/suspect ASD fellow here with a ADHD/suspect ASD significant other - she was diagnosed while we were dating mid-pandemic during grad school as well, and there's a LOT that we've learned since I was diagnosed 20 years ago in middle school.
If you're ADHD and haven't gone back down the rabbit hole of 'what does this mean for me and how I function', here's a list of a couple of things that are non-obviously correlated -
Coordination - physical coordination degrades with more severe ADHD symptoms. Beyond being just clumsy, there are real issues with fine motor control development. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424539/
In fact, in an Israeli study, they found that handwriting can be a tool in diagnosis -
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31823772/Executive Dysfunction - this was a big one for me, as I never associated getting 'stuck' with my ADHD. The inability to sometimes make executive decisions can be a crippling issue, and I believe it should be one of the main things we emphasized when people are newly diagnosed. Being able to judge the medications efficacy on 'Was I having issues prioritizing? Was I having issues making decisions still?' can be helpful questions to ask yourself.
Stimulation - Stimming can in fact be helpful! I've learned to embrace fidget toys, as sometimes the 'monkey brain' as I call it needs a low level distraction to allow 'thinky brain' to work un-impeded. This is a consequence of executive dysfunction - being unable to shut down certain feelings or sensations requires workarounds.
Conversations and Thought Patterns - from my experience, my ADHD brain goes on so many tangents it's hard to keep conversations 'on topic', as 'on topic' is sometimes arbitrarily set by feeling a dissonance in the flow of a conversation that a neurodivergent individual may not have ever felt before. Honestly, this is something that's enough of a pattern that I can usually tell if someone is ADHD by having a conversation - four friends have been diagnosed after I had already assumed they knew they had ADHD or ASD from the first conversation.
Object Permanence - people and objects not in sight tend to disappear from ADHD brains. Literally the reason why remembering can be hard is it requires enough executive function to keep juggling the object in your brain, while more neurotypical folks just put it on their brain shelf. I've learned to stop blaming myself for the fact I need things in the open and visible for me to remember they exist, and embrace high visibility reminders in places I can't ignore, or choosing ugly solutions so that I can work with visibility into my organized clutter.
I hope this helps! I'm still trying to find my way myself, my framing for dealing with these issues usually goes 'Alright, my brain usually defaults to x behavioral pattern, what can I do to compensate?', or trying to make systems that accommodate my thought and behavior patterns.
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Comment on MangaLove: A thread to share series that you love on Tildes in ~anime
Tyragi Link ParentThirded! It does a really good job of incorporating the homey, cottagey English countryside magic Harry Potter excelled at, while being a much more coherent world.Thirded! It does a really good job of incorporating the homey, cottagey English countryside magic Harry Potter excelled at, while being a much more coherent world.
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Comment on Feeling somehow cosmically doomed to always fail in ~health.mental
Tyragi LinkHello fellow cursed person! So, you have cosmically bad luck, like the universe sees whenever you get your hopes up, and winds up a massive punch down to keep you in your place? I am also...Hello fellow cursed person!
So, you have cosmically bad luck, like the universe sees whenever you get your hopes up, and winds up a massive punch down to keep you in your place?
I am also fantastically unlucky, in that some of my terrible luck is too fantastical to sound true. 'The Curse' was named when I really wanted a specific Italian restaurant, and somehow overcoming my executive dysfunction (ADHD), I get my roommate into my car saying I'll treat him to dinner. While driving over to the restaurant, I described this phenomenon, and that it felt good to get my hopes up.
The restaurant had burned to the ground the week before, leaving only ashes.
My therapist agrees that it's not just cognitive distortions in my case, I actually am ridiculously unlucky.
Good news! I may have some advice that might help.
For my birthday, I really wanted to go to a museum that I'd been intending to go to for 10 years or so, but never had someone to go with. My girlfriend graciously took me out, and as we were driving up to the parking lot, I mentioned that maybe I should get my hopes up.
The museum lost power 30 minutes before we got there. I took this as 'Yeah, never bet against the curse'.
But instead, something new was born. We went to an aquarium instead, and talked about 'making our luck'.
Have we had absurd bad luck since? Yes. Literally last night my girlfriend wanted to eat at an Indonesian place that's fantastic for her birthday, but was closed only yesterday. She was devastated, and we tried to find a replacement, but nothing sounds good. As luck would have it, her neighbor struck up a conversation and we had a wonderful night at a new American place.
'Making your own luck' is more -
A. Letting go of preconceptions -
I struggle with this a lot, but there are a lot of times that a frame of view can cause the very misery we want to stop. Seeing things as 'There's nothing else' rather than 'How can we move forward from here?' can cause a lot more doom and gloom than necessary. This includes 'What if?'s, as well as 'I messed up' and 'I can't's.B. Allowing yourself nice things -
So, you didn't get 1. Are you beating yourself up? Are you comparing 2 which you have against the platonic ideal of 1? I fall into this trap a lot. There's an adage I put stock into - 'Comparison is the theft of joy'. Do you like your sparkly stone? Would that sparkly stone stand up to the crown jewels? No, but the sparkly stone is yours! You may be able to compare, covet, and despair, but you should also be able to cherish, pride, and enjoy as well! -
Comment on When did you realize you were different? in ~talk
Tyragi Link ParentEven getting a diagnosis and medication didn't help me much - Strattera sometimes helped me focus, but also came with severe depression that I'm naturally inclined to. Even then, I had a great...Even getting a diagnosis and medication didn't help me much - Strattera sometimes helped me focus, but also came with severe depression that I'm naturally inclined to.
Even then, I had a great doctor, but didn't understand executive dysfunction and why I couldn't 'do' things. Why I struggled to make decisions, why I struggled to get started, why I struggled with large scopes.
I'm not much better now, but at least I have a name to the phenomenon and not just beating myself up.
Heck, my dad's executive dysfunction is so bad he offloaded major life decisions to a dowsing pendulum - at least I'm better equipped than my forebearers.
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Comment on A warning to employers that US NLRB labor agency has changed the rules governing formation of unions to be easier for workers and harder for employers to oppose in ~life
Tyragi Link ParentA lot of economy planning assumes maximum hostility. In such an environment, why does it seem like employers are given the benefit of the doubt, while society simultaneously tells workers they're...A lot of economy planning assumes maximum hostility. In such an environment, why does it seem like employers are given the benefit of the doubt, while society simultaneously tells workers they're disposable and must be indispensable to their company.
Not just unions or worker protections, we see the same in regulations. Lax regulations 'trusting' businesses, lots of leeway, punishments that allow violations to be profitable.
Time and time again I see the assumption of maximum hostility towards workers, but this odd assumption of 'do the right thing' towards busineses. I realize this is mostly just a smokescreen, as regulatory capture and legal bribery mean that there is a power imbalance and conflict of interest in not pandering to business, but the transparent double standard is quite frankly infuriating.
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Comment on Looking for suggestions that make fun of holier than thou/ sanctimonious people in ~tv
Tyragi Link ParentHaha, my apologies, I believe I'm just blind!Haha, my apologies, I believe I'm just blind!
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Comment on Looking for suggestions that make fun of holier than thou/ sanctimonious people in ~tv
Tyragi Link ParentI wonder, does sanctimonious satire fit your bill? Another BBC one that's a riot is 'Father Ted', which is an absurd take on the Catholic Church and Ireland, in a very, very Irish fashion. Also...I wonder, does sanctimonious satire fit your bill?
Another BBC one that's a riot is 'Father Ted', which is an absurd take on the Catholic Church and Ireland, in a very, very Irish fashion.
Also under sanctimonious satire, 'Dogma' is a great movie that undercuts a lot of the self important aspects of Christianity with Kevin Smith's wit and a fantastic ensemble cast with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, George Carlin, Linda Fiorentino, Janeane Garofalo, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, Salma Hayek, Bud Cort, Alan Rickman, Alanis Morissette and Jason Mewes. Quite literally the intent is to undercut dogma, aka truth as established by authority.
'Tropic Thunder' is a great satire undercutting the self importance of Hollywood in the face of real danger outside of their bubble, and one of my favorite movies of all time.
'This is Spinal Tap' is a great dated mockumentary cutting down rock stars' over inflated egos and self pretentiousness.
By the same director, (Harry Shearer, aka Mr. Burns from The Simpsons), 'The History of White People in America' is a hilarious response to 'Roots' that I absolutely loved.
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Comment on The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained in ~food
Tyragi Link ParentI think that's the key - mental bandwidth. People can only keep so much expendable bandwidth on things of their choosing, otherwise the world takes a lot of the bandwidth one has for living. I...I think that's the key - mental bandwidth.
People can only keep so much expendable bandwidth on things of their choosing, otherwise the world takes a lot of the bandwidth one has for living.
I think a lot of the people who are surprised and disgusted, then let it fade into the back of their head might, in an ideal world, change their actions.
But in the non-ideal world, so many things require passive acceptance or else risk burning through the minimal bandwidth they have that such passivity becomes a necessary evil that we apply too liberally.I know of an interesting example that bucks this trend - pop culture usually associates veganism with white liberals, but the black vegan movement is rapidly gaining momentum in a population that has embraced it in spite of the lack of popular culture consciousness.
When a group makes strides to enable such choices, the bandwidth of such ideas becomes negligible. Want a burger and fries? Slutty Vegan is a fast food vegan burger joint I love that requires no extra bandwidth - it's just good.
When the choice becomes easier and minimal bandwidth, I understand the shaming, but I won't fault anyone for eating meat out of a cultural indifference when it's a currently expensive choice mentally and financially.
Ditto - I would actually say that the Guinness Book of World Records as a brand entity is completely divorced from it's origins of settling bar debates.
Sometimes side projects take a life of their own - like Volkswagen currywurst - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst