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  1. Comment on On "bullshit" jobs - New data supports the idea that some jobs are "so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence" in ~life

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    They actually kind of find support for both, depending on methodology. If raw numbers are used like Soffia et al. did, the results confirm Soffia et al., but if the effects of other factors like...

    They actually kind of find support for both, depending on methodology. If raw numbers are used like Soffia et al. did, the results confirm Soffia et al., but if the effects of other factors like alienation are properly controlled for, a modified version of Graeber is confirmed (just dropping the "people are usually correct" part).

  2. Comment on A harrowing vision of mind uploading in the form of a fictitious Wiki article in ~books

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    It's right at the top of the comments under the story, in a comment by the author. Iirc HeLa cells are also mentioned if not by the author then by a comment not much further down.

    It's right at the top of the comments under the story, in a comment by the author. Iirc HeLa cells are also mentioned if not by the author then by a comment not much further down.

  3. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Well, German doesn't, so it's not surprising you didn't know. It's one of the arguments for calling Schwiizerdüütsch its own language rather than just a German dialect.

    Well, German doesn't, so it's not surprising you didn't know. It's one of the arguments for calling Schwiizerdüütsch its own language rather than just a German dialect.

  4. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Is Dutch capable of forming the diminutive of a verb? In Swiss German you can do that by umlauting the verb root and adding ɘl. Example: (1) /baː.dɘt/ = (he/she/we/they/y'all) is/are taking a bath...

    Is Dutch capable of forming the diminutive of a verb? In Swiss German you can do that by umlauting the verb root and adding ɘl.

    Example:

    • (1) /baː.dɘt/ = (he/she/we/they/y'all) is/are taking a bath
    • (2) /baː.dɪʃ/ = (you) are taking a bath
    • /bæ.dɘ.lɘt/ = same as (1), but diminutive
    • /bæ.dɘ.lɪʃ/ = same as (2), but diminutive

    Edit: Or as I just used a minute ago: "es rägelet", diminutive of "es rägnet" = "it rains"/"it's raining"

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    And here I thought you were a spell by Immanuel Kant 😜

    And here I thought you were a spell by Immanuel Kant 😜

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Oh hey, someone who presumably had a similar thought to me back when I first came up with my username!

    Oh hey, someone who presumably had a similar thought to me back when I first came up with my username!

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    PoemForASprog was one of them. He made mostly great poem comments.

    PoemForASprog was one of them. He made mostly great poem comments.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Ah, I love The Importance Of Being Earnest! A not insignificant part is because I appreciate the wordplay. Plus, the same wordplay mostly works in German as well! "Ernst" in German is a name,...

    Ah, I love The Importance Of Being Earnest! A not insignificant part is because I appreciate the wordplay.

    Plus, the same wordplay mostly works in German as well!
    "Ernst" in German is a name, "ernst" means earnest/serious (tending mostly towards serious in modern usage, but I appreciate it nonetheless).

  9. Comment on Why did you select your username for Tildes? in ~tildes

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    I chose my username because I love learning new things. First I considered something with the word inquisitive but deemed it too easily misunderstood (didn't want to come across as nosy)....

    I chose my username because I love learning new things.

    First I considered something with the word inquisitive but deemed it too easily misunderstood (didn't want to come across as nosy). Something with curious was considered, but I didn't want an association with Curious George. Curiosity was better and invited something about cats, which are my favourite animal, but cats are generally associated with female personas, partly because Cat can be short for Catherine, so that was out.

    Lynx on the other hand are my favourite wild animals and years before I'd combined a German nickname containing "Lux" with a profile picture of a lynx (lynx in German is "Luchs", which isn't all that far from "Lux" in terms of pronunciation). Lynx are also felids, so something like "curiosity killed the cat" might also be stretched to include lynx, and they don't have the association with female personas.

    So that's how I arrived at my nickname.

    As a bonus, I can easily pretend to be a feline if the context invites such silliness and I'm in the mood for it. Kind of the opposite of the "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog" comic. Mostly riffing on curiosity killed the cat plus cats have multiple lives myths. I had fun visiting talesfromcavesupport@kbin.social to ask in the welcome post if I can sleep and hide in the cave when it rains if I promise not to harm any hominids and asking if leaving a paw print instead of a hand print in the guestbook on the guestwall would also be okay.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on A harrowing vision of mind uploading in the form of a fictitious Wiki article in ~books

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    I didn't see much discussion in the fediverse thread (just me and another person thanking the commenter above us for this link). The thread itself was about someone who asked whether they could...

    I didn't see much discussion in the fediverse thread (just me and another person thanking the commenter above us for this link). The thread itself was about someone who asked whether they could make an objective version of themselves by uploading their diary to an LLM.

    The interesting comments I was referring to were at the bottom of the page the link directs to (press the "Show Discussion" button at the bottom).

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Cat owners of Tildes, what are your tips & tricks? in ~life.pets

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    I had cats throughout my childhood and have internalised this way of communicating everything is fine to the point of it being one of my reactions to making eye contact with strangers. (The other...

    I had cats throughout my childhood and have internalised this way of communicating everything is fine to the point of it being one of my reactions to making eye contact with strangers. (The other reaction being to focus on something in their background, move my position so that they leave the center of my vision but whatever I refocused on in their background doesn't, and finally "lose interest" in whatever it was behind them that I "was looking at" that made it "seem" to them that we made eye contact.)

    9 votes

  12. Comment on A harrowing vision of mind uploading in the form of a fictitious Wiki article in ~books

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    I recently was linked to this wiki-entry-like short story in the comments of a thread in the fediverse, and it's the first piece of fiction in ages that I have saved for re-reading. The comments...

    I recently was linked to this wiki-entry-like short story in the comments of a thread in the fediverse, and it's the first piece of fiction in ages that I have saved for re-reading.

    The comments under the actual piece of fiction are also rather interesting in that some people react very differently to it.

    PS: I posted this here in ~misc because it isn't a book and I couldn't find something for short stories.

    9 votes

  14. Comment on Some general advice for all the new Tildes users in ~tildes

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    It seems to me that you are talking at cross purposes. The person you replied to was talking about false premises, the things people base their arguments and opinions on. What you argued about was...

    It seems to me that you are talking at cross purposes. The person you replied to was talking about false premises, the things people base their arguments and opinions on. What you argued about was wether or not the things people say are based on evidence and whether they communicate clearly. Those three things might not be completely independent variables, but they're definitely not the same thing.

    A premise is what you assume to be true before you start your argument or voice your opinion. You can say very coherently why you're of the opinion that people should, say, do something to punish some business and optionally provide evidence for what happened when people did or didn't do that to other such businesses in the past, but if your premise is wrong (turns out the business you want to punish is innocent or your argument/opinion was based on some US supreme court decision and it turns out we're talking about a small shop in eastern Europe), it's still worth pointing that out.

    1 vote