I read an article once that argued that the Milgram experiment is universally misunderstood.

(in Psych101 they’ll tell you that the experiment proves that people will harm each other by being obedient to authority. A person in a lab coat is the authority in this case. people obeyed the lab-coat guy like 95% of the time)

In the years between the experiment becoming famous and it being banned by ethical boards, many variations on the experiment were tried. Most interesting was a variation where the lab-coat guy was replaced by a police or army guy. In these experiments, the willingness of the participants flipped. With 90+% of the participants refusing to obey. This strongly suggests that what was compelling about the lab-coat guy was not authority after all.

The article argued that the difference was people thought of the lab-coat guy as science and their participation wasn’t obedience to authority, but rather a sense of duty to the greater good. (culture regarded scientists and science very differently in the 50s & 60s).

The Milgram experiment was a whole genre of psychological study I’ll call “why Nazi”. I think the idea that people will obey authority even when it’s evil is much less scary than the idea that your every-day Nazi thought he was helping; thought that a few wicked deeds now would lead to the best future for the most people.

Your mind works on different levels at the same time. Responses to danger (and sexual attraction) happen much more quickly than can be explained by cognition. There is a part of your brain, that doesn’t have access to language or consciousness that can identify scary snakes (and pretty girls) faster than your conscious mind could identify them.

Brain-scans have found that the conscious fear response isn’t a reaction to the stimulus, but rather it’s reacting to your sympathetic nervous system freaking out. The part of your mind that sounded the alarm is invisible to you.

This is the guy who performed “Cop Killer”. Fucking sellout punk-ass bitch.

Yea, it’s just that pedants deep down believe that good grammar is good writing; they don’t understand the difference. Therefore, they’re going to struggle to recognize good writing, and be incapable of producing it.

The idea that college = success was always a correlation/ causation mistake. People with degrees were also the people who could afford to go. Success is correlated to wealth and wealth to education. Whatever wealth was reserved for the educated is spread thinner and thinner as more people graduate.

If everyone has a degree, class won’t go away, they’re just going to have to sort us by something else.

The interesting thing abut that is the date 1874. They re-joined the Union in 1868, and would have had to a new constitution to do so. 1874 would have been a new constitution. Ratified after the failure of reconstruction and designed to disenfranchise the formally enslaved.

All the slave-holding states are like this.

If you want to understand guns, I’d recommend sociology not economics.

It must be painful for language pedants to read English literature. All the best authors I know ignore grammar and use English like a whore. And that must hurt people like you twice; once upon noticing all the “mistakes”; and twice, upon realizing that they understand English better than you. To realize your stuck in the pupil phase of understanding. Where you struggle to enjoy, and cannot produce good writing.

Ronnie Jackson is sillier than this.

If that shot is real, then it deserves a Pulitzer. The fact that both orcas have identical markings is suspicious.The Shark is high-contrast and in focus while the orcas are soft and blurry. I’m not an expert, it just looks phony to me.

But like I said, phony in the Photoshop way of old.

Delightful, this really takes me back to the days when bullshit was done with photoshop instead of photoslop.

Deodorant is perhaps the nastiest substance I’ve ever gotten in my mouth. Especially the spray-on kind. It tastes like crushed up aspirin, but the worst part is the sensation as it draws out moisture 2/10

The first beer I ever tasted was stolen from a dude who kept his fridge on the back porch.

Chess has been extensively play tested and the balance is peak.

There is no such thing as ample counter space.

Rape is barely even illegal in the US. In our culture, if a man gets raped, that’s funny, if a girl gets raped, no she didn’t; that bitch is lying.

As far as creeping on underage people, others have pointed out the hypocrisy there.

Symbols are for the symbol minded - George Carlin

The thing that makes this regime similar to the Nazis isn’t the way they draw eagles.

investigated and held accountable. Suspended for one semester, couldn’t have been that serious.

This must be the first time you’ve heard about a university investigation of sexual violence. Bless your heart.

Yesterday I finished the book “Babylon South Dakota”. Geller and Angela Collier had done a “book chat” about it, but I skipped the video until I had read it.

So I’m looking for this video yesterday and it’s not on Collier’s book channel. Weird, so I check her science channel. No good either. So I check Geller’s channel. (this is on Nebula, not YT) And Geller is gone, no videos by him at all. I thought, did Jacob Geller get canceled?

This is how I found out that Geller had been canceled.

Trump aside, this is good. Healthcare prices are intentionally obscure and inaccurate in the US.

For any given procedure or equipment, the manufacturer/provider will have a price called the “billed amount”. This is a fictional number that serves as a negotiating position. The insurance company has an “allowable” which is what they’ve negotiated with providers to actually pay. Every year the insurance companies and medical providers negotiate on the actual price. So providers are incentivized to inflate their costs in hopes of getting a better deal.

Usually, the difference between the billed and the allowable vanishes. But the patient may be on the hook, depending on circumstances. I know people with decades of experience in the industry who still get confused and struggle dealing with insurers.

The moral of the story is that if you ever have to pay medical costs out of pocket, the first thing you should do is ask to reduce the prices from the fictional and inflated “billable” down to an “allowable” amount, usually using Medicare’s allowable as a standard.