As far as I’ve understood, a lot of nature religions do go a long way in recognising our common origins. Not as evolution as such, but more because we’re all parts of a common body somehow. In that sense they might have been closer to getting it right than messianic religions. Not that it takes all that much.

Learning about the belief systems of indigenous people in Latin America is incredibly interesting. There’s a lot of underexplored ancient philosophy in there, and it is still being kept alive through oral traditions often in increasingly small communities.

I can’t help but to read this as “guess the omitted variable”. There’s just no way of controlling for everything that might explain this, and it’s obviously not the grandparents’ time in educational institutions in itself that does the trick.

Thankfully, one of the authors summarized it well:

This opens up a myriad of possible explanations and will need to be replicated.

It’s easy to imagine ways this effect makes perfect sense, especially if it’s small. So the question kind of becomes what they have managed to successfully control for.

Wouldn’t be the first time!

I’m gonna guess this is generational.

Maybe it’s an American study. Maybe Americans were more traditional 30-50 years ago than they are now.

40 years ago, maybe Americans of German origins would call their child Arnold or Frank, after their great grandparents or some jazz.

Today, they might go for Noah or Liam, because they’re popular and they think it sounds nice. Social media etc might play a role.

It could also be other factors, like people from a specific region of the country having name A instead of name B combined with other traits, or if the age span of the adults is wider than of the children making it possible to capture time trends in popular names.

If that’s the case, genetics are further removed from naming when these kids were born than when the adults were. In which case the findings make sense, completely without the self fulfilling prophesy part.

At least personally, of all the things that affect who I am as an adult, I’m pretty sure my name is pretty fucking low on the list.

Much more informative than my post - thank you for the write-up, sorry for jumping the line!

He ended up purged himself, and is now running as an independent.

Good times.

At least he seems to be enjoying it, embracing the creative process and developing whatever he’s interested in. Seems like a pretty healthy approach.

I guess the + in LBGTQHA+ could be replaced with WFYB , for convenience.

It’s an amazing country to visit. Beautiful sights, amazing food, lovely people. Of course there are tourist traps and scams like everywhere else, but also some of the most generous and hospitable people I have ever met. I can’t wait to go back honestly.

I’m super happy with my Fairphone 3 as well (I upgraded the camera to 3+), but the newer models seem to have made major improvements indeed.

Still, for anyone who doesn’t need anything too fancy but who insist on having a headphone jack, a used Fairphone 3 is a good option. Buy a new battery for it and it’ll be good as new. :)

I find it expensive for what it is (given that I still get a limited number of searches) and I’m not comfortable with some of their ways (I don’t want anything to do with AI, and I the idea they have of being nonpolitical seems dangerously naive to me). I also don’t like supporting non-FOSS projects all that much.

Still, it’s the best search I’ve found, and I’m paying every month until I find something better. It’s worth it.

No worries at all! My original comment was playing around with pseudoscience while being willfully ignorant, I totally see how that can trigger a negative reaction. :)

Sorry, didn’t mean to come across as an asshole - just meant to emphasize that the word “theory” could also be used as a figure of speech.

I realize it maybe wasn’t clear enough from my post that I didn’t try to make any actual scientific hypothesis or anything - I merely found it entertaining to figure out why anyone would think climate change could alter the speed of time. It just seemed like such an absurd starting point that I found it enjoyable to try to make sense of it.

But again, no hard feelings - communicating online can be tricky. Sorry about that!

Sorry for not committing to scientific standards in my pioneering research into why OP would ask such a question!

Imagine you’re coming back home with your partner one day. You see your new pair of shoes all chewed up. In the corner of the room you see your dog, looking guilty as hell. Your partner might ask you “what happened to your shoes”. You might respond “I don’t know, but I have a theory”. To which your partner might respond “well actually, that’s not a theory, that’s a hypothesis, you idiot”.

Nicely explained! (not that that’s the only flaw of the logic of course)

I have two theories. [edit: theories why anyone would come up with such an idea in the first place, that is]

First, E = energy, and temperature is energy. So if temperature increases, doesn’t that increase E? And if E = mc², doesn’t that mean that either mass or the speed of light would need to speed up in order to keep up with it?

Second, although false, a lot of people are trained to believe that time stands still at 0 K. In that case, light could never escape 0 K, and as temperatures approach 0 K light would slog to a halt. If that was the case, the logical conclusion would be that speed of light would increase as temperatures rise.

Or maybe something completely different - I just thought it was a fun question to try to reverse engineer. :)

Temperature itself does not affect the speed of light - remember that space is freezing cold, and light moves through it just fine. So warmer temperatures don’t do anything with time.

If earth suddenly gained a bunch of mass, that would change things up as gravity would increase. However, we wouldn’t really notice, as everything would speed up more or less the same. We’d have to compare ourselves to someone in a system where time moves differently in order to notice.

Indeed - I very recently noticed mine was finally gone. ;)

You’re on Lemmy.world, where my impression is that the threshold is pretty high before they defederate. If you want to be kind and see as little garbage as possible, you could for example join Beehaw, which has a focus on kindness. LGBTQ+ people who are particularly tired of bigots can join Blahaj, where the mods are very trigger happy about weeding out that kind of behaviour.

If you’re unhappy about every approach to moderation out there, you can start your own instance and do it yourself. Of course most people won’t, but it nevertheless renders them in less of a position to complain.

And yes, moderation cannot ever be perfect. It takes a lot for users to leave a community due to disagreeable moderation. But still, users here have a lot more choice.

Personally I’m testing a platform where problematic users (such as the one starting this comment thread) are marked with warning signs, so that I can identify likely trolls right away and alter my interaction with them. It’s pretty neat.

Indeed! It’s almost like people got fed up of their internet experience being a flaming pile of garbage.