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Haven't seen acollierasto mentioned yet.

She's a scientist with a PHD in Astrophysics and does deep dives on specific topics, generally from the angle of science communication and how it often fails that topic in some way.

Her videos are very simple and low production value, but packed with information. She's a great communicator and you walk away from each video, not just with better knowledge on a topic, but also with a sense of where the holes in that knowledge are. Like where the limits of the metaphor being used to covey the topic to you exist.

Apex Legends: Been playing since Season 0 with my SO and brother and I think it's honestly the longest I've ever played a single game. The gunplay just feels so good.

Tears of the Kingdom: Still working my way through it, taking my time exploring. Honestly it's such a great game, but I have to say the resource gathering is getting a little tedious. I like the weapon durability mechanic from the angle of being forced to switch up your fighting style, but I wish there was a way to repair weapons between fights.

Sure, but that assumes this manager would be happy with generic "medical stuff" as an answer...

I'm not sure it would be legal if they were forced to reveal medical information.

Of the population, sure. But I meant of the actual political actors in the system, Republicans make up about half as they are overrepresented when compared to the population.

No system of government can withstand 50% of its participants being bad actors.

I honestly don't know how we get out of this situation without aggressively litigating politicians that have committed crimes. That requires overwhelming political will, though, and it's obvious now how important Fox News and Right Wing radio has been to creating an atmosphere where that will doesn't exist.

Part of it is how you engage with the media. I worked in film for a while and when I watch a well-made TV show, I'm constantly analyzing the shot composition, editing, and sound.

What lens is this shot on? Where is the camera placed? How is it moving? What does that say about this character or moment?

When does a scene choose to use it's closest shot on a character? Why that moment and not another?

How is the story or scene structured and do I think that works? What order are they revealing information to us and why?

When the scene pivots, what are they doing with craft to underline that. How is the balance of power between the characters changing and how is that being visualized?

Whose scene is it? Is that choice surprising? When they chose to show a character reacting rather than the one speaking, why?

Are the actors making surprising choices in their performance? Are they playing big moments small or small moments big? What ticks are they giving the character? What are they trying to say about who this person is with all that.

Visual media, like any other craft, is filled with hundreds of intentional choices every frame. Taking it in doesn't have to be a passive experience on the viewers part. We don't listen consider reading a book passive, and watching a film or television series doesn't have to be pace either.

Just like books, not all television has the same depth to it's choices, but as you actively take in various pieces of media, you'll start to get a feel for the level of intentionality sleeping was made with. Like Andor has a lot more intentionality in it's craft than The Book of Boba Fett.

I'm not saying that it's good to watch hours of TV every day, but the time that you do spend watching television need not be time that you're brain isn't exercising itself.

In a meme? Never.

I know you're being sarcastic but I still want to punch you. So fucking sick of that shit.

I think better algorithms wouldn't be a waste of developer resources. At the end of the day, the post feed algorithm is the core product, IMO.

Figuring out how to lower the weights on highly active subs is a good idea. As is ranking smaller subs' content appropriately.

For all it's faults, Reddit's algorithm was pretty good. There was always a decent mix of small and large subs on my feed.

Kbin's post ranking overall seems better than Lemmy's and that was a major factor in me choosing it as my home base.

Totally ignoring the evidence provided that it does make a difference.

Also, to state the obvious, tall people aren't a marginalized group in our society so it may not activate the same nueral pathways that lead to bias.

I would argue the people in this thread flipping out about being asked to refer to minorites in a way that doesn't have a ton of historical baggage and has been empirically shown to promote better empathy responses are the over-sensitive ones, lol.

Like, it's all right to get corrected now and then. The difference between acting bigoted and being okay is literary just a simple "I didn't realize that was wrong, I'll try and not do that in the future. Thanks for checking me on it".

I grew up in a conservative suburb in the South and got saddled with a lot of unfortunate ideas. I make mistakes, use questionable terms, and misgender people by accident somewhere regularly.

I've literally never had a problem if I apologize and affirm it was ignorance on my part, or a mistake I know I make and am working on, but that I am trying to be better. Just be open to change and don't be a dipshit about it and it's not an issue.

If you think it's an issue it's likely that you're being a dipshit about it and making things harder for yourself than they need to be.