Check out Coursera, solid essential Mandarin course for free spanning several weeks that was good on tone work.

You’re looking at a set of unequal scales and saying they should be equal, while refusing to place more weight onto either side…

Hard to say that the right to be heard is objectionable imo

Significant proportion, but a minority still.

But yes it’s not racism alone, also confusion, selfishness, disinterest, spite, partisanship, a long list of reasons

The only thing your actually saying is that it’s racist, which is a gross misinterpretation of the word. Racism as a form of harassment or degradation can only effectively apply to a minority or marginalised group, it requires a power dynamic to be in play.

Saying that giving a horribly treated minority group the power to have their voices heard in law is racist is double think, it’s a perversion of the term racist.

You have been misled, and your happy about it because it means you can be righteously wrong

Preferably ones that are lesbians, but like, not the kind that dudes like

I don’t know… just can’t trust this guy since his glowingly positive cyberpunk launch review

Society is very natural, OUR current model of society is sadly not

Wow, 9 years ago!

Good stuff

Yep, that’s the root of the ‘how long do you spend thinking about the Roman Empire?’ Meme right?

It’s some of the earliest popular records of reflexive thought and philosophy, available to us because it was recorded, and still the same shit we’re struggling with right now

Yeah I think that’s about right, our capacity hasn’t changed this quickly, just the menu has changed to suit a quick fix appetite.

People can and will still focus on longer form content, but maybe that’s their day job, so they want a bit of a release from in depth activity or ‘important’ information.

I think there is a real danger here in some form… think about how you’d answer the question ‘what did you do on the weekend?’ That could easily be nothing or it could be I watched a great series called severance that explored the concepts of labour and our work and home lives as human beings

Yes behaviourally, no empirically.

You get a positive dopamine reactive from viewing multiple short form content pieces in succession, you get an arguably more valuable serotonin reaction from viewing a more in depth piece and maybe feeling like you learned something.

How you’re affected by these feelings of satisfaction will influence your behaviour. I recently compared mine and my wife’s weekends, she’d watched a lot of short form content and couldn’t remember a thing, felt empty from it, I’d watched a series of a tv show and could talk about the story and concepts.

But that’s not all there is to it, Plato argued that the written world would dumb people down because they no longer had to remember things and pass them on vocally, maybe a decrease in the requirement for individual cognition, but obviously an overall good.

Edit: edit was messing with me so I couldn’t add this til now. I’m just a drunk guy enjoying dinner and browsing Lemmy, what you’re looking for is the simple answer, the dopamine hit, a minimal conversation. Put your attention span to the test and look into some open access research on the subject, it’ll be fun! And its all that seperate us from the YouTubers that we venerate so much

Yeah it’s good to see, just popped up in my feed, still figuring Lemmy out so hadn’t gone searching too much

Big if true!

Well looky here, a Canberra instance on Lemmy

Top of the evening to you all

Oh I really doubt many are boycotting it, just poking the anthills that are their fanbases and communities to keep them engaged

First weekend on Lemmy and I’m loving it.

I’m noticing a very strong hard-left bent though, which suits me just fine, but it’s interesting to see how progressive this space is

Search ‘The Guardians of Jiefangxi’ or ‘Guarding Jiefangxi’ on the usual streaming sites and you should find it

Might depend what you mean by ‘things’, there’s Chinese reality tv shows with English subs, an interesting one which got popular last year was about a local police station.

It was bizarre because it had cutesy graphics and sound effects overlaid with a guy being questioned for sexual assault of a minor