dandelion (she/her)
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- no, I’m not named after the character in The Witcher, I’ve never played
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dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something you believe strongly but have little knowledge about13·9 hours agonever expected Mao Zedong to be cited as someone’s inspiration to take an empirical approach to beliefs, lol
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can we make the Fediverse more positive and wholesome?2·9 hours agomaybe we could give them allergy shots? in the form of bell hooks?
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can we make the Fediverse more positive and wholesome?2·9 hours agothis sorta defeats the purpose of decentralization…
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can we make the Fediverse more positive and wholesome?17·9 hours agowe seem to be popular with reddit users that were banned from reddit, which on average seems to translate to less than wholesome behavior - so maybe lemmy’s whole reddit-alternative branding works against us that way.
maybe developing a distinct UI so it’s not just a reddit clone, and directing features in a way that is appealing more to particular communities or people we wish to attract would be a good idea, rather than trying to directly replace reddit as a whole?
for example, attracting academics by supporting built-in LaTeX syntax rather than requiring a browser extension
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can we make the Fediverse more positive and wholesome?1·10 hours agopls drop the /j 🥺
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something you believe strongly but have little knowledge about2·11 hours agodon’t you have great knowledge of your ignorance? It’s a simple thing to know, in a sense, since it is derivative from not knowing. I don’t know most things, ignorance is established as the baseline state.
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the oddest/most "interesting" conversation you've had?3·11 hours ago(((genentically modified human * drawBlood) * clotting) * takeSeparatedSerum) = superhuman serum
not sure what you’re going to do with blood serum, though - it’s not special
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something you believe strongly but have little knowledge about4·11 hours agoI think so! At least those are things you can actually dig into and get the know the bodies of evidence, but it does seem like accepting them on authority is the default. I also don’t have much knowledge about many areas of science I still accept as true, but at least with both vaccines and climate I am familiar with the basic evidence, e.g. I know how the COVID mRNA vaccine generates the protein cap that your body then attacks and trains to help recognize COVID, or with climate the way carbon emissions heat the Earth through the greenhouse effect.
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something you believe strongly but have little knowledge about3·11 hours agoadmittedly I’m not too keen to reevaluate that particular belief, it has value even when false
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I'm wired to a bed in a hospital for a week. AMA1·11 hours agocongrats, does that mean you’re no longer in the hospital and were discharged early?
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something you believe strongly but have little knowledge about1·11 hours agois this like an attempt at “this sentence is false” or something, or did you forget to finish your thought?
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something you believe strongly but have little knowledge about2·11 hours agothis is a good one, tbh a lot of science I just accept uncritically, e.g. The Big Bang as an explanation- though it seems unlikely to be false, maybe I should educate myself more on this topi, thanks!
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•I'm wired to a bed in a hospital for a week. AMA1·18 hours agoso not strict bed rest?
do you have to use a bedpan, or can you go to use the toilet?
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•how do i stop being so obsessed with a fictional character?1·18 hours agohave you tried just not engaging with the fiction and focusing on other things? staying busy and focused elsewhere consistently will cause you to move on, over time.
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the oddest/most "interesting" conversation you've had?5·18 hours agocasually talking to my mom about how suicidal I was growning up in her house was surreal, and maybe made worse by the people in an adjacent booth that may have overheard
dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a phrase or saying that you learned from your parents that you don't hear others saying?2·18 hours agonever heard other families say “oy vey” growing up. As an adult I learned it’s a Jewish saying, and I asked my mom if we are Jewish and she just said no, lol
It’s just wild to me that people are invested in Marx’s “scientific” application of Hegel’s dialectic, esp. considering how badly Marx’s theories have failed (even before his death, Marx found “primitive communism” in anthropological accounts he was reading, which invalidates the “evolutionary” way he and Hegel thought about history as linear), and even worse, how little relevance Hegel and German idealism in general has maintained … Of course Mao didn’t invent these ideas, but they’re not even great ideas to begin with, Marx is a terrible philosopher tbh. He was much better for his sociology and analysis of capitalism than his ability to predict the arc of humanity.
Mao is poetic in ways Marx and Lenin are not, though - I agree with that.
Either way, I am not a Marxist-Leninist, and as far as I can tell Marxist-Leninism is a misnomer since it seems to betray both Leninism and Marxism 🤷♀️ It’s a bit of irony, really, that Stalin would name his state ideology “Marxist-Leninism”, esp. as he lost in the power struggle to Stalin.
I’m always open to being wrong about this, but my past experiences with Marxist-Leninists have generally not been productive, and I have yet to understand why people are MLs today other than as a kind of pragmatic alignment against Western imperialist powers, though even then I don’t understand the ML love of contemporary Russia, since Russia does not even promise itself to be socialist the way China, Cuba, or North Korea do. I’d love to hear your thoughts, though!