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Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by r3trohack3r » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 2:08 PM UTC

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I have a longer response on another sibling. But I’d say: 1) Most humans mean well and these are side effects of solutions to other problems - we can find and hold up examples of people acting poorly but to extrapolate that out I don’t think is fair. Energy abundance has done unbelievably important things for civil rights, quality of life, and the prospect of life being able to outlive Earth. 2) It’s important to rem…

> We’ve only got another 500m years until there is a complete extinction event with little hope of coming back. Are you speaking of a gamma ray burst expected to affect the ozone layer severely enough?

No, the carbon cycle being disrupted.

From your question I assume you’re on the Timeline of the Far Future Wikipedia page, which references this. It’s the next few boxes below the gamma ray burst.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by bloqs » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 2:33 PM UTC

I particularly recommend satisfactory. Ahh.

Re: Playing video games can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and improve mood

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Post by HervalFreire » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 2:34 PM UTC

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There was a science experiment where they took pessimists and optimists and had them rate themselves from one to ten in terms of looks. Then they had another external group of people rate them based off of the same 1 to 10 scale to get an unbiased baseline. Turns out pessimists had a more accurate and realistic rating around how good they looked. While optimists had ratings that were wildly overblown. There are other…

but it isn't a lie. everything you said here is biased by your perspective on reality. everything you read here is biased by your perspective. everything i understand you said is biased by my perspective. it is a wonder any of us at all are able to communicate with each other ideas using words and body language. it is quite possible that we are all non-overlapping cognitive bubbles traveling around interpreting input…

Would it be different if I told you that what I wrote here is based on and confirmed by science?

When subject to the rigor of statistical confirmation then what I said is no longer a "perspective". It is a fundamental fact about reality as we know it.

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Post by si1entstill » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 3:01 PM UTC

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Yep, the current Russian war in Ukraine exposed the fact that the western 'military complex' isn't that industrial anymore, as (for example) the total annual production of artillery shells is less than what we'd shoot in a single average day of WW2. There's still a lot of money spent, but it's spent less on actual industrial capacity but rather mostly on various high-tech R&D things - probably because then you can co…

Yes that was what I meant. Lots of RD. probably an army of contractors. But industry? I really don’t think so. Still curious if others have evidence otherwise

I'd say that, colloquially at least (and maybe in a literary sense as well), the "military industrial complex" broadly covers the flow of money from a government and its military to the defense industry at large. (terms again can be a bit strange here, but the "defense-industry" describes an area of economic activity not "the refinement of raw materials into products").

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Post by si1entstill » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 3:49 PM UTC

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I feel like I am and always have been a "day-to-day" optimist, but I struggle to apply that to larger, societal problems. Our impact on the environment is measurable and the impacts look dire. Income disparity seems to be increasing locally and globally. The military industrial complex of the largest nation-states feels eternal, as if it is a fundamental part of neoliberal capitalism. I can "half-full" almost everyth…

Because we are in fact so disconnected from our military today, modern people have forgotten that human civilization itself has been a military industrial complex forever. Not much to do with capitalism in particular.

I think there is a crucial semantic disconnect here, that may be partially stemmed from how much heavy lifting the relatively new term "military industrial complex" is doing. I'm likely partially to blame.

I use the term to refer to the the status quo of the relationship between interest groups, legislative bodies, and the bureaucratic system. I don't think I've forgotten anything. Some degree of defense was, and still is, necessary. I'm not refuting that. But, I believe that current manifestations of this relationship has lead to a system that is largely driven by private interests that have little to do with the defense or security of the people.

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Post by mnky9800n » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 4:09 PM UTC

HervalFreire wrote: post #173

mnky9800n wrote: post #164

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but it isn't a lie. everything you said here is biased by your perspective on reality. everything you read here is biased by your perspective. everything i understand you said is biased by my perspective. it is a wonder any of us at all are able to communicate with each other ideas using words and body language. it is quite possible that we are all non-overlapping cognitive bubbles traveling around interpreting input…

Would it be different if I told you that what I wrote here is based on and confirmed by science? When subject to the rigor of statistical confirmation then what I said is no longer a "perspective". It is a fundamental fact about reality as we know it.

Science is an attempt to remove bias from perception but it's not perfect. I feel like we are on the same page but reading different books.

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Post by skyyler » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 4:12 PM UTC

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This is the stuff that is exhausting. Why focus on it? What good does it bring to you?

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When my friends have problems, I help them.

I volunteer my time to refurbish computers that were headed to e-waste for free distribution to struggling families.

I vote, especially focusing on local elections and measures.

I just don't think paying attention to news media is doing people any favors. It's kind of telling to me that you've compared not consuming news media to literally excusing genocide. That's how entrenched this industry is in our society...

I'm sorry you choose to spend your time sniffing farts. You could take the attention you gave news media and give it to your wife that is stressed out from you going to the bar. Maybe you'd want to sniff your own farts less then?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 5:18 PM UTC

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When my friends have problems, I help them. I volunteer my time to refurbish computers that were headed to e-waste for free distribution to struggling families. I vote, especially focusing on local elections and measures. I just don't think paying attention to news media is doing people any favors. It's kind of telling to me that you've compared not consuming news media to literally excusing genocide. That's how entr…

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Post by HervalFreire » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 5:43 PM UTC

mnky9800n wrote: post #176

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Would it be different if I told you that what I wrote here is based on and confirmed by science? When subject to the rigor of statistical confirmation then what I said is no longer a "perspective". It is a fundamental fact about reality as we know it.

Science is an attempt to remove bias from perception but it's not perfect. I feel like we are on the same page but reading different books.

Its nearly perfect if the sample size is big enough.

Barring that it's also the best we can do. There's no better alternative to science so you either believe in the science or you believe something significantly less accurate then science.

If you're not on board with science that has been thoroughly researched then it's akin to saying you're not on board with reality.

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Post by bheadmaster » Tue, Mar 28, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

skyyler wrote: post #177

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When my friends have problems, I help them. I volunteer my time to refurbish computers that were headed to e-waste for free distribution to struggling families. I vote, especially focusing on local elections and measures. I just don't think paying attention to news media is doing people any favors. It's kind of telling to me that you've compared not consuming news media to literally excusing genocide. That's how entr…

What's the exact difference between ignoring media when they tell you a genocide is being done, and when they tell you human rights are being taken away? That one is worse than another? Where do we draw the line, then - at death? So labor camps are okay, but gas chambers are not?