DanYHKim

DanYHKim t1_ium54yd wrote

Reply to The shrinking ozone hole shows that the world can actually solve an environmental crisis by wicke_s

The oligarchs and conservatives have a different interpretation.

To them, this showed that their normal methods to suppress and distort information and to obstruct cooperation were insufficient. That is why the misinformation and obstruction campaign has been so extreme about climate change and the pandemic.

They went from sowing confusion ("Doubt is our product") to encouraging violence .

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DanYHKim t1_iuf3r0v wrote

Reply to TIL that in ancient times, the carob seed was used to measure the worth of gems and gold since the seeds have a general uniform weight. This is where the word "karat" comes from. by kkoolook

Edit: this is of course, pretty much exactly what was posted. I intended to paste this to my Facebook, and got mixed up. Oops.

Carob seeds were used in balance scales. Gold and gems, being precious, were weighed out in tiny quantities, and so small counterweights were needed.

>How did the carat system start?

>The modern carat system started with the carob seed. Early gem traders used the small, uniform seeds as counterweights in their balance scales. The carat is the same gram weight in every corner of the world.

https://4cs.gia.edu/interactive-4cs/carat-weight/origins.html

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DanYHKim t1_iu5iwss wrote

Reply to comment by AtomicPickles92 in Socioeconomic factors influence children’s risk-taking, says new study, and bad calls are not always the fault of poor judgment or lack of self-control by giuliomagnifico

This is an important point. Thanks.

I've lived a mostly middle-class life, and were out not for volunteer work I would have no idea about the realities of poverty. It's like a different world.

I'm reminded of "Snowpiercer" sometimes.

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DanYHKim t1_iu4kxd6 wrote

Reply to Socioeconomic factors influence children’s risk-taking, says new study, and bad calls are not always the fault of poor judgment or lack of self-control by giuliomagnifico

In some ways, it only seems like poor judgment from the standpoint of someone who is not poor. My wife and I have worked with distressed families through our church, and one of the things that we observed is that, for their children, there is so much uncertainty in life that they have nothing to lose if a gamble comes up craps.

So what if an action might put their family on the street? They experience evictions and homelessness regularly. They may as well take a chance on something that will bring them something good, because the disastrous consequences of failure are things that happen as a regular feature of their lives.

In addition, their parents often make promises or projections of better things in the future. These promises may be sincere projections and hopes, or they might be total fabrications in order to induce particular behavior. In the end, though, the promises usually come to nothing. A child who has lived with this all their lives might hear the researcher telling them that if they do not touch the marshmallow they will get two later on, but what they know in their heart is that later on there will be no marshmallows. Even the one that they left on the dish might be taken away from them. That is the way life works.

The lives of the poor are very different from the lives of developmental researchers. And the assumptions made by researchers when designing these experiments and interpreting the data maybe entirely inappropriate indie life of a child growing up in poverty.

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