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Damn, this meme has some weight to it

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I am drawn to it.

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It is your density

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It’s heavy stuff man.

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Everyone always asks what is gravity.

No one ever asks how is gravity.

Poor gravity, always helping us keep our shit together but no one ever truly understands the weight on gravities shoulder.

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Excuse me, but I don’t see why I should have sympathy with the boot on our necks keeping us all down. Just imagine the freedom we would have if we weren’t weight down by this oppression!

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dies b/c the atmosphere floated away

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“I get it! Platypus is a metaphor for whatever’s keeping you down!”

Gravity is a platypus

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Perfect use of this format. “I don’t know” is the foundation of wisdom. See: reddit where too many think they know.

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See: reddit literally any message board where members of the general populace can freely participate where too many think they know.

FTFY

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Dunning-Keuger effect is real amd and it takes humility to avoid it.

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I know just enough to know that I don’t know anything.

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It’s not difficult. Gravity is like magnetism for things that aren’t magnetic.

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Also for those that are magnetic

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I will assume that to be true, because it makes sense.

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gravity applies to everything with mass. But also light which has no mass.

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Sweet just tell me how to find same polarity gravimagnetics to put under my hoverboard

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You just need some isolated antimatter.

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Or matter with negative mass :)

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Available at your local Fal-mart.

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Yeah but if you scratch a little bit the surface, the comparison falls quickly. Okay, magnetism has two signs. Why not gravity ? Why does it attract and not repel? Okay, magnetism is carried by photons. What carries gravity?

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Wrong. Magnets don’t float.

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Working in neuroscience of consciousness field I feel him deeply. Although 57k sounds amazing to a Europoor

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You can basically half American salary numbers because we have to pay for a lot of stuff that Europeans usually don’t need to pay for. $57k in America is struggling if you live in a city. Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

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Anything below $40k is one car repair away from being financially ruined.

You guys have cars while being poor? Sorry but seems stupid to me

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Welcome to our country that has utterly failed to invest in public transit outside of a few major cities, such that we must be dependent on cars. Love it here.

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We don’t have public transit, so we need cars… It’s part of what makes us poor…

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You are correct. We are forced to have them though. There’s no mass transit and everything is two hours away on foot. Most new cars now are $40k unless you get like a base Sentra but the median income is only $60k.

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What are we considering in vs out of city? Does in city mean just downtown, within city limits, within metro area? And what are we considering a city - 300k population?

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Less than 30 minute commute, if it’s less than that the price of housing goes up ~20% for each 5 minutes you would save.

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57k sounds nice until you realize that 1200 go to your health plan and you still need to copay hundreds every time something comes up.

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American salaries are also always presented as gross income before taxes instead if net income after taxes like in Europe.

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we also do gross before taxes in Germany. 57k before taxes is still a solid salary in many areas of Germany. Some MINT and Financelords might want to disagree with that, but it is in the top 15% of salaries. At that Level you pay about 5,1k taxes, 5,3k pension and 4,6k for health, 1,3k eldercare and 750 unemployment insurance. (all mandatory)

That seems quite a lot at first, but for instance unemployment pays 60% of your net income up to a year qfter loosing a job, health insurance also covers all children until they are 25 or earn more than 500€/month.

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Really? I had no idea. It turns out I make a lot more money than I thought.

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The biggest lesson from neuroscience: Most psychology is BS and the entire field is little better than pseudoscience.

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I think this is a very incorrect take. I don’t think neuroscience has been able to make a single claim against psychology yet, nor any real and predictable claims at all which place it above psychology in application or correctness. Psychology of course has problems, and I’m very open to discussions of issues with methods and shit. But don’t act like neuroscience has much of anything to say about it. They’re entirely tangential fields with one at the experiential level and the other at the technical/non-experience level. Common mistake of thinking you know too much from the meme

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If we weren’t talking about a brain, but instead a piece of computer software, neuroscience would be digging into the source code to figure out how it works. Meanwhile psychology is like watching a bunch of YouTube videos of people demonstrating the software.

One provides answers. The other provides guesses.

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Really? What psychology has been disproven by neuroscience? Are psyc people resisting it or are they working together? Considering how much psyc has changed the world and helped people I think the idea that it’s BS is a little strange.

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we don’t understand the brain very well, psych is somewhere between leeches and luminiferous aether.

if it was more well understood then people won’t need to go to 15 fucking different therapists before finding one that helps (if you’re lucky), antidepressants would do better than batters do at baseball, you wouldn’t need to try dozens of different medications to find one that works (if you’re lucky), and they’d take effect more quickly.

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Damn I should have been a psychologist. I’m great at BS.

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You could have even gotten a BS in psychology

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