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One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldnât fall asleep in the amount of time they had.Â
It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!
A lot of ideas widely accepted in academia are bullshit. I think large swathes of psychology, sociology, and econ are probably nonsense. But if you're a layperson and you think you can do better than the professional researchers, you're also probably wrong. These fields aren't full of bullshit because the people who do them are especially dumb or malicious, they're full of bullshit because they are domains where it's genuinely hard to tell truth from falsity. This means both that honest errors are easier to make and that shitty research is harder to root out. There are probably systematic biases of various sorts the researchers are subject to, but as an outsider you probably aren't subject to fewer biases, just different ones. And you know a lot less about the topic at hand.
This doesn't mean you should trust the experts. My god, don't trust the experts! Just don't trust yourself or anybody else either. Much of the time nobody knows what the fuck is going on.
I think this is overstating the case. Lay people can guess if. A study replicates better than chance! And these are just randos guessing!
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I think a significant amount of the bullshit in these fields has to be laid at the foot of active incentives to produce bullshit because sexy results are better for your career
Not to mention, speaking on psychology and sociology, it's near damn impossible to study them completely objectively. There's the bias of the researcher themselves of course, but there's also the fact that trying to apply an objective model to something as inherently subjective as the human experience is inevitably going to result in some inaccuracies. Hell, even neuroscience is riddled with bullshit ideas. There's a lot we don't know about the human brain and cognition. Nothing that comes out is ever going to encapsulate the full breadth of human emotion, identity, and social behavior.
Honestly, as a general rule of thumb, you should never take any individual research paper as gospel. Being critical of what you read is an INVALUABLE skill, and it's doubly important when there do exist many, many malignant people who attempt to use science as a means of pushing bigotry.
no but literally that is what is happening, there have been long periods of western history where spirits were said t be frightened by the site of lady business. Sailorâs wives used to flash their husbands ships (mind you this was a time before underwear so you just lifted your petticoats and BAM) in order to scare away the spirits and devils that made storms. A woman could flash her crops to keep away spirits that might ruin them.This was also back when the vagoo was seen as something taboo and horrible so literally looking directly at some labia was thought to be so scary the devil would poop himself. Misogyny so intense it gave the pussy superpowers.Â
AnĂĄsyrma is the gesture of lifting the skirt or kilt and indeed has a whole history of supernatural effects both negative and positive. Hereâs the wiki on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasyrma
Every time I see some moral panic article about how some alarming % of teens admit to vaping or smoking or doing drugs or whatever, I think about that time in 9th grade when school handed us a survey on substance use, told us we had to fill it out, and me and a half dozen friends reported that weâd been habitual users of heroin, cocaine, and acid since the age of 9.
âMischievous Responder Biasâ is a known problem in surveying youth but itâs annoying and expensive to overcome it so often people donâtâŚ.also the things that come up when people try to look for it are hilarious, like 99% of the kids who reported having a missing limb were lying.
It is my favorite thing about education research: that you have to remember that your subjects are a bunch of little scamps trying to prank you.
If kids report that they're transgender and have one leg and belong to a gang and have several children ... take it with a grain of salt.
This reminds me how it's difficult to do research with corvids because they know they're being tested so they just fuck with the researcher and they don't get any usable data.
So the first thing to be said is possibly the most important: this is a paprikahendl recipe. (And in this case, it was made with duck, because we were out of chicken... so it's probably paprikaentl, if anything.) :)
Everybody's mom or grandmother would've had her own version of this, which would naturally be the best one in the mind of the person you were talking to. The original dish, thoughâas @petermorwood has pointed outâwould have been a peasant dish of the use-a-moderate-amount-of-flavorful-and-spicy-meat-to-season-a-lot-of-noodles-or-whatever kind. If you're a peasant, after all (and maybe even if you're not, of late...), meat is expensive, so in dishes of this kind it's used as more of a seasoning for what you have plenty ofâin this case, the tiny flour-based noodles-or-dumplings called spaetzle. (In its rural beginnings, of course, the meat probably would've been a laying chicken that was too old to lay any more... or even a cockerel that had started shooting blanks, and whose morning racket was starting to get on your nerves.)
Later, though, a small tender chicken (or two) was seen as preferable. Paprikahendl became very popular in Hungary and other parts of central Europe, and in the processâover timeâgot taken somewhat upmarket. The recipe I used as my basis for this version is one that apparently was (and who knows, maybe still is) served at one of Vienna's famous Sacher establishments. As a result it contains elements I'm none too sure aboutâsuch as the last-minute appleâbut otherwise seems to me to hold water.
The full recipe is here. Now let me tell you what I did to with it.
(inserting a cut here, so those who don't want to watch a bunch of video clips of things frying and cooking won't have to...)
Normally in the initial stage of this recipe, you'd cut up a whole small chicken (or two) into pieces, color them in your preferred frying fat (in Hungary, possibly lard, but at very least butter) and then set them aside to make the sauce. In this case, since the meat I had to work with was duck, I cooked that as directed and put it aside while we went off to do some other stuff. I also made spaetzle to go on the side, as it's the kind of thing you'd be likely to run into regionally. These we can fortunately buy ready-made, like most other kinds of pasta. Or you can make them from scratch. Since I now have a Magic Spaetzle Machine to do this, I'll show how that's done some other time. (Or you could look at this video...)
Then, to make the sauce, I pulled together:
The zest and juice of a lemon
Half an onion or more, chopped fine (I have to be careful with onions, as too much will set off my IBS)
Off to one side, I asked Peter to do the dry paprika mix for me. This was two very heaping tablespoons of paprika, and about half a teaspoon of cayenne, to mock up the heat of the hotter paprika that would have been used in small villages in the Carpathians.
Then I clarified some butter in the microwave, about three tablespoons of it (you melt it in a tall glass and set this aside until the milk solids settle out, then pour off the clarified butterfat) and dumped that in the big cookpot along with the onions.
When those had hit the cooked-until-translucent point, I cut the duck up into chunks and got them ready to go in: then added the paprika and (when that had fried a little) the lemon juice. (Paprika can taste a little raw in a sauce if you don't fry it a bit first.)
Then in went 125 ml of rose wine (I'd have used white if I'd had any, but whatever...) and about 500 ml of chicken stock, and everything got stirred very well together.
After that, the duck got chucked in and the pot was covered and left to simmer for 45 minutes or so. Normally this would be the time a raw chicken would need to cook, and naturally the duck was well cooked already: but it seemed to me that another 45 minutes getting even more tender couldn't hurt it.
So that was what happened. At the end of 45 minutes, the duck was removed and set aside while I got busy with finishing the sauce. You lower the temperature in the big pot until the pre-sauce liquid is just barely simmering. Then to thicken it, you use about a cup of the thickest sour cream you can lay your hands on, with a third of a cup of flour beaten into it very well with a fork. At which point you should be able to do this with the fork:
Now you find a big balloon whisk and start whisking this mixture into the pre-sauce, sort of a tablespoon or two at a time...making sure each dose of sour cream + flour is very well beaten in, leaving no lumps, before adding the rest. When it's all in there, you very gently raise the heat, stirring or whisking occasionally, until the sauce starts to thicken. Then add the meat back in and let it warm through in there for a little while longer: ten or fifteen minutes should do it.
Assuming that people are ready to eat, you heat the spaetzle (and toss it with some butter), plate it up, and add the paprikahendl on top. And dig in.
...Anyway, that was my take. If you go googling for "paprikahendl", you will find many, many more recipes: some far less complex than this approach, some far more so. Pick one that suits you and see what you make of it. This one worked really well, though: so you might like to take a shot at it.
If I may, I must make the gentle request that people consult Wikipedia for basic information about anything.
Iâm not entirely sure whatâs going on, but more and more people coming to me saying they canât find info about [noun], when googling it yields its Wikipedia entry on the first page.
Iâve said it before, but Iâll gladly say it again: You can trust Wikipedia for general information. The reason why itâs unreliable for academic citations is because itâs a living, changing document. Itâs also written by anonymous authors, and author reputation is critical for research paper integrity.
But for learning the basics of what something is? Wikipedia is your friend. I love Wikipedia. I use it all the time for literally anything and everything, and itâs a huge reason why I know so much about things and stuff.
Please try going there first, and then come to me with questions it doesnât answer for you.
Eternal Flame Falls sounds like the coolest concept for a fantasy book. A path you follow down into a ravine until you find an ever-burning flame inside of a waterfall? Thatâs fuckin metal! But itâs not in a fantasy book itâs like an hour away from my house I can literally go see it any time! I remember it like once a month and lose my shit over it every time
Itâs called Eternal Flame Falls, in Orchard Park in western New York. 400 feet below the surface is a 400-million-year old shale formation that contains natural gas, and the grotto contains a leak where that gas is escaping. The flame can and does go out, but the gas can be re-lit with a lighter like a gas stove. Itâs super, super cool from both an aesthetic and a geologic perspective!
Important addition: Maria SkĹodowska-Curie was born during partitions, which means Poland didnât exist, which means her insistence that she was Polish was a significant act of defiance against the occupation, which means that you should respect that instead of arguing that âwell she had French citizenshipâ. She couldnât have Polish citizenship despite being Polish, thatâs kinda the point she was making by keeping her maiden name and naming a chemical element she discovered âPoloniumâ .
This does not explain how to give credit to the extradimensional being who bestowed the vision upon you, but APA is a bit limited as a citation format.
like yes TempleOS is esoterica, but any discussion of it needs to be tempered with "This man was clearly suffering from a mental illness for which he received no social or medical support, which led to his eventual death."
rpgmaker xp is free on steam right now. go pick it up if you have any interest at all, especially if you don't own any other rpgmakers, because it includes a perpetual commercial licence
also you can make pokemon fangames with it, if that's your thing
because the other versions are also on sale, here's a quick "what do I buy" guide
RPG Maker MZ: if you didn't buy MV, consider this one. it's helpful to remember that rpgmaker releases tend to release in similar iterative versions, barring a few exceptions, so you don't need to buy every new release
RPG Maker MV: see above. comparable to MZ if you want something cheaper
RPG Maker VX Ace: this is fine, but MV isn't that much more expensive and is the better release of the two, so there's no reason to buy it unless you're collecting
RPG Maker VX: do not buy this one unless you're collecting these. this is what I'd consider to be the worst of the modern rpgmakers, and because it's more or less (significantly) worse VX Ace, there's no compelling reason not to just grab something else
RPG Maker XP: it's free and I think it's pretty. go ahead.
RPG Maker 2k(3): these are the retro ones. if you want to work with older software and enjoy those limitations, it's hard to say that the price isn't right for these. I like them a lot, personally
other 'makers from the same publisher:
Visual Novel Maker: do not buy this. there's no compelling reason to own this when renpy exists, and even if you're allergic to renpy, tyranobuilder is available at a very similar pricepoint
Pixel Game Maker MV: probably don't buy this. I tack on the "probably" because it's kinda just an editor in the style of the original Game Maker, but I guess it's cheap enough to maybe give some pause
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