CG

i deduce sometimes, usually accidentally

[sleuth2k7]

Deduction server!

Yo! Are you a deductionist (or an aspiring deductionist) looking for an active community to join?

@froogboi and I have been working on an idea for a deduction discord server and we're looking for people to join!

"What We Know" deduction server description:

Deduction is a broad and complicated subject, this server is a continuous collaboration with everyone who joins to deepen our understanding of the subject. This server is for everyone to share what they know about deduction, no mater how small, so that everyone can benefit. Aims to support academic and social pursuits related to deduction. Come join to share what you know and make some friends!

A few additional details on the server:

- We will be starting with a limited number of people, and then expanding in the future.

- We hope to avoid a "dead" server through optional opportunities to participate in discussions and exercises on a weekly/biweekly basis.

(If you think that you are presently too busy to participate at least a few times a month, then this may not be the server for you at this time, since the server's purpose is to provide a community for people to help them learn deduction.)

- While it's okay if you don't know a lot about deduction or haven't been practicing deduction for very long, we would like the initial group to have some basic knowledge of deduction.

If you're interested, please message me!

About me: I'm CG and I've been deducing on and off since 2015. In learning deduction, I focus on observation, baselines, and using deduction as a communication tool. I also think exploring the wider significance/context of deduction is pretty cool. :)

[sophistopheles]

watching doctor who is so funny because it’s a fairly harmless family show most of the time. but every few years This Guy shows up, clearly in some deeply dysfunctional, visibly sexual relationship (which they NEVER fully explain to you) with the otherwise normally family friendly main character.

he’s in maybe 3 episodes and then haunts the narrative for at least the next season. you look him up and this has been happening reliably since the 1970s and also he’s been, at various intervals, a cat, a skeleton, and a snake made of goo, during all of which the toxic yaoi has continued undisturbed

[achillesinhighheels]

[girlmostlikely]

You literally have to just get over yourself every day

[nanuuiycacahuates]

🪨⛏️💎💚

[kosmogrl]

your 20s exist to show you that you will do almost everything you swore you’d never do

[studentlifeproblems]

[avhira]

8+7 which is 10+5, so 15. Carry the 1, not it’s 2+4+1, which is 7

So 75.

[sockssketchingshack]

7+8 = 15, 2+4= 6 but you gotta add back the zero to make it 60, 60+15= 75.

[nachtwind19]

25 + 45 = 70 and the 2 from 27 + the 3 from 48, so 5 + 70 = 75.

[sleuth2k7]

move two from 27 to 48 to make 50 and then add the remaining 25 to 50 to get 75

[ludvigj]

near-life experience

[doctorwhoisadhd]

i love it when the twelfth doctor

[edgebug]

you'd think that "inhuman thing that isn't a person but speaks like a person and talking to it will slowly drive you mad" would only be found in folktales and fables and so on. but no. chatgpt

[thescienceofdeductionn]

I have always believed that in order to have a good deductive reasoning, one must have a good base of knowledge. Whats the best way to start building your knowledge base?

First of all, thanks for asking. It is a great topic and one worth writing a post for. Let's start with an important distinction: 1-Deductive reasoning: It doesn't matter what kind of reasoning you use; it is basically combining the pieces you have and coming up with a conclusion. You see dirty nails, strong hands and forearms. These are observations. Then, deductive reasoning suggests manual labor.

2-Knowledge base: Everything you know about the topic. The topic might be planes, shoes, buildings etc.

Even though it is good to have a detailed knowledge base, it is not going to improve your deductive reasoning. You should practice both as distinct categories.

That said, the knowledge base will help you to get faster and more accurate because you will have the right clay.

Data, data, data! I can not make bricks without clay.

-Sherlock Holmes

Now, the tip to build your knowledge base: Read everything you can. Literally everything. Of course, we should start from the most important ones, so the first part of your research should focus on what you should read first. Start with the most useful ones and don't stop. It is an ongoing process rather than reading 10 books and being done with it.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

-Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow

[homunculus-argument]

I am no nutrition expert but I do have a pretty damn good track record of keeping myself alive, so I want to remind you all that "fed is best" also applies to adults. There's nothing you could eat (that has been deemed fit for human consumption, I don't mean asbestos you smartass) that would be worse for you than just straight-up not eating. No food is as bad as no food.

A protein bar isn't the best possible source of protein in your diet, but it's better than not getting that protein. Fresh fruits would be better than orange juice, but if your choices are between having the orange juice and not getting the vitamins at all, you drink the fucking orange juice.

If you were out at winter while barefoot, and your options were between wrapping random newspaper around your feet, or not having anything to protect your feet, you wouldn't think "newspapers are a worse option than proper shoes, therefore I shouldn't take this worse option" and go barefoot.

[coinandcandle]

Local house witch telling you to please learn basic housekeeping skills.

It’s not your fault if no one ever taught you but YouTube is a magical place and can teach you at your own pace.

[coinandcandle]

Someone asked me what housekeeping skills I’d recommend learning.

Keep in ming that this is not me shaming you, I know you have your reasons, folks. This is just a guy who enjoys clean spaces asking that you start learning now.

Here’s what I suggest as an adult who has lived with other adults who didn’t have housekeeping skills:

First and foremost, learn about all the places in your house that need to be cleaned and understand how often they should be cleaned. the American Cleaning Institute (I guess that’s a thing) has a good article about basic cleaning info. Plus this video on cleaning tips is great!

Learn how to do your dishes. HOT water is the only way to clean your dishes.

Learn how to clean your shower head, especially if you live in a place with hard water. Same goes for your sinks.

Learn how to do your laundry correctly. Even without the whole “separating whites and colors” thing, there are things you need to learn about washing your clothes. Learn what the tags mean, too.

Also, you don’t have to use fabric softener and you shouldn’t use it on towels or any fabric meant to absorb. (Learn about laundromats) And please learn how to clean out your dryer vent, it’s a safety hazard!

Get a disinfecting cleaner for your high-touch areas, especially the gross ones like the bathroom. Just because it doesn’t look dirty, doesn’t mean it’s clean!

Learn how to sweep, mop, and vacuum effectively.

You’ll also want to make sure to change out your home’s air filters.

TL;DR, here are some cleaning videos.

How to Clean Everything in Your Bathroom

How to Clean Everything in Your Kitchen

Livingroom Cleaning Routine

How to Clean Everything in Your Bedroom

Now these resources are not the end-all-be-all, but I think if you don’t know much about cleaning your space this is a good way to start.

[thumperdaetime]

here’s some of the things that are helping me actually clean (as an adult who had messy parents, and has a hard time getting threw my nurodivergency about cleaning specifically) that may be helpful to you:

Favorite Cleaning Book: it helps you work through the emotional side of cleaning (and other care tasks)

Current Favorite Decluttering Method/Concept: it helps you know how much is too much to keep and how to get started when you’re overwhelmed. (having too much stuff makes it incredibly hard to clean/organize.)

Basic Cleaning Skills: this channel is amazing! this man has a special interest in cleaning and cleans people’s spaces who deal nurodivergence that make it hard to clean. he does this for free (or at a deficit because he pays for supplies and dumpsters and transport and such) and does it all with empathy and kindness working With the people as much as people can handle instead of just coming in to “fix” an issue. these videos are a bit different from his usual ones, (the last one’s most like his usual videos) but i find having the sped up cleaning videos with a voiceover can help fill in for body doubling when im too ashamed to bring people into my messy spaces.

[analog-machine]

I’m gonna queue this as well so you’ll be seeing it again from me in a few months without any comments on it, but this is all good things to know

[urmumsfan]

i am dumber & smarter than u think. do not estimate me

[prokopetz]

The reason your fantasy pantheon doesn't feel authentic is because you're starting from the wrong end. Real-world polytheism is syncretic – just deities from neighbouring cultures getting smashed together at high speed and leaving it for nerds with too much time on their hands to figure out how it makes sense. You are yourself a nerd with too much time on your hands. Don't start out asking yourself what domains make sense together. Pick domains at random and work backwards to invent a theology and metaphysics whereby of course the god of war is also the god of baked goods. What kind of silly question is that?

[chaosncabbages]

It's also the product of a BUNCH of nerds with too much time on their hands. Explain some theology to an opinionated friend! Classify whatever they come up with as heresy! Or at least make it a recurring background argument.

[mikkeneko]

Fun exercise: Make up a pantheon, and also ask a friend to make up a pantheon, and randomly swap one or more of the deities. Yes this may mean you have two different Gods of Weather now. Your society apparently really likes weather.

[abootstrapparadox]

doctor who used to be the show brave enough to ask what if the world’s most suicidal man was also really afraid of dying

[byojaku-moved]

what if i told you there was one user on the russian social network/ video sharing website odnoklassniki/oднокла́ссники that has uploaded nearly every movie ever from 1896 to the current day, mostly with subtitles. and including that has uploaded every criterion collection film in full hd with subtitles. for free. all hail ok.ru user fleurinna guta

they keep their films in unlisted folders so you cant just see them all on their profile unfortunately but ill provide links. also don't ask me why this user separates their films in this way, i don't know and frankly it confuses me too.

EUROPEAN FILMS (sometimes includes west asian films?)

JAPANESE FILMS

CLASSIC FILMS (aka american and British films)

"MISC FILMS" (aka films from everywhere that isn't the usa, europe, japan. sometimes films from the GDR are in here which is confusing again because communist germany was still part of europe)

this is a much better alternative to stuff like 123movies or bflix because there are no hot singles in your area or games that you wont last 5 minutes playing. hope u enjoy and let us all praise and embrace user fleurinna guta