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[N_LaRUE]

Due to social conditioning? Sure.

I meant cognitive dissonance in general.

Regardless of social conditioning many people hold opposing beliefs for various of reasons

A recent study for example find that 45 supporters realised what he is doing is horrible and wrong (like those who don't support him) but at the same time see it as necessary to their cause.

That's without going down the rabbit hole more of all the other aspects of their behaviour and the decades of brainwashing...

 

[N_LaRUE]

It makes $$$, not sense. We're being transitioned fully to working remote. Got many different thoughts about this that will be left offline.

Well I'm apparently getting a laptop for work now. I don't mind one bit. But my work is different than yours of course.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Want a sign of privilege? I'm on the train coming to the office. This female doctor of Indian subcontinent decent came on the train. We work for the same hospital system as I recognized the hoodie she has (the doctors/nurses can get gear like that with their names printed on one side and the institution's logo at the other side on the front as compliments to their white coats).

A few steps this white doctor from a different institution, full scrubs, ID hanging from his neck, surgical mask under his chin...drinking coffee. For the whole length of his his ride, he didn't pull his mask up and even cleared his throat a few times. Why is this problematic? Well, he's an older man, likely an attending and likely redeployed in his institution to cover pandemic units. Health care workers (especially acute care ones) are at higher risk for catching covid-19. At the institution where I work in the height of the pandemic, the attendings on COVID-19 floors saw pts, not the usual residents and fellows crap to limit exposure of doctors.

Someone tells him something, he's likely to give a scientific lecture for his choice. Of course he is left undisturbed. If this was the female doctor, she would have gotten killer stares and if there was some white person there, she might even get chastised for "being a doctor and setting a bad example by not wearing her mask".

Of course when they both got off, the female doctor took a long look at this dude's ID. I saw her get on her phone typing afterwards. No doubt she mentioned something. The interesting thing is doctors know other doctors all over...

 

[MSFTisMIA]

I meant cognitive dissonance in general.

Regardless of social conditioning many people hold opposing beliefs for various of reasons

A recent study for example find that 45 supporters realised what he is doing is horrible and wrong (like those who don't support him) but at the same time see it as necessary to their cause.

That's without going down the rabbit hole more of all the other aspects of their behaviour and the decades of brainwashing...

I meant in general. My take is eons of social conditioning increases the likelihood of people practicing cognitive dissonance.

 

[Rose640]

I know I'm late, but Rue, happy birthday!

 

[Rose640]

THIS is how the fuzz should behave. I'm shocked beyond all belief it came from Gables cops. Historically they've been no angels.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/police-take-a-knee-in-solidarity-prayer-with-protesters-in-coral-gables

Not sure if it's these guys, but there were cops that kneeled with the protestors for some free media sympathy, only to beat and spray them with tear gas some 15 minutes later.

American police is literally a bunch of wannabe comandos set loose. I've seen to many videos (and who knows how much of this sh** doesn't get recorded) of police brutality in US to think otherwise.

 

[Rose640]

One of the most interesting observations of the deep rooted problems is in 'Murica: idealogy vs real life. In order to keep a distance from the ill effects of policy choices and institutional decisions, said choices are often discussed idealogically.

Case in point: immigration. People in the privileged group who know individuals from from the marginalized group. Because of that connection to someone who doesn't fit the stereotypes, they can who can easily make exceptions for those people while staying anchored idealogically to those (often negative) stereotypes.

Case in point: racism. People in the privileged group who know individuals from from the marginalized group. Because of that connection to someone who doesn't fit the stereotypes, they can who can easily make exceptions for those people while staying anchored idealogically to those (often negative) stereotypes.

Am I painting these views in a philosophical or idealogical light? Some may say so. Some may say I'm sweeping away the differences in each issue under the rug. I don't think so, as with the

It's easier to divide and separate and subjugate and demonize and oppress people when it's not up in their face. It's easier to lean into historical privileges to continue said exploitation and societal injustices.

Is that, I know a black person, therefor I'm not racist? Something along those lines.

 

[Rose640]

@N_LaRUE I have a question completely unrelated to COVID-19 or political protests.

Why do they use odd designations for paper sizes in Europe? Where did A4, A5, etc originate? I wanted to order Rhodia paper made in France. I had no clue what A4 or A5 were, nor the fact that A4 is larger than A5.

Why don't they simply state the size of the paper in cm? Here in the USA paper sizes are in inches, not alphanumeric codes. Even if paper from Europe is sold overseas, it would be fine to simply sell it by its dimensions in cm.

Ok, this is so interesting to me. Up to this point, I thought US uses the same system for paper dimensions.

I can see how I could easily get lost in certain scenarios, were I to visit. Like, inches and feet instead of meters and cm? Farenheit instead of celsius, now paper. Damn. It's so different.

 

[Rose640]

If you go to the wiki on this there's a formula on how the sizes are calculated.

Also if you type in search 'metic paper sizes' you'll find guides on the names and sizes.

What I love about the metric system is that it's logical. It's decimal. It just makes sense.

I was never happy using the imperial system. In the UK where they have a real mix of the two (and some other weird stuff) it's very confusing.

I guess it'll take another 100 or so years before metic gets adopted everywhere. That's of course if humans are still around.

Whenever I see the conversion that looks something like y = kx + n, I'm immidiately afraid of what kind of equation could be formed out of it.

I had to deal with a transcendental equation yesterday that I ended up pluging to Wolfram and solving it that way.

 

[N_LaRUE]

Ok, this is so interesting to me. Up to this point, I thought US uses the same system for paper dimensions.

I can see how I could easily get lost in certain scenarios, were I to visit. Like, inches and feet instead of meters and cm? Farenheit instead of celsius, now paper. Damn. It's so different.

Miles instead of km is the most disturbing.

The length of a mile makes no sense to me. Why 1760 yards?

The whole imperial system is just weird anyway.

 

[N_LaRUE]

Whenever I see the conversion that looks something like y = kx + n, I'm immidiately afraid of what kind of equation could be formed out of it.

I had to deal with a transcendental equation yesterday that I ended up pluging to Wolfram and solving it that way.

It's been awhile since I did that...

Can't remember if I did transcendental equations, probably did.

What I never liked was matrices which I leaned about later and still don't like them. I see them as a bit useless but then I don't know all the rules and there's so many.

 

[N_LaRUE]

Want a sign of privilege? I'm on the train coming to the office. This female doctor of Indian subcontinent decent came on the train. We work for the same hospital system as I recognized the hoodie she has (the doctors/nurses can get gear like that with their names printed on one side and the institution's logo at the other side on the front as compliments to their white coats).

A few steps this white doctor from a different institution, full scrubs, ID hanging from his neck, surgical mask under his chin...drinking coffee. For the whole length of his his ride, he didn't pull his mask up and even cleared his throat a few times. Why is this problematic? Well, he's an older man, likely an attending and likely redeployed in his institution to cover pandemic units. Health care workers (especially acute care ones) are at higher risk for catching covid-19. At the institution where I work in the height of the pandemic, the attendings on COVID-19 floors saw pts, not the usual residents and fellows crap to limit exposure of doctors.

Someone tells him something, he's likely to give a scientific lecture for his choice. Of course he is left undisturbed. If this was the female doctor, she would have gotten killer stares and if there was some white person there, she might even get chastised for "being a doctor and setting a bad example by not wearing her mask".

Of course when they both got off, the female doctor took a long look at this dude's ID. I saw her get on her phone typing afterwards. No doubt she mentioned something. The interesting thing is doctors know other doctors all over...

I read a recent article that interviewed two Italian doctors saying they're seeing the virus 'weaken' and it's time for the country to get back to normal now. Their argument is there has been low uptake in new cases and what is coming in are low load of the virus.

What's disturbing about this is no virologist is going to say that. Viruses don't just weaken unless they evolve to that state.

My guess is that it's due to all the efforts of normal people and there is just less chance of the virus getting spread significantly.

This why I sometimes get frustrated with doctors. They're not scientist though they seem to think they are.

 

[libra89]

It makes $$$, not sense. We're being transitioned fully to working remote. Got many different thoughts about this that will be left offline.

All I can say is that I feel for you. I'm hoping that you have a space to process this with.

 

[libra89]

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Wow...

 

[libra89]

Want a sign of privilege? I'm on the train coming to the office. This female doctor of Indian subcontinent decent came on the train. We work for the same hospital system as I recognized the hoodie she has (the doctors/nurses can get gear like that with their names printed on one side and the institution's logo at the other side on the front as compliments to their white coats).

A few steps this white doctor from a different institution, full scrubs, ID hanging from his neck, surgical mask under his chin...drinking coffee. For the whole length of his his ride, he didn't pull his mask up and even cleared his throat a few times. Why is this problematic? Well, he's an older man, likely an attending and likely redeployed in his institution to cover pandemic units. Health care workers (especially acute care ones) are at higher risk for catching covid-19. At the institution where I work in the height of the pandemic, the attendings on COVID-19 floors saw pts, not the usual residents and fellows crap to limit exposure of doctors.

Someone tells him something, he's likely to give a scientific lecture for his choice. Of course he is left undisturbed. If this was the female doctor, she would have gotten killer stares and if there was some white person there, she might even get chastised for "being a doctor and setting a bad example by not wearing her mask".

Of course when they both got off, the female doctor took a long look at this dude's ID. I saw her get on her phone typing afterwards. No doubt she mentioned something. The interesting thing is doctors know other doctors all over...

Welp. I hope he was reported because wow.

 

[libra89]

My s10e just got the security patch for June, and it's June 2! So fast for a non Pixel phone. Did I mention that my model is factory unlocked, which was always believed to get patches slower..?

 

[libra89]

Is that, I know a black person, therefor I'm not racist? Something along those lines.

Essentially yes.

 

[libra89]

I don't get how the UK will enforce this. Will they stop by every home to ensure everyone present are the people that live there? I find this amusing.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-sex-lockdown-illegal-093127804.html

 

[Rose640]

Miles instead of km is the most disturbing.

The length of a mile makes no sense to me. Why 1760 yards?

The whole imperial system is just weird anyway.

Must have been drunk while inveting them.

 

[Rose640]

It's been awhile since I did that...

Can't remember if I did transcendental equations, probably did.

What I never liked was matrices which I leaned about later and still don't like them. I see them as a bit useless but then I don't know all the rules and there's so many.

Matrices can be a PITA, but they're quite useful in many applications. I've used them for integrals (Jacobian), extremes (Hessian), Wronskian (can't remember what it was used for, we use them for coding in telecommunications and many other things.

But it's mostly to make things easier to calculate.