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[–] TheTurducken@mander.xyz 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also for those that are magnetic

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah.. about that.. I have nothing clever to say.

Our laws of physics aren't really suited for it, and everything seems so round-about that it looks like that time when people tried to argue for having Earth be the centre of the solar system. It's all just patches to something that we know isn't that simple.

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think I'll be subscribing to this community. Thank you for the meme.

[–] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It only sounds like a lot of taxes to us Americans that don't actually do the math... I'm making almost 60kUSD so it's a very real comparison for me. Like your 4.6k healthcare tax is my 14.4k pay cut (mandatory healthcare coverage for full time employees paid for by the owner @1,200/month for me) Your 5k general tax is higher than my 3.6k income tax, but everything else offsets that by such a large margin that arguing against it is laughable.

Thing is we also pay a ton of of pocket when we go to the doctor too.

I wish we had a number to use like your 4.6k but for America so in our arguments for universal healthcare we could show just how much more we really pay...

Sorry for all the edits, I remember as I reread lol

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If i remeber correctly the US could cut its healthcare costs in half by switching to an universal healthcare system, while granting healthcare to everyone.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

but how would the middlemen line their pockets?

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

A not insignificant amount of money goes towards administrative pay for all the middlemen involved...

Everyone has to get their slice of the... (Checks notes) necessary medical treatment of human beings... Ughh...

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

57k gross is a bangin' income in Italy, at that level you pay about 35-40% in taxes if you have no deductibles etc, which means net 2631€/month, about twice the average.

You could work alone and support a stay-at-home wife

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

You could have even gotten a BS in psychology

[–] Mechaguana@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago

Gravity is just the world trying to put all the stuff in the same area of space to waste less RAM

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The squishy humanities version of this, in America at least, goes as follows:

In grade school you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

In high school you learn that the Civil War was about a lot of complicated things.

In college you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Alabama you learn it's about Yankee Aggression.

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mom (RIP) was a boomer born and raised in Georgia. In our house, we were taught that General Sherman was in hell right alongside Napoleon and Hitler.

If he is, it's for his handling of the Native Americans and bison and not for how he prosecuted the March to the Sea. The Confederacy was a boil that needed popping.

My general thought on the March is that glorifying a series of war crimes and mass civilian death is never a good thing, and it wasn't the wannabe aristocratic slave owners that suffered the most from it.

But war is hell, which is why you should always try to avoid starting one, especially for a contemptible cause.

The March should be filed under the same general heading as the WW2 bombing campaign, it's one thing to view it as a necessary evil but it's another thing to revel in it.

[–] TheTurducken@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apu learned in post-grad glasses that it was complicated again.

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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I still want to know what it is tho

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A force field generated by your mom's obesity

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you are attracted to that, huh?

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

We all are, a non-zero amount anyway.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

that depends on his own mass and distance to her.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I wish I made 57k a year.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Timey wimey wibbly wobbly.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Wibbily, wobbily, gravity's a flirt, keeps pulling me down, but never buys me dessert!

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

This is why I laugh at anyone who thinks we "Already know anything" or ever will

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... of space. The time part in spacetime is questionable yet again.

[–] mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait why - Aren't the clocks from Gps satellites only in sync with our clocks when they reach their defined speed and distance to earth's core? Isn't this related to the curvature of spacetime? Genuine question

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a new theory that time is only a side-effect of the warping of space and that they are not one and the same. Wouldn't change the result but has heavy implications on the larger scale.

[–] HorseWithNoName@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now do doctors of sociology

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0 to alcoholism in 11 years.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Pssh, sales can do that in 2.

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 7 points 1 year ago

lemme give you a quick demonstration

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Gravity is how all those cracked phone screens happen. Gravity is evil. Ban Gravity!

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Baby don't hurt me, no more.

[–] klemptor@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spin is something that behaves like spin. the right answer is shut up and calculate

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

WE SPIN. WE BALL.

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[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

57k/year is 4,750/month... where is that not super comfortable living?

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