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  • From a practical perspective highly religious people tend to very anti-intellectual so anything evidence based tends to draw a larger proportion of atheists. Universities are historically the places with the largest concentration of atheists, but working professionals in the STEM disciplines, often being highly educated, tend to also be atheists. If the dominant religion has specific times when people gather for their collective indoctrination, people absent from those gatherings are more likely to be atheists. These are just generalities though. I’ve definitely met some highly educated nutjobs who believed some crazy bullshit outside their field. Good luck out there.





  • applebuschtomemes@lemmy.worldthere is a solution
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    7 days ago

    It’s a temporary short term solution that is repeatable. If my time working under capitalism has taught me anything it’s that a temporary short term solution works perfectly well as a long term solution if you accept it as maintenance. Just gotta clear out the cunts every once in a while.









  • Right because marriage isn’t about religion, it’s about property. It’s about who owns what and who gets what when someone dies. One could point out the historical aspect of men literally owning their wives, and some people (assholes) certainly still want that, but these days it’s all about money. Marriage is a way for rich people to make sure they get to hold onto their partners wealth, even in the event of a divorce or death. It’s a tool of capitol, forced on the rest of us by the leaching class. We certainly don’t need it to love each other. No war but class war.


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    27 days ago

    A surprisingly simple model can be accurate enough to be usable, but you need to understand the limitations and assumptions of it. You need to understand when the model is prudent and when it gives erroneous results. The problem with models of gender and attraction is people take them at face value and assume that they’re complete, when in fact they are almost all deeply flawed in one way or another. Ignoring those flaws creates blindspots and bias, which ultimately hurts everyone, but hurts individuals who fall inside the blindspots or who become victims of bias most of all. Anyone who goes through a mechanical engineering program will know that steam isn’t an ideal gas, but that doesn’t stop an ignorant layperson from assuming it is and hurting themselves and others as a result.


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    28 days ago

    Counter argument, attraction exists on an infinite dimension hyperspace encompassing all of time and space and all past, current, and future configurations of matter and energy. We try to fit the world to our models but the world doesn’t concern itself with our musings. Attraction is on a case by case basis for all of us anyway.





  • Honestly I think engineers of all kinds can benefit from more study of biological systems. As an engineer myself, I find there’s a lot of inspiration to be gained by looking at life and understanding how it works. My primary work is controls and learning that biological muscle operates as bang bang control was mindblowing. Like look at the agility and complexity achieved by essentially a fuck load of on off actuators. It shows how far you can go with extremely simple methods and honestly helped me chill the fuck out about making everything perfect.