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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Anki is great for flashcards with lots of community generated decks for free download:

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Respectfully disagree. The entire reason ethical research standards exist is to prevent new Milton or Tuskeegee experiments from ever occurring again.

Regarding behavioral change, there is no measureable way to determine if the participants came to any harm or not because they were never properly informed. See the problem?

As for astroturfing and mass surveillance, it doesn't matter that "everyone else is already doing it.". Research needs to be held to a higher standard. None of those people filled out an informed consent form or agreed to be part of the study. The vast amount of astroturfing and data collection is itself a questionable ethical issue that private companies have exempted themselves from, but research cannot.

People came to real harm due to Stanley Milgram's and the Tuskeegee experiments, and people may or may not come to harm because of this but there's no way to tell because no one even knew. In the 21st century on the Internet, it's not OK to discard the standard of ethics because technology allows. By ignoring ethical research standards, they are going down the slippery slope and inviting some new harm, as yet unknown.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Standards for ethical research have been established over many years of social and psychological research.

Two key concepts are "informed consent," and respect for enrolled and potential research subjects.

Informed consent means that the researchers inform people they are part of a study, what the parameters of the study are, and how the research will be used.

This "study" did nothing to attain informed consent. They profiled people based on their user data, and unleashed chat bots on them without their knowledge or consent. The lack of respect for people as subjects of social research is astounding.

Reddit and the University of Zurich should be sued in a class action lawsuit for this stunt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Johhny Silverhand tried and look where that got him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
  • Japan.
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Still don't get bars inside some big buildings though :p

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Feels like pressure.

At times it's just a barely noticeable background level of weight, like sure I can handle this, no big deal. At other times, it feels like a crushing weight, painful, can barely even sleep, and all I can do is seek some kind of gender affirming euphoria to feel some relief.

Tonight is one of the latter, after feeling like I clothed myself in lies and had to perform all day, the pressure is unbearable. Looking forward to an evening of painting nails, makeup and spinny skirt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Said Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, trying to get that golden apple.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Would highly recommend joining a community garden to anyone. I was a total beginner, paid 30 bucks for my yearly plot. There were always people who were willing to give advice, water the plot while I was away, or people even gifted transplants of new veggies I'd never tried. Learned so much from experienced gardeners, got free mulch and fertilizer and there was even a community barbecue. 11/10 experience.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

"The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.”

--Socrates

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ask your endo about adding progesterone.

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