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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
i’m still mad about this “this is why” my fucking ass. if you torture people with isolation then they go crazy. you don’t need a fucking scientific paper to tell you this. your experience of your own suffering doesn’t need to be mediated through Science to be legitimate
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Emma Mitchell 💙
@silverpebble
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Research shows that the high levels of stress hormone we're producing due to the pandemic inhibit perceptual learning & memory formation & interfere with our ability to assimilate facts & focus on a task. If you're finding working,reading & concentrating difficult this is why.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
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@QiaochuYuan
[jigsaw voice] research shows that the high levels of stress hormone you’re producing due to me cutting off your legs inhibit perceptual learning & memory formation & interfere with your ability to focus on a task. if you’re having trouble escaping my torture room this is why
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
you are suffering, plainly and obviously. nobody gets to take that away from you. it is yours, forever. nobody gets to take away your breaking heart. nobody gets to reduce your understanding of yourself to a bag of chemicals. you are suffering and it matters.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
the part i'm mad about is everything contained in the "this is why." why would anyone accept this as an *explanation*? what was *missing* before someone said "oh the thing where you can't focus during a pandemic, that's the stress hormones"?
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Space Pirate
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New rule: The value of a scientific explanation is how much more information it contains than an everyday explanation. If the explanation just swaps in sciency words for everyday words and nothing else, then it's worthless.
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