I disagree

This may be because I’m autistic, but I think apoliticals are the most boring people in the world. Apoliticals always want to talk about the weather and their favourite reality TV show and what they did while drinking on the weekend. But My political friends talk about political stuff like science fiction, history, cool movies, fun gossip.

Politics is what humans are best at in all the animal kingdom. If a human wants to be apolitical, well they’re just not living up to their potential. I’d get just as much engaging conversation from a dog, and it would be cuter.

I can confirm this. I have an agender parent who still thinks she’s a cis woman, and she fucked us up so bad one of us died. She has gone her whole life not knowing what a gender is, and teaching her kids the same.

Parents! Do not be eggs!

Oh, yeah, I’m just pointing out that mathematicians are not well known for their people skills. They are not very accustomed to experimental subjects that behave messily and unpredictably, because numbers act the same every time. Biologists and psychologists and historians, on the other hand, are used to having messy unpredictable subjects.

I was a lot younger when I transitioned, but one of the most striking things that helped Me decide is something equally applicable to you.

When you turn 80, do you want to be an old man or an old lady?

I think “Faith based technology” is a fine working definition of magic for most practical uses. Many people say if something requires faith to work, it’s magic and not science. But I believe we can use science on faith the same as we can use science on anything else.

Capitalist economics only work if society has faith in the money issuing authority (e.g. the US federal reserve). Money is a faith based technology and therefore magic. So I think economics should be a field of magical theory. Magicians seem more qualified to answer economic questions than mathematicians. When we let mathematicians do economics, they start making up nonsense like perfectly free markets, because they’re not used to human fallibility. Magicians are perfectly aware of human fallibility, and that’s why we should be in charge of the science of economics. We know capitalism is a scam, just like horoscopes or three card monte.

Why does it look like skin?

Well, the whole point of magic and what makes it different from regular technology is that it straddles the border between consensus reality and the socially unreal. Otherwise, why wouldn’t it just be called technology?

And while I did not do so under laboratory conditions, I do have a case study of using magic to cure sleep apnea.

I would love to perform a replication study of this treatment, but I believe we first need to develop a stronger field of faith exercise science. I believe the patient’s strength of faith is a significant variable in these kinds of treatments, and thus we need a reliable faith measurement system so that we can control for faith. Otherwise our results will appear random and unreliable.

So here is My plan to verify the reproducibility of magical disease treatments:

1. Use an experimental design to find whether intentional training of faith can strengthen the placebo effect.
2. Develop a reliable measurement scale of faith, perhaps using the placebo effect as a measure.
3. Reproduce My treatment with a sample of central sleep apnea patients, with the patients’ faith strength as a quasi-experimental independent variable, kept double-blind from patients and clinicians until after treatment. Hypothesis: the treatment will work better for patients with stronger faith.
4. Develop reliable exercises for strengthening faith, so that everyone can benefit from magic.

No, magic is observable phenomena caused by things that aren’t real, where "real"ness is a social construct. Thus, magical studies is a field exploring the engineering of social constructs.

Wanna talk about communist theory?

I believe economics should be a field of magical studies, which should be a field of psychology. Magical studies should also study the placebo effect, memetics, religious studies, somatopsychic and psychosomatic phenomena, faith exercise science, servitorology, parogenetics, and spellcrafting.

Professor, we’re not sending information back in time, we’re just rearranging the structure of the multiverse!

That’s cute, Bill, but are you going to ban Trump from sucking your dick until he defunds ICE? Because until you take that step, this is all talk.

Yeah, a much better and earlier example is the 14 year old who was told to kill himself by his AI girlfriend

Feathered dinos are cooler

Deeper. They help maintain the permafrost and prevent global warming

Fun fact: large grazing animals lower the frost line in the northern Asian steppes.

What about in places rats are invasive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_plagues_in_Australia

The best communists don’t form a socialist theory to fit reality. We form a socialist theory to break reality! Reality was designed by the bourgeoisie to oppress us, we cannot use the master’s tools to dismantle his house.

I sure like changing cis people’s fundamental and accepted societal understanding of gender!

I’ve been trying to do that for a particular divisive figure on Lemmy lately, but it hasn’t worked yet