We read animal farm and lord of the flies In my school, but this was done in the context of “English” as opposed to really digging into what those books were saying about government.

Never read 1984 but Brave New World instead…

What’s kind of fucked is it almost feels like they made these books required reading not to serve as a warning but more to serve as a “this is where we’re going to drag you kicking and screaming” lol

Hah it was this or Legend of the Galactic Heroes?

Do you really think this teaches the reader much about government systems though? It felt a lot more like a memoir to me than an analysis of how government works…I mean…beyond that one really important factor lol. I feel like the reader would need some knowledge base they were building on/deconstructing to even get anything out of it

Except, i told you that the jpeg used for the “bar” makes no difference wrt determining whether or not a graph is “to scale”.

Thinking that a design element in a graph makes the graph harder do understand != the graph not being “to scale”

Seriously, i don’t get how this is so difficult for you. I mean other than the obvious option that you just don’t know what you’re talking about because you haven’t studied math beyond high school algebra

They aren’t accurately scaled at all. The graph starts at (roughly) 4’7

Champ…you literally just accepted the fact that bar graphs don’t have to start at zero. This reality is made clear by the fact that below 5’0” there is a massive empty space, indicating the y axis has been truncated.

Honestly dude this has been hilarious because i didn’t expect to get so many extra, free laughs at the retards like you when i posted this. I thought the people here would be capable of getting the joke but you sure showed me!

The silhouettes are “accurately scaled”, you can tell this from the presence of the scale on the side. It doesn’t matter at all, in terms of “to scale”, what you use for your bar: it could be a nondescript grey bar, it could be a poo emoji, it could be a human silhouette, these are mere design choices and have nothing to do with whether or not a graph is “to scale”.

Now that I’ve explained this to you like what 5 times now (?) I’ll leave you to your thoughts (what little that might entail)

Was just playing AC 5 upscaled nicely via PCSX2

Emulators and upscaling (and for the ambitious, iso patching) get you a fair bit of the way towards a “remaster” experience imo

You’ve already failed the retard test but here you go anyway:

Now that you’ve established that graph is “to scale”, swap the jpgs of the bars for jpegs of human silhouettes. You’ll notice that at no point did the graph stop being “to scale” (hopefully atleast, i know you’re retarded so that might be an obstacle for you)

Can you pass the retard test?

Is the following graph “to scale”:

https://econofact.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Voting-Income-chart-web-v2.png

?

Your inability to differentiate between “what is the graph attempting to convey” and “is the graph to scale” isn’t my fault lol, I’m merely replying to the redditors who somehow made it to my thread here

Let me put this in googoo gaga baby speak for you:

Is the graph trying to generate an accurate image in the mind of its viewer as to the relative average heights of the populations of different countries?

No, it’s a joke

does the graph use “questionable” (only assuming accuracy was the goal, which we’ve established it wasn’t) design elements to make the joke?

Yes, obviously (thatsthejoke.jpeg)

is the graph “to scale”?

Yes, obviously, hence the scale on the side and the repeating, identical, non-arbitrary distances between the scale marks from 6’0” down to 5’0” with scaled 1” increments. Scales don’t have to start at 0.

That help champ?

Lmoa, its okay to admit you never made it past high school math, you don’t need to try and act like you’re teaching me anything

https://digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2016/06/27/does-the-axis-have-to-start-at-zero-part-1-line-charts/

Good luck with the bigger words

You fucking retards not knowing what “to scale” means isn’t my problem.

This graph is to scale (hence the fucking scale on the side). The scale has been truncated (that’s not illegal, reading a fucking book sometime)

The scale is there on the side of the screen tf are you idiots talking about “not to scale”

>implying the goal was to accurately convey information about relative heights across countries as opposed to being a JOKE

All these references to manlet psychology had me scratching my head

Is this what the little people mean by “tall privilege”?

Lmfao imagine downvoting someone obviously making a joke in addition to providing specialist insight. Lmoa even.

Is the graph to scale or not to scale? Do you acknowledge that graphs can start at numbers other than zero? Here’s a sock for you to cry into

Last time I checked it was something like:

56% nord, 20% redguard, 13% dark elf, 4% wood elf, and the rest a mishmash of argonians and the other furry races

Oh wait sorry I misread your question, the TES wiki might have what you’re looking for

It actually is “to scale” but hilarity ensues when you swap the bars for body silhouettes and truncate the data to 5ft. You normally will truncate data like this when you’re looking to “zoom in” on the differences.

Uninformed pRedditors like to complain about data truncation (and other things, like correlation/causation dynamics) which is I guess why this graph showed up on r/mildlyinfuriating, when I personally would have classified it on r/fuckinghilarious if I still had an account

Here’s a blog post on data truncation:

https://digitalblog.ons.gov.uk/2016/06/27/does-the-axis-have-to-start-at-zero-part-1-line-charts/

It makes me picture those tiny dinosaurs from the later jurassic parks which hunt in packs to overwhelm, which I guess is what Indonesians are like

Head and shoulders above any other possible scale

The scale is right there on the side wym?

r*dditors (the absolute faggots) are pissing and shidding themselves over this graph but all I can think is how much I want to kick indonesians like soccer balls after seeing it

https://www.unz.com/ishamir/why-do-the-jews-love-antisemitism/

Oddly relavent article posted today - thoughts?

The Wim Hof method specifically?

My understanding of it is:

Hyperventilation for ~30 deep breaths in

Deep breath out, hold until discomfort

Deep breath in, hold until discomfort

Repeat steps 1-3 a few times

While interesting and demonstrably “effective” in its own rights, it should be noted his method is basically a far older school of practice (gTummo yoga) chopped up and (unfortunately) often sold as a form of “self-help”. Which, while it is both understandable (he’s gotta eat) and valid in its own rights (I’ve heard it’s helped many people), by making it all about “Wim” and his “Method”, much of the ancient wisdom about our underlying “hardware” gets totally glossed over in favor of selling an “experience” which you can sign up to partake in

Great, thanks for the links. I'll have a read when I can.

Cheers, I hope it all points you in helpful directions

On a quick skim, the Greek guy seems a bit overcome by fanboyism, but I don't consider that a reason to discount his whole account.

Perhaps, but given the perspective being presented (something a child of the modern world might liken to “finding master yoda”, or more accurately something like “finding master lao tzu”), like you allow for, I can see where it’s coming from and don’t hold it against either the book or the author

I'm more than just open to it, I'm actually fixated on questions of consciousness these days. I have a collection of reflections and ramblings in a text file which I feel some sort of moral responsibility to try and turn into a book or something some day

I feel like I know where you’re coming from. I too feel an urge to produce something like a series of articles on substack, diving in depth into specific subjects then hopefully ascending back out to link it all together cogently and cohesively, something which it feels like is only ephemerally present in my head. And I struggle similarly with committing myself to the task. One need only read into the life of someone like Chang to begin to understand the levels of commitment required to achieve anything approaching “mastery”, but I see value in even the uninitiated attempting to “report” what they’ve found in their studies.

This could prompt me to look into the Tao/Dao some more since it seems like it could have a lot of overlap

I really hope it does, I’ve personally found such astounding variety and amounts of wisdom in these traditions that I’m convinced they’re “onto something” - as opposed to the generic western explanation of “a stopped clock is right twice a day” kind of mentality towards “eastern wisdom” broadly speaking.

Because we are dealing with translation, I find referring to a variety of sources as important as for example biblical scholars might be. To that end, I’ve posted two English translations of the Tao Te Ching (“the” book of Taoism) in the past:

https://communities.win/c/Manna/p/17teNpuIaW/the-tao-te-ching/c

This version I personally find provides the most impactful translation which speaks more to me than the attempts at more literal or less esoteric translation often attempted by the “academics”.

https://communities.win/c/HumanPotential/p/141ra5FBnM/tao-te-ching-full-text-8x-compar/c

This version is a comparative collection of 8 different translations hosted by Boston University. Quite interesting to use to dive into specific word and phrase choices.

Here’s some interesting little tidbits I’ll leave you with that I’ve always found interesting:

Lao Tzu appears to translate most accurately to “wise old man” or when taken literally “Mr. Wise Man”

Confucius is a bit of a bastardization of his name. In this context, you might be surprised to learn his name is perhaps more accurately translated as Kung-Fu Tzu, or rendered literally “Mr. Kung-Fu”

Chang, if you take his words at face value (and I’ve found no reason not to), claims his lineage of “internal martial arts”, aka “qi gong / chi kung”, known as Mo Pai, traces its roots to a contemporary of Lao Tzu and Kung-Fu Tzu known as Mo Tzu:

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

Some really interesting things in there.

The Wim Hof stuff is interesting. It bleeds over into stuff I've been dwelling on recently with regards to the process/nature of consciousness itself and what it means for an individual's sense of purpose and their 'self-actualisation', which feeds back around to health in the end, either directly through some undiscovered process or indirectly through the kinds of general health decisions one ends up making.

You sound like you’d be interested in and open to considering the following:

Here is research on the practice (gTummo yoga) that Hof states is the foundation of his practice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WajTafbG7II

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/04/meditation-changes-temperatures/

https://www.nature.com/articles/295234a0

"During visits to remote monasteries in the 1980s, Benson and his team studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains who could, by g Tum-mo meditation, raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. It has yet to be determined how the monks are able to generate such heat."

Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical, also published in the journal nature.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130408084858.htm

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058244

"The researchers collected data during the unique ceremony in Tibet, where nuns were able to raise their core body temperature and dry up wet sheets wrapped around their bodies in the cold Himalayan weather (-25 degree Celsius) while meditating."

Where I believe this all leads, to your point about consciousness, admittedly flies in the face of much of what we are told about the world and it’s mechanisms:

https://communities.win/c/HumanPotential/p/141rVOZOu0/perhaps-the-most-important-video/c

In addition to the video footage, in the past westerners have been able to seek out Chang and train under him. A Greek engineer managed to find him and trained for a decade with him and wrote a book trying to apply a scientific approach to what he witnessed and experienced. This book really shines an interesting light on not just the what observed in the video, but investigates possible answers for the how as well. In addition, it's just a highly engrossing book if approached with an open mind.

PDF of the book:

https://www.sacred-magick.com/free/files/The%20Magus%20of%20Java.pdf