phario

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[–] phario 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes.

I think with something like this you have to do a literature search. Even then it’s kind of tough because I’m sure it’s very hard to do objective tests of these traits.

You might say that any activity has similar aspects. Learning a difficult passage in music, learning to speak languages, learning to throw a basketball through a hoop, etc.

I’m not sure there is a huge amount of evidence that video games teach resilience any more than any other similar activity. Moreover, it’s easily the kind of thing that our biases set us up to believe things that aren’t there. For every person who learned resilience from video games, there might be three other people who learned poor lessons, like “I should be lazy and play video games and not study for my exams.”

With academic or professional resilience, I can’t say I’ve seen any positive correlation with video games.

I could easily argue that excessive video game play makes you less resilient to doing non-video-game challenges.

[–] phario 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Teaching and education metrics are really screwy in any case. It’s hard to measure change over such a short time, and you should be suspicious of any purported change.

Teaching kids to write to some test is not the right approach in any case.

Change takes time and money (and hopefully skill) to change. Come and report back in 20 years—if Lebron et co are continuing to put money into this endeavour over a long time scale, hopefully it will lead to permanent change.

[–] phario 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are so many recipes with minor variations. In the end it doesn’t matter much except for some points I’ll mention. Here is a random one. https://www.vickypham.com/blog/vietnamese-beef-noodle-soup-pho-bo

I would say that a lot of the cooking process is hard to explain via a book. Videos are good. This one seems to be done by a very knowledgeable woman. https://youtu.be/xxM4t8vP-0A

After skimming the above video I’m really impressed by that woman’s knowledge. One thing i am not sure she discusses is the process of skimming the fat off the broth.

[–] phario 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

After having moved to the UK, where Vietnamese food is not so readily available in areas outside of London (and similar) I’ve gotten used to making my own pho.

The main problem are the herbs as it can be hard to get all the necessary herbs outside of Asian supermarkets.

It’s a really good dish for special events as well, since few people I’ve met dislike pho.

[–] phario 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m not a fan of these rapid news with very little context.

What’s going to happen, if it hasn’t happened already, is that companies and corporations are going to play with words in order to seem like they’re more climate-friendly than they are. Few people disagree that fossil fuels needs to be reduced but without knowing more context, it’s hard to say whether an firm that commits some amount of money into another firm that has some role in fossil fuels is “a bad thing”.

[–] phario 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Eh. Not the best article but I appreciate the sentiment.

I certainly agree with it. I think that there’s a level of friendship that I never allow others to crack unless they were bridged in as members when we were young.

All the people I meet now are “acquaintances”. They’re nice, I’m okay to reach out if I need anything, but more often then not they’re the partner of someone else. I smile at them. I tolerate them. I might even have a drink with them. But there’s a distance there that you can’t crack.

It’s like that great 80s movie, “Stand by me”: “I never had any friends later on like the ones when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?” https://youtu.be/l7r-R61W1DQ

[–] phario 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m starting to learn about PC building so tagging along here as well (from the UK). Is there a reason why you took a micro atx motherboard with a mid ATX case?

[–] phario 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m not reading par se but I’m an audiobook fan and also a fan of the Star Wars Expanded Universe (Legends). I’m enjoying listening to the new recordings of the first Thrawn trilogy.

These re-recordings will probably be the last of its kind, given Disney’s declaration of non-canon.

[–] phario 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fantastic work.

Do you think the bot numbers for Reddit will be as bad or worse? Or is there better protection over there?

[–] phario 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It’s weird how strong some people’s resistance to eating new foods is.

My white partner is pretty open to eating most foods but she doesn’t like chicken feet. It’s one of those foods that Western people can struggle with. It’s not just the visual element but some people I know don’t like things like tripe or tendon. It’s the texture as well.

British food is really…homogenous.

But yeah, well cooked and seasoned chicken feet is great.

[–] phario 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a non-American academic: what the flying fuck?

What is going on in the US….?

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