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  • dootoAutism@lemmy.worldAutism and meditation?
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    1 day ago

    Indeed, we must be speaking of different kinds of meditation.

    The one I was referring to is mindfulness meditation, by practicing which one gradually develops a habit of noticing thoughts as they happen in one’s mind and instead of being immediately carried away by them, have a tiny time buffer that allows to have a chance to decide whether to react or just let it dissipate as all thoughts do.




  • Good thing this is not true.

    You’re probably referring to ruzzia having three times more people than Ukraine. There are several factors why this is not as important as it might seem.

    First is that ruzzia is attacking and the attacking side usually sustains 1:3 loss ratio. Second is that their approach was always to disregard their own, so the ratio is at least 1:5, likely even worse. And third, is that despite they have 140 million people, after you deduct women, children, old and sick, and ruzzian tooth to tail ratio of 1:1, you end up with the maximum army of 5 million.

    And they already lost 20%. And some of those 20% were actually trained. And men that are fit for army are also for for work.

    Which all basically means that if the sanctions pressure is kept, if Ukraine has enough ammunition (and they claim 30% is already made domestically) and as long as Ukraine keeps the loss ratio in its favour, ruzzia will simply implode.

    Somebody calculated that at the current “advance” speed, ruzzia will need 140 years to occupy Ukraine. If Ukraine keeps doing what it’s doing, it needs maybe two.

    It’s not going to be nice two years, but with a little support, Ukraine is winning and will win.





  • It’s the reason why some russians (not that many) have left the country and some (very few) tried protesting.

    After three years of war, though, those joining the army, those working in factories producing shahed drones or other weapons, those supporting the army indirectly, they actually support the war.

    Yes, it’s all the result of propaganda, but they do believe the official line, they do think that they’re trying to liberate.

    So while it’s illegal to be against war there, very few are breaking that even in their heads. And when we hear “x% of ruzzians want peace”, it only means that they want the victory rather sooner, because their life is somewhat uncomfortable.







  • dootoTechnology@lemmy.mlAI Is Destroying a Generation of Students
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    8 days ago

    I would say that we’ve just discovered that our approach to test knowledge and critical thinking was secondary to the means we used.

    Apparently, essay writing doesn’t require either of those.

    Which means we have to think how we teach kids. They will and should use helper tools, but just like we teach multiplication table before allowing calculators, well have to establish what students have to learn before they can use the LLMs in their studying.






  • And artillery and tanks. ruZZia started the war with it’s traditional doctrine of shoot a lot of artillery, then move tanks, rinse, repeat. Three years in they discovered that suddenly costs a lot of artillery and tanks, so numbers went down.

    Now they’re up again and I’m not sure what to make of it. Let’s hope they were given orders “throw everything” and Ukrainians are only happy to do what they’re good at.