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Research Network Digi-Oek.ch[en] Misconception: strength of an <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/egg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#egg</a> when droppedFunny or not: No, an egg is NOT strongest when dropped vertically."A horizontal egg, being more compliant, bends and absorbs energy over a greater distance — similar to how bending your knees during a fall softens the blow."<a href="https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineering-students-crack-egg-dilemma-sideways-stronger-0508</a><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/misconception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misconception</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#funny</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/mit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mit</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/mechanicalengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mechanicalengineering</a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/ResearchHighlights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ResearchHighlights</a>

Philo SophiesGuest Contribution by <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mohamed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mohamed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Hussien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hussien</a>: "In <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Defense</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Weak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Weak</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Dualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dualism</a>"This guest post is by Mohamed Hussien, who contacted me to see if I could publish his <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#essay</a> "In Defense of Weak Dualism" on my site. It is true that I am not one of the outspoken "defenders of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/dualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dualism</a>", whether weak or strong. On the contrary, I am primarily interested in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/overcoming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#overcoming</a> the 2500 years old <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/misconception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misconception</a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mind</a>. The originaltext is in English.More on: <a href="https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/07/07/in-defense-of-weak-dualism/</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWwqXx12bUc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">This</a> is a very blatant <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/clickbait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#clickbait</a> and common <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/misconception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misconception</a>: <ul><li>Salaries ain't worse but what people call "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/perks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#perks</a>" in the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> is basically <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/mandatory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mandatory</a> in the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EU</a>. </li></ul>Simple things like:<ul><li>paid sick leave</li><li>paid vacation leave</li><li>paid parental (!!!) (not just maternal) leave</li><li>healthcare insurance</li><li>pension / retirement plan ...</li><li>In the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a>, gross salaries are only higher because it's WAY MORE EXPENSIVE to get the same "perks", because <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ForProfitHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ForProfitHealthcare</a> exists and noone gets paid vacay per law, so everyone has to cut that.</li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Solidarity</a>-based systems make things way cheaper, and people won't demand 6-digit salaries when they have to spend like 10% of their salary just to downpay a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/car" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#car</a> in a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CarCentric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarCentric</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/suburban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#suburban</a> shithole but have excellent <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicTransport</a> at affordable rates right at their doorstep!

LichoThere's a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/misconception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misconception</a> about the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/timespace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#timespace</a> speed limit, the speed of light. It seems that if you're determined to travel to another galaxy you won't live to see it. But the truth is that you can actually travel arbitrarily fast, if you only consider the on-board, local time. If you forget what you're leaving behind, you can go anywhere as fast as you go. The Lorentz transform will take care of everything. You can get to Andromeda in a day. You can get there in a minute. Just need to go faster. Lorentz contraction will take care of it. You can get there in a second. You can go arbitrarily fast! The outside observer will see you frozen in time when traveling. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#physics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/relativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#relativity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/specialrelativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#specialrelativity</a>

Chuck DarwinThousands of senior citizens died in Los Angeles while homeless in the past 10 years, with ♦️residents age 60 and over representing a quarter of all deaths of unhoused people♦️ in that period, according to a Guardian analysis of public records.A common <a href="https://c.im/tags/misconception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misconception</a> about California’s homelessness crisis is that the majority of people on the streets are young adults who came from out-of-state, drawn to warm weather and homeless services. But death reports obtained by the Guardian reveal more than 3,000 of the 11,500 people who died while unhoused in Los Angeles county between 2014 and 2023 were 60 and older, 🔸highlighting the vulnerability of older residents in one of the US’s most expensive regions.The crisis has grown over time, the records indicate. Last year, the Los Angeles county medical examiner recorded a record high of 496 deaths of older and elderly unhoused people, nearly four times the fatalities from 10 years earlier.The records also reveal that:💥More than 1,700 of the unhoused people age 60 and over who died probably lived unsheltered. They were found in alleys, tents, encampments, bus stops, parks, yards, parking lots, cars, RVs and sidewalks and other locations suggesting they may have been living outside.  💥About 1,500 deaths of the deaths were ruled “natural”, attributed to causes like heart failure, liver disease and Covid; 1,355 deaths were labeled “accidental”, including drug overdoses and traffic collisions; 74 were homicides; and 44 were suicides.💥Elderly people far past the age of retirement died on the streets and in homeless shelters: A total of 221 people age 75 and older have died while unhoused since 2014, including dozens of people in their 80s and two 92-year-olds.💥Black Angelenos were disproportionately represented in the death toll, making up 33% of older people who died while unhoused, while only 9% of the broader county population is Black. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/08/homeless-senior-citizen-deaths-los-angeles?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

:rss: Hacker NewsDOS Fallacies <a href="https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Fal.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Fal.html</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/ycombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ycombinator</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOS</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Fallacies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fallacies</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Fallacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fallacy</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Operating_System" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Operating_System</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Misconception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Misconception</a>

Dr. Stefan T. SiegelThis guest article addresses the <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/prevalence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prevalence</a> and <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/problems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#problems</a> of <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/educational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#educational</a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/myths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#myths</a>, such as the assumption that we only use 10% of our brains or the <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/misconception" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#misconception</a> that <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/multitasking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#multitasking</a> is an efficient learning strategy. English Version: Siegel, S. T. (2024, February 15). Myths Debunked. Lehrblick – ZHW Uni Regensburg. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5283/ZHW.20240215.EN" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.5283/ZHW.20240215.EN</a>

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