Owning a car is less important to younger people.

That’s an important distinction. Unless these generations were all queried at the same age, that is.

It’s nice to see a place where conservative ideas can be expressed without being buried. It makes me feel less alone.

Cognitive dissonance is a term from psychology that refers to the stress which results from holding conflicting beliefs.

When paired with the theory of operant conditioning, the theory of cognitive dissonance predicts that if two of a person’s beliefs contradict one another, then one or both of the beliefs will change to minimize the dissonance (the dissonance acts as a positive punishment for the conflict).

An example of a prediction made by cognitive dissonance is this: if a person mistreats someone they love, and does not own the fact that they have mistreated them, then they will love that person less.

This is because the behavior of hurting a person is in conflict with loving them. If they are unable to integrate the mistreatment via conscious acknowledgement and amends-making, then this conflict will cause dissonance. In order to eliminate the dissonance, the person will stop loving the person.

Basically, the psychological process called justification is a dissonance-reduction strategy.

Colloquially, the term “cognitive dissonance” refers to the simple fact of the conflict. But technically speaking, the dissonance is the stress caused by that conflict.

Which is technically in the bathroom

Blind people smell the paper. Since I learned this, I do it too. Olfactory is a better standard than visual for this.

Study physics. It never hurts to know some physics.

Get an STD test before you freak out.

My own sex life is nil, but last time I checked (long time ago) it was $80 for a full test covering everything but herpes. Herpes test was another chunk of money.

Just go to a clinic, or to Planned Parenthood, and ask for an STD test

I love this gif

Old people were always old

In what ways are you bad at writing but reports?

My comment on this thread isn’t visible when J view the thread itself. It’s visible if I access it through my own comment history.

Does anyone know why that might be? I’m using the Voyager client for ios.

Can y’all see a comment I made, top level, in this thread, other than this one?

What have you tried so far?