I pity psychologists. Imagine how many people want to chew their ear off about narcissism, emotional labor, gaslighting, or whatever self-help pop psychologists are grifting about today.
Honestly, as it relates to academics and papers, psychology isn't too bad from what I've read. There are wildly varying definitions, but papers have had ways to account for that for decades - that being defining terms where needed, and showing your work so others can see the context. For example, if studying depression, they'll have to specify which scale or metric was used for depression in patients, be it a mood tracker, or a standardize questionnaire. That said, you could always tell when a paper wasn't well constructed or had little to offer, because thats when the jargon would be front and centre.
That, and more purely philosophical academic papers. They were awful. For example, reading a thirteen-page paper that could wholly be summarised as "Positionality is how people define themselves relative to others. They may have biases based on these definitions." but written like, "subject-position is based on a subject's temporal elements to best target the dominant drive in a social confrontation..." I have no problem reading most articles, but those were putting me to sleep.
I was assuming something like that would be used, but even then, its still a bunch of additional drag for little or no gain relative to existing options. As another comment pointed out, tailsitters are pretty comparable in benefits, but they also lack the the drag issues and will likely be at least a little more stable in vertical flight.
It would probably be possible to make functional (especially on a small scale), but wouldn't be very efficient. With four rotors to drive, you're going to have significant weight, and on top of that you have the flat profile that will make it difficult to fly vertically. At the same time, the large spaces for the propellers mean it won't be as sturdy or aerodynamic, and you've only got one propeller for forward thrust, so it won't be able to go very fast. Very optimisticly, I expect that you'd be left with a vehicle that can barely take off or land, although might perform a bit better than something like a helicopter once in the air, but not competiting with existing VOTL designs.
Cold water wakes you up because its a shock, in the same way stubbing your toe would wake you up. Its not something specific to fish, but technically go far enough back and we got much of our sensory system and brain from fish (as did almost every other animal on the planet).
Man, people here have a very different sense of "A long time" on YouTube. I was hesitating to include TimeGhost because I've only watched them for about eight years.
For stuff I've been watching for less long, the creators that come to mind are:
Timeghost - they do history documentaries, focusing on chronological "real time" content, such as their current series, the Korean War Week-by-Week
LEMMiNO - does deep-dives into supposed mysteries. His older stuff isn't great, but shifted towards higher-quality long-form content about 8 years ago, and he does a good job on them.
AHOY - does documentaries on the history of games, and adjacent tech and culture. Not usually super deep, but well written, produced and animated.
Desync - makes stupid gaming videos, usually abusing bugs or just being silly. Doesn't post often, but on the rare occasion he does, it'll be well produced and funny.
For stuff more at the age I was thinking of originally, 10+ years:
John and Hank Green - cover a whole range of topics, although nowadays, it tends to be a mix of advocacy, science, philosophy, and just sillyness.
The Yogscast - Just a plain old gaming channel, albeit with unusually frequent and higher production quality videos. Nothing extraordinary, but consistently good and fun, despite the fact that they've been making videos for nearly 20 years.
Tom Scott - short video essays, explainers and documentaries on a variety of topics. Primarily, videos on different interesting places.
TomSka - The ASDF Movie guy. That said, just as good or better are his other skits, and now even his long-form content and videos essays.
Where do you think all the aforementioned hard drives came from? Lol. Its just that so many of the other parts are proprietary/old that I can't mix-and-match to make something more useful. For a breif period, I had four separate working desktops, and not one had a standard power supply or mobo. I swear all of that should be made illegal.
That's basically what I did, along with the new PSU, but thats still a lot to spend on a hobby/luxury, unfortunately, so I can't really afford to tinker with it more than that.
With this sort of thing, I'm always left wondering what I'm missing in terms of the hardware. Like, I've been collecting bits and bobs of old hardware for years, but it feels like if I want anything more than an absolutely basic raspberry-pi-level server, I need to buy dedicated hardware. For example, I want to put together a nas, especially since I do have a collection of spare, old hard drives, but would want raid for that. Unfortunately, its rare to find a mobo that has more than four sata ports, and all the power supplies I have available to harvest from other systems are either too weak, or are proprietary, meaning I'm halfway to buying a new PC anyway. Is there something I'm missing, or do others just have more disposable income?
I know Rimu has some really weird opinions about how a social media network should be designed, such as believing that the 90-9-1 rule should be prevented and being against memes, and tends to be overly pushy about implementing these """features""". That said, so far as I'm aware, its not so much problematic as just stupid design decisions.
I've noticed a very notable dropoff. As you said, people are angrier, but more-so I've noticed that far fewer people are willing/able to be open and empathetic, especially towards others. It feels like all that's left is surface-level talk and shared activities, with no real care or consideration for those you're with. For example, within my own circles, the things we used to do to mutually support one another have almost entirely stopped, and as no one discusses anything deeper than what they did today, connections are starting to die off.
More the specifics that can be controversial - for example, moderation policies, broad appeal versus exclusivity/specificity, which forms of outreach work or don't, how power structures should be organized, ect. Obviously its not all heated debate, but there often are strongly held opinions for or against different methods.
What are u asking op?
I am intentionally leaving it broad, but generally looking for more specific answers. For example forming/participating in interest groups is a good start, but also: How do you structure them? How do you fund them? How do you expand it beyond the limited scope of the hobby? I'm hoping to get meaningful discussion on not just broad suggestions, but also specifics.
While support for restrictions on social media use is widespread, what people want is far different from what governments are implementating. For example, while a large majority support restrictions, a similarly large majority also believe said restrictions should be managed by parents. (Angus Reid, 2026) At a more practical level, these polls are also extremely vague about the restrictions, and I expect would receive very different results if the questions were about the policies governments are actually trying to implement. Having an "Are you over 18?" popup is still an age gate, but is a very, very different measure than the ID verification most governments want.
Additionally, there are "offline servers" that use mods to patch out all communication with Microsoft/Mojang/Minecraft systems, and various other pieces of code that attempt to enforce only paid players joining a server, ultimately allowing people to connect without having actually purchased the game.
Not sure if this is still the case, but at least a few years ago, it didn't even require any mods. It was just a boolean toggle in the standard config file.
Is YouTube actually at this point? I know a couple channels I follow have started using AI more widely, at least in thumbnails, specifically because it gets more clicks.
On the other hand, I have a USB-C charged laptop, but it only accepts one specific spec of 45w, and one specific spec for 60w. This means that 90% of usb-c chargers don't work for it, including chargers that support 45w or 60w charging. This means that even if you buy a charger with the right wattage, its effectively random whether it will work or not.
This kind of "I am immune to snakebite because of my religion" thing has a history of getting people killed.
Was this a case of overreliance on faith? Seems to me more likely that its just that the idea that a snake could bite him and it will hurt that is too complex for him to understand.
Honestly, as it relates to academics and papers, psychology isn't too bad from what I've read. There are wildly varying definitions, but papers have had ways to account for that for decades - that being defining terms where needed, and showing your work so others can see the context. For example, if studying depression, they'll have to specify which scale or metric was used for depression in patients, be it a mood tracker, or a standardize questionnaire. That said, you could always tell when a paper wasn't well constructed or had little to offer, because thats when the jargon would be front and centre.
That, and more purely philosophical academic papers. They were awful. For example, reading a thirteen-page paper that could wholly be summarised as "Positionality is how people define themselves relative to others. They may have biases based on these definitions." but written like, "subject-position is based on a subject's temporal elements to best target the dominant drive in a social confrontation..." I have no problem reading most articles, but those were putting me to sleep.