I think it depends a lot on the person? Where someone is career-wise (more established folks may care less about money per se), whether the desperately need more money, etc… Also depends on the proportion of the two, a 3% raise that requires 20% more effort probably won’t be worth it for most people

Myself, I don’t mind having a small but not insignificant raise over an easier job, but that’s largely because of my current life circumstances

Personally I definitely think it’s the pronunciation, which is… self explanatory. Other languages have weird grammar rules too, but even French pronunciation is more consistent 😭

Short answer is mostly no. Long answer is nuanced, and depends on whether you are asking about the score or intelligence

Changing the “IQ score” (I am assuming a genuine test like WAIS-V, or at least something highly g-loaded like the old SAT):

• You can practice for them. This is actually a bad thing: IQ test is meant as a diagnostic tool, so practice effects make IQ tests less valid. I know most neuropsychs will discourage you from practicing the exam or taking the same test within 2~5 years after taking one
• Childhood IQ tests are somewhat less accurate than their adult counterparts, so sometimes two officially administered psych tests issued at two timepoints can differ by a lot
• People usually score more accurately if they take the test in their native language, using norms from their country. Doesn’t affect most people, but some adult immigrants might benefit from this
• Some people have wildly differing scores on different subsections, quite common among Autistic people I believe. This defeats the whole premise of IQ itself and you will likely never get a very accurate aggregate estimate… but that does mean your score will change based on which test you take. For example, if you are a genius at quantitative reasoning (math intuition) but below-average at say processing speed, you’ll score much higher on old SAT or AGCT (where math is 1/3, no processing speed section) versus WAIS-V (which has no math sections, but does have processing speed)

Changing “intelligence” itself. This mostly never changes. However, if you have external factors that clog your mental, removing them do indeed improve intelligence:

• The single best way is to have good early childhood nutrition. This obviously can’t be changed…
• Have good nutrition and good sleep, and not take substances (alcohol, tobacco, drugs, etc…)
• Resolve ongoing mental disorders. It is well-known that depression drops IQ by quite a bit, for example

IQ has some white supremacist roots, so discussing about it is usually frowned upon… and even when used correctly, it is honestly much better used as a diagnostic tool. For example ADHD can get flagged on IQ tests very easily.

Personally I think instead of trying to improve per-se, it is much better used as a tool for self-discovery especially if you have any weird neurological conditions. If you’re worried about accuracy or accidentally bombing an exam because you got too nervous with the psychologist, there are tests you can take at home such as old-SAT, CORE, CAIT, AGCT (the one US Army used to use)… which are all essentially IQ tests.

Just VLC. I don’t stream music and most of the stuff I listen to have no lyrics so it works fine as-is

Purely from evolutionary biology & physiology: yes, it’s the egg. It has actually been fairly definitively answered for almost 20 years that Wikipedia has a section on this

By most definitions of the dilemma it will be the egg which came first. The very first “egg” in our world came long before birds are a thing. If we are strictly talking about chicken eggs, since the modern chicken is a domesticated animal, strictly speaking the first true domesticated chicken came from two non-domestic chicken parents… which created a fertilized egg that became the first domesticated chicken.

Methinks this needs policy-level changes. There’s only so much we can do individually at this point

Immediate terms: There’s nothing that can be done to curb the heatwave IMO, but there are ways to prevent danger. Namely, AC, cooling centers, public education on preventing heat-related injuries/deaths… Maybe govts can even temporarily reduce regulations/give subsidies on split-systems to help nudge some folks, but nothing much else can be done. One pet-idea I have is cooling centers, since I know Houston (which has extreme weathers) opens cooling/warming centers when the weather is too extreme; it is a very progressive implementation that benefits those who are underprivileged

Slightly longer term: Trees/green spaces always help. Public transit systems always help. Some fairly sweeping changes in climate-related regulation (ease AC regulations, tighten car regulations, tax on pollution, etc), aimed at both reducing danger and improving the climate… or at least recuperate some “pollution tax” so the govt can use the money to plant more trees and build more trains. Also some European countries can do so much better at discouraging car use (or at least switch to EVs) given how good the train networks are; for countries without good train networks, build some

Even longer term: Massive investments in green energy; if they are investing already, invest more. But be practical… temporary solutions like nuclear are not everyone’s cup of tea but they help with the transition. Do better on international collaboration. Find ways to discourage international trading partners from over-polluting (probably a combination of tariffs and negotiations… not my specialty).

Obligatory not an economist/political scientist, there are probably better ways to implement these than what I suggested

I wonder if this has something to do with “whom you primarily identify with”? Seems to me that the primary identity comes first in naming systems

Because there’s some interesting parallels. Even though the order is reversed, in CJ cultures (don’t know about K, presume similar) people overwhelmingly refer to each other via family names (which comes first) instead of given names. Where I grew up in China people almost never refer to your given name; most people refer to others with some honorifics + family name (brother Li, lil’ Liu, teacher Zhang, etc). In Japanese culture referring to each other via given names is reserved to close friends only. Also in these cultures the given names have a lot more diversity than in Western culture

This has happened to me quite a few times before, and aside from ppl I know really well, the answer had always been no. I’m not good at arguing/debating anyways, so I’d just go “hehe I told you so” secretly

Based on my records, probably averaging 40-50% on needs. Exactly 30.7% on housing, somewhere >10% on basic needs food, and maybe just a bit more for emergency. The numbers for food is a bit fuzzy since I don’t specifically separate out, say, a 6-pack beer or a really nice chocolate bar from other groceries

For context though, I make above average salary for my area, am relatively young & healthy (so almost no healthcare needs), and didn’t mind living a bit frugal…

Everything I post about that is video game-related. I do post sometimes but I don’t think I really did it for validation (not that many people look at it anyways)

Split between either housing or bureaucracy

Housing is… not actually about affordability, but rather the plain difficulty of even getting a rental. I’m living in supposedly a part of Europe with a good housing market, but even here every decent rental on the market would instantaneously get 20+ applicants, so it’s quite competitive… not as bad as NL, but still pretty rough

Bureaucracy because of expat/immigrant/etc shenanigans

I don’t know if this is spooky, fucked up, or just really funny (in my twisted sense of humor)

In college. I was a workaholic and didn’t sleep a lot, and I lived in a student dorm (layout was like a hotel, each student had their individual room) that was fairly well-liked by upperclassmen. Anyways there’s a random girl I know outside of class with a friend group. Generally a bright and upbeat person, quite well put-together, also an international student, etc…

There was one night when I was just passed out on my dorm bed. And at 3am in the morning, I saw that particular girl standing in front of my dorm room with the door open. Crying, being really sad and all… Later was escorted away by the RA.

What I still couldn’t comprehend is… First of all, why the heck was my door unlocked. Second of all, why was this random person standing in front of my door. Did she want anything from me. Also later I never heard from that girl again, what happened to her

• Getting a good night’s sleep
• Getting a nap in, for those who can fall asleep quickly
• Drinking a nice cup of hot/warm tea or water. Seriously it works surprisingly well for relieving stress

I’m using mailbox.org with a custom domain. German company, all of their email services seem pretty industry standard, so the biggest advantage for me is that it works quite well with 3rd party mail & calendar clients. Forgot when I switched but so far I have no complaints

Don’t think it’d be more tilting than other games with ~50% win rates. Just one example, Tekken is also ~50% win rate that is nearly completely skill dependent, but on average it involves even higher amounts of adrenaline

Personally the games I found the most tilting are perma-deaths: Minecraft/Terraria’s hardest difficulties, Noita… Losing a 10+ hr run after making one bad decision really gets you. I think I stopped playing this type of games for that reason

Seriously though please don’t tilt. Tilting reduces the fun of the game and makes skill improvements in skill-dependent games slower

Kind-of. Researcher in EU, the funding source on paper mandates 7.6 hrs of work per day, so with lunch breaks it is almost exactly 09:00 - 17:00

Depending on whom you ask academia may or may not be considered a real job though… and my hours may be nice, but the folks who do experiments rarely get the 9-5 as stated on paper, and there are other aspects of the job that are much more fucked up

Now that I’m thinking about it, I mainly have a gripe with people getting addicted to gambling. Can be in many different forms IMO; can be spending too much money at the Blackjack table (which is somewhat skill-dependent), whaling on lootboxes/gachas (where you’d literally never “win” money back), or even day trading (which is technically positive-sum)

In theory everything is fine in moderation, but then most gambling systems reward people to whale whether they intend it or not, so…

25-26. I’m not joking; several ppl I follow on Mastodon are openly Autistic, which is when I started suspecting… I would have been diagnosed much, much earlier had my home country have a better psych support system though

I don’t play that many but I generally 100% games I play. So… a bit embarrassing, but Dicey Dungeons. The later chapters are genuinely difficult & are more puzzles than roguelikes… so I just gave up at one point

If specific endgame challenges count, I’ve never beaten Dead Cells BC4 boss rush, or the fabled Noita 34 orbs run (was very close though). Oh and every other rhythm game if you count skill analyzers/Dan courses, but most players don’t clear those