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Cake day: May 28th, 2024
  • Arkouda@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.world•Germany sees uptick in people living aloneEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve seen way too many couples (married or otherwise) that influence each other to vote Trump and other populists to believe that you can single out loneliness as a main cause of the rise of the far right

    The plural of anecdote is not data.

    Lonely single males are on the rise, sure, and it’s a problem that needs dealing…

    Loneliness is on the rise regardless of sex. This isn’t about just males.

    but i’d wager most of those 3 million new single people are mostly old folk, since Germany’s populatin has been aging rapidly in the past decades.

    The population most likely to be alone, isolated, and depressed are the “old folk” you speak of. This isn’t just about sad young people.

  • Arkouda@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Are there any legitimate "brain training" apps/games/etc.?
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    1 day ago

    From what I have read there isn’t any legitimate brain training apps for the average person. I know there are apps out there to help with specific disorders and things like that having some positive results, but everything I have seen on brain training shows little benefit from it, and it is really just a way to make yourself feel like you are doing something from what I can tell.

    That being said, as someone with a bad memory, keeping a detailed journal and writing important or interesting things down when they happen help me remember things much better. If you can say what you want to remember out loud that is even better because it is another way to solidify what you are trying to remember.

    A trick my counselor taught me is to Journal before bed, read what you wrote when you are finished, and then go to sleep. This is supposed to help with long term memory of what you wrote down, and I have seen improvement doing this with my long term memory.

  • Arkouda@lemmy.catoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What cool python scripts do you have that you can share?
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    1 day ago
    mainNumber = 10000
count = 0

def addNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber >= 0:
        mainNumber += 10
    if mainNumber >= 9:
        mainNumber += 7
    else:
        mainNumber += 13

def subNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber >= 10:
        mainNumber -= 6
    elif mainNumber >= 100:
        mainNumber -= 56
    elif mainNumber >= 1000:
        mainNumber -= 560
    else:
        mainNumber -= 2

def multNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber <= 100:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * 2
    else:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * 3

def divNumber():
    global mainNumber
    if mainNumber > 1000:
        mainNumber = mainNumber / 5
    if mainNumber < 1000:
        mainNumber = mainNumber / 3
    if mainNumber < 0:
        mainNumber = mainNumber * -1

while mainNumber != 1:
    count += 1
    addNumber()
    subNumber()
    multNumber()
    divNumber()
    print(mainNumber)
    if count == 1000:
        break

    This is not the most interesting script in the world, I made it to practice while loops that I absolutely sucked at and see what funky things happen.

    This script does nothing if you put in mainNumber = 1 for obvious reasons, but if you put in 2-21 it will evaluate to 21.99999999999999, 22 evaluates to 22 1000 times, and mainNumber = 23 or higher evaluates to 22.00000000000001.

    I have not found a whole number that doesn’t follow this pattern yet (Truthfully haven’t dug as far as I would like) but it is interesting how this little practice script did something like this when I was just messing around.