Observing groups is a very useful skill, in minutes you can tell who’s where in the hierarchy, what the cliques are, how well they coordinate, how information flows, and where influence springs from.

This let’s you not only insert yourself at the right moment, peg, and place for maximum efficacy, but also informs you of barriers, challenges to overcome, and next steps for the group to act better together.

Hobby/skill/interest in Group dynamics, useful for coaching, creating community, project organisation, and group coaching.

You’re clearly wrong, I even provided you with a source explaining how, and why it’s easy to confuse it for an addiction.

The source not only provides a neat summary and a pop science explanation, but also links to papers by actual trained scientists having spent years of meticulous study and rigorous scrutiny showing that it isn’t addictive in any meaningful sense of the word.

I’m not even sure how I could’ve summarised it more succinctly for you.

You’re not providing any rationele for your position, no evidence, no thought. Just some random opinion showing you’ve clearly not engaged with the linked content, don’t have anything meaningful to contribute, and aren’t interested in bringing anything to this conversation.

Just a drive-by brain fart, forever staining Lemmy, the Internet and humanity’s limited time in this universe…

Porn isn’t addictive, it’s an outlet for compulsive behavior.

Just as stacking cups isn’t a drug for someone with ocd, nor weights for someone with exercise addiction, nor reading for an introvert.

Source on median income pls?

US Census seems to put it at ~42k/year

Fantastic game!

Apparently privileged (cis, white, educated middle class or equivalent) men apply when fulfilling 60% of the requirements. Women and minorities 100%.

Maybe that’s why they have the ridiculous reqs?

I wouldn’t expect them to, but it would be a hilarious trolling :P

I also have a hard time believing this to be intentionally meaning bearing, mostly due to this being a pop art meme overused in both social media and marketing.

Compare it to the ad poster, it can be art, but most of the time it isn’t meant to. (and to my mind the ubiquity of ad posters raises the noise that the intentional art needs to cut through)

I believe OP is trying to troll the comm, or at least confused about the ambition of the comm.

But for shits and giggles I gave it a good 5 minutes of viewing and quite some generosity, two themes pop out: Contrast between old and new play, and a generational shift in Escapism

On the left side the legos are beige, interrupted by a line of chargers before the right side with candies, and the console controller.

This could try to convey a motif of a generational shift from constructive, wholesome play to an instant gratification paradigm. Maybe with the advent of the informational age

There’s a difference in compositional choices I don’t understand, and with the background of this art style am prone to dismiss as for visual effect rather than intentional meaning.

The shapes on the left side seem mostly to draw the eye rightward. The curve in the top left which could have signified a softening of regimentality is in contrast to the straight and formal positioning of non-rectangular pieces in the lower left. This could be trying to convey the variations or turmoil within the old paradigm, but this level of skill isn’t expected neither from art form nor artist, and as it’s a staple of the pop art style I’m leaning towards it being only for visual effect.

I find no way of differentiating the choice from just starting it as a social media post and half way thinking of a cool contrast.

Looking closer at the pills on the right side, none of them can be identified as pharmaceuticals, but several of them are famous candy shapes. I conclude that they most probably represent only candy and no pills/drugs.

Also on the right side, the controller breaks the motif and catches the eye, both for a visual payoff. But I see no reflection or contrast of controller against candy, nor divider, nor against lego.

If I stop looking for deeper meaning in the relations of elements and just look at emotional impact, it could simply be a nostalgic representation of early millennial childhood . Where the dividing line isn’t a divider, but it’s own part of a tableau, and the choice of items being significant as a collection rather than as elements.

I find no layers of meaning hidden in the contrast or relationships of elements, no artful nods that usually give away mastery enough to wield subtle meaning.

(and the more I look at it, the less I admire the craftsmanship)

Check the source, net difference is 10%

You are unfortunately wrong in your scepticism, they’ve been used for millennia to great effect, and are even part of how ice was made.

In a modestly arid climate (like a mountainous region) with 30% ambient humidity, you can achieve, a 12 °C drop, that’s a lot more than the ~10% of lost sweat cooling.