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  • Det synes jeg også. Vi endte med at holde den indenfor fordi det begyndte at regne igen. Så håber vi at vejret er lidt bedre i morgen. Den har nægtet at spise, på trods af at vi plukkede en af den yndlingsblomster og satte den i en vase til den, så jeg håber sgu at den overlever en nat mere. Det er længe for sådan en lille gut at klare sig uden føde (det lykkedes os ikke at finde druesukker i den lokale butik).

    Pt sidder den og chiller på mit skrivebord og skifter mellem at åbne og lukke vingerne.


  • Fandt en døende sommerfugl på vores gulv i går aftes og satte den udenfor på en af vores havestole. Det har regnet det meste af natten og dagen i dag og jeg gik ud og så til den i morges, hvor den så pænt død ud. Kiggede til den igen for lidt siden og den var fanme stadig i live!! Så nu er den indenfor og ved at tørre. Kæreste er taget ned for at hente noget druesukker, så vi måske kan give den lidt at spise. Jeg forsøgte at sætte den på en af mine vanter og den gik helt amok og begyndte at kravle panikket rundt indtil jeg tog den op i hånden igen. Nu sidder den helt stille og suger min varme til sig. Har ikke lige andre varme steder at sætte den, så må vel være insektvarmer lidt endnu.

    Fatter ikke hvordan den stadig er i live. Sikke en fighter.

    Update: sommerfugleven blev tør og begyndte at flyve rundt i huset. Jeg fik fat i den og tog den udenfor da det alligevel var holdt op med at regne. Forsøgte at sætte den i nogle blomster som jeg har observeret dens art godt kan lide, men den virkede helt stiv da jeg satte den af. Så begyndte den at vibrere i vingerne og fløj… lige over på mit ikke-bryst og er blevet siddende der i næsten et kvarter. Den er kravlet lidt opad mod min hals og sidder og hygger sig nu.

    Hvis jeg havde været overtroisk, så ville jeg have haft en fest med symbolikken her, men det er jo nok fordi jeg er det eneste hotspot i nærmeste omkreds og sommerfugleven er meget nedkølet.

    Den sked i øvrigt også på mig inden den begyndte at flyve rundt I huset. Det er nok et meget godt tegn at dens system er ved at vågne op igen.


  • Looking into it, it seems to be a bit too easy to just do the “haha, Americans are stupid” trope due to the nature of the survey. From what I could understand, the survey itself was a multi topical survey and only two of the questions submitted to the survey were about statistics and people’s understanding of them and only one of the questions is directly about whether or not people understand statistics.

    Ramos and his co-author, Samuel Anyaso-Samuel, postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute, submitted two questions that were used in this survey: “How much do you understand about statistics and p-values?” and “How often would you base decisions on reported statistics if you understood it better?” Ramos and Anyaso-Samuel analyzed the responses to these questions for this study.

    I will be completely honest: if I was given those two questions out of the blue, I would probably answer somewhere in the negative even if I actually know what the p-value is practically.

    Naturally, this is just perception of statistical literacy and not a measurement of actual literacy, but we contend that it is at least a meaningful indicator of how confident respondents feel engaging with statistical concepts.

    Link

    It is not the best survey to reference when it comes to Americans’ statistical literacy imo, because it is essentially just one question that doesn’t really explore the depth of knowledge people have with statistics. All it does is show that many people aren’t sure they understand the concepts on the surface, which I think is completely normal and human to do. I doubt my own knowledge and understanding of things all the time. Even things I’m pretty comfortable with, I always assume, I don’t know shit. I don’t think I’m the only person who’s like this. Far from it.

    Should people feel more comfortable with the terms and does it show that there is a distance between everyday people and mathematical terms they don’t hear everyday? Yeah. But is doesn’t prove that Americans don’t have statistical literacy. I can take you to where you need to go in my city, but I can’t tell you the street names. They simply don’t stick. Doesn’t mean I don’t know my way around town, tho.

    Is it probable that some or even most of the people answering the survey are ignorant idiots who don’t understand the basics of statistics? Yes. But if we ignore how and what the survey actually was and what types of questions were asked, then we are basically selfreporting, that we also don’t understand statistics because we had a confirmation bias that made us not look into how the survey was conducted.

    I say this as someone who has a very low opinion on America as a nation and who is also terrible at math. I just looked at the headline, read the article and clicked on the available link to parts of the survey to try and understand how they came to the conclusions they did. Because initially I assumed it was a test about people’s understandings of statistics and that it was more in depth, but it’s literally just one vague question in a mulit topic survey.





  • Have had good results with cherry tomatoes this years and that’s despite me planting mine way too late in the season and on a total whim. I keep mine in a pot outside. I live in Denmark, so it’s a bit of a different climate to yours, but I think tomatoes are pretty easy to grow in many parts of the world :D

    They are still green and I don’t know if they will turn red before the temperatures decline into single digits, but considering how much of a yolo decision this was, to just sow them because I felt sorry for myself and wanted to see something grow, it’s pretty remarkable how many tomatoes it ended up producing. They are THIRSTY, though!



  • Jeg faldt over en lille dokumentar om en mand, der kun har 7 sekunders hukommelse pga. en virus, der smadrede hans hjerne tilbage i 80erne. Jeg vil gerne dele den med jer, for den gjorde et meget stort indtryk på mig. Ikke så meget pga. hans tilstand, men pga. den kærlighed hans familie har til ham og han har til dem på trods af, at han ikke har set dem før, godt ved hvem de er, men ikke ved hvem de er på samme tid.

    Hav evt. nogle lommetørklæder klar, for det er virkelig, virkelig barskt og smukt og sørgeligt. Jeg blev i hvert fald ret ked af det mens jeg så den. Manden selv, Clive Wearing, ytrer meget poetiske beskrivelser af hans oplevelse af livet: “Det er som at være død. Ingen tanker, ingen drømme.”

    Til spørgsmålet “hvad er hjem?” svarer ham: “Hjem er i går.”



  • Recently watched “Hjem” or Home as it would be called in English. It’s a Danish movie about an immigrant family from Joguslavia and how their search for a brighter future in Denmark became a personal nightmare. It’s semi biographical and based on experiences the director herself had as a little kid, moving to Denmark with her parents. It’s okay. It is about important issues, but fails in a few areas because it wants to do too many things and ends up stumbling over itself.

    spoiler

    The story begins with an impossible dilemma of a financially struggling family that decides to move to Denmark where the father’s sister lives. However, the sister cannot have the whole family living with her, so the parents decide to abandon their two older sons in Joguslavia and move to Denmark with their daughter, who’s the youngest child.

    The movie shows the first year of failed integration, where among other things, each parent agree to illegally marry two random Danes in order to get a quick and easy residence permit. However, the two Danes risk jailtime for agreeing to this activity, and therefore, the parents have to pay them 6000 DKK every month for their inconveniences which of course sets them back financially and makes it more difficult for them to get established in Denmark and bring their sons from Joguslavia.

    The system is close to discovering the fraud at one point and it leads the fake Danish spouses to demand more money from the parents, which makes the family more desperate. They also experience getting fired because the daughter calls her brothers at the parents’ work and racks up a 2000 DKK phone bill. Everything is just uphill all the time, until the dad decides to borrow money from his uncle and then everything is suddenly fine? The family moves into a ghetto apartment and bring the sons and from then on the only struggles for them is that the sons hates them an no longer wishes to speak to their parents.

    But the Danish spouses are gone, the system is apparently fine with two illegal immigrants who both committed marriage fraud, living in an apartment together when it was established prior, that they were breathing down their necks for the smallest infractions, and apparently the parents have been able to get new jobs, I assume, despite struggling and not being able to get hired anywhere because they didn’t speak Danish…?

    It was very weird to get to that part of the movie. It wanted to focus on the emotional trauma of a divided family, but wrote itself into a corner by making the parents’ integration so difficult and impossible, that the plot couldn’t function in this worldbuilding. I also wonder why the father didn’t ask the uncle for help sooner because there were no consequences to him loaning money despite the uncle acting shady and weird the whole movie and giving you the impression that to ask favors from him would mean you’d end up in crime. That was where I thought the story was heading for the dad, and then it just didn’t because the movie wanted to focus on his regret later in life.:::


  • I really wish they would stop the prequel shit in this franchise. They aren’t good at it. The president Snow prequel was genuinely terrible. Both the movie and the book sucked and made no sense. They cheapened the original trilogy.

    And I know people love to hate on the hunger games, but I think the original books and movies were solid and tackled some very relevant issues that we are increasingly dealing with today. And sure it has similarities with Battle Royale, but Battle Royale mostly focuses on the game itself and doesn’t explore the wider society and how the people at the top end up using a kid to manipulate the masses in order to either maintain power or seize it. That’s what I like about the hunger games. It explores all the consequences of an image focused society and that traumatize and retraumatize Katniss over and over and over again in order to further their causes. It isn’t until the end of the final book that she sees through it and takes matters into her own hands in order to stop a repeat of the regime she’s lived under her whole life.

    I also like the ways it comments on ptsd, on the corruption and torture of the soul and how monsters are sometimes made.

    It’s not a perfect, flawless franchise, but it deserves so much more respect than what it is given. The media angle and the way the franchise systematically criticises the inhumanity of media is brilliant. Especially since the books were written for kids and teens in an attempt to make them think critically about the shit they are shown on tv/online.


  • My silver spoon. Got mine when I was baptized as a baby.
    Contrary to the stereotype, I did not grow up rich and privileged.

    Have used it as any other utensil my whole life. It’s a nice sized spoon. Not too big, not too small. Only downside to it, is that silver absorbs the temperatures of whatever food or beverage you stick it into, so if it’s really hot soup, prepare to get burned and if it’s icecream, it will be almost frosty to the touch. It’s not the prettiest sight, since I don’t bother polishing it. To me it has the same value as my childhood pair of scissors, that I got in kindergarten and still use today because they are still sharp. Shit was made to last back in the day. Even my teddy bear, which was once stolen by a classmate, who did his best to rip his head off - and failed - is solid. His seams are not giving up despite pushing 40 years on this planet. I genuinely don’t know what he’s made of, because that bear has been through ALOT and he still looks super well preserved, which is something most people in my life have commented on, when they have seen him on my bookshelf.






  • Vi har plantet flere blomster i haven og det er så rart at se på. Vi går efter blomster som insekterne sidder i nede i plantecentrene og Kæreste tjekker om de er vinterhårdføre og hvis de er, så kommer de med hjem.

    Af en eller anden grund er insekterne vilde med lilla blomster. Næsten alle dem vi har snuppet med hjem er lilla. Nogle få er pink og en enkelt er gul.

    Jeg har tænkt mig på den lange bane at sætte mig meget mere ind i hvilke planter er vigtige for insekterne at have for det handler jo ikke altsammen om nektar. Nogle gange handler det om hvilke planter, der er gode at lægge æg i. Jeg vil fx gerne lokke ensianblåfuglen hjem til os også selvom den teknisk set ikke hører til i vores område. Den har brug for en helt særlig plante, klokkeensianen, til at lægge æg i og der skal være myretuer i nærheden (hvilket vi har masser af) for larven forklæder sig nemlig som en myrelarve og udskiller samme lugt og derfor tror myrene at den tilhører dem og tager den med hjem til boet, hvor de feder den op indtil den bliver til en sommerfugl og hastigt må undslippe boet inden myrerne æder den. Jeg kommer sgu nok ikke til at lykkes med den plan, hvis jeg skal være ærlig, men man kan jo prøve at få klokkeensianen til at gro i haven og hvis ikke det tiltrækker ensianblåfuglen, så kan den i det mindste være til glæde og gavn for nogle af de andre insekter.

    Men jeg skal som sagt lige have sat mig ind i hvilke planter de forskellige sommerfugle og bier har brug for, så vi ikke kun planter de ting insekterne ser ud til at kunne lide at suge nektar fra, men også de planter de hsr brug for, for at overleve!

    Vi har også købt tre store plakater med Danmarks bier, sommerfugle og natsværmere! 🤭 nu skal vi bare have sat dem i ramme og så håber jeg at vi kan få dem op at hænge inde i stuen så man hurtigt kan smutte hen og identificere hvilken bi, sommerfugl eller natsværmer man har fået øje på derude! Jeg gad godt tiltrække nogle af vores mere usædvanlige natsværmere. Vi har jo nogle stykker herude og de sidder også i planterne både dag og nat! Og selvom de ikke altid er de mest spændende at kigge på, så har de jo også navne og behov, som er værd at sætte sig lidt ind i.

    Mine tomatplanter sætter den ene tomat efter den anden. Jeg har ikke længere tal på hvor mange der er. Ærterne er begyndt at blomstre. Jeg skullet have plantet dem tidligere, men fuck it. Selv hvis vi ikke når at få ærter ud af dem i år, så er planten i sig selv stadig en skønhed uden lige og jeg elsker at kigge på den.

    Jeg kommer til at leve for somrene fremadrettet, kan jeg godt mærke. De andre årstider er også skønne på hver deres måde, men åh, hvor jeg ville ønske at sommeren varede meget længere end den gør for jeg synes slet ikke jeg har lært nok i denne sæson og min interesse i insekter er kun lige blevet skudt i gang for alvor og nu er det næsten slut.

    En ting, jeg synes er sjov at bemærke, er hvordan vi havde så mange dagpåfugleøjer og kålsommerfugle og stregbredpander i juli og nu har vi næsten udelukkende besøg af nældens takvinge og tidselsommerfugle.

    I alt har vi haft besøg af 10 forskellige arter i år: dagpåfugleøje, stregbredpande, nældens takvinge, stor kålsommerfugl, lille kålsommerfugl, admiral, tidselsommerfugl, citronsommerfuglen, græsrandøje og mener også vi havde en enkelt engrandøje forbi, hvilket giver mening fordi vi har ladet græsset gro langt og tykt.

    Synes faktisk at det er ret godt gået når man tænker på at vi overhovedet ikke har gjort os ægte umage med at lave en biodivers have endnu. Min operation satte en del af det projekt på pause, så det er sgu fedt at se, hvor meget naturen virkelig gerne vil en, hvis man giver den en snert af opmærksomhed.