• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    Mate you’d be surprised.

    I knew a guy in the Police who said that Facebook was a gift because people are dumb.

    One guy posted publicly a photo with a couple kg of weed and flashing a pistol acting like a badman. The local police account commented under the post saying they’d like a word, guy responded “what you gonna do, arrest me?”, I think you can work out what happened next.

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      One thing I’ve learned from parenting a teen is that if you suspect your child is doing something really stupid, there is a very good chance that there is photo or video evidence of it.

      Lot of kids out there under age drinking and taking videos of their shenanigans. Dumbasses.

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            I can’t remember if it’s pseudoscience or actually validated (we’ll assume pseudo), but I’ve come across it many times: there’s a running commentary in psychological development that only 33% of humans ever reach mental maturity, true adulthood. The vast majority land at adolescence ans stay there, with some never getting much past 12. To me, this has been the single greatest explanation of why ppl behave the way they do, somewhat comforting at least

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              A majority of teenagers are weird because they overestimate the social reward they get from risks they take. There is definitely a huge amount of adults that never felt consequences or adversity, which has led to their lack of growth.

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              I consider psychology a soft science so nothing the following list of people do I listen to without heaps of salt but… this is maybe not totally without merit? I won’t go as far as saying pseudoscience. Erik Erikson, Lawrence Kohlberg, Robert Kegan, and Carl Jung have all discussed this in some way.

              Personally I imagine it more like a radial/radar chart than just simple all encompassing levels.

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              Oh look I’m the 67%

              Though mostly it’s just my sense of humor that belongs to a 12 year old.

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        Yeah we did that, but at least it took us six months or so too get the photos developed…