Yep. I have to clean up the mess made by little kids at home already. I don’t want to do it at work too.

Yes, that was part of the argument, but not the core part, sorry if that was distracting. Social-sexual interaction really clouds all the preassociations people have with dance and layers in a shame element. Dance as a proxy/secondary sexual fitness characteristic creates a false conditional associated with its absence.

I should have emphasized more that even when performed in isolation, dance won’t necessarily tap emotional pathways that aren’t pre-wired or preconditioned. Proprioceptive sensitivity, exertion (endorphin sensitivity), even aerobic fitness will have a large effect on efficacy of this proposed emotional regulatory effect, and those are largely genetically pre-determined. Some people just won’t benefit much from it and shouldn’t be shamed if it doesn’t “fix them”, as if they aren’t in touch with themselves or “close minded”. Maybe being jaded by stuff like this is making me sound “red-pilly”. I’ll have to be more careful, thanks for that. There have been lots of pop psychology “cures” like these. “Scream Therapy” comes to mind from the eighties. Varied success, really depending on the individual.

All that to say: If it works for you, great. But don’t make people do it and then shame them when they aren’t magically fixed. (I know that’s not what you, particularly, are saying)

Same here. There was a window of a couple of months when some NC background process wasn’t running reliably in Android, but that got fixed (a year ago?) and it’s been rock solid before and since.

Which part? That people can be different? I know religion and sexuality can be triggering, so there’s some risk drawing parallels there, granted. Maybe a less controversial comparison might be “an ear for music” or a “sense of direction”? Something with a both nature and nurture components.

GenX tech job nostalgia trip. Thanks for posting!

Dance is like religion or sexual orientation: You can force it to some extent, but you gotta be pre-wired for it. Not everyone wants it is much or the same way. Sure, some enjoy it, and even profit from showing themselves off socially and setting that attention, but it shouldn’t be required or shamed.

Given the current rate of obesity, starvation will take a loooong time.

That picture’s probably old enough to drive.

As if scientists choose which studies get mis-quoted and sensationalized by media.

I don’t know how AliExpress works internally. It was one of the apparently common scams where the seller pretends to ship a package to you. It’s scam #5 in this list: www.reddit.com/r/Aliexpress/s/YEqwsP1ef6