Hegar

The catholic church would absolutely use sainthood to whitewash the legacy of a rapist, but i’m sure that position has plenty of promising internal candidates.

My favourite atm is that kirk’s wife had him killed.

In reality, an open elite controls world governments and economies.

Yes fapiao culture!

The bar i used to drink at in SW china would write fake receipts for business travellers. The one time i was there for it a dutch guy came in, bought an expensive bottle of maotai for everyone to share, then the owners wrote him a receipt for twice that much. The patrons got drunk, the bar got paid and the guy got to steal from his company.

Just your classic win/win/win.

Humans are social mammals. In many important respects, it makes no sense to even think of us as individuals.

I suspect that in the past people with higher levels of social anxiety probably just spoke a little less than average, and noticably less on the much less frequent times they met strangers.

But i think it’s its probably very inaccurate to imagine anyone who we’d recognize as an “introvert” in the much more collectivist cultures that dominate history.

It’s the I-don’t-care-who-started-it injustice.

Often people in authority will see injustice and respond as if the real problem was that everyone else disturbed them, failing to even attempt to actually understand the situation first.

This is because power has been shown to cause changes in the brain that make you less capable of empathy.

I guess we must’ve liked it.

Since we put a ring on it.

To be serious for a moment, he doesn’t believe that for a second.

He’s just bullshiting to further the false narrative that his fascist regime is pushing as they continue deploying the military against the american public and other opponents of fascism.

I blocked like that on reddit but here there’s fewer users so I have a higher block threshold.

Plus I want to give people credit for choosing to be on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a “well maybe you just had a bad day”.

Oh! I never got that expression. But I’m a loud and proud type. With so much misery in the world it seems wrong not to revel in the joy of a good fart. Like throwing away dinner during a famine.

Wait she farts sideways? Like it comes out of her hip? That is news!

Save getting answers from the creators themselves

Is there a reason you’re not doing this? If I made income from you tube I’d want someone to draw my attention to this.

I’d think that a “hey, I noticed this weird thing, is that you delisting or is yt being shady?” type communication would be appreciated and help flesh out the picture.

Meyers-Briggs workshop

I don’t put much stock in business astrology grifters myself 😆. But I definitely agree that we adapt our behaviors to the people we’re with and situations we’re in. And that how we want to be seen by others and the expectations of others both have a strong impact on the behavior we exhibit. I would strongly disagree with that last third though - we are always who we really are.

The behaviors we’re reluctant or incapable of changing around others are no more us than the behaviours that we have stronger insight into and control over.

Yeah I don’t think “being yourself” is a thing that anyone has to worry about. You can only ever be yourself.

As you point out, we’re social mammals. We always exist in a social context and the behaviors that benefit us are highly dependent on that context.

It’s also perfectly natural for our identities to change over time. We don’t “discover the real me” we adopt new identities that benefit us more. That’s just how being a human is.

Choosing the source then the destination is the correct order. The money moves from X to Y, of course you should choose X first and then Y. Destination then source feels inherently wrong to me too

There’s an Andy Warhol print of a photograph of a body hanging out of the window a crashed ambulance.

This is great news considering that my boss is a dickhead.

I very much agree that copyright is a tool to protect the wealth of the rich.

But I think the idea of restricting access to knowledge in order to benefit a select few predates capitalism. The ancient Chinese state iron and salt monopoly is the first example that comes to mind, some Greek mystery cults probably count too, even if we don’t think of that knowledge as beneficial now.

I’d guess it’s a common feature of strongly elite-dominated societies, of which capitalism is just the current model.

Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you’re talking about Lia Thomas. That’s a single example so not necessarily representative.

"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”

• https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/four-myths-about-trans-athletes-debunked

"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”

• https://www.dw.com/en/do-trans-women-have-an-unfair-athletic-advantage/a-58583988

“…finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability… than their cisgender counterparts.”

• https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympic-trans-women-ioc-study-rcna148437

Yep, the “fairness” argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.