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More likely, he knowingly created a deal which is downright suicidal for the UK because he and some other MPs will get good money out of it.

Except you can’t empathise with a group because groups are conceptual and concepts do not have feelings.

This shit is depressing.

Edit: Actually, this whole thing is bizarre. “empathizing was rated as more effortful and distressing compared to staying objective”? Feelings are objective. Individuals objectively have feelings. Empathy is understanding and weighing other people’s feelings, particularly when making decisions. There is absolutely nothing that is not objective about it.

The experimental design also seems to be asking the participants to empathise with people who very obviously don’t exist with zero information about their fictional cirtumstances (not even any body language), which is bordering on impossible. I’d also really like to ask how it’s “distressing” to try to empathise with an expressionless photograph on a solid background.

Junk research. Whoever approved funding for it should be fired.

It’s also part of why humans and dogs get along so well. Grey wolves (and, to some extent, many other canids) are also among the best animals at persistence hunting.

I have a 2022 mid-range laptop which does work with Windows 11, but sounds like a jet engine when I try to run it.

I also have Arch installed, which runs silently 80% of the time, with moderate fan usage the other 20%.

As you may expect from this, 11 is typically sluggish, especially under load; whereas Arch is typically quick and responsive, with moments of lag noticeable but infrequent.

Under the circumstances, using 11 would be a terrible choice. There’s just no reason to subject my device to it.

It’s also just wrong, because quite a lot of mammals and birds use sound for intraspecies communication (a la human language), echolocation is fairly common, feeding and hunting often generate sound… Sound production for mating purposes is a hefty chunk, but the joke here is pretty misleading.

I blame the Labour voters for clinging to the party Thatcher is proud of and not being willing to vote Green.

If every Labour voter had just compromised a little and voted Green instead, we wouldn’t have all of these problems.

Define better.

The BBC are accused of bias “from both sides” because their job is to establish and defend the establishment’s preferred Overton window; or in other words, to set the standard for what “impartial”/“common sense” is held to be.

To the extent political beliefs are down to individual values and preferences, there is no objective centre, and moderacy amounts to a “golden mean” bias. On the other hand, to the extent political claims are able to be proven or disproven by science, at least one side must be wrong and only one can be right, and so the centre is simply ignorant.

Or so I’ve heard, anyway.

This would make sense if Labour weren’t a copy of the Tories, and Starmer wasn’t elected because he was another hard right figurehead running when people were upset with Tories for letting too many BAME and female people into top spots.

In short, if you want any sort of human rights then blue and red are off the table. Have been since Corbyn was purged.

PFAS, pesticides… Almost every synthetic and a lot of the natural chemicals used in industry have unknown or known-bad side effects on hormones, behaviour, brain development, everything. And most countries don’t regulate anything that doesn’t outright hospitalise you right after exposure.

I think in America it’s usually called hydric acid! 😨

Why shouldn’t I be able to have the files mare.png (a photo of a horse) and MarE.png (a photo taken on a vacation in March, fifth in the series after MarA, MarB, MarC, and MarD)?

Or rainsley (a text file, no extension, with notes about a story I’m writing) and Rainsley (a directory with art of the same character the file is named after)?

Do I strictly need to be able to do these things? No, of course not. But the file system is more flexible and functional if I am able to.

All humans are basically pure evil.