there’s a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like
this post is about a lot of things. it’s about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it’s also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is “engagement farming”. like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be “manipulative” if your standard for that is “did something with the goal of eliciting a response”. if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I’ll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments
The comet moth, also known as the Madagascan moon moth (Argema mittrei). They’re endangered in the wild due to habitat loss from deforestation and agricultural activities but is bred in captivity
Oh my god Wisconsin’s governor just used a line item veto to secure school funding increases every year through 2425. He struck out a line so it now reads “through the 2023-2425 school year”. He’s allowed to do this lol
Coastal Dems: now we can’t go too far now haha, we can’t. We’ve got to be reasonable, you know, also eight of us might defect to the Republicans if you’re mean to us
i think its funny how the english word “game” has become a loanword in dutch that specifically refers to video games while the actual dutch word for game (spel) now refers only to games of the non-video variety
People who go crazy over the blue footed booby’s name wouldn’t be able to survive the dickcissel. Wait til they hear about the tufted titmouse. Perhaps even the Andean cock-of-the-rock.
They cannot handle the great tit
What the fuck is wrong with ornithologists
They name birds like tumblr urls
In case anyone was wondering as much as I, the andean cock-of-the-rock looks like this.
I did not see any rocks at all while looking up the andean “cock-of-the-rock”. They were all standing on branches.
“corporations don’t have a soul” “machines don’t have a soul” neither do humans. I won’t convert to your religion. Think up a new argument.
Unrelated to the op but the backlash to this post has gotten me thinking about how there’s such an anti-atheism slant in society. Mention you don’t think “souls” should be used when discussing actual policy affecting people across the nation/world and people want to regulate you to being gross fat slob from reddit and itching to misgender you or steal a man’s personal selfie that’s been used time and time again to ridicule him and others for the crime of being fat and existing. Say that you don’t want people’s politics to solely be religious concepts and you get compared to the “Amazing Atheist” (is he even still around?) and harassed and mocked endlessly like. How does this not prove that you’re all uber religious? You make jokes about how cringe Catholics are and how funny it is the pope’s form chicago but yall are just protestants ready to snap on a tranny the moment she says she doesn’t believe in souls.
come on
humans want to believe in souls so bad it makes them stupid
Ok, sorry, so what’s the word then?
The entire concept of soul/spirit/etc is to explain why the heck some living beings have a personality/morality but also why we’re alive not just to go around to survive so we can procreate before dying, but also to experience things, discover them etc etc.
Like what is the word then, to explain why we’re not mindlessly alive???
I’m at a complete lost here, and with your logic spirit isn’t the answer since it’s also religious (if not way more).
Because our brains are complex organs that developed through millions of years of evolution. Other animals have personalities, we are not alone in that. We are animals that developed our traits through continued evolution, “we’re not alive to just procreate” we are alive because our ancestors didprocreate. Everything we are now is because of passing on certain genes that survive in the environment best, and having brains that operate like this is part of that.
“Why we’re alive” there isn’t a why. It just happened. That is how the world works. If you want to be religious and believe in something putting us here, that’s a-ok, but there is science behind why we are the way we are. Not everything has clean cut perfect answers, but that is the way of the world.
The soul is a religious concept that has no basis in reality. There is no way to physically measure it, there is no evidence it exists. If you choose to believe in souls then that’s cool for you, but “souls” is not an adequate way to base your politics around - especially when “souls” is a huge thing for right wing bigots.
“corporations don’t have a soul” “machines don’t have a soul” neither do humans. I won’t convert to your religion. Think up a new argument.
Unrelated to the op but the backlash to this post has gotten me thinking about how there’s such an anti-atheism slant in society. Mention you don’t think “souls” should be used when discussing actual policy affecting people across the nation/world and people want to regulate you to being gross fat slob from reddit and itching to misgender you or steal a man’s personal selfie that’s been used time and time again to ridicule him and others for the crime of being fat and existing. Say that you don’t want people’s politics to solely be religious concepts and you get compared to the “Amazing Atheist” (is he even still around?) and harassed and mocked endlessly like. How does this not prove that you’re all uber religious? You make jokes about how cringe Catholics are and how funny it is the pope’s form chicago but yall are just protestants ready to snap on a tranny the moment she says she doesn’t believe in souls.
come on
humans want to believe in souls so bad it makes them stupid
Ok, sorry, so what’s the word then?
The entire concept of soul/spirit/etc is to explain why the heck some living beings have a personality/morality but also why we’re alive not just to go around to survive so we can procreate before dying, but also to experience things, discover them etc etc.
Like what is the word then, to explain why we’re not mindlessly alive???
I’m at a complete lost here, and with your logic spirit isn’t the answer since it’s also religious (if not way more).
Because our brains are complex organs that developed through millions of years of evolution. Other animals have personalities, we are not alone in that. We are animals that developed our traits through continued evolution, “we’re not alive to just procreate” we are alive because our ancestors didprocreate. Everything we are now is because of passing on certain genes that survive in the environment best, and having brains that operate like this is part of that.
“Why we’re alive” there isn’t a why. It just happened. That is how the world works. If you want to be religious and believe in something putting us here, that’s a-ok, but there is science behind why we are the way we are. Not everything has clean cut perfect answers, but that is the way of the world.
The soul is a religious concept that has no basis in reality. There is no way to physically measure it, there is no evidence it exists. If you choose to believe in souls then that’s cool for you, but “souls” is not an adequate way to base your politics around - especially when “souls” is a huge thing for right wing bigots.
people needdddd to wear headphones in public because while on an otherwise very lovely walk in the park today i saw a guy sitting under a tree watching a porn parody of the star wars prequels
if nothing else trying to tune out the sounds of anakin and padme going to town as i contemplate the babbling brook gave me a brief but vivid window into what it’s like to be obi wan kenobi
“i don’t care if they make their whole way though uni with chatgpt” i think you guys are so internetpilled that you have forgotten there are actual jobs out there that require people to know what they are doing in any way possible or else people die
i know a lot of people study just to get paid well but girl this is engineering be for fucking real take this seriously
Someone else said it better than me, but your future nurse or doctor is now using ChatGPT instead of researching things themselves
Okay. But subjects like history are also important. Finding, analyzing, and putting primary sources in context is a skill. Understanding and thinking about the past is a skill—especially as we swim in misinformation. The humanities should also not be phoned in either even if that means classes look different in the future.
By using antibodies from a human donor with a self-induced hyper-immunity to snake venom, scientists have developed the most broadly effective antivenom to date, which is protective against the likes of the black mamba, king cobra, and tiger snakes in mouse trials. Described in the journalCell, the antivenom combines protective antibodies and a small molecule inhibitor and opens a path toward a universal antiserum.
This guy Tim Friede wasn’t any kind of researcher or doctor. He was just a snake collector who thought it would be cool to try and become immune to snake venom by injecting small amounts and working up. For 18 goddamn years. He nearly died at least once.
Later, actual scientists heard about him and realized that since he survived his blood must be full of antibodies that neutralize many kinds of snake venoms. Using a sample of his blood they were able to develop an antibody cocktail that seems to be effective against many types of tropical snake bites, a sort of universal antivenom.
using chatgpt as a therapist is loserrrrrr behaviour!!! get a tumblr and use it to publicly trauma dump so u can receive anons that wanna eat your mentally ill butthole
You know the thing about having basic human empathy, respect for other cultures, and caring about the environment as an American it makes you fucking hate your government as you listen and realize the damage your country has done to everyone. “You American hating leftist.” Dawg we are like factually the greatest evil on earth right now. If you wrote an evil empire with America’s current foreign and domestic policy in fiction it’d be called grimdark and ridiculous.
“There’s a tremendous treatment industry that needs this to be a disease — a thing they can charge people to treat,” Prause says. But promoting certain therapies may be ill-advised. “You can harm patients by using treatment models that aren’t research-supported,” Prause says.
“Porn Addiction” isn’t a real thing. Medical research has repeatedly tried and failed to define such a syndrome. The only people who do are “spiritual healing” quacks and people who want to send their kids to conversion therapy “reform camps”.
Y'all are repeating far-right purity-culture sex shaming propaganda.
I’m so tired of having this debate over and over.
It’s somewhat missed in this discussion, but treating something that they consider an “immoral bad habit” as equivalent to physiological dependency to a substance is kind of gross, because it means that they are also saying that people who have chemical dependencies are morally deficient.
This belief, that drug addiction is associated with moral deficiency is not only a source of a lot of the prejudice and oppression that face recreational drug users and any other groups that can be associated with drug-use, but has also lead to a rejection of actually effective interventions and treatments in favor of ineffective, moralistic ones (i.e. 12-step programs)
Also? A memo from the Department of Justice doesn’t mean shit. That’s not a law. That’s not a legal precedent. It’s just telling you how they’re going to ignore your rights without any legal standing to do so. It’s gonna get someone killed when ICE decides they’re going to force their way into a house one day and the person inside decides to use their legal rights to defend themselves. And then the fascists will want to use that to further escalate.
cell bio professor closed out today’s lecture on free-radical oxidation in mitochondria and programmed cell death by saying “you’ve probably all seen those commercials for fruit juice that says it’s got antioxidants, which are said to prevent this sort of thing from happening, or at least slow it down. well, they don’t work. this is an inevitable fact of life— this process that lets us live is also the thing that kills us, and it’s why all of us will die someday. there’s no escaping that. it’s been with us since the dawn of eukaryotic cells; our pact with mitochondria is to the death. anyway, enjoy the rest of your friday, and remember, exam four is next week!”
always great to hear my boss say “we’re living through the collapse of the american library system” while I’m at my american library system job
anyway if you hadn’t heard the current administration is trying to entirely defund and dissolve the IMLS which provides libraries with funding, especially useful for rural libraries and very small systems that don’t have access to private funding to keep them afloat. This will absolutely devastate many many libraries across the country.
People who go crazy over the blue footed booby’s name wouldn’t be able to survive the dickcissel. Wait til they hear about the tufted titmouse. Perhaps even the Andean cock-of-the-rock.
People who go crazy over the blue footed booby’s name wouldn’t be able to survive the dickcissel. Wait til they hear about the tufted titmouse. Perhaps even the Andean cock-of-the-rock.
“but OP that’s not REAL christianity not the PURE AND TRUE christianity that i was raised with, in my sect of christianity we just look for our neighbor’s cat in the alps, clearly you’ve never heard of my beloved Church of the No True Scotsman, it’s actually so hurtful when people generalize about real christians like me based on the actions of billions of people over thousands of years including every other christian on the earth”
let me try put this in terms you can understand: climb off the fucking cross already, we need the wood
in light of recent events i’d just like to clarify: fuck this pope, fuck the last pope, fuck every pope ever, fuck every single church yes this means yours, fuck jesus, fuck god, and fuck you, for real
my mum has severe knee problems and needs a replacement. Today she was told she’s too fat to be operated on and the knee specialist suggested she gets a gastric band - which also involves surgery. So my mum was like first of all you didn’t read my file because it explains that I’m not fat because I eat too much second of all you said it’s impossible for me to get surgery and then suggested I get a surgery about it? He then asked her her weight and height, didn’t believe her answer, and made her prove it to him because she “looks fatter than that”. So she was like so you also just entirely based this on looks instead of actual numbers?
My mom went through something similar. She needed a knee replacement and her doctor wouldn’t okay it until she lost weight, which was difficult given the whole knee problem preventing her from walking thing. He told her she was too dangerous to operate on and that there were just too many risks.
My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.
There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.
Almost like the first doctor was entirely full of shit and just trying to coerce his patient to lose weight by scaring her for fucking nothing, even when she was living day to day in excruciating pain and desperately needed a surgery.
