I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.

This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.

Thanks, have updated my link.

Link for kbin/mbin

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

Fantastic painting!

Seems to me @gregorum is talking about Demoiselles d’Avignon’s impact on art a a whole. It was a very influential painting.

Bush on the other hand is only notable because of who painted it. It’s a common naive realism style.

The two articles you posted appear next to each other in my feed and because of the thumbnails, at first glance it looks like they are from each side of the portal.

Blood quantum laws were originally laws made by colonizers in the US deciding who got to be Indigenous based on the percentage of “Indian blood” they have - colonial era Australia did the same thing to Aboriginal people. Slavery-era classifications like “octaroon” are another example.

I was using it more broadly here to mean the essentialist belief that ethnicity is dna-based.

Blood Quantum is also a horror movie :-)

…implying that she believes in Blood Quantum as well. Yikes.

Trans people, PoC… she was having a go at disabled people in her last book as well. I think maybe trolling has an addictive component and they have to reach further and further to get the same adrenaline hit.

If you were a Vulture you’d be too busy buying up 3rd world countries debt and then suing those countries for payment.

You wouldn’t have time to muck around with a chatbot.

I can’t see the whole comment.

Besides which it’s a qualitative judgment so unless they did a full on Content Analysis grid on your ass, I’d probably not know what they meant, unless you were doing something really obvious like calling the Chinese “inscrutible”.

I still kind of enjoy the novelty of seeing mods censor people for this arcane stuff. I wouldn’t want to be on that instance but I quite like visiting it.

Orientalism is this stuff.

Idk I personally enjoy seeing terms I learned in grad school being thrown around in a mod log.

Paradigm shifts keep the brain nimble.

And fuck off whoever that tells me again to set up my own instance. What I want is popular instance admins and mods to

Seriously though you’re making demands that other people work for free in a manner that will benefit you.

Way I see it, either take some of the free lunch that’s on offer or make your own.

It obviously doesn’t deter crime.

The US is an outlier on the death penalty. Most western countries don’t have it, but we don’t have higher homicide rates.

Those aren’t the only options.

Not who you’re asking but watch Forbrydelsen, it’s great and everyone on it is real looking.

Yeah but we weren’t very good at it until digital filters. In really old movies they make the close ups of women slightly blurry.

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This. I ask a question in a forum because I respect the people in it and want their take.

If I wanted to wade through pages of irrelevant shitty SEO bait pages I’d google it.

users and contributors need to stop feeling entitled to maintainers’ unpaid labor and time

And the rest of us need to stand up for maintainers against bullies.