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There are a lot of kind, genuine folks here, who are happy to help you connect with the people/accounts who share your interests.
Apparently science can identify a conservative without even talking to them.
More active amygdala -- hijacking strong emotions like fearfulness & hate
Less active anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)Â and diminished executive functions like empathy & compassion - deficiencies in theory of mind and self-awareness
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004224017577
https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2026/01/27/political-mind-game
The quarterly returns have spoken, and the shareholders don't like investment in "the long term" because it reduces current gains. (Blessed be the wisdom of the markets, and the Profits they serve, amen)
@pbarker Absolutely -- it helps drive value to the oily-rag markets, in which we are all heavily invested because it's been so successful. 🫧
@malcircuit Howbout a "business local standard time" that's basically calibrated by the calculated time of astronomical sunrise at that location.
With smartphones everywhere, and cheap smart displays, this kind of thing becomes feasible. Everyone has a "BLST" clock on their phones, and businesses have a BLST-aware sign in the door showing the current BLST and how long until they open or close...
I mean, yeah, complicated, but not totally out there.
Bonus: we could maybe use this opportunity to do a decimal-based time-system, just for this purpose (and hopefully it would start bleeding into other usages, after it started being familiar in a half-generation or so).
@artemis At least one or two of my favorite female characters by "can't write women" authors were apparently the result of the author deciding "well, I can't write women, so I'll just write her like she was a man".
hashtag almost-getting-it...
Congratulations Brasil! And thank you! Muito brigad! (If memory serves...)
Lula wins fourth term as Brazil’s president over Flávio Bolsonaro | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/26/lula-wins-brazil-election
@anne Every now and then I manage to get into a state where I can whistle through my nose -- and, like... wtf.
It is imperative that engineers understand the ethical and social implications of their technologies, argue three engineering professors. But 3 in 10 engineers never received training on their public welfare responsibilities at any point in their careers. Solutions include integrating ethics into foundational engineering courses and designing a specific course focused on public responsibilities in engineering. https://spectrum.ieee.org/integrating-engineering-ethics-education?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
I feel like this gives "conservatives" a little too much credit towards having a consistent worldview -- e.g. why is "bad guy can still get gun" an argument against regulation, but "good person can still get gun" not an argument for it?
That said, this does match up a lot with observed behavior patterns (and I'm only halfway through watching it). The B&W thinking is one I've particularly noticed, as well as the tendency to care more about group solidarity than factual accuracy.
(...oops, did I leave my brain in lecture-mode again? Sorry about that...)
@thatdawnperson I've been low-key campaigning for Anything But FPTP for over a decade now...
IOW: Yeah, that.
@somecat "When you're standing in a sandwich, the world looks full of bread." -- me, very early unfinished song lyric
@somecat "The more you know, the more you realize you don't." ...or something like that. :oslt:
