TheBeege

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It comes from a selfish mindset. Yes, you're threatened, but you're also promised with reward. It becomes a deviously simple equation at that point.

It's the same as being mugged in a dark alley against a wall. If you believe there's no escape, do you acquiesce despite not wanting to give money to a robber, or do you try to fight back and get shot?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, in Judeo-Christian tradition, there's the story of Abraham willingly sacrificing his son to Yahweh until Yahweh stops him last-second. This kind of behavior is explicitly taught: nothing is more important than sky-daddy's whims.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Woo!!!! I want the one with the ears!!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

You haven't read anything about this. It's very clear. The first thing you learn is that sex and gender are different. Sex is biology. Gender is identity.

The second thing you learn is that sex is not binary. (And gender, being a social construct, certainly is not set in stone.) Genes may be XX, but maybe some other factor may be preventing that gene from expressing fully or even at all. This can lead to highly androgynous folks or folks with odd genital configurations. It takes genes, gene expression, and hormones for a human to express characteristics of some sex. Not all three of these are perfectly aligned. You can argue that genes control all of it, but that doesn't stand. Genes can conflict, and environmental factors can affect things.

I learned all that and more in just twenty minutes of reading. Please, go do some homework. Start with "what is the difference between sex and gender," then let the rabbit hole take you down. At least, that's the path that helped me learn a bunch of this stuff.

And regarding Dunning-Kruger, the key point is confidence. That said, I'll caveat all the above I've said with this is just stuff that I've read from sources that I trust, which I can corroborate with my existing knowledge of genetics and broader biology. I'm not an expert. I can be proven wrong. Most of this is definitions and quite simple stuff, so my confidence is high but still shakeable.

Normally, I'm a stickler about answering asked questions, but your questions seem to be based on a misunderstanding of definitions. Once you get that sorted out, we can try again and maybe learn something together

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I get to be useful!

Ceiling cat is a reference to possibly the earliest generation of memes. They mostly involved cats. Ceiling cat was a popular one of a cat poking its had down through a hole in a ceiling, captioned "ceiling cat is watching you masturbate" or something similar. The odd grammar/spelling is of the same Era, where these cat memes would be spoken in the "voice" of a cat. The most famous example is "I can haz cheezburger"

Leaving Britney alone is a reference to an early Era of YouTube video, where an actor bawling at the camera ranted about how people were being too mean to Britney Spears, a famous pop star. It was hotly debate whether the contents of the video were genuine or acting. Remember, this was before Snopes, even.

I think that was everything?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Count another in these parts of the internet!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (27 children)

I found the one with Dunning-Kruger! Do I win a prize???

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It's all pump and dump. Look at Elon with Doge Coin. Look at Trump with his dumbass NFT "cards." Most initial coin offerings are just pump and dump schemes, and they're often based on etherium.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But this is a bad idea.

Areas with high property value have higher quality schooling. Area with low property value have lower quality schooling. The rich stay rich. The poor stay poor.

Maybe education money shouldn't come from property taxes. Maybe corporations should pay for the education they require their workers to have visa corporate taxes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, good to know! Thank you for correcting me. I'll edit my other comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, you have no answer. I'm not surprised. Thanks for validating my stereotype. A part of me was hoping you were better

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Tell us what you know about charity, economic development, soft power, and trade deals.

 

Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this.

I saw this in another thread on /c/Showerthoughts. I think it's important for this to be circulated widely so that the broader Fediverse community is aligned. We don't want admins second-guessing their decisions when users start infighting. We should be united in our thinking and ready to protect our platform.

 

I was thinking about patterns in history and was thinking about the fall of Rome. We all learn about the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, but I don't recall ever learning about the time in between. Sure, Rome's empire collapsed, but what happened next? City-states? A hollowed-out Republic? Anarchy? Did the goths raid and pillage everything? Did they just go back north? Did they settle in? I wanna know

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