Sensible as vitamins !

Some people seem like driving is a game to them. They’ll speed ahead at a green only to slam on the brakes at the next red, as long as they can get around you first.

No it was a cat

This is insane. Friendships can’t always be sacrifice, they have to be beneficial as well.

A friend who doesn’t understand that birthday parties aren’t your scene, but you’ll make time to see them in a quieter setting? Maybe they aren’t the right friend.

A friend who is going through a crisis? That’s the time to sacrifice to help them. Not to go to a party that is supposed to be fun. If you aren’t going to have fun there, why would a friend want you to go?

How

OK that makes sense. My family excluded me from group chats while i was using Google messages. I couldn’t convince them to change. So i eventually broke down and bought the mac mini rather than get an i phone

Hopefully yours are more tolerant

Dehumanization is the process, practice, or act of denying full humanity in others,^[1] along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it.^[2][3][4] It involves perceiving individuals or groups as lacking essential human qualities, such as secondary emotions and mental capacities, thereby placing them outside the bounds of moral concern.^[1] In this definition, any act or thought that regards a person as either “other than” or “less than” human constitutes dehumanization.^[5][6]

In his report on the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jürgen Stroop described Jews resisting deportation to Nazi camps as “bandits”.

Lynndie England pulling a leash attached to the neck of a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison, who is forced to crawl on the floor, while Megan Ambuhl watches, 2003.

Dehumanization can be overt or subtle,^[7] and typically manifests in two primary forms: animalistic dehumanization, which denies uniquely human traits like civility, culture, or rationality and likens others to animals;^[3] and mechanistic dehumanization, which denies traits of human nature such as warmth, emotion, and individuality, portraying others as objects or machines.^[3]

It has historically facilitated a broad range of harms, from discrimination and social exclusion to slavery,^[1] colonization,^[8] as well as other crimes against humanity,^[1] and is recognized as a significant form of incitement to genocide.^[9]

Why do you think i deny dogs and elephants personhood?

Thanks! What search did you use? My ddgfu failed: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=daytime+bats

Wtf is productivity

What is the show called

First troll president

Who is channel 5

I’m imagining a remix of this comic where the bottom left panel has the no AI kitty photoshopped on top of the flier and the bottom right panel has the girl’s face from the top right photoshopped onto her face

What do you mean exactly start over? If you don’t have iMessage, you can’t talk to other people with iMessage.

This part:

not all humans are people

There is a fun science fiction novel that wrestles this question, what technological solutions exist, what are their risks, and what happens if some counties get radicalized by climate change and implement them anyway.

Highly recommended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future

By fun, i mean existentially terrifying, but maybe that’s just me

This is a good and long coming change.

Reminder that the red depiction is also “wrong”, and not the equal area projection. The equal area projection map looks like this:

(Can’t upload pictures on blahaj piefed, HTTP 400 error)

In some senses, the red area is more wrong than the Mercator, since it is not a projection at all, but a false projection. The distances between the countries are misleading, especially when superimposed on the Mercator, which is also misleading in terms of sizes, but not shape.

All projections are compromises, but false projections are completely untethered from a mathematical relationship to the actual globe.

It is OK and not misleading if it were made clear that the red area is NOT a map, but a way of depicting the size only. Since it is shown in a geographic context with no disclaimer, i don’t think this is universally apparent.

Here is a link to a 3D globe: https://tembrica.com/en/earth-globe

Here is a good comparator of Mercator size vs equal size countries, not superimposed on a map. https://www.runcell.dev/tool/true-size-map/equal-earth-projection

This is the definition of dehumanization.

Imo I can hold the tenets that fascists must be met with force as violence is the only thing that will stop them (the Keyser Söse theorem); but that doesn’t stop me from considering them as human beings, who weren’t born this way. It may be tactically correct to consider the reasons someone would turn to naziism and fight those as well.

We have this in the US too, with conservatives the most wrong about crime statistics vs reality.

Fox news is really good at plucking anecdotes and promoting them broadly.