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I was not expecting it until after #Christmas 🎄, but I am glad that @Mastodon was able to expedite deliveries for those of us in the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸.
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Hmm…now I need to figure out what to name it‽ Mister Masto‽ Super Masto‽ Nasty Masty‽ 😂 I will not use the latter, lest folks think I won this from a Dirty Santa 🎅🏾 game! 🤣🤪
The number of downloads of my NuGet packages exceeded 90,000,000 nuget.org/profiles/taritsyn
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Maybe if the kids were worth millions/billions of dollars, they would count?
May this one cause a giant piratry era as it is in One Piece 😊
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On one hand school shooters killed more people and they're mostly killing kids, but on the other hand, most school shooters ARE kids.
If the state kills anyone, they should start with their own war criminals. But if they let themselves kill their own military they'd be more likely to kill heroines like Manning than any of their worst mass murderers.
States probably shouldn't kill anyone. Ever. For anything. They cannot be trusted.
most school shooters who make it to court don't get the death-penalty.
most mass shooters are either intentionally or accidentally very good at either committing suicide or getting police to do it for them.
i thought they still did
i just mean, this is a reason for the difference
that and maybe "terrorism"? but in that case white privilege is the reason they're not also executing his partner, siblings, and parents…
After 14 months of Israel’s genocide on Gaza, conditions for the millions of displaced remain perilous and Israel’s airstrikes are unrelenting.
The genocide grinds on : Peoples Dispatch
After 14 months of Israel's genocide on Gaza, conditions for the millions of displaced remain perilous and Israel's airstrikes are unrelenting.Vijay Prashad (Peoples Dispatch)
BFM qui titre sur "la précipitation" du RN après l'attentat de Magdebourg, en Allemagne, qui aurait des motivations racistes et non pas islamistes. Marine Le Pen et Bardella en prennent pour leur grade, ça change! La direction est en vacances?
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Ouf, l'honneur est sauf, toute la classe politique fait des amalgames et se renvoie la balle, carton jaune à tout le monde donc. Sous-titre: le RN n'est par pire que les autres...
Ca va on reste bien sur BFM :D
Sans déc il faut suivre cette piste vu le risque.
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A meta-analytic study involving over 16,000 participants from 11 countries found that individuals with stronger core knowledge confusions are more likely to believe in the paranormal. The association was particularly pronounced among participants from Finland. The research was published in Personality and Individual Differences.
The concept of core knowledge confusions, proposed by Lindeman and Aarnio, describes how our brains sometimes mix up different types of basic knowledge, leading to incorrect explanations. Our minds have evolved to handle specific tasks, such as understanding how objects move, recognizing living things, or interpreting why people act in certain ways. However, these natural ways of thinking can sometimes be misapplied. For instance, people might treat objects as if they are alive or believe that natural events occur due to invisible forces or spirits.
This confusion may also lead to beliefs in phenomena such as ghosts, magical powers, or other supernatural ideas. It occurs because our brains rely on intuitive shortcuts that feel correct but are not based on science or facts. Sometimes, individuals might attribute intentions or knowledge to inanimate objects, like stars, during their reasoning. Yet, when explicitly asked, they may clearly state they do not believe that stars have intentions. Some researchers propose that this happens because humans use two reasoning systems: one that is intuitive and automatic, employed for rapid decision-making, and another that is more deliberate and logical.
Study author Albina Gallyamova and her colleagues aimed to integrate findings from previously published research on the links between core knowledge confusions and belief in the paranormal. They sought to verify whether individuals with stronger core knowledge confusions are indeed more likely to hold paranormal beliefs.
The researchers searched scientific article databases for texts containing the keywords “core knowledge” or “ontological confusion” and “paranormal” or “supernatural.” This search yielded 25 results from 22 studies published between 2010 and 2024, encompassing data from 16,129 participants. The participants’ average age was 28 years, and 66% were female. The studies represented findings from 11 countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Notably, 10 of the 25 results came from Finland.
The studies varied in the strength of the reported association between core knowledge confusions and belief in the paranormal. Some studies reported relatively weak associations, while others found very strong associations. However, all studies concluded that these two psychological characteristics are linked.
On average, the association between core knowledge confusions and belief in the paranormal was moderate in magnitude across all studies. When researchers focused on data from Finland, they found that the associations reported by Finnish studies were stronger than those from the rest of the group.
“Despite considerable heterogeneity and potential influences of unexamined moderators, the results suggest a universal cognitive pattern linking paranormal beliefs with certain types of ontological confusion. This meta-analysis underscores the need for further exploration into contextual variations in understanding the complex relationship between paranormal beliefs and ontological errors,” the study authors concluded.
The study sheds light on the links between core knowledge confusions and belief in the paranormal. However, it is important to note that the study design does not allow for causal conclusions to be drawn from the results.
The paper, “Paranormal beliefs and core knowledge confusions: A meta-analysis,” was authored by Albina Gallyamova, Elizaveta Komyaginskaya, and Dmitry Grigoryev.
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Yes. Or stated a bit differently: who owns the means of production and who they exploit to get the money. Jeff Bezos makes his billions by paying his employees a fraction of the value of their labor. The sex worker who makes and sells their own videos isn't exploiting anyone and gets to keep all of the profits for themselves.
Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •Exactly.
If Bezos or Musk thought there was enough money being pimps, they'd buy different laws and develop a gig-economy prostitution service called "Luber" to have self-driving cars ferry prostitutes to the basements of horny incels. And they'd still keep "independent contractors" illegal.
GRASSY KNOWLES
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •Eva Harasta
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •Still, there is a difference in how the persons in the 2 examples relate to their body:
By selling such photos, one commodifies one‘s own body, i.e. one turns one‘s own body into an object to use for profit.
The warehouse worker, on the other hand, does not commodify their own body, they „sell“ their effort and time.
Gwendolyn
in reply to Eva Harasta • • •Eva Harasta
in reply to Gwendolyn • • •@gwen That the warehouse owner treats the body of the worker like a commodity is unjust and exploitative, and the structures that condone this are unjust and exploitative.
I tried to say:
The warehouse owner‘s unjust way of relating to the worker‘s body and rights does not and cannot take away from the dignity of the warehouse worker, and their right to relate to their body in the way they choose to.
The point I was trying to make: The human dignity of both persons (photo poster and warehouse worker) is unassailable and demands respect for their agency, even in exploitative conditions. - I.e. people are not tools, even as they may have the right to treat themselves temporarily as if they were their own tools (like the photo poster). So let‘s not relate to the warehouse worker as if their body was a tool.
[I think it is a really difficult ethical question whether or how far a person has the right to treat themselves as a tool. Can self-commodification or sel
... show more@gwen That the warehouse owner treats the body of the worker like a commodity is unjust and exploitative, and the structures that condone this are unjust and exploitative.
I tried to say:
The warehouse owner‘s unjust way of relating to the worker‘s body and rights does not and cannot take away from the dignity of the warehouse worker, and their right to relate to their body in the way they choose to.
The point I was trying to make: The human dignity of both persons (photo poster and warehouse worker) is unassailable and demands respect for their agency, even in exploitative conditions. - I.e. people are not tools, even as they may have the right to treat themselves temporarily as if they were their own tools (like the photo poster). So let‘s not relate to the warehouse worker as if their body was a tool.
[I think it is a really difficult ethical question whether or how far a person has the right to treat themselves as a tool. Can self-commodification or self-exploitation be morally justified just because they are carried out by oneself? How do self-exploitation and unjust, exploitative structures enhance each other? (It is not self-exploitation if the person is coerced and oppressed.) Those are not rhetoric or theoretical questions, but political and social ones.]
Sorry for the long reply, I am trying to think through this also.
Gwendolyn
in reply to Eva Harasta • • •@HarastaEva is the difference then just that one of them is employed and the other is not, and the employed one gets exploited while the self-employed one exploits themselves?
If so, would you consider the roles reversed if it was an employed sex worker (assuming there’s a legal framework for that in some jurisdiction) and an independent contractor doing work that damages their health?
To be honest I think this distinction is largely meaningless when both people act the way they do to survive in capitalism.
Eva Harasta
in reply to Gwendolyn • • •@gwen What I am thinking about is the differences in how the 2 people in the example relate to their bodies - I think the post equates them too quickly (though I agree with the overall critique of exploitation, who wouldn‘t).
I am here not trying to make a moral point about photos or sex work in general, by the way.
With the example of an employed sex worker that you suggested there is the added complexity of giving access to intimacy for money - which speaks of an again different way of relating to one‘s own body from the person who posts pictures.
Eva Harasta
in reply to Eva Harasta • • •@gwen Hm, to me it feels like you may be mostly interested in the social justice issue — and here, I believe we are much in agreement.
I am also interested in the body politics / the diversity in relating to one‘s own body.
I respect that from a position focussed on social justice, this may seem not so relevant in the face of the big struggle against oppression.
Yet I do think that body relations are much connected to justice and freedom. They are a political thing…
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Nowhere is this feeling truer than in the software industry
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