The utopia of Star Trek was only able to happen because they had a WWIII and the communists won

And CO2

I never forgot that I had Warframe but I just got back into it after 7 years of not playing and it’s still great.

Bees are a democracy. Sure, they treat outsiders with suspicion and can be radicalised to great violence, but they’re one of the only animals on earth that eats without killing anything, not even a plant. And if they don’t like their queen, they have a revolution. They’re communists.

Cactopodes

Okay, here’s another. Large pupils are a sign of health and of arousal, and make humans feel more attraction, because it’s a better mate for breeding. Ads that leverage a model’s attractiveness will perform better if they use models with bigger pupils or digitally enlarge them.

From the fact that language of our complexity would be very hard to learn if humans didn’t have specialised circuits for learning it, and the fact that evolving better language on a biological level would improve fitness.

That’s a prediction

If you raise a group of human children without ever exposing them to language, they’ll invent their own.

That sounds dangerous. Most people don’t reach their ideas through reason. I don’t want to lose empathy for all humanity no matter how ignorant they are.

You need to watch Glass Onion

Yeah, so why is Bill Gates 5G microchip the conspiracy? Why not Elon Musk Starlink Neuralink? There is an actual evil mad scientist selling the technologies they are actually scared of, why don’t they just point their fears at the actual danger?

In my country, your birth certificate has both your deadname and your new name on it if you changed your name. When I signed up for PayPal, I had already transitioned, so I put in my current, legal name. PayPal asked for proof that I am who I claim to be, to prevent fraud. Fair enough, I gave them my birth certificate. They looked at it, and then changed the name on my account to my deadname, which was no longer my legal name. When I told them to change it back, they said I’d have to submit a change of name form.

I knew Musk was transphobic sooner than most of the public did after that experience.

Hypnotism is magic, and therefore exists at the boundary of the real and the unreal. Its supposed mechanisms and the fiction it uses for effectiveness is unreal, but its effects upon people are real, and these real effects depend upon the fictional aspects. That’s what makes it magic.

Mainstream medicine considers it unethical to use magic, because magic requires lies to work. But magic is better at treating some situations than honest medicine. The question is, are you willing to be lied to in order to save your life? Mainstream doctors do not believe this risk is worth it.

The stereotype that boys can’t communicate exists because the patriarchy tells boys that women aren’t so important as to need to be told their feelings. Both people in this meme are sexist, but their sexism both comes from patriarchy. Both of these people ultimately believe that women are more emotional and men are given to more practical skills, and they both have the same solution, which is for men to show some vulnerability and emotionally grow up. The top comment is correct that boys are perfectly capable of choosing to communicate clearly, they simply are taught not to in real world contexts.

This meme is veiled misogyny.

A teenager who plays a violent video game is not engaging in an act of violence as recognised by his brain. He is not going into a fight or flight response and getting trauma from the experience as he would in a real fight. His brain doesn’t think he’s in a fight.

When you masturbate, your body goes through the same chemical and neurological processes as if you were really having sex.

Is it good?

Ooh, can you tell me some?

I got bored of Elite Dangerous when I remembered I don’t like trucking simulators.

Anyway, No Man’s Sky is more fun.