solo

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I left Reddit much too late. I guess some habits can be hard to break. Then I spent some time on kbin/mbin/fedia, but I’ll be staying here.

Btw I’m a non-binary trans person [they/she/he].

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solo ,

Archive link

solo OP , (edited )

Thank you for your input! Just to be sure, is it this one?

Btw when you say

Planned obsolescence is definitely a thing, lightbulbs are not an example of this, and this has been disproven time and time again

what do you mean? Could you share a relevant link?

The oil and gas industry has been lying about global warming for decades — accountability is long overdue - Canadian Manufacturing ( www.canadianmanufacturing.com )

For decades, effective actions have lagged behind the needs of the moment. The 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report suggested that at least part of the reason for this inaction has been “due to misinformation about climate science that has sowed uncertainty.”...

solo ,

The title caught my eye because I learnt evolutionary psychology ... in university

I don’t think any of them can be debunked, they are solid methods for studying why an agent behaves in some way.

Please keep in mind that Eugenics was also considered a solid method. A scientific solid method, actually. It was taught in medical schools all over the world. Well, the colonial world that is.

You could be interested in the following article:

Eugenics and its evolution in the history of western psychology: A critical archival review

According to the Pioneer Fund's archived website, it claims to have “changed the face of the social and behavioural sciences by restoring the Darwinian‐Galtonian perspective to the mainstream in traditional fields such as . . . psychology . . . as well as fostering the
newer disciplines of behavioral genetics, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and sociobiology”

Among the few scholars who rejected eugenics and contested eugenic discourse in psychology prior to World
War II were John Dewey and Gordon Allport (...). In the later part of the twentieth century scientists
across many disciplines have thought to expose and discredit eugenics‐influenced psychology contributions in move-
ments such as social biology, behavioral genetics, and evolutionary psychology (...). The eugenic origins of
intelligence testing have also been examined (...). In addition, race, gender, sexuality and other human differences as social rather than biological constructions have also been
re‐emphasized in psychology (...).

solo , (edited )

I could say “evolutionary psychology is useless” but ...

I don't think this is a conversation about how useful or useless the specific field is. Hitting a child can be useful in order to make them do what you want, we don't do that anymore tho. And we don't approve of this approach.

I think we could have a more productive conversation on the topic after we both watch münecat's video (admittedly I haven't watched it all yet)

Should we continue this conversation after doing that?

solo ,

This was such a great video, thanks for sharing!

solo OP , (edited )

I could say, understanding a text written by an indigenous author may need of "us"/others some getting used to the language, due to cultural diffrences. So what I got from the text is more like a critic on how climate science is used within capitalism. I don't see an attack on climate scientists.

solo ,

No pay-wall link

‘Exterminate the beasts’: How Israeli settlers took revenge for a murder in the West Bank ( www.bbc.com )

What followed was a wave of shooting and arson attacks across 11 Palestinian villages in which a dozen homes and more than 100 cars were torched, thousands of animals were slaughtered, four people were shot dead and scores of others were seriously wounded.

solo ,

With help from the US. Here is an article from November 2023:

There’s a Wave of Violence in the West Bank. New York Charities Are Helping Fund It.

Tax-deductible donations are arming Israeli settlers with combat gear, surveillance systems, and more.

“The ties between New York state and war crimes being carried out by Israeli settlers are egregious,” said Jay Saper, a New York–based organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace. “It’s long overdue for the state to take action.”

Earlier this year, Jewish Voice for Peace and other anti-occupation groups launched a campaign to stem the flow of tax-exempt donations from New York organizations to West Bank settlements. The “Not on Our Dime” act, introduced in the state Legislature in May, grew out of the activist effort and sought to empower the state attorney general to revoke the nonprofit status of groups funding settlements. Dozens of state legislators almost immediately condemned it as “a ploy to demonize Jewish charities.”

solo ,

Yes, to my knowledge this is how pogroms started, against Jewish people. Latter on, the term expanded to other (ethic, religious among others) minorities as well. And for so-so many decades, zionists have been doing pogroms against Palestinians.

Note: when adding a wiki link in a topic even remotely related to zionism, please keep in mind of the following:

Course: Zionist Editing on Wikipedia - From Israel National News - Arutz Sheva - 2min video

solo ,

What is a pogrom? Israeli mob attack has put a century-old word in the spotlight - The Conversation - March 6, 2023

From Russia to Israel

effectively puts Israel in the place of the Jews’ historic persecutors. This is a highly uncomfortable position for many Jewish people, particularly in Israel.

In today’s Israel, minority rights have been suppressed as well, particularly in the West Bank. Palestinians in the West Bank, unlike the Jewish settlers next to them, face violence and discrimination in nearly every aspect of their lives. In other words, Israeli Jews and Palestinians are today not equal partners in an ethnic rivalry.

historical records show far more rioters were arrested and punished by Russia in 1881 than in Huwara this week, where only eight of the 400 Jewish offenders were arrested, only to be quickly released.

solo OP ,

Admittedly, the title is terrible. The content is very interesting.

solo OP , (edited )

The way I see things carbon markets cannot work either. I liked these 2 quotes from the article describing why not:

“Carbon markets provide the loophole the fossil fuel industry needs to continue extraction, combustion, and with a fossil extractive economy that is wrecking the harmony of Mother Earth and Father Sky.

“Carbon markets have been set up by the polluting industries. The premise of carbon markets as a good mitigation outcome or a good mitigation programme for the UNFCCC is in and of itself a flawed concept. And we know that because of who’s put it together.”

[Edit: Ooops looks like the quotes are from another article]

solo OP ,

I'm not sure I understand how these warrants can take place. It will come from other member states in case any of them travel there?

Also how is it that Putin has not been arrested yet? Has he avoided those destinations.

If I misunderstood something or everything, please let me know.

solo OP ,

Thank you for the clarification!

solo OP ,

Ok, this is very interesting. How is it he took this initiative? Actually, is it an initiative or part of the process?

solo OP ,

CNN claiming this as an exclusive is madness

That's an excellent point you're making

solo ,

Well the Lenin dude managed to create an authoritarian regime in the name of the proletariat [yep, I wrote exactly what I meant] by orchestrating and doing the October coup. The revolution happened in February. Don't take my word for it, check it out yourselves. Some input for this research can be found in this 11min video. So, I don't see how taking advises from Lenin for action could lead to anything that's worth doing in practice.

solo ,

News/Interesting Stories/Beautiful Pictures from Europe 🇪🇺

That's what I see on the sidebar, and what you say is irrelevant and questionable.

solo ,

To my understanding it is in West Asia. No?

[Edit: haha you got me there, made me think it's considered europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan#/media/File:Azerbaijan_orthographic_projection.svg]

solo ,

Azerbaijan is considered part of Asia, not Europe.

List of countries in Asia

solo ,

Thanks for sharing all those. Since you mentioned arduino, I thought of sharing something that came to my attention quite recently, and admittedly I found it very disturbing. Before reading that I was an arduino fan, I'm not anymore. Anyways here it is:

The Untold History of Arduino
by Hernando Barragán

solo ,

That's a very interesting graph for sure!
For some reason the source is greyed out, so I thought of sharing the link here for easy access.

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