Protest idea: a bunch of menstruating people free bleed all over the auditorium, because they were afraid to get up and go to the bathroom. It’s a clear enough biohazard that they’ll have to call a remediation company (who are well paid, educated, and supplied for this type of cleaning work), so it won’t fall to the regular cleaning staff, plus it’s going to specifically gross out the people who support this the most.

At least Michigan, no?

Our teeth aren’t good without fluoride.

When the rules are sensible generally, but should be adapted for the current scenario, I tend to be slow on the uptake. Reading this story a few years ago made me realize that I personally am susceptible to losing sight of whether something is actually worth fighting- like I can imagine myself getting stuck on “it’s a fire aisle and now these customers are annoying,” and missing that the other side is thinking “it’s my wheelchair, we need to figure out a way for me to use it.”

Anyway, imagine my surprise when exactly no one, online or irl, even expressed understanding for the actions of the worker at the theater. I don’t think it’s because their actions are incomprehensible to people, but more that, even though this is a very human mistake to make, we’re expected to be able to evaluate whether the rules are picky little bullshit that’s only really important for order or whether they actually matter and should guide our actions.

All that is to say: yes it’s a very human mistake to make, but it’s important for management to be able to determine what rules matter in a life or death scenario. To be clear, I’m definitely not calling this manager a murderer, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that they knew how they would react, but Amazon should probably roll out some judgment training for managers.

Tbh, I used that phrasing specifically because you were snippy about someone else making a claim based on their own experience and I was trying to prod you about the evidence you’re using.

When people kill each other “for no reason,” there’s often still a reason (though not an excuse)- territory in the case of gang or murder of romantic partners, protection or survivor’s benefits for your own family for soldiers killing in war, or people accidentally letting a killer instinct loose during play for people who get into brawls or similar. Even horrific crimes like genocide are committed out of a dual protective of kin/and aggressive of outsiders instinct.

The Wikipedia lists possible reasons, but we don’t actually know why animals do this when it’s actively harmful to them yet.

I don’t see how that supports that humans are one of a few species that kills for no reason, if we know that other animals kill in scenarios where it hurts them and we don’t actually commonly kill each other for no reason.

Probably because she’s got to walk 12-24 miles (unclear if 12mi one way or round trip) and also work six days a week and probably has for many years. That takes a toll on the body, not to mention she’s probably missing out on fully homemade meals because she’s got no time to cook, so she’s ingesting more salt and sugar and microplastics (the added fat is probably balanced out by the walking, but the rest isn’t necessarily) as well as spending more time in the sun, wind, and exposed to exhaust particles and other traffic pollution than most people her age.

But the propaganda hits us whether we see stonetoss in the corner or not.

You might not, but I do 🤷

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I think we know the deal 😬

Some people are dyslexic

That’s impressive as hell, tbh. I’m glad rehab centers focus on such useful, otherwise seemingly inaccessible skills

They won’t 25th him until he pardons them. If he gets so senile or believes he’s so sick that he pardons Vance and enough of them early, OR if Vance agrees to pardon everyone as president they will absolutely 25th him

Imo definitely common sense, which might not be a formal category of intelligence, but it follows from empathy, risk assessment, and understanding of consequences. Sociologists could probably do research to nail down an exact definition through and psychologists could probably measure it, though I suspect it would only really work intrademographically. What’s common sense for a rich, well spoken, fourteen year old white girl is different from common sense for a poor, uneducated sounding, twenty five year old black man, because they unfortunately face very different potential consequences for the same actions.

Solo esos gatos gordos pueden pagar una leche cuarta.

Fuck do I need to practice my Spanish.

They’ve also often got lower stress levels, higher wealth and/or more time than people in their thirties to fifties do. I’d be really interested if they’re also happier than their middle aged counterparts in countries where the elderly are disconnected from their communities and not financially supported.

Edit: it’s true around the world, but I’m not sure if it’s true in every country or just generally yet

I don’t like chimps, but bonobos and gorillas are also very chill

I don’t know where you saw that fact being presented, but surplus killing has long been documented in many species, including those who don’t make caches for winter.

He does look strikingly similar to Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, like this looks like the real guy Voldemort might have been based on, but I can’t tell if that’s really what his head looks like or if it’s just from photoshopping the hair out and accidentally shortening the forehead.

For a Klein bottle, it’s pretty fucking groß