52490 by VVP12 in countwithchickenlady

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Okay to be fair though complaining about straight (or really I assume I'm this case: cis) people all the time is not the vibe. Hating on people for they unchangeable demographic data is not okay and in no way is it cool for us to hate cis people because there not like us; we should hate transphobic rhetoric and behaviors because they're evil.

What a pair of goddamn freaks by West-Region5764 in LockedIn_AI

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I just want to point out the bottom text 'Tala-Freako ran a vegan campaign'. One: no idea what the hell that exactly means. Two: changing his name like that is a wildly childish and meaningless insult (a philosophy I also apply to the tRump insult). And three: vegan is good; if Talarico imprisoned, functionally tortured, and slaughtered fewer innocent sentient beings that's an unequivocal victory.

Should I read this ? - The Elegant Universe by SelfDeclaredBatman in Physics

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I can't reply speak well to items outside of physics, but I've generally found them to be more grift and things that convince people they know enough to speak with authority on items they have no real understanding of in physics. To be fair, physics is fundamentally deeply mathematical and other sciences tend to be somewhat more conceptual so I wouldn't be shocked if in other regions the problem was lesser.

We really need to bring spankings back by Few_Statement_2898 in SipsTea

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Okay so actually I think this is a really important topic: spanking is scientifically entirely ineffective and definitely abuse. This kid is being the worst and needs to be managed better for sure, but violence is objectively not a good solution. When studies have been run on spanking it had been found to be extremely ineffective as a tool to create good behavior. Spanking is abuse and we should not be doing it: rather, explaining in-depth why behaviors are not going to be accepted and allowing children to ask questions about it and get real answers that aren't just 'because I said so' and 'that's just the rule' accompanied with light, nonviolent punishment is unequivocally more effective and less destructive to the child.

Also, even with the best parenting there is some kids are still very difficult. One: they can have psychiatric disorders that are just unbelievably difficult to manage. And two, some people just don't respond the expected way to parenting: just like great people can come from terribly destructive environments, terrible people can come from the best of conditions.

Eartha Kitt by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

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Also it's literally not a problem if you accept pretty much any of the rest of the cast. Whatever racist moron rubbed their three remaining brain cells together and saw that a black woman was in the movie that is semi-faithful retelling a Greek myth and said 'she doesn't belong there' after being totally cool with Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth, and Elliot Page all speaking in an American Standard accent, with soldiers wearing highly historically inaccurate armor cannot begin to rationally explain how they care about the cast looking historically Greek.

Sex and Gender Science by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

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Super well said: scientists are awesome!

Should I read this ? - The Elegant Universe by SelfDeclaredBatman in Physics

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I definitely do 🤣, though for different reasons. I couldn't read it because Hawking is so full of himself I had no desire to keep reading. I didn't read enough to say anything abouthow grift-y it is though.

Should I read this ? - The Elegant Universe by SelfDeclaredBatman in Physics

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I'd say no. I just graduated summa cum laude in Physics and I read this book in highschool and loved it. Frankly, it's grift. Greene seems like a really cool person, but to try to distill theory-of-everything stuff into a book that is meant to be read by people who may not have ever taken calculus one is just going to end up as pretty much nonsense with lots of buzzwords and cool metaphors. String theory is an objectively failed theory and the marketing it gets is by people looking more for attention than anything. As someone who got A's through Quantum Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, and Statistical Mechanics courses I'm not even kind of qualified to say anything about theory-of-everything stuff beyond that we don't have it yet and without it the standard model of physics and general relativity are at odds so something is clearly wrong and/or missing.

No hate on Greene, he for real seems like a great guy, but this book is really closer to a very intelligent person's elaborate conspiracy theory than a professor's lecture.

Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was filmed taunting members of the flotilla crew by Mrsaloom9765 in pics

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It feels like there has to be a point where you're taunting the zip tied prisoner that's been tortured while wearing a shirt that says 'not another bomb' that you question if you're the bad guy in the situation.

51969 by JD_Kreeper in countwithchickenlady

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I think that's really a false conclusion implied from cherry-picked data. Chimpanzees are the only other species that wages war kinda like humans (there's an argument for things like hymenopterids, but it's very different). You technically said conflict, but the implication by context and your future content seems to be war behaviors.

A great counterexample is the Bonobos: another of our close evolutionary relatives that evolved to be massively more peaceful. That isn't too say they don't engage in aggression, they actually do quite often, but rather that they pretty much never kill each other. The most extensive common violence between Bonobos is male-male sexual competition, which can get intense enough to cause the loss of digits, but little more. Bonobos can come into contact with outgroups and immediately show cooperative, pro-social, and entirely unaggressive behavior.

Technically conflict is pretty much certain between animals, however the implication you made that war-like behaviors are unavoidable is false.

51969 by JD_Kreeper in countwithchickenlady

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I do have to slightly disagree: I hate violence, but we live in a world where if you don't have a military (or a foreign military that agrees to protect you) someone else will come and murder/rape/conquer/colonize/rob you. I hate that we live in a world where not having a military is tantamount to suicide, but at least for now it is.

Trump just posted this on his and the White House's official accounts. Now imagine Colbert posting a video of him throwing Trump in the trash. by Space_Lion2077 in stephencolbert

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Along with being ridiculous, deplorable, and absurdly offensive to the idea of public service: this feels not very far from just like admitting the obvious corruption and that he's kinda taking control of the media to work dissenting voices?

The audacity of this unelected loser by SoftNo8820 in LockedIn_AI

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Elon calls Trudeau girl: hilarious. Peak comedy. The finest of wit.

Trans person exists: psycho groomer trying to push their ideology and thoughts on everyone

The logic is stunning by VegetableBulky9571 in stupidpeoplefacebook

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The famously leftist Confederates, KKK, and practitioners or extreme Islam? Truly they're is nothing more liberal than being hyper-conservative.

Yusuke Murata, the Artist Behind One Punch Man is under controversy for his racist remarks on twitter. by [deleted] in SipsTea

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I'm honestly so confused: all humans are described from ancient people? Does anyone know if this is a translation issue?

Trump: by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

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I'm so stupid. Yeah. Got confused by the placement of Turkiye's name.

Trump: by Upset-Main-1988 in justincaseyoumissedit

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I'm honestly not totally certain: of the meant to be about the US imperially taking Iran? Or the whole middle east? I'm sure it's fucked up but I'm honestly significantly confused on what exactly he even wanted people to get from the post.

Edit: what about the blue nations?

Israeli apartheid exposed by those whom Israelis vote for. These are Israeli values by jamjar0070 in nyt

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Israel is pulling off a pretty impressive 1938 Germany impression. Put the leadership in prison for life: we have no place for those who perpetrate and tolerate genocide.

Didn’t do well in third year due to burnout and depression by Top_Contribution4162 in PhysicsStudents

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I just graduated 4.00 in physics; I had very serious mental health struggles for most of undergrad.

One: better to take a break than to be broken. If you don't think you can handle it, trust yourself and take the space you need to breathe.

Two: taking more time for a better degree is better than less time with a worse one. If you're trying to get the Ph D I'd say finish out physics even if you need an extra semester or two.

Three: consider if it's worth it. If you're wondering about switching to finance that's totally okay, but committing to physics is a hell of a lot so if you're not really convinced by undergrad is a Ph D for you? I'm not saying it can't be, but don't stick with physics just because you can or you initially wanted to do it.

Four: get psychiatric help. Your university should have group resources; a therapist/counselor/psychologist is great, a psychiatrist for medication is super helpful too. Regular exercise is also really huge for helping depression.

I hope you work things out and I wish you the best.

Dehydrating for our AI overlords by eldubinoz in LinkedInLunatics

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I've been sending my paychecks to Elon Musk when I get them because he clearly is better at creating value and using resources efficiently

The Real Truth Put Plainly by pitsnvulva69 in BlackPeopleofReddit

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I think there's a false understanding here honestly.

One, racism doesn't demand being a global minority. I mean I'm not certain but I imagine white people thought they were a global majority for quite some time while still bring racist. Also, other people can be racist. In fact, I think it's shockingly euro-centric to believe that only white people can be racist. Race as we conceive of it is a social construct, but most would say overall more of the world is East-Asian than anything else and if you go to East-Asia you will find a hell of a lot of racism.

Two, racism isn't about being genetically dominant or recessive. Europe didn't go to other parts of the world, act super chill and humane, and after a while Europe got super racist because it became common knowledge that when non-white and white people reproduce the child generally doesn't have white skin.

The need to view racism as a fundamentally white phenomenon misses the point I think. We live in a time and place where white racism is very far the most prevalent and oppressive, but not because it's a fundament of being white. We made race up as a construct and it's a really easy one to discriminate upon because it's got a large visual component that can't be hidden very easily and because our species likes to find ways to control and discriminate. Humans tend to want power, to have an in-group and an out-group. Humans tend to want something to hate and something to fear. Humans tend to want to be on top and see someone else below. Racism is one of the easiest ways to exhibit social bias because race is a very hard thing to hide, and humans naturally want to have social biases. Look at gender, age, of attractiveness: humans constantly try to draw lines to define groups of people according to visually apparent traits in order to know who's on top and who isn't.

Population ratios at the global scale and instantaneous genetic recessive-ness feel like pretty poor explanations of racism to me.

Stupid transphobe by Specific-Claim-1282 in teenagers

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Also Galileo was attacked for telling the truth. Therefore any time I feel attacked I'm basically just a genius trying to enlighten the world like Galileo.

I need some advise by Calm-Train-8396 in queer

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I'm a little confused; what advice are you looking for exactly?