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Except you can’t empathise with a group because groups are conceptual and concepts do not have feelings.

This shit is depressing.

Edit: Actually, this whole thing is bizarre. “empathizing was rated as more effortful and distressing compared to staying objective”? Feelings are objective. Individuals objectively have feelings. Empathy is understanding and weighing other people’s feelings, particularly when making decisions. There is absolutely nothing that is not objective about it.

The experimental design also seems to be asking the participants to empathise with people who very obviously don’t exist with zero information about their fictional cirtumstances (not even any body language), which is bordering on impossible. I’d also really like to ask how it’s “distressing” to try to empathise with an expressionless photograph on a solid background.

Junk research. Whoever approved funding for it should be fired.

I can’t wait to get SWAT’d because I said something bad about white supremacy.

It’s also part of why humans and dogs get along so well. Grey wolves (and, to some extent, many other canids) are also among the best animals at persistence hunting.

I have a 2022 mid-range laptop which does work with Windows 11, but sounds like a jet engine when I try to run it.

I also have Arch installed, which runs silently 80% of the time, with moderate fan usage the other 20%.

As you may expect from this, 11 is typically sluggish, especially under load; whereas Arch is typically quick and responsive, with moments of lag noticeable but infrequent.

Under the circumstances, using 11 would be a terrible choice. There’s just no reason to subject my device to it.

Interesting there’s so much media about the Ukraine “winning” shortly after surveys were done finding most Europeans think the war is a lost cause and not worth the money.

Need the war propaganda right now, I guess.

It’s also just wrong, because quite a lot of mammals and birds use sound for intraspecies communication (a la human language), echolocation is fairly common, feeding and hunting often generate sound… Sound production for mating purposes is a hefty chunk, but the joke here is pretty misleading.

Or so I’ve heard, anyway.

NATO is a military organisation which is led by the United States. The war started from expansion threats by NATO against Russia; or in other words, the war is NATO vs. Russia.

As NATO is and long has been led by the USA, the Commander-in-Chief of the USA speaks for them.

(As for why, if it’s NATO vs. Russia, NATO haven’t gone all-in? Because they could very easily start World War III that way, and no one is very keen on doing that.

Oh, and also because they don’t give a fuck about East Slavs.)

I think in America it’s usually called hydric acid! 😨

Why shouldn’t I be able to have the files mare.png (a photo of a horse) and MarE.png (a photo taken on a vacation in March, fifth in the series after MarA, MarB, MarC, and MarD)?

Or rainsley (a text file, no extension, with notes about a story I’m writing) and Rainsley (a directory with art of the same character the file is named after)?

Do I strictly need to be able to do these things? No, of course not. But the file system is more flexible and functional if I am able to.