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The Oblongs theme song.... !?!? Mee three. I would leave that item blank too.

And "Starlight" is playing as he signs the orders.

I'm part of a Bantu sect that requires ritual consumption of the brains of dead relatives. The good old days. COVID-19 got nothing on Mad cow disease.

** Karma confused with Dharma **Gandhi I am not Hindian. But any Christian who dismisses Gandhi is just a conservative. I wonder whether he is translated.

One thing is for sure. It doesn't do it for you because you kept imagining that it would. Imagining your god exists is as pointless as conversion therapy for gays. I could say I'm open to something flexible like kharma, but even if I am honest I might as well be saying that I'm open to unicorns. I was reading Thich Nhat Hanh in middle school. He will let you be atheist; maybe Ghandi would too. But American Christian lobbyists are engaged in a vicious, passive-aggressive, sectarian, and exploitative campaign that will keep "Believe" signs hanging in your local supermarket. For what? For a shallow superficial acknowledgement that only appeals to the easily duped minority of their majority. Tomorrow is now and it becomes racism and white nationalism as shallow as the color of your skin. Tomorrow it will be some other sectarian identity being exploited for public relations purposes. This is culture, this is a cult, this is humanity in a still uneducated twenty first century with staggering student debt. I guess I'm an atheist. Only a poor, uneducated person living in an elitist twenty first century has said in his heart there is no God. Keep donating to your charities like a bandaid on an open wound.

"Panic" by The Smiths "Panic" by The Smiths is mine. Right hemisphere! Right hemisphere! No offense please.

Duck, duck, duck, duck, homodimer!!!! How many months until the vaccine can be approved for widespread use, again? We might already be immune by that time if they don't disseminate this information carefully.

Re: Moontanman in What are You Listening to? To be fair, a pragmatic understanding of knowledge that explains ideas as useful and functional---but ultimately subjective--tools in the interaction between the subject and his surroundings is not something that is easy to reconcile with the notion of consciousness without evolution via natural selection. Natural selection among random variants, whether biological or cosmological, seems to be the only process by which functionality would emerge from randomness. If you assume that randomness comes first and that cognition must involve functionally useful concepts, it is difficult to imagine cognition that is not the result of natural selection. I will grant that my lack of imagination is inevitably a limiting factor, but I have to admit that "autistic" gods like Spinoza's or Temple Grandin's are probably a lot more imaginative and substantive than the pop-theology that helps people get more donations. Call me Egnostic. Andrew Jackson Jihad shout out! I had a Defiance Ohio song removed form page 9.

Sometimes I have to refresh myself. Diffusion of responsibility, or the bystander effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpdUbW8vbw It's kitty genovese, but it didn't embed.

He both is and isn't the moon, depending on who he's talking to. High self-monitoring, you see. and an ever simmering kettle to boot. ... My bad. I'm music babbling.

DuThe Shins was my first favorite from way before the unexpected acid trip. He also has Broken Bells, which I never noticed until 2020, somehow. I don't think I ever posted The Damned here. Franifio FTW!

I have a magical unicorn that is completely untestable and mostly inconsequential. And it lends my Xbox to people who believe in it. So which side are you on?

Does the message strike anyone else as psychotic? I suppose some people, with schizotypal and paranoid personality disorder, do have some baseline level of psychosis that does not worsen with time. Maybe asking them to explain how they got into it could help them get out: schizophrenics, schizotypals and paranoids all have lower than average theory of mind skill, which is related to self-monitoring skill and emotional intelligence et cetera—Think gorillas looking at themselves in mirrors. In any case, the conspiracy theory might already be about to get some "oxygen". I've switched to Majority Report recently (R.I.P. Michael Brooks). Majority Report had two recent callers who were worried about QAnon. I don't know how pervasive QAnon belief actually is, but Michael Flynn posted a video endorsing QAnon a few months ago, and now a few Republicans who have voiced support for it have won their primaries. The candidates Marjorie Greene and Lauren Boebert are expected to win the general election. It is hard to say whether this family of conspiracy theories is propelling itself or is something being peddled by neoconservatives, but having those candidates in congress will increase whatever aura of credibility it already had, and that could be the point. Both parties deserve scrutiny and both constituencies have an obligation to scrutinize their nominees. The whole of congress has been taken over by corporatism, and I can't wait to watch the conspiracy theories jump the partisan divide too. P.S. Trump definitely colluded with the Russians. We understandably have a hard time proving something so difficult to prove, but it's there, we just know it. Who is Guccifer 2.0!? Who is she!?

As much as I love empiricism and science, these mass delusions show that we are social first and empirical second, and that even what we call "history" is a record of what people believed at the time as it includes, by extension, what people knew and/or believed about whatever was really happening at the time as it happened. In social contexts we largely do whatever the crowd is doing, say whatever the crowd is saying, and simply assume all of it to be reasonable by proxy of being popular. This makes us all too easy to manipulate because it creates a positive feedback loop, and the problem can be expected to worsen as the size of the crowd increases, e.g. the massive crowd sizes seen in modern contexts. This undoubtedly interacts with the social psychological phenomena that researchers call deindividuation, diffusion of responsibility, and the false consensus effect + pluralistic ignorance, to name a few. We are, intentionally or unintentionally, negligently or maliciously, being repeatedly gaslit by our own sources of information. Thus we are all compromised agents, the victims of gaslighting, unless we can cautiously contemplate whatever the simpler alternatives to whatever the prevailing wisdom might be might be. A perversion of the simplicity principle is actually one of the virtues of a lie, a lie which is false enough to achieve the ends of the liar but still true enough to seem functionally 'good enough' to the dupe... sorta like Rutherford's atomic model / nuclear model of the atom. Alas, that is in an idealized model of how we should operate, not how we actually operate. In truth, it is tautologically true that we don't know how we operate when we aren't paying attention to how we are operating, and that we may not be able to know what a lack of scrutiny looks like if a lack of scrutiny cannot be properly scrutinized. One thing social psychology told me was that how we really think is very different from how a philosopher might think a person should think, and that we may be optimized for group behavior at the expense of critical thinking functions. Moreover, I think groupthink might be a bigger problem now than it ever was for our hunter-gatherer ancestors two-hundred-thousand years ago.

Here's a couple politically incisive shorts that I am thinking of. Secular Talk: British People SHOCKED By American Healthcare Prices Al Jazeera: Guterres warns UN may not have money to pay staff next month PS, Kyle Kulinski is apprehensive about a dilution of the potential charges, others progressives think Trump is (regardless) screwed. Mission (partially) accomplished... Secular Talk: Trump Keep Admitting War Crimes on Camera I should have spotted my double plural. Keeps!

Does anyone like a YouTube channel that frequently discusses the scientific process, i.e the procedures, math, and analysis involved? Maybe it is a channel about rationalism, or merely a science channel, but it explores how ordinary people and/or scientists analyze the world or their data. I am sending this entangled particle into the future. Please give me a reply back, if that is possible. Is it possible? Can the future determine the past via the observer effect? Well whatever. reply back.

The new @#$% stuck in my head, absolutely. Last night I joked to myself that a new band will be God inc, and punks will think it's badass until they realize it is serious. pff

Yeah, so I was listening to my ear's ringing. Trading a phlegmy allergy for cold fresh air, I awoke with a plugged ear. Intraotic saline released some pressure, and so did the room's temperature, actually. Grateful for basic chemistry. 5:12 PM

Do you have a satellite? The drone footage is clipped, but AP did well. If architect Joshua Wong is disqualified from running, I guess Hong Kong burns with Beijing. The Amazon too. Super justice minister...

These were from 2017, but I read it. Primary psychopaths probably resemble narcissists in having statistically lower emotional empathy and, at least, statistically normal cognitive empathy. Autism has several components that include below normal mentalizing or theory of mind, which might be similar to cognitive empathy. The link between autism and psychopathy is a myth, although both aspies and secondary psychopaths statistically tend toward lower mentalizing ability and lower religiousness. Ara Norenzayan published his findings linking "belief in God" to mentalizing. See above. Secondary psychopathy is linked to childhood adversity and lower mentalizing ability. Overlapping syndromes have shown an ambiguous relationship to mentalizing and, unexpectedly, they showed higher performance on the RMET (Reading the Mind in the Eyes), which was originally designed to measure autism. The reason is very much unclear. Confusingly, depression severity has been associated, but being in a depression is inversely associated. Schizophrenics have a better prognosis with more positive symptoms, which can include blatantly psychotic audio-verbal hallucinations, ambiguously defined "delusions", or even obsessive-compulsive symptoms or dissociative symptoms, which I would expect to be statistically more common in STPD or BPD, respectively (i.e. misdiagnosis). Those so called "delusions" can include beliefs of "thought insertions" or mind reading. These people might actually have a better prognosis. They might even show higher social functioning rather than lower, and social support does probably decelerate the schizophrenic deterioration. Confusingly... In summary, believing in things you cannot prove is normal, and it might suggest higher or lower "empathy." P.S. That other thread is about REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, but maybe she should be told by a friend. Like OCD, this disorder is also linked to STPD. I imagine such patients would in need of some kind of explanation. *be* in need of

Any effects will probably be discovered by affective (neuro)scientists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification Credit to Paul Ekman's recent book: One could associate a gun with any emotion or any evolved emotion trigger. Anger stimulates confrontational or even violent behavior, but sadness, which looks similar to boredom or tiredness, brings a loss of muscle tone. I imagine that most people associate a gun, either their own or someone else's, with fear, but another person might learn that he can overcome angering frustrations by displaying his weapon. Anger and fear frequently alternate, which might be related to "fight or flight." Furthermore, a target-shooter, hunter, action-film addict, or sadist might experience anger mixed with any of various "positive emotions", all of which produce the same facial expression, the smile, unfortunately.

stupid. They're just stupid. Caravan of Thieves - Ms Priscilla

Somehow it never occurred to me to give defendants the choice to waiver their gun rights. It would be double-blinded: The defendant chooses as he awaits the verdict, and the jury separately decides the 2+ competing punishments. After that, we're left wondering how the cost of random gun-checks would compare to the cost of imprisonment. Why can the gun lobby force otherwise eligible offenders to instead rot in jail? Yee-haw!

How did all of us build a border wall?

Boingo has a special place in my heart.