Abandoned this profile due to lemmy.world’s federation with Threads. I have moved onto feddit.de as they are the only instance I could find defederated from Threads, hexbear, and lemmygrad.
I’m happy with my new home.
“But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic. And for that I’m quite sorry, that was not my intention.”
You hear that? He’s sorry.
Sorry that he’s facing consequences for his actions.
This tends to be an unpopular opinion, but I completely agree. I believe it’s unethical to do experiments like this on animals that cannot consent, but have a clear capacity for suffering, including on a conscious level.
Even lab rats show a capacity for empathy [1], and they will stop pulling a lever to feed themselves if they see the rat in the subsequent cage is electrocuted. [2]
Monkeys (and other animals) can understand the concept inequality. [3] Inequality is a moral concept, indicating that the animal has a capacity for complex social relationships and understanding.
Monkeys were taught the concept of currency (in the form of silver discs) and soon after, they unexpectedly developed prostitution on their own. [4]
Monkeys like this are the primates of lower intelligence, mind you. I’m not even saying I condone these studies even, as I’m not convinced the ends justify the cruel means with which the experiments were conducted.
I think we should be more respectful of life, rather than subjecting it to such mass exploitation and suffering. I can admit I will value my loved ones over other animals and humans on a selfish level, but when I separate emotion from my reasoning, I don’t believe it is justified for humans to exploit animals as we do for our own gains.
It’s important to note the extremely unnecessary suffering of frivolous experiments on a widespread scale. One example is the LD 50 (or median lethal dose), in which animals are essentially force-fed a product (cosmetics, cleaners, medicines, etc.) until half of the test subjects die, to determine the lethal dose. [5]
Much of the time, their death isn’t because of the substance itself; it’s due to the quantity force-fed (stomach/organs rupturing, whatnot). This test is used on clearly nonessential products like cosmetics, and the results are often unreliable. [5]
I am not interested in debating this subject. I just wanted to share my thoughts. Things to watch out for in objection to animal rights arguments are common fallacies like the appeal to nature, appeal to tradition, and just blatant speciesism.
The term the racists use for other members of their race who disagree with them is race betrayer. At least I’ve been called that by neonazis when arguing with them.
I’m pretty sure we’ve been living in a GTA satire or The Onion universe since Nov 2016.
Technically it’s truly a leap, but we are so far away still.
I completely agree and was trying to convey that. Not trying to downplay the significance of the development, but they are far from superintelligence and they’re going to hype it up as much as they can.
It’s not like the Catholic church exactly condones pedophilia and rampant sexual abuse, but look how extensively it permeates the institution.
When wondering “Would the Catholic church really do X?” I find the best practice is to instead ask myself: “Does the pope shit in the woods?”
I think it’s a hype move at this point. Like the guy who claimed he believed google’s chat bot was sentient.
I read another article that stated they had a computational breakthrough, in which their program can now carry out basic grade school math. No other model is able to actually carry out math equations, not even basic arithmetic.
This is a significant development, but it’s not like they’re on the cusp of developing superintelligence now. I bet they are taking this small inch towards superintelligence, and hyping it like they’ve just huddled miles forward.
Worthless trolls. They’re not hacktivists if they’re leaking innocent government employees’ personal information for the most cringeworthy demands possible. I’ve had to deal with data breach shit like this in the health industry.
Are these dipshits so self-deluded that they really believe they’re some sort of activists? I thought Anonymous was cringeworthy enough… At least they aren’t such pricks.
I’ve worked with very nice people convicted of murder. The world is not black and white. We all live in the grey.
Any person is capable of murder if pushed beyond their threshold. There are common mitigating factors like alcohol/substance use, high danger/crime neighborhoods, and childhood abuse.
I had a forensic client who committed a particularly bad murder, and he had antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy) from extreme childhood trauma/abuse, had a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder with paranoid auditory, visual, and command hallucinations, and he was also very sleep-deprived and high on meth.
That was a recipe for disaster, and he brutally, heinously murdered his childhood best friend and roommate. He tried to call the person he murdered to bail him out of jail, not truly comprehending what he’d done. He refused the NGRI plea and told the judge “I’m guilty. I deserve the time.” He got 20 years.
Another convicted murderer I worked with was a very sweet elderly man who was a vietnam spook. He got a murder rap when he was having a psychotic episode/flashbacks and fired into a crowd.
I worked with a lot of people who were in and out of the DOC their whole lives, trapped in the revolving door. They weren’t bad people. They were victimized people who needed help. Most of these people never truly had support before in their lives.
Many murder charges and harsh criminal sentences are pegged on lower-functioning individuals who cannot properly defend themselves. Police here in the U.S. are notorious for goating false confessions from this population. I worked with many people like this who were abused, chewed up, and spit out by the criminal justice system.
I worked with the population you’re ignorantly dehumanizing. You’re not justified. You’re just demonstrating your own narrow-mindedness. Dehumanizing is a bad thing. Period.
What you are doing is lumping innocent people falsely charged with murder (including low-functioning and disabled individuals) with brutal murderers. You’re also taking potentially a single, rash, worst mistake of someone’s life, and judging their entire personhood from it.
That’s bullshit. We all have a threshold for rationality and keeping our cool. There are typically other very important mitigating factors, especially alcohol/substance use, in which the perpetrator wasn’t in their right mind.
Anyone and everyone has the capacity for violence when pushed beyond our threshold. We switch from rational thinking to emotional thinking, which makes us feel more justified in our actions.
A great example of this where you can see someone lose their rationality is the behind the scenes of Bad Grampa with the penguin guy. You can watch as Johnny Knoxville slowly erodes his cool/capacity for rationality.
Now imagine you were being raped by your step brother and beaten by your step father every night. Imagine you join the military to turn your life around and escape, you excell, and then your schizophrenia symptoms manifest, and you’re discharged. You’re left with no resources, social or support system. You can’t maintain your medication prescription because of your disability. You are destitute and have to live a rough life on the streets to survive. You turn to drugs to ‘self-medicate’ and because everyone in your group is using. You fall into an addiction and you are high on meth, sleep deprived, awake now for over 3 days. On your walk back to your apartment, you (perceive that you) are being pursued by police choppers and the police are even hiding in the trees watching you on your walk home. You are extremely paranoid, hallucinating, and in survival mode. Then your roommate and childhood best friend is in the wrong place at the wrong time. You feel like your life is endangered, and command hallucinations are demanding you kill the assailant.
That’s the reality of that former client of mine. That’s the grey we all live in. A murder charge doesn’t mean someone is despicable, sub-human waste. They are a deeply flawed human being just like you and I. And they are capable of change, like that former client of mine. He turned his life around.
You’re not justified in dehumanizing this population whatsoever. Dehumanization is a despicable tactic employed by fascists and dictators, and attempts to justify cruelty against a group of people.
Nah, simple mistake. We all make them.
It’s only embarrassing to be wrong when someone doubles down/refuses to admit it.
Or baptizing it in the toilet…
I hate when that happens to my dick… feels forever unclean. Even worse when it touches the bowl…
My bad, definitely speaking informally. Should have said primate ancestors.
Yes, human tails are hairless. Here are photos of vestigial tails on humans.
Sometimes our body tries to include traits of our ape primate ancestors. Vestigial tails are not that uncommon. They are typically surgically removed from infants in 1st-world countries.
Years ago, I realized DBZ would be way weirder if their tails were accurately hairless…
Humans are considered hairless apes. I believe that is what OP meant.
And OP is definitely correct. Just look at these vestigial tails. (or don’t…)
Alright, everyone needs to learn to identify trolls/hateful idiots and just not engage when it’s on this level. To be crystal clear, I’m referring to the user Earthwormjim91.
If this individual truly believes the delusional bullshit they’re peddling, do you really think you are going to change their addled mind? No. Just bury hate and misinformation like this with downvotes and move on.
There’s no fruitful discussion to be had with people like this. They just spew bullshit like diarrhea in regard to any evidence or counterpoint. They argue in bad faith and are not bound by facts, logic, or the truth.
Engaging with toxic users like this just provides more comments for them to respond to and spread more hateful lies and misinformation.
Don’t feed trolls people.
Worthless brain-dead shit-take of the day goes to…
I never heard of them much/from their members until I moved to the Midwest. It’s definitely a boys club, but it seems to mostly consist of boisterous rednecks in the Midwest, who think they’re some secret society badasses.
That’s just my anecdotal experience tho.
I believed he was smart and innovative when I first heard of him. But then he opened his mouth and I called him for what he was way back then.
I thought most people finally started to see him for what he is back when that Thai soccer team were trapped in the cave, and Musk was throwing one of his first public temper tantrums. He called that one innocent person assisting with the rescue a pedophile because they criticized Musk’s preposterous idea to invent a mini sub to rescue them.
He is a racist, bigoted, petulant man-child. Oh, and definitely a whiney little bitch.
How to pass/invalidate a lie-detector test.
They are not considered admissible evidence in court (but the criminal justice system still use them to a degree…), and they can be interpreted with intentional bias, so I think it’s fine to share.
One of my psychology professors told me that if you hide something like a sewing needle in your shoe’s insole, you can ever so slightly apply pressure so that the poke causes a physiological spike. They monitor for movement, so it has to be very minute. The goal is to do this on every control question so that they cannot establish a baseline and have to give up.