Gloomy

Also: there should be a Godwin’s Law for rape. The conversation was about household stereotypes. That was a bit of a leap.

I’ll leave this here.

Across their lifetime, 1 in 3 women, around 736 million, are subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner – a number that has remained largely unchanged over the past decade.

https://www.who.int/news/item/09-03-2021-devastatingly-pervasive-1-in-3-women-globally-experience-violence

In the US it’s 1 in 6 women (and 1 und 33 men).

https://rainn.org/statistics/victims-sexual-violence

And last but bit least:

Nearly 99% of perpetrators are male.

https://www.humboldt.edu/supporting-survivors/educational-resources/statistics

So no, jumping to rape is not a leap. The fear of sexual violence is part of beeing a women. I don’t know a single women that wasn’t in a situation that did or did almost resulted in sexual violence.

It’s not part of beeing a men. I have never in my life feared about sexual violence and I share that with the vast majority of men.

They don’t sound like it is the best choice, just the best avaible one.

TLDR: They had the dataset lying around from previous (unrelated) research and can’t get new data because Facebook removed API access after the Cambridge Analytical Scandal.

"This corpus comprises Facebook pages and, within them, views representing different positions towards Brexit, with some being in favour and others against [10]. It was compiled as part of previous research [10, 11], but ethical approval for new analyses was sought and obtained in 2022 from the University of Edinburgh. We chose to analyse our existing dataset for two reasons. First, examining social media data about Brexit, a high-profile event that has been intensely studied, offers significant opportunities for comparing our findings to existing work whilst contributing to ongoing scholarship on public discourse about political phenomena. Second, in the UK and in many other countries, institutional ethics policies require researchers to acquire data in compliance with platforms’ Terms of Service (ToS) agreements. Like other major platforms including X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and TikTok, Facebook’s ToS state that data must be extracted using its application programming interface (API). Yet following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook closed its public API, making it challenging to acquire additional data from the platform. "

Quoted from part 2.1 Materials

https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2023/3821-the-osteology-of-irritator

This is the Paper that started it. They used some (at the time) new techniques to 3d model an old fossil they had, if I recall it correctly.

When AI would have been the better choice.

The most pedantic comment on average, you mean.

Also pretending that 4000 years ago humans were still hunter gatherers or something (it’s kind of implied in the wording imo). 4000 years ago there were plenty of fairly developed civilisations around.

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If anybody is interested in getting an idea how this would look like I can recommend “The Hierachies” by Ros Anderson. It’s written from the perspective of a sex droid.

Edit: I just reliezed this thread is so old it is a toddler by now. No idea why this would be in my hot recommendations (besides it thematically fitting the term).

Nono, that’s a “Priest”. Image him a bit like a scientist, but opposite.

And they only can provide that useless compulsive junk so cheaply because they bulk order everything and then just change their offering price after the product is manufactured. So the manufacturer can’t just say “No deal” when they already produced massive quantities that they don’t have the logistical means to sell to other buyers.

I’m not saying that this isn’t true, but how does that work more than once? Wouldn’t any manufacturer quit working with them after this happened once? Isn’t the agreed price for a bulk order set down in writing before the manufacturing starts?

Have you got a source for this?

Belief in magic is pretty even between the genders and pretty common

I was interested and looked up some studies. There is a gender gap in spiritual believe and women tend to be more spiritual, including believing in magic. So OPs statement in that regards holds.

Just to be clear, I’m not saying everything that op wrote is correct or that I agree, but the starting point they used, that women tend to belive in magical stuff more often, seems to be true.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340544674_Examining_the_roles_of_Intuition_and_Gender_in_Magical_Beliefs

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8617579/

Sounds like massive human bias at play. Any source?

World’s crulest animal puts other animals in captivity and then calls them dumb for showing their natural behaviour in a completely alien envirment. More at 11.

“Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk wrote in the all-staff email. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”

This is so fucking cringy.

“Minorities” are actually dangerously close to becoming the majority in most White/first world nations.

That kind of lies.

At the time of the 2021/22 Census, 16% of people in the UK had been born abroad – a total of around 10.7 million migrants. Although the foreign-born population has increased further between 2021 and 2024, no reliable data are available for later years.

https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migrants-in-the-uk-an-overview/

He paid 44 billion for twitter. He could pay the legal fees of every American for a year and it would hardly dent his wealth. It’s obscene how much money one person can have.

I play with Mods, unfortunately. It’s the one thing keeping me back atm.

The woo doctor says there’s fairies in the garden and unicorns in the forest, and never shows them to me. The biologist says there’s birds the size of your thumb that flap their wings so fast they become a buzzy blur, and there’s huge winged creatures that fly through the ocean called “Manta rays.” He shows me pictures and specimens of both.

This sounds so much like a writing prompt.

Old cars must have leaked more frequently without it breaking them, because I can remember oily puddles under parked cars quite a lot from my childhood (which was in the 90s).

You can cook em in hot water to losen the hair. It’s called scalding.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/dehairing L