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LillyPip

@ LillyPip @lemmy.ca

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Sci-fi & horror author, UXD, software dev, composer/engraver, gamer, seamstress/tailor, nerd, etc; she/her. Aroace.

  • Progress, I guess

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  • I think so. The graphics are photoreal in many games, and there are comfort settings to prevent nausea and whatnot.

    It’s come a long way, baby!

  • Trump Education Department nominee resigned from education board after falsely claiming she had a degree in education

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  • Good news – a degree or experience is not a requisite in trump’s administration. If anything, it’s a liability.

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  • Anyone visiting the Capitol, presumably.

  • Progress, I guess

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  • VR is actually amazing now. You just need a comfortable headset (the Bobovr M3 Pro is my favourite).

    The graphics in some games are awesome, and I can watch movies in a full theatre environment on my sofa. I’m kinda sad it hasn’t taken off, because it really is great. I’ve gotten my whole family into it now, even my 88 year old dad.

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  • And be prepared to tell this guy he has to use the ladies’:

  • Speaker Johnson says he’s going to request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report

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  • Next up: Congress and/or the Supreme Court overturns the Freedom of Information Act on the grounds it compromises national security and hurts their feelings.

  • Speaker Johnson says he’s going to request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report

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  • Okay, but what the literal fuck.

  • Speaker Johnson says he’s going to request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report

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  • Someone with a shred of ethics on this ethics committee better fucking leak this.

  • Speaker Johnson says he’s going to request Ethics Committee not release Gaetz report

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  • That’s not the reason, though. Imperfect witnesses are quite often at the heart of criminal cases – co-conspirators, jailhouse informants, etc. If that was an obstacle, no mobsters or drug lords would ever have been convicted.

    The real reason is cronyism and political privilege.

  • Trump picks vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary

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  • Interesting thought, but there are a few problems with this:

    • The antichrist was supposed to be a genius military tactician. Trump isn’t a genius anything.
    • The biblical Armageddon wasn’t meant to be a prediction of the distant future, but was prophesied to happen within the lifetime of the original apostles, so 2,000 years ago.
    • The general scholarly consensus is that the Nero was meant to be the antichrist, and that the whole story was descriptive rather than prescriptive.

    It’s a fun theory, though.

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  • What about caring for the elderly and disabled? We see anthropological evidence of many behaviours that can only be explained by compassion and empathy, some of which would have actually detracted from security.

    The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has many evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and group cohesion.

    Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.

    And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.

    Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.

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  • Millions of years, likely. The whole reason we’re successful is because our pre-human ancestors were empathetic and cooperative enough to build societies.

    We see those same traits in many other primates, and they’re not something it makes sense to evolve, lose, and evolve again. Those traits predate us.

    Language almost certainly predates us, since we see it not only in other primates, but in non-primate species, too. And based on the humour we see in many animals, you can bet we were making dick jokes nearly out of the gate.

  • Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

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  • Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

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  • Ooh, thanks for the reminder! Mine expires next year. Best renew it now before they fuck that up, too.

  • Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All

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  • And who is likely to nominate an antivax, anti-science lunatic with brain worms to head the dept of Health and Human Services?

    And who is planning to eliminate the department of education and NOAA?

    Previous administrations have done damage through incompetence and/or malice, but the plan this time is on another level. They’re going in with the goal of breaking everything.

  • Not Satire: The Onion acquires Infowars

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  • I was hoping the Knowledge Fight guys would get it, but this is pretty great, too.

    I hope Alex’s cat shits in his shoes.

  • Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is Trump's pick for director of national intelligence

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  • Nah, they’ll just kill NASA outright and transition to SpaceX.

    I expect Madge to get the Dept of Homeland Security.

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    Republicans "stunned and disgusted" as Trump taps Matt Gaetz for AG

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  • No, what we sat through was the pre-show with puppets and clowns. Next up is the twisted, gore-filled main event. They’ve been beating the elephants and starving the lions. There will be carnage.

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    Republicans "stunned and disgusted" as Trump taps Matt Gaetz for AG

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  • His biggest qualification is he has potential criminal cases he needs gone, just like trump does. Their interests are perfectly aligned. Gaetz will erase all traces of trump’s crimes and evidence without needing to be asked, right after he does the same for himself.