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Hegar

@ Hegar @fedia.io

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Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • Quit using fb years back, maybe five? Have checked it twice to message people i've no other contacts for.

    I've used reddit maybe a half dozen times since moving to fediverse during the 3rd party app exodus. Each time to find a specific niche thing, often to no avail.

    So i'd say honestly no, but i never like social media much to begin with.

  • AOC surges to lead in 2028 primary for first time

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  • THERE IS ANOTHER ELECTION BEFORE THAT.

    It's two years away. It's not even the next election! And this is all presuming that there even is another election, which is far from given.

    There is absolutely nothing you can say about a hypothetic 2028 election in 2026.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

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  • It doesn't work like that, i've already been allowed to attend at serious medical events without her being able to say so.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

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  • Almost word for word what i was going to say.

    I'm in a committed, 9year relationship, we're in our 40s and married in all but name.

    The state can fuck right off.

    We know what we have and no piece of paper steeped in millenia of patriarchal property ownership could ever affect or authorize that.

  • New here from China 👋 Any tips for a beginner?

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  • Can't wait!!

  • New here from China 👋 Any tips for a beginner?

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  • 🤤🤤🤤 I just ate dinner and this is making me hungry again 😂

  • New here from China 👋 Any tips for a beginner?

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  • I'd love to go back, i really want to visit like a million historical sites and food places. I've heard such good things about Hunan food. I always make sure to say "要大辣" when i order chinese here in the US, hoping they will make it proper spicy.

  • New here from China 👋 Any tips for a beginner?

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  • 好啊！Where in China are you from?

    I studied for a semester in 云南. 好想吃米线啊！

    I miss so much food from China. Stumbling home drunk and getting fried rice cooked over one of those intense burners that sound like a jet engine. All the 烧烤 was incredible. And in 云南 the 傣菜 was always so special. 🤤

    Because the fediverse is small, niche communities tend to have little content and it's quite likely that most popular content will end up in your feed. I found it was helpful to subscribe to communities after i saw a post i liked from that community.

    Welcome, hope you like it!

  • Iran Seizes Tanker Carrying Its Own Oil

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  • So unauthorized transport of iranian oil? Either the ship was sanctioned by the US in error or a ship that was shady enough to do sanctions-busting for Iran is also shady enough to double cross iran, work for another paymaster, or some such?

  • Iran Seizes Tanker Carrying Its Own Oil

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  • part of Iran’s shadow fleet, the network used to move crude outside official channels.

    Iran’s explanation didn’t add much clarity. Officials said the tanker was carrying Iranian oil but had tried to exploit regional conditions. No details on what that actually means.

    Pretty shady looking site. If this can be believed, it seems like story is that some kind of deniable sub-contractor in the wider shadow fleet network was doing something that caused it to be flagged as suspicious and seized by iranian officials.

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  • My dad was a linguist, so he'd met chomsky at conferences when he was just a big name in linguistics, not politically. Despite being very left wing, my dad wouldn't listen to anything chomsky later had to say on politics because dad hated chomsky. Arrogant pig-headed asshole, he'd say. And when my dad called someone an asshole he specifically meant a kind of false or unempathetic rudeness.

    Before the epstein files came out i told my partner I bet chomsky is in there.

    That said i want to believe specialists toiling in a field they love are less likely to fall prey to this, but academia politics are known to be brutal.

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  • Yeah it depends on who your heroes are for sure, but unless we're talking about like "my granma", anyone who has significant accomplishments probably has enough social status within their group to count as powerful.

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  • (Here. Are. Some. Sources). These are pop articles. Below are some quotes from papers. I go on about this topic a lot!😂

    "Recent evidence has demonstrated that empathic responses are modulated by social power." "high-power people show low empathic accuracy compared to low-power people" "numerous studies have shown that people with high power are less accurate in recognizing others’ emotional expressions"

    "higher socioeconomic status is associated with reduced neural responses to the pain of others" "experiments using fMRI indicates that power promotes greed ... displayed decreased response in the right and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, indicating a weaker restrain of self-interest when processing receiving more than others" "Power decreases empathic concern" "powerholders may experience less distress and less compassion as well as exhibit greater autonomic emotion regulation when faced with the pain of others" "elevated power impedes accurate understanding of other people’s emotional expressions" "Elevated power is associated with heightened interest in rewards while low power is associated with increased attention to the interest of others"

    "In face-to-face conversations, participants disclosed experiences that had caused them suffering. As predicted, participants with a higher sense of power experienced less distress and less compassion and exhibited greater autonomic emotion regulation when confronted with another participant's suffering."

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  • Powerful people just can't help but be vile.

    As you gain social power, the empathy centers in your brain are suppressed. "Power corrupts" has a neurological basis.

  • Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

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  • Objectively untrue. He lacks the cognition to realize anything of the sort. "Mythos is so scary!!1!1" is a PR line.

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • GPL1 is not the only way to get there

    Except that for the overwhelming majority, functionally everyone, they are.

    I'm not a propent of the drug. I'm slightly wary, I don't want it and i don't bring it up to others. But I don't judge people who do.

    It sounds like you're part of the incredibly small minority who have been able to lose weight. Congratulations! It sounds like you worked long and hard to find a regimen that works for you.

    Literally 99% of obese people will never find what you found. For them, these drugs are the ONLY realistic option to perminantly lose weight. Nothing else has been shown to work in more than 1% of cases.

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • 😊 Right? It really stuck with me. One of those articles that ties together so many obvious and not so obvious pieces into a really clear picture. And in HuffPo no less!

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • Yep!

    The altered hormone balance is what allows weight loss and if that reverts than so does weight loss.

    I know this "you have to keep taking them" argument is big in anti-glp1 circles, but I don't think it's very good - the same is true of vitamin supplements. You have to keep taking them or the deficiency comes back. They still help.

    I don't care for glp1s myself but i've heard how happy they make some, so i don't judge others' choices.

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • If you know several people who met the medical definition of obese and have perminantly left that category then you know several outliers, which is entirely possible.

    But that is just not representative. Over 99% of obese people do not lose weight. Those few outliers are heavily visible and celebrated so it feels like there must be more.

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  • No this predates glp1s, the article i linked is from 2018.