Cool cool, yeah i was reading on the wikipedia that he fought in the war. Will probably pick that up next. Thanks!

I gotcha. I believe it. Have any book recs on the topic? Think this’ll probably be the my next lil history read after I’m done 100 Years War on Palestine

edit: topic being spanish civil war period

Thanks, I’ll read up on it.

But from what I’ve read so far, the violence wasn’t exclusively from anarchist groups and more of mass violence from all leftist groups during that time towards clerics and rightists?

Also who are these anarchists cleansing dissidents?

Thank you, Bo Burnham, for exposing me to the idea that

🎶Private property’s inherently theft, and neoliberal fascists are destroying the leeeeeft🎶

I figured “frame” refers to glasses, but looks like people are thinking it’s a box of some sort.

Edit: oop I see you already mentioned that in the post body

Me too! I prune my yard of invasives and let the natives grow, cataloging with iNaturalist as I see new species. My yard was a dirt slope last summer, this summer it is full of a wonderful variety of plants! My crotchety gardener mother and aunt keep trying to offer me non-natives to transplant – I tell them I’ve got plants growing already but thank you – they say, “yeah, weeds.”

Funnily enough, my yard with milkweed, primrose, violets, tickseed flowers, black-eyed susans, a walnut sapling, pepperweed, and st johns wort (not actually native here but not as invasive as some other plants) looks better than theirs and probably requires way less maintenance.

good post, sounds like a copypasta

Idk about curated playlists but I use soulseek to share files with my friends.

I like the same genres, I can recommend you some albums I’ve been liking if you want

Jesus christ.

For those curious, there is no gore in this video.

Still disturbing.

I want our Brave ICE Officers to know that REAL Americans are cheering you on every day

Oh, how subtle. If you’re not cheering ICE on, you’re not a REAL American. So you should be deported too!

Who’s posting this Israeli propaganda

Eh, I don’t necessarily disagree with your statement – and sure, I’d probably agree that evolutionary psychology has a problem in that it’s not super testable – then again, what does my word mean since I’m a lay person.

It does fit into our understanding of evolution though, and it fits into how we analyze behaviors of other animals. Its clear that some portion of our psychology is genetic, and therefore evolutionary, and it only follows that there’s is going to be variability in each individual’s initial psychological makeup, even within geographically adjacent groups of individuals. . When you plop nurture on top, that variability becomes even wider. Idk, it seems kinda nonsensical to claim that one person can’t be more genetically predisposed to feeling anxiety than another, right?

You can and should call out racists, but just because there are some racists who use evolutionary psychology to be racists, doesn’t mean it’s all bunk. Just like it doesn’t make Darwinism all bunk when it’s used by social darwinists to oppress others.

Edit: obviously anyone who says “this race is more likely to act like this because of this” is whack. I guess I’m thinking of evolutionary psychology on more of a macro scale, where it could be used to explain (colloquial “explain,” scientific “hypothesize”), for example, why humans experience social anxiety, where feelings of shame or embarrassment come from, how we deal with rejection, or acceptance, etc. in a real scientifically grounded way.

You articulated my thoughts better than I did. Such a bizarre way to criticize Steven Pinker. Like criticizing Tom Cruise for being a part of a native plant gardening club.

How do you mean? A person can be genetically predisposed to be tall, but grow up to be short due to environmental circumstances (eg lack of nutrition during childhood)

Edit: I figured this would go without saying, but maybe not: this idea, I think logically, extends to things like dopamine thresholds in the brain, and other, erhm, neurotransmittal (word?) aspects of the body. Really, all aspects of the body start with genetic predisposition and then do or do not undergo changes corresponding with the environment. To be completely clear, I am not a scientist. If the science doesnt support this, then Id happily stand corrected

Idk, I mean I’m not a fan of Pinker (his whole book on why violence has declined seems to ignore structural violence all around us, especially lower classes, and heavily supports capitalism) but evolutionary psychology seems pretty legit to me?

Geographically isolated groups of a single species will show variations of behavior and psychology that is affected by their environment and genetic predispositions – that seems like a pretty reasonable take.

Yeah, when people take that to racist extremes, its problematic. You can’t assume a person’s quality because, when it comes to individuals in a particular, geographically originated group, you don’t know where they landed on the spectrum re: genetic predisposition, and then you don’t know their current environment either. It all comes out in the wash. I don’t really think that means evolutionary psychology is total bunk, though. Its useful to put humans along with other animals when we think about their how their behavior and psychology are affected by evolution.

People love to make things into purity tests of sorts (is that the right word?)

Few weeks ago, some person on here was disparaging the GTA series, saying they don’t enjoy it “because they’re not 12.”

It’s like, dude, people do things for different reasons. Not everyone wants to spend hundreds of hours roleplaying a medieval peasant. It doesn’t make you more mature, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re more patient, and it doesn’t mean you have better taste. Disparaging other peoples tastes just tells me you do things to feel better than others.

This is coming from someone who does enjoy spending hundreds of hours roleplaying a medieval peasant. I also happen to enjoy mindless multiplayer games, and, yes, GTA.

It’s just so, so lame, the way some of these people talk about games

Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.

Feel free to roast me in the process.

I found this fact particularly fun. thanks for sending me down a lil rabbit hole.

Those are fair viewpoints. I’m no marxist-leninist. But I will say, capitalism doesn’t work on large scale either. So why keep it around?

Edit: in other words I think what you say is accurate but doesn’t address the problems I brought up about liberals