Eiren (she/her)

Except you can’t empathise with a group because groups are conceptual and concepts do not have feelings.

This shit is depressing.

Edit: Actually, this whole thing is bizarre. “empathizing was rated as more effortful and distressing compared to staying objective”? Feelings are objective. Individuals objectively have feelings. Empathy is understanding and weighing other people’s feelings, particularly when making decisions. There is absolutely nothing that is not objective about it.

The experimental design also seems to be asking the participants to empathise with people who very obviously don’t exist with zero information about their fictional cirtumstances (not even any body language), which is bordering on impossible. I’d also really like to ask how it’s “distressing” to try to empathise with an expressionless photograph on a solid background.

Junk research. Whoever approved funding for it should be fired.

I can’t wait to get SWAT’d because I said something bad about white supremacy.

It’s also part of why humans and dogs get along so well. Grey wolves (and, to some extent, many other canids) are also among the best animals at persistence hunting.

It’s also just wrong, because quite a lot of mammals and birds use sound for intraspecies communication (a la human language), echolocation is fairly common, feeding and hunting often generate sound… Sound production for mating purposes is a hefty chunk, but the joke here is pretty misleading.

Define better.

For business usage, it’s really just Debian and Red Hat as options, along with their derivatives. For personal use, add Arch to the list.

Other distros exist but people don’t generally need to worry about them, their stability or compatibility, etc. This includes developers as well as users.

Or so I’ve heard, anyway.

I think in America it’s usually called hydric acid! 😨

All humans are basically pure evil.