I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.

This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

Fantastic painting!

Seems to me @gregorum is talking about Demoiselles d’Avignon’s impact on art a a whole. It was a very influential painting.

Bush on the other hand is only notable because of who painted it. It’s a common naive realism style.

The two articles you posted appear next to each other in my feed and because of the thumbnails, at first glance it looks like they are from each side of the portal.

Blood quantum laws were originally laws made by colonizers in the US deciding who got to be Indigenous based on the percentage of “Indian blood” they have - colonial era Australia did the same thing to Aboriginal people. Slavery-era classifications like “octaroon” are another example.

I was using it more broadly here to mean the essentialist belief that ethnicity is dna-based.

Blood Quantum is also a horror movie :-)

…implying that she believes in Blood Quantum as well. Yikes.

Trans people, PoC… she was having a go at disabled people in her last book as well. I think maybe trolling has an addictive component and they have to reach further and further to get the same adrenaline hit.

downvotes go everywhere

Unless you’re in kbin.social, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

That said it’s still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it’s been reported already.

If you were a Vulture you’d be too busy buying up 3rd world countries debt and then suing those countries for payment.

You wouldn’t have time to muck around with a chatbot.

@ernest actually fixed this at one point but it broke again with the big changes last month. I’m thinking he will fix it again sooner or later.

Over the years, the “High Chaparral” torrent achieved cult status among a small group of people who likely keep sharing it, simply because it’s the oldest surviving torrent.

At first I thought the notorious kbin thumbnail mismatch bug struck again but no.

@shaked_coffee I made an account there and followed a bunch of people, but the federation aspect feels faux to me.

My profile there is basically just a redirect.

You’re right and I have since read the article properly.

I’m not a coder, just a casual, but it’s interesting, though I still disagree that it’s a good way to go.

@Spotlight7573 thanks for the heads up. I’m an idiot.

Yeah I was being a bit of an oblivious dick in my comment.

I still disagree with him though.

I suppose I can grant papal indulgence

Heh love your wording there. I actually started that train of thought with various “relics” like the vial of Christ’s blood, statues weeping tears etc some of which were eventually debunked iirc.

Ponzi schemes are quite possibly as old as granaries (or the pyramids), but I think a better contender for scope is something like the Mississipi Bubble which was absolute madness…

Kbin really is a work in progress. I’m sticking with it, but I have backup accounts for the times when it’s too buggy.

@FaceDeer

If it’s a scam then at this point it’s one of history’s biggest and longest-running.

Kind of an overstatement. It hasn’t even been 20 years. If it were a scam it’d be nowhere near the scale and timeframe of, say, Papal Indulgences.

This isn’t anything to do with your wider argument btw, just me nitpicking. Didn’t know you’d relocated to fedia.io, was that during the downtime?

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Extradite them.

Oh wait…