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Is there some concrete action that someplace like Ireland can actually take? Serious question.

Did you read that all the way through? Reminds me of a DEI talk I attended in work, where we were informed that racism was invented by the pope in the middle ages

Sorry, I can only read it on Mrs. egg_'s phone

You need a subscription to read it, but this made me actual lol https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio/2024/03/21/patrick-freyne-the-english-now-have-both-our-fourth-green-field-and-lindsay-lohan/

What on earth is the point of apologising for what someone else did?

A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy - Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press tl;dr - a particular type of brain hemorrhage is associated with "shaken baby syndrome", but it can also be caused by "minor household falls ... genetic conditions...

Haha my kids talk about this kind of shit on tiktok - someone posts a picture of a drawing/painting they did saying "it took me 20 hours to do this and I have only 2 likes boo hoo poor me". They don't have much time for it (possibly cos they've spent their lives watching me spend countless hours...

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-illusion-of-moral-decline

I can relate to the article. I do lots of things because they're good for me or my family rather than because I like doing them (e.g. exercise, cleaning the house, working). Some things that I really enjoyed in my youth I hardly ever get to do now, because I'm older and I have responsibilities...

That's still how lots of teachers roll. History in school is bascially about becoming familiar with the foundational myths of one's culture. Very little to do with history as its practised by historians

What? Don Quixote is a fictional character from a novel written in the early 1600s - how the fuck could someone bear a striking resemblance to him???

https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2023-05-10/walking-might-be-good-for-you-but-it-also-ruins-your-life.html

Still though. It's kinda mad. Have you tried to get it to tell you about yourself?

Whoa shit! Pete is that for real? ChatGPT really said that?

Driving home from Wexford in a bleak mood today (my Da in the outskirts of dementia, Mrs. egg_'s long COVID symptoms bad again cos she has actual COVID again), and I think I finally put my finger on what I don't like about this article... The facts in the article boil down to "poorer women are...

If we're all guilty, and it's not clear how to change things, then I don't know how any of this is useful or meaningful

Hmm I dunno about "strong". Feels to me like it's trying to shoehorn some measurements into an overarching story of oppression, without really managing to identify who the oppressor is (pdf worked btw)

Here's another article by the same guy which I think is rather on-point (even though the language he uses can be a little off-putting) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/our-new-discontents/202210/why-learning-our-emotions-requires-resisting-talk-diagnoses

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/05/femcel-meaning-female-incel-reddit/629836/ "femcels" are a thing. Mad.

Can you actually talk to LaMDA and see for yourself? Edited transcripts are pretty meaningless IMO