Helblind

I have no problem with Islam. I’m just against beheading, stoning, marrying little girls, sexual slavery, taqiyya, slave trading, rape, forced conversions, jihad, burqa, attacking other religions, child abuse, women abuse, animal abuse, multiple wives, murder, Sharia, terrorism, brainwashing, intolerance, greed, anti-science, torture, illiteracy, gluttony, genital mutilation, inbreeding. Does that make me Islamophobic?

@azurlane_staff Not an L2D. Covering the goods. Disgraceful.

【着せ替え】 ローン　黒と紺の昂ぶり 「水着ですか？ああ、これは指揮官が気に入ってくれるかもと思って破いてみたのですか？…どうですか？これはこれで私に似合ってると…思いませんか？♥」 次回メンテ後、「ローン」着せ替え 追加ボイスあり仕様で実装予定！ #アズールレーン

@AzurLane_EN Stop covering the skins. I have refused to purchase multiple skins because of this and am seriously considering dropping the game.

【Preview: Z15's Dynamic skin - Dancing Diver】 Oh nooo, I fell again~ It's so hard to keep my balance in here... Hmm? Did I just catch you staring at clumsy little me, Commander? *Content is in development and may not reflect the final version. #AzurLane #Yostar

When someone teaches you something you didn't ask to learn, your brain reacts like it's in physical pain. UCLA scientists watched it happen on brain scans in 2003. The same wiring that fires when you stub your toe also fires when someone treats you like you need fixing. Naomi Eisenberger and Matthew Lieberman ran the study and published it in Science. The brain region is the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, which is just the fancy name for your main pain alarm. It doesn't care whether the threat is a hot stove or a friend telling you how to live. A neuroscientist named David Rock built a framework around this in 2008. Five things make the brain feel safe in social moments: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. Take away any of those and the alarm fires. Rock wrote that one of the easiest ways to dent someone's status is to give them advice they didn't ask for. Even hinting that they're doing something wrong is enough. When people are told what to do, they often do the opposite, even when the advice was good. The psychologist Jack Brehm noticed this in 1966, and sixty years of follow-up have confirmed it. The brain is trying to keep your life feeling like your own. Close friends cut each other off with unsolicited advice in about 70% of supportive conversations, often before the friend has even finished explaining the problem. That number comes from a 2016 study by Bo Feng and Eran Magen in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. The closer the friendship, the worse it gets. And the advice tends to make them more stressed, more depressed, and more lonely, not less. Giving advice gives the giver a sense of power, even when nobody asked for it. Michael Schaerer and his co-authors, working across Harvard, Duke, INSEAD, USC, and Singapore Management, published this in 2018 after four experiments with about 700 people. People who chase power volunteer advice more often than others. Whether the student actually improves is a side effect, if it happens at all. So when you feel the urge to teach somebody who never asked, that urge is mostly about you. You walk away feeling a little more powerful. They walk away feeling like they were just told they can't run their own life. Most uninvited teaching is one person's ego dressed up as kindness.

@hasanthehun You're such a good little commie let's send you to China as well.

why don’t we send you to the frontlines rn? there’s already one war america started that isn’t going too well!

@bonchieredstate Well, for what it's worth, hearing the casting for Achilles and Helen means I won't be seeing it. I can't be the only one.

Helen of Troy will probably be in ‘The Odyssey’ for like two minutes. It’s not going to make or break the movie. But come on. Everyone knows what the reaction would be if Nolan was doing an African mythology and cast Sydney Sweeney as a sub-Saharan princess. Let’s not be dumb.

Is this Canada's own Learing Center? Bluebird Child Care Centres: Edmonton. Their About page literally says "Early LEARING and Care." TWICE. Also on the page: "famalies," "prorgamed," "deveelopment," "fmailies," "benifit." Gallery? Two stock photos. No facility. No staff. No children. Business listing? Photos from "Bluebird Care" a UK ELDERLY home care company. Not a daycare. Not Canadian. Not them. I called. 4 times. Nobody picked up. Sound familiar? Cause I think I’m getting suspicious.

🧵Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) 🧵 Ask any person who has been even suggested to have BPD; they will uniformly tell you that they have been told to try DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy). Reflexively recommended. "Gold standard." This is not science-supported. /1

@KristinRaworth @erinotoole Not insane, just not as willing as you to give up our freedom so the government can raise our kids. Indigenous Canadians can tell you a lot about that.

Just loving the INSANE replies to this. @erinotoole is right. When I grew up (I’m old) we didn’t have social media and I’m better for it. Actually I’m blessed for it. Yes parents should determine children’s access but if you think they can you don’t remember the stories of kids like Amanda Todd. Kids need limits to dangerous tools that can make them targets and hurt others. Hell at this point maybe adults need them too.

@erinotoole @WabKinew Ask Indigenous Canadians what they think about the government raising their children. Be a parent, you Tool.

Anyone with children knows this is a necessary step for their well-being and for wider social cohesion. Good move by @WabKinew

@IanRunkle @erinotoole @WabKinew Parenting just isn't an option anymore, I guess. Say hello to Big Father.

Joe Rogan: "$250 million for transgender animal studies?!" Elon Musk: "Literally mutilating animals. Mutilating animals and demented studies... a horror show."

@IanRunkle @ArmedJ0y Makes you wonder how much they steal per year from citizens with this practice.

It feels like every month now I have to call some company or another because their auto-pay system fucked up, didn't pull, then they charge me late fees. We then call them, and they say "oh oops, sorry" and reverse it. Why is this happening more and more?

@FakeTaxedBrass Is that supposed to be a compelling retort? There is something wrong with someone who would go to these ends over fictional content. People like you are the problem with the world. People to retarded to handle ideas. Your family should be looked in. Projecting HARD.

@theantigynocen1 @SteveStuWill This is still "My group is good".

@SteveStuWill I can assure you gamma bias, the gender empathy gap/women are wonderful effect/female ingroup bias/male disposability aka gynocentrism is very real, very distinctive and in an unparalleled class of bigotry. youtu.be/LHYRYKCIDxk?si…

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/one-bias-to-…

"A teacher shouldn’t have to marry a psychologist in order to learn that Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is wrong." stevestewartwilliams.com/p/intelligence…

They put scars on women’s faces for a job interview experiment… then secretly removed them. The women went in believing they had visible disfigurements — and came out reporting massive discrimination, with interviewers supposedly referencing their “scars.” Konstantin Kisin used this study to make a powerful point: constantly telling people they’re oppressed or disadvantaged primes them to see discrimination everywhere, even when it isn’t there. It’s the same psychological effect as buying a new car and suddenly noticing that model on every street. The ideology of victimhood doesn’t just describe reality — it actively shapes it. We should be teaching young people they’re strong and capable of overcoming adversity, not training them to see themselves as permanent victims. What’s one way you’ve seen this “victimhood mindset” play out in real life?

Important new finding: For decades there's been abundant evidence for the existence, importance, & heritability of "general intelligence" (despite massive denial in journalism, ed schools, and among intellectual-cultural elites). That is: if you're above average in verbal skills, you're likelier to be above average in math, memory, spatial reasoning, & everything else, & genes are a major (though not the only) reason. But are specific cognitive abilities (verbal, math, etc., separate from g) also heritable? Massive new meta-analysis says yes. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…