My point was that I had linked to plenty of countries not located within north or south America.
My point was that I had linked to plenty of countries not located within north or south America.
So formidable… Earlier detection of a severely outdated aircraft that’s being phased out…
Elephants are incredible animals. They have complex communication and even communicate through seismic vibrations through the ground via their feet, and they can even recognize the elephant sending the seismic message. Additionally, they have cultural practices, including funeral rituals.
For citations for these claims and more information, here is a blog post of mine (I have ads turned off and don’t benefit from my blog in any way).
Thanks!
I bit for a minute there, until I realized that video is 3 hours and 45 minutes long… I don’t care that much…
The only show that peirces thru imo is The Boys.
There’s no question the planet and all other life would be better off if we died out in the stone age. Climate change, PFAS, microplastics… We’re parasites to the planet (channeling my best Andrew Ryan impression there).
Well the world would certainly be a better place now if that were the case.
Gives me major Inside (videogame) vibes.
I read it for a social-cultural diversity class (it’s not a textbook), but I would highly recommend White Fragility by Diangelo. Very eye-opening, perspective-shifting book.
Also read How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi for a book report, and it was also a great read.
PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can eat read a dick.
Enshittification had already been largely discussed here.
I saw users minimizing the aberrant business practices of Meta and doubting their role in assisting in genocide.
My point was to highlight how unethical and horrendous Meta itself is.
For the Meta apologists, I have a reality check for you:
Threads was immediately subject to mass amounts of radicalizing, extremist content, and there have also been instances of users having personal information doxxed on Threads due to Meta’s information-harvesting practices. [1]
Threads was marketed to be open to ‘free speech’ (read: hate speech and misinformation) and encouraged the Far-Right movement to join, who have spread extremism, hate, and harassment on Threads already. [2] Threads has been a hotbed of Israel-Palestine misinformation/propaganda. [3] They also fired fact-checkers just prior to Threads’ launch. [1]
As already established, Meta also assisted in genocide! [4]
Meta/FB/Instagram also have a strong history of facilitating the spread of misinformation and extremism, which contributed to the January 6th insurrection attempt. [5], [6]
This really should be obvious by now… but Meta mines and sells their user’s information.[7] Just look at the permissions you have to grant them for Threads…
FB users have to agree to all sorts of unethical things in the TOS, including giving Meta permission to run unethical experiments on their users without informed consent. [8] Their first published research was where they manipulated users’ feeds with positive or negative information, in order to see if it affected their mood. It did, and they successfully induced depression in many of their users!
I will now turn to an article that surmises well the core practices of Meta as a company:
Elevates disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories from the extremist fringes into the mainstream, fostering, among other effects, the resurgent anti-vaccination movement, broad-based questioning of basic public health measures in response to COVID-19, and the proliferation of the Big Lie of 2020—that the presidential election was stolen through voter fraud [16];
Empowers bullies of every size, from cyber-bullying in schools, to dictators who use the platform to spread disinformation, censor their critics, perpetuate violence, and instigate genocide;
Defrauds both advertisers and newsrooms, systematically and globally, with falsified video engagement and user activity statistics;
Reflects an apparent political agenda espoused by a small core of corporate leaders, who actively impede or overrule the adoption of good governance;
Brandishes its monopolistic power to preserve a social media landscape absent meaningful regulatory oversight, privacy protections, safety measures, or corporate citizenship; and
Disrupts intellectual and civil discourse, at scale and by design. [9]
True, but when I hear “tips for cashiers,” restaurants/food services don’t come to my mind. It makes me think of like supermarkets, clothing stores, dollar stores, etc.
It’s not a thing here, at all… This is the first I’ve ever seen it said. Same goes for tipping cashiers.
Our tipping culture is bullshit, but this just isn’t anything close to reality.
I’m not sure what “American countries” means haha. I wouldn’t consider the EU American.
That’s the resource that I’m familiar with, but I’d bet similar counselor databases exist for Asian countries.
Here’s the countries list on Psychology Today.
I would try to avoid random, potentially unqualified counselors from 3rd world countries…
Damn! I commented the same thing before scrolling through the comments…
Super Mario 64 on my switch. Reminds me of great childhood memories.