MindTraveller @ MindTraveller @lemmy.ca

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I've met sociopaths and at least 2 psychopaths

Psychopathy is Greek for "mental illness". I've met sociopaths with autism, and every one of them was definitionally a psychopath too. But I've also met psychopaths with mental illnesses like depression or PTSD, who were not sociopaths. I'm pretty sure every sociopath is also a psychopath. And if you've only ever met 2 mentally ill people, you are definitely not an expert on psychopathy and you shouldn't be spreading misinformation on the internet.

I don't believe you. Show me sociopathy in the DSM. And no cheating, I don't want to hear you say that sociopathy is actually a colloquialism for some other disorder.

Hey, let's not lower ourselves to Beast's level. Sociopathy is just Greek for "social illness". It refers to psychosocial disorders like autism. Beast is afraid of being called autistic because he's a bigot. We're not like him. We don't hate autistic people.

That vocab isn't in alignment with the APA's inclusive language guidelines.

Sociopathy is nothing to be ashamed of. It's just Greek for "social illness". Autism is a psychosocial disorder, which means all autistic people are sociopaths. Beast's mad dash to avoid being labelled neurodivergent is a very bad look on him. Only an asshole would feel the need to "defend" himself against being called a sociopath.

The development of a country is measured not in how many of the poor own cars, but in how many of the rich use public transit

Taylor Swift should be getting to her concerts by high speed rail. If she needs privacy, she should book a private car. A service which would be available to anyone willing to pay extra.

That's a shame. Negative results are very important to the process.

That old man is a slave owner

Oh, good point.

That's not a metaphor, it's a comparison, which is when you state a difference between two things.

Don't grade sources on leftness or rightness. It's relative. Aggregation doesn't fix the problem of Overton shift.

Australia had communism for 60,000 years and never developed a dictatorship.

Okay but have you considered that watching Picard argue that slavery bad is fun as hell?

This post has nothing to do with mods.

Fuck Ground News

Because they want corporate donor money.

We live in a mammocracy.

Humans can mix channels to create an infinite variety of perceived colour through combination. We can even see pink, which doesn't exist in the EM spectrum. It's a colour that only exists in the minds of living beings.

Mantis shrimp brains are too simple to mix channels. They can only recognise the presence of absence of the 12 colours their eyes can see. While a mantis shrimp can see infrared, ultraviolet, and polarisation, a mantis shrimp will never know the beauty of blurple, electric lime, hot pink, or any of the thousands of other colours humans can see thanks to channel mixing.

You left your SI in the link

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