celeste @ celeste @kbin.earth

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maybe they weren't, since not spanking children leads to better outcomes for them. Emotionally and cognitively.

Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3447048/

My take is that conspiracies happen, but I'm not smart enough to pick them out. If there's legit evidence (the real trouble is deciding what that means), though, I can believe it.

Some billboards warn voters to “STOP Child Gender Surgery,” even though the amendment doesn’t mention gender-affirming care. Other billboards say it would permit abortions in the ninth month of pregnancy, though a state appeals court ruling in a case challenging the wording of the amendment’s summary on the ballot said that was not true.

So, they're just plainly lying, huh. I was wondering how they tied the things together, but they're just straight up lying to try and use general antitrans sentiment to get people to vote against their interests.

Just, classic tactics from them.

A three-judge panel on Thursday ruled that Tennessee doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother cannot have their medical licenses revoked or face other disciplinary actions while a lawsuit challenging the state’s sweeping abortion ban continues.

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However, the judges also said that because they are a chancery court, they do not have the jurisdiction to block the criminal statute inside the ban — where violators face felony charges carrying a prison sentence as high as 15 years.

This means that while doctors will not face disciplinary actions from the Attorney General’s office and the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners, they could still risk criminal charges under Thursday’s ruling.

I watched someone play a bunch of these and her theory is they were inspired by that pt silent hills demo

I appreciate that Kim went over to make sure he was ok.

Played it and loved it. I know I should hold off and wait until it's complete before I play again, bit it's going to be tough not loading it up the second there's another update.

Yeah, I'll never know their hearts and minds, so it doesn't really matter compared to their actions.

I don't mind giving them an out, personally, if they need a way to pretend they're not shitty, amoral people (i was tricked! gosh! I would never parrot obvious lies for my own advantage! I was naive!) to resolve cognitive dissonance and stop being shitty in this way. I don't blame anyone else for not giving that to them.

They don't deserve it.

I'm glad they're trying to do something about that bs. The sorts of people worming into election boards scare me even more than the election itself. They believe conspiracy theories so easily.

That's an interesting way to think about it

I watched Super Sleepover Society's playthrough of this, and I debated if I'd enjoy the gameplay. The silly story is just my sort of thing, though.

My disc 2 was fucked up so I only finished the game by saving every minute or so, because it'd crash constantly.

Misogyny isn't just a man thing! Women participate it in (against the "bad" ones) all the time.

It's so easy to just look up a picture of harris' dad.

I thought the bullshit right wing argument was that she only brought up that part of her background for political points, not the even more ludicrous argument that a black man from jamaica is actually white.

Clearly, the hole was just from the same cat pawing the door for hundreds of years.

I get it! A friend adopted an overweight dog once, whose previous owners let free feed on cat food. Getting her to a healthy weight took a while, and everyone wants to share pet pics.

Every choice is the same, but the consequences change drastically the further you get

2 for me. 1 took longer to parse.

How do you propose we go about changing this? How do we effectively encourage it?

I think that purely logical thought is impossible, and believing we are a logical person can lead us to assume all our opinions are logical, inherently. Which leads to using after the fact logic to justify initial gut reactions. Is that what you mean by wisdom? The ability to understand your own emotional reaction and decide if it's based on anything useful? Or is it something else?

I think, at this point in time, celebrity culture is important to be aware of. Trump was a reality tv star, after all. I think a better world could be made if society didn't care about celebrities, but that is not where we live, and observing reality seems an important step to understanding it. And understanding it can help us determine if there is a way to alter this. If that's the goal. Is that the purpose to your questions?

After he[r] reinvention as a conservative Catholic activist, she drew criticism in 2001 after saying on a television talkshow that the high rate of Aids in Africa was due, not to a lack of safe sex, but because “the Blacks like to copulate a lot”. She later tried to amend her remarks, saying Africans had a lot of sex due to the continent’s hot climate.

Wow!