It's an interesting case because studies have found that there are certain core issues where if a candidate doesn't match their stance on it, voters are unwilling to engage with that candidate's other policies.
Stuff like abortion, gun control. Genocide looks like one of those issues.
I can taste in my head but there's a limited range of what I can smell in my head.
Like, the smell of chocolate or wet dog or chanel no 5, no problem. The smell of my mother's house or a meadow on a sunny day, very vague and uncertain.
Discoverability takes a bit longer here. If you're looking to add content, then alongside the usual directories it's worth checking out the lists at https://kbin.social/magazines/collections
Moderation is transparent here.
Also, protip: if you're in a thread where everyone is raging about "libs" or "the liberals," on reddit that would indicate a conservative sub, but here there's a 99% chance they are communists or anarchists.
I had a 3-month ban from a community once and had no idea until I did a mod log search on my own username about 6 months later.
Thinking back to how I could possibly have failed to even notice, I think it's just that kbin still displays the comments of banned kbin users so I was probably still getting interactions through that.
Have to admit the number of people in here with full internal voices has made me realize why podcasts and long videos of youtubers talking are so popular.
I hate them because it's like spending 10 minutes to be drip fed 1 minute's worth of information.
Me too. People like you are fascinating to me. When I first found out that everyone thinks differently I went around interrogating everyone I knew about how they think.
I don't have an interior monologue unless Im typing, but I sometimes use my internal "sound system" to play music.
It's hard because we have to translate it to get it across -for me it feels a bit like being asked how do you know where your arms are relative to your body.
Don’t hear anything like “shit, that’s a lot of money?! Where to start, where to start…”
No and it's amazing to me that you'd even be able to think of it in 20 seconds with all that chatter in your brain.
As I was reading your comment I could sort of hear parts of that, because it's you "speaking" to me, but as soon as I saw it the $10,000 imediately became a sort of conceptual bundle located in front of me, the 24h was like a moving spatial cycle thing and my brain was plotting possibilities based on how far I would have to travel (the ones falling inside the cycle are the do-able ones) and locating a whole lot of stuff branching out from my computer with short action times.
Also my brain had immediately reached to the right hand middle distance which is where it "keeps" investment advice. It had a quick dart to the far away centre-left and I had a flash/photorealistic image of home furnishings out there but rejected instantly as the tangled sense of moving parts between me and it meant the process toward them is complex and would take up too much of the 20 second processing time to even see if they would fit in the 24h cycle.
I don't think cognitive processing without words is necessarily more abstract.
Arguably if you're processing concepts such as relative geographical location or how to cook a steak, spatial processing is at far less of a remove than converting it all over to words/symbols.
The ADL are about as credible as Gwynneth Paltrow at this point but you're right, we don't need to play into his strategy and go there, because genocidal settler colonialism is a much closer analogy.
There's an interesting book by Sven Lindqvist that convincingly argues that the blueprint for the Holocaust was basically there in previous colonial practices, eg the death camps for the Herero and Namaqua people in the Namibian Genocide.
The JK Rowling "race change" comments were in my feed yesterday, as were you, and you pretty obviously saw them.
Look you've made at least three accounts to troll with. I don't know if you're bored or if you're hurting, but here are some ideas (all free) for a better use of your time:
Get a duolingo account and learn a new language
Download Insight Timer and try guided meditation
Sign up to EdX and enrol in a course
Join Lichess and follow some of the tutorials
Make an account at Neopets and play some casual games
I'm serious about this. Trolling can feel satisfying at first because you get attention but it's empty attention, a bit like empty calories. To get the kind of attention that actually soothes your soul you will need to offer something of positive value to an online community instead.
I was taught inside of my elbows but yep, will never cough into my hand again. It's so gross, why was it ever a thing?