I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.

This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.

Let us know what you go with!

Noooo not the alpacas!! They deserve better.

For real tho I’m not looking forward to pandemic 2.0.

My guess is probably what’s happening with these 4-account people is they have them all open at the same time in different browsers, and since they only use them to upvote one account’s post submissions they just have to follow that account.

I’ve noticed a few people doing it but they only seem to use like 4 accounts each. Usually people spamming/promoting a blog.

Sure. But votes aren’t private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it’s easy to spot.

It’s only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.

Yes those children and premature babies really bit off more than “they” could chew

/s

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

Fantastic painting!

Seems to me @gregorum is talking about Demoiselles d’Avignon’s impact on art a a whole. It was a very influential painting.

Bush on the other hand is only notable because of who painted it. It’s a common naive realism style.

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.

Might be the same person. It’s an obvious troll account that was only created yesterday.

This is probably copying the latest JK Rowling trolling story which is about the same subject.

The two articles you posted appear next to each other in my feed and because of the thumbnails, at first glance it looks like they are from each side of the portal.

Blood quantum laws were originally laws made by colonizers in the US deciding who got to be Indigenous based on the percentage of “Indian blood” they have - colonial era Australia did the same thing to Aboriginal people. Slavery-era classifications like “octaroon” are another example.

I was using it more broadly here to mean the essentialist belief that ethnicity is dna-based.

Blood Quantum is also a horror movie :-)

…implying that she believes in Blood Quantum as well. Yikes.

Trans people, PoC… she was having a go at disabled people in her last book as well. I think maybe trolling has an addictive component and they have to reach further and further to get the same adrenaline hit.

downvotes go everywhere

Unless you’re in kbin.social, which doesn’t federate downvotes.

That said it’s still handy for other kbin users and a good indication that it’s been reported already.

Heh. Most English-speaking countries spell cheque this way.

If it had happened like in the 1980s or something it would have been forgiveable but it was like 2006, at that point we all already knew climate change was real.

I never really forgave them for the original ManBearPig climat change denialism.

That single bed is giving hospital bed vibes.