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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a great post, thank you.

  We may never find out. If mollusks do experience emotions, there’s a chance their emotions are nothing like ours. We explain emotional responses through happiness, fear, anger and all that stuff, but who says other animals feel the same? Perhaps sea creatures have an emotional spectrum comprised of degrencre, humber, nage, and dorcelessness, but we’ll never be able to understand those, let alone recognise them when animals express them.

  this is exactly what i mean – isn’t it just so much more interesting and hopeful and meaningful to think about it this way than immediately drawing the line and saying shit like “we cannot just run around and play pretend because it makes us feel cozy.” or “To suggest that a mollusc has an ‘inner life’ is unscientific and goes against our current understanding of living organisms.”

  we’ve developed this consensus at 2023 AD after thousands and thousands of years of complex evolution – clearly we are at the zenith! we have no more to learn!

• Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?
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• Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i miss when people who made websites genuinely wanted what’s best for their users

• I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now?
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• Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i absolutely disagree. the way insurance works is you all pay into it and they use that money for claims. it’s literally our money.

• Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?
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• How to stop thinking about an interaction from my past?
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