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Do dogs really understand whether you meant to tease them with a treat or not? Do they understand when you accidentally drop something? Well, German scientists have evidence of one possible answer.
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The first week of school is always a killer. The first week back to work after 18 months of idleness is a killer. Put them together, and, well, you get a shortened Whaz Up column.
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If the GQP opposition to any rational response to a deadly pandemic that could produce an even worse variant makes no sense at all, it’s because you are not considering the ways that fear and waves of terror affect a population and how useful they are to would-be authoritarians like the GQP are.
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Authoritarians use a technique called waves of terror where they manufacture periods of fear interspersed with brief moments of calm to drive a population to desperation. Will the waves of climate disasters and #COVID19 do the same thing? Are we more susceptible to authoritarian takeover because of climate change and the #COVID19 pandemic?
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There is a film that explains the fascification of America that echo all of the analysis that Ye Olde Blogge has produced over the years. See how well it all matches up.
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All fascist and authoritarian movements need a scapegoat. It is clear that #COVID19, the Delta Variant has upended their plans to run on anti-immigrant fear mongering, so they are just making everything bad is because of immigrants and by extension the replacement theory. Here’s an example.
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How much money did Ye Olde Blogge find? Find out, the other happenings around the blog, and the things I’ve been reading.
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We’ve finally finished the series on conspiracy theories. This one takes a closer look at the role that antisocial personality traits plays in the destructive behaviors of the conspiracy theorists and their followers.
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Conspiracy theories seem to abound throughout the media. They seem to have the conservatives in a fever grip of nonsensical nonreality. What makes them so difficult to dispel?
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The brain is easy to fool! Illusions and gimmicks get us all the time. Well, here is one that gets me even though I know it is all fake. I thought I’d share it just because it is so well done.
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We seem to live in a world full of conspiracy theories, especially from the lunatics on the right, amirite? What psychological needs do conspiracy theories meet?
Howdy y’all! All you sharp- eyes readers out there are probably wondering two things: First, what happened to Monday’s “What Up!!!” post. and second,, why haven’t recent posts had featured images and links to previous posts. And third, why I haven’t been posting more. And fourth, what’s up […]
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Why the fuck do so people people believe the Big Lie? Why the fuck aren’t more people outraged — we’re looking at you Sen Manchin — that our democracy is being dismantled right before our very eyes? Well, we have the answer! Proportionality Bias!
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Ever wonder why the people who are setting the right’s agenda are doing it? What has caused them to be so short-sighted so as to persue such a blatantly self-destructive path? Present bias.
Originally posted on The Carrot Conspiracy:
The rollout is being hindered by the WOKES. if everyone could just trust the prime minister and stop listening to the medical professionals #Scomo #ResignScottMorrison #LNP #vaccinerolloutfailure #VaccineStrollout #COVID19Aus #covidqld #satire
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You’da thunk that with everyone. — okay all the progressive liberal thinking types — at home most of last year, there’d’ve been no crime to speak of much less murder and mayhem, but no, violence, murder, and gun sales all increased last year. Why? You know why. Trump.
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As awareness and acceptance of mental health issues increases in our thoroughly modern world, organizations and people should be more prepared to accommodate those whose needs are not being met. Naomi Osaka is a great example of how the arc of history needs to bend towards accommodation.
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Yao! TL;DR! But, it is so worth it. There are six categories of conservative and they are oh, so illuminating in explaining the dysfunction that they are forcing on us in order to wreck our democracy. Lots of food for thought in this one.
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What factors determine whether a police officer shoots or not? Our brains are complex, but we can narrow it down to several factors: (1) race of the suspect, (2) priming of the officer to shoot, and (3) the possibility that the suspect is armed. With so many guns in society, police have to assume everyone is armed. It all adds up to ensuring that PoC are hurt first and worst by our violence prone policing.
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The inexplicable shooting of Daunte Wright is quite understandable if you understand how the brain works. Police culture sets up these police shootings, it is as simple as that. Here’s the psychological processes involved.
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