literally sheer joy in that woman

I wonder if we will see Galacta on the dlc....

there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

and it just debunked that whole cynical idea that people will naturally be mean if theres no punishment for it

source another source

the researchers found that being online didnt make people more hostile, but that being online allowed already hostile people to dominate forum conversations, and the less aggressive people were much less likely to reply or engage, ending in just the aggressive people bickering at eachother

I got curious and read the paper and it's important to note that

and basically what they found was "people who report themselves getting hostile during offline talks are usually also the people who report themselves being hostile during online conversations."

then they looked at their graphs saying "well people report political talks being more noticeably hostile online than offline, why is that" and tested a few theories (lack of empathy during online conversations*, selection bias with angry people being more likely to engage in such topics, and the lack of social cues creating a perception skew making a normal comment look hostile) but didn't find any strong evidence for any of those, so they just concluded "idk people just scroll through a lot of negative talks online, most of hostility they see seems to come from the interactions between strangers and not their own experience, so ofc there's more of it online since the convos stay up for everyone to see for years."

*I'm not sure they linked to a specific study, but they did list the theory of "people feel much less empathic towards other humans online compared to offline" as a well studied topic and a confirmed hypothesis though which I think is also important to mention here. Because, well, that does mean that people still can be bigger jerks online compared to offline, it's just way less straightforward than going through a magical girl transformation and becoming an asshole as soon as you log into your social media account.

Also this is fucking funny

Reading truly is hard

Game pal.

honestly the discourse on this site is so bad that I have a new hot take: if you use tumblr at all fuck you

Checked their account: turns out op is a fucking tumblr user themselves so????? Idk :/

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37 people were illegally detained in Bellingham, Washington for the ‘crime’ of speaking Spanish. This is so fucking inhumane and cruel

⬆️ racial unity now is matching funds for the detainees and their families. please help if you can.

it's shameful how long i had to look to find an article covering this story that gives more information besides saying "37 undocumented workers were arrested wednesday." cascadia news and the AP were the only sources i found that include any journalism whatsoever beyond the police report.

Hey, this is local for me. It would mean a lot if you could help out even a little bit.

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