I’m not putting a value judgemental on empathy, I’m just restating that those on the left have more, and those on the right have less. (Which, again, just looking at behaviour, surprises nobody. )

Though, too be fair, I do prefer to hang out with empathetic people.

I reference 2 articles higher up in the thread. Feel free to scroll up and read.

Never said my side was righteous. I said that one of the main differences between the left and right is empathy. This isn’t an opinion, it’s peer reviewed fact.

It’s bleeding obvious, even without the science.

Ya, I’m not talking about extremists. I’m talking about just normal everyday people.

Eh. Fits with what I see in politics, the folks voting for right winger, and my own experiences conversing with them IRL. I see no issue with making that assumption and then being pleasantly surprised the odd time it isn’t true.

Maybe it’s a North America thing, tho. It’s quite possible that the euro flavor of right wing is a more empathetic group.

I didn’t say they were “all bad.” I said they lacked empathy and I wasn’t interested in being friends with them.

Conservative and progressive brains are different.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/

And one of those differences is empathy. https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/18/1/nsad029/7175525

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM’s punchcard technology.[2]: 351  In his book, Black charges that “without IBM’s machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler’s camps could have never managed the numbers they did.”[2]: 352

I’m not sure that’s true. One side has empathy. The other does not. I don’t want to be friends with someone who doesn’t have empathy.

Yup. Idiots incapable of compromise, so they get nothing.

IBM sold “inmate” counting machines to Nazi Germany. Like, sent techs there to the camps to size up the requirements and everything. It should NOT come as a surprise that they’re back on X - they’ve never had an issue with Fascism (or any other ism) as long as they had money to spend on overpriced iron.

Do we need AI for this? It’s already super easy to tell fake news from real.

Is it on BBC/CBC/Routers/AP? It’s probably real.

Is it on Forbes/Facebook/Xitter? It’s probably garbage.

Doctorow is a gem. Great article, thanks for posting. I basically agreed with everything he said.

Too true. :(

And the same morons will vote for PP here. Np brains, just slogans and anger.

Come on up to Canada. We’ve been suffering brain drain for ages, and could sure use some scientists and doctors!

They don’t care if we want it. They want the info it’ll give them. This isn’t for us, it’s for them.

The rich control the laws and they don’t want to contribute.

I just got a Keychron Q3 HE and it’s amazing. Bit pricy, but it’ll last forever because it’s fully repairable. Even comes with all the req’d tools to disassemble. QMK/VIA, too!

Yup, that’s what we do as well. 30tb of music, TV, and movies. All available to me and my friends wherever we are.

On point for religious nutters, though.

300sqft for $3500/month and they’re not even allowed to smoke?

Came here to say that. That show was so damn good!