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90% believe women are scarce in STEM and paid less mainly because of sexism and conditioning. Data shows the opposite: large average sex differences in interests (men prefer things, women people; d=0.93) appear early, hold worldwide, and widen in the most egalitarian countries. Those preferences, not discrimination, drive most of the gaps.
Incest too e.g. father-daughter, their female clone etc.
Didn't like Heinein as a young teen reading the not much sci-fi the town library had, because of all the excursions into that stuff. Just wanted them to get on & resolve the derring-do plot lines.
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Women were more willing to deactivate a malfunctioning robot, thereby erasing its memories, even though the robot pleaded with them not to do so.
As robots become increasingly integrated into everyday life, evolved psychological mechanisms originally adapted for human social interaction may shape responses to artificial agents in ways that are no longer functionally appropriate.
Drawing on an evolutionary psychology framework, the present study examined how anthropomorphism, empathy, and systemizing influence decisions involving a humanoid home robot. Participants then read a scenario in which the manufacturer instructed them to reset the malfunctioning robot, thereby erasing its memories, while the robot pleaded not to be deactivated. The reset was requested because a manufacturing defect had been identified, although its potential consequences were unpredictable.
Stronger anthropomorphic tendencies predicted lower willingness to deactivate the robot, whereas higher systemizing predicted greater willingness. Empathy did not predict the decision itself but was associated with greater anticipated discomfort, together with anthropomorphism, while systemizing predicted lower discomfort. Participant gender also influenced willingness to deactivate the robot, with women showing greater willingness than men, although no gender differences emerged in anticipated discomfort.
[The paper explicitly notes this result was contrary to the authors’ expectations based on typical gender differences: women generally score higher on empathy and anthropomorphism (which predicted lower willingness to deactivate), while men tend to score higher on systemizing (which predicted higher willingness). In the introduction, the authors raise the possibility that gender differences in threat perception, risk assessment, and decision-making strategies could lead women to prioritize functional/instrumental considerations (e.g., the manufacturer’s warning about unpredictable risks to the household) over relational ones when faced with a pleading robot. However, the discussion simply reports the gender difference in willingness.]
Interesting.
Sex differences in physical aggression toward intimate partners.
d values > 0 mean men engage in more
d values < 0 mean women engage in more
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This (not dogs) was one of the elements used to establish Peter's(?) character in Ender's Game.
Read it in late 80s, but recalling it now suggests it was quite effective.
Was prior activity/experience & equipment, but called a decade+ of our family summer holidays: "playing on mountains".
My best analogy from that milieu is that choking may be akin to vertigo for me: have a visceral aversion little different to prospect of poking someone's eye.
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I have no idea whether any of this is right, but it's a riveting read
"I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather."
Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
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I see John Lewis have released a helpful public information film explaining why Boomer grandparents refuse to babysit their grandkids.
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Our concern extends to those who are lied to: when strangulation is hidden behind ‘breath play’. You understand you may die, so that is your choice. Did these children?
Haven't seen much of her, but so far do like Hannah's observations. I mean "observations" because they're quite realistic, not trendy received opinion.
Also worth noting p--nhub say female p--n consumers have a significantly higher preference for bondage p--n etc.
The double standard around pornography reflects a flattering assumption about women: that their desires are inherently healthier, and that expressing those desires is therefore a form of progress. As Emma Goldman many other feminists have advocated.
With male pornography, we ask all the right questions about expectations and side-effects, but when women consume sexually explicit fiction, the discussion comes to a halt if the girls enjoy it. "At least they're reading!" Says The Guardian. "You should let your teen read smut, I started at 13," wrote UnHerd.
In this vaccum of criticism of female pornography, a huge industry has developed, pushing violent smut to younger and younger girls.
Then of course there's the oft-repeated feminist assertions about why some girls are miserable & identifying out of there sex.
It's always parriarchy/p--n of course, but how much of what they absorb is from what they read (& spin-off movies)?
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Just 18% of individuals who responded to the government's consultation were British citizens. Three quarters were migrants here on a temporary visa.
Our immigration policy is now being decided by those who are not even citizens of this country.
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Afghan migrants followed schoolgirl, 14, onto train before sexually assaulting and raping her in the toilets, court told trib.al/zXrrGaD
Do they make p--n movies anymore, or just shorts?
What happens for something like a Revenge of the Voluptuous Vampiresses (dunno if exists) where erm... neck-harm is a key element?
[Note the sex scene in the relatively recent remake of Nosferatu]
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Here's me thinking the government wanted 14 year olds to learn vocational skills...
A Hampshire couple have been fined £600 and ordered to pay a further £6,000 in costs for allowing their 14-year-old son to work on the family's mobile food trailer.
Dexter, their son, enjoys it and has a passion for it.
That’s typical of the laws in this country. Encourage the work shy and penalise the hard working.
As if the stress on this family weren’t enough the family said they were tackling the dispute with the council while supporting eldest son Oskar, 17, while he received treatment for blood cancer.
@darrenpaffey @laboursatvir @carolinenokes
Parents fined for employing teen son in food trailer bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8vg…
