I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.

This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.

Let us know what you go with!

Idk, I’ve had to deal with coronial inquiries and I can’t imagine what it would be like if the Coroner was just some random person instead of, well, an actual coroner.

It seems like electing your neighbour the lawnmower guy to run your divorce court instead of letting a judge do it.

What the actual fuck???

In my country you have to have been a barrister for at least 5 years and in practice it’s longer.

I can’t get my head around this system of having laypersons voting randoms into a position that requires a high level of skill.

My guess is probably what’s happening with these 4-account people is they have them all open at the same time in different browsers, and since they only use them to upvote one account’s post submissions they just have to follow that account.

I’ve noticed a few people doing it but they only seem to use like 4 accounts each. Usually people spamming/promoting a blog.

Sure. But votes aren’t private or anonymous. Anyone on Kbin can see a list of every account that upvoted something, so it’s easy to spot.

It’s only a matter of time before someone writes a third party client that allows Lemmy users to do this as well.

Yes those children and premature babies really bit off more than “they” could chew

/s

Yikes.

I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.

The JK Rowling “race change” comments were in my feed yesterday, as were you, and you pretty obviously saw them.

Look you’ve made at least three accounts to troll with. I don’t know if you’re bored or if you’re hurting, but here are some ideas (all free) for a better use of your time:

• Get a duolingo account and learn a new language

• Download Insight Timer and try guided meditation

• Sign up to EdX and enrol in a course

• Join Lichess and follow some of the tutorials

• Make an account at Neopets and play some casual games

I’m serious about this. Trolling can feel satisfying at first because you get attention but it’s empty attention, a bit like empty calories. To get the kind of attention that actually soothes your soul you will need to offer something of positive value to an online community instead.

Might be the same person. It’s an obvious troll account that was only created yesterday.

This is probably copying the latest JK Rowling trolling story which is about the same subject.

That’s hilarious!

That one looks a lot more normal but… why does it look like I can see the tree through its head???

Thanks, beautiful photo.

I’d forgotten how Metal the cicadas look over there.

Ours all just look like this so pictures like yours look like some kind of Undead version or something to me, with its crazy red eyes.

Your relation is being callous.

My tip for elderly incontinence is make a designated area (I use thick plastic like a tablecloth cover to protect the floor) and line it with Puppy Pads/ mats.

Also if you get an oil drip tray from an auto shop you can put kitty litter in it and the cat doesn’t have to step over anything to use it.

If it had happened like in the 1980s or something it would have been forgiveable but it was like 2006, at that point we all already knew climate change was real.

I never really forgave them for the original ManBearPig climat change denialism.

A ginger girl cat!!! Idk her position looks good for potential rodent spotting.

I can’t see the whole comment.

Besides which it’s a qualitative judgment so unless they did a full on Content Analysis grid on your ass, I’d probably not know what they meant, unless you were doing something really obvious like calling the Chinese “inscrutible”.

I still kind of enjoy the novelty of seeing mods censor people for this arcane stuff. I wouldn’t want to be on that instance but I quite like visiting it.

Orientalism is this stuff.

Idk I personally enjoy seeing terms I learned in grad school being thrown around in a mod log.

Paradigm shifts keep the brain nimble.