Cris_Citrus

I like the variety of textures throughout the bag.

I did hear someone who loves this style of chip say they really like turtle chips as the closest thing to a whole bag of folded over extra crunchy chips

Lol, I still tell people happy anniversary and label edits at times, usually so the chronologically train of thought makes sense

And sometimes I think its just nice to have a reason to say I'm glad folks are here, and sharing this space with me 🤷🏻‍♂️. But I can get why people might find them grating

Some of that is fair, going back and rereading your first comment I think I misunderstood certain aspects of your position from having waded through the pile of discussion from people not just including you

Believe it or not I'm actually a reasonable person, who isn't angry at you at all. Nor was I really impolite at all at any point frankly. Like, even a little bit. Thinking you might be overstating or extrapolating the research into somewhat sweeping conclusions isnt rude, its just not sharing your exact position.

But I do understand that when you're arguing with a pile of people on the internet it does change the way you experience what people say and will put you in a headspace where things read as attacks

Have a nice day

Theres a reason experts always contextualize their statements and explain the nuance and limitations of their research. If thats what the experts are doing, maybe treating every possible interpretation of that research as a "verifiably true" take is not a particularly scientific approach. Especially when the researchers themselves explicitly warn against this EXACT reductive interpretation.

You will notice that the article written on the research and the quotes from the researchers who did the research are infinitely tamer to a point of not being entirely the same claims anymore. Including explicitly telling people not to interpret their research in reductive ways.

The study successfully replicated a key finding from earlier research: on average, conservative participants had larger amygdalas compared to their more progressive counterparts. Although the size difference was small, it was statistically significant, suggesting that conservatives may be more sensitive to fear or threat-related stimuli—a role the amygdala is known to play in emotional processing.

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“The main takeaway is that our political beliefs may be shaped not only by our environment and experiences but also by our biology,” Petropoulos explained. “We found that certain brain structures, like the amygdala and fusiform gyrus, are associated with political ideology. While this doesn’t mean our brains ‘determine’ our political views, it suggests that biology plays a role in how we perceive and react to the world, influencing our political preferences.”

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“While our study used a large and representative sample, it is still only one piece of the puzzle,”

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“I think it’s important for people to understand that our findings should not be used to reinforce stereotypes or suggest that political beliefs are fixed. The brain is incredibly adaptable, and political beliefs are shaped by many factors. Instead, understanding the biological influences on ideology may help us appreciate the diversity of perspectives and improve our ability to communicate across ideological divides.”

(Bold/italicized emphasis mine)

What the original commenter said is a reductive interpretation of the research that extrapolates the findings beyond what the researchers ever would, and is in fact explicitly at odds with the way the researchers told people the research should be interpreted.

Nevermind that the provided source can't actually tell us much about scientific consensus, nor does it evaluate the quality of the experimental design. And if you ever talk to actual scientists, they generally don't go around calling anything "verifyably true", even when there actually is fairly strong scientific consensus.

The results of a paper tell you that THAT experimental design, produced THOSE statistical outputs, and may support the interpretations the researchers put forward. Thats the only thing thats "verifiably true". Everything past that is essentially layperson narrative crafting, until you get to things like systematic reviews, or meta analysis which can start to communicate scientific consensus, and even then its only the interpretations actually in the paper that have strong evidence, not just any old way you might interpret their findings.

It's almost like people like good movies. People will watch shitty racist movies when theyre well constructed and enjoyable to their target audience, and people will watch progressive "woke" movies when theyre well constructed and enjoyable to their target audience.

Leftists are angry literally all the time, and I spend like 90% of my life either in fight or flight, or avoiding and dissociating to avoid the fight or flight of anxiety.

I'm not a conservative.

Your interpretation kinda feels like it may be somewhat reductive. Possibly.

I mean if they're talking about politicians they are correct, there are no US politicians who are advocating communism. And it is used to scare the uneducated 🤷🏻‍♂️

If I understand correctly its being opened by the GEO group, not the government, its subcontracted out from inception

Stop dentention centers nc has been working to try and prevent them from being built and opened but I'm not sure the best way for folks to get involved in the project as I am not involved myself

Cognitive impairments and differing cognitive ability are very much real things 😅 people can have an inability to learn, and/or an unwillingness to learn, but there very much are people who have the former and not the latter

Struggling to learn things is very much not always a choice

I wanna watch so bad but I haven't seen anything past season 1 and don't wanna spoil shit 😭

I should go watch more castlevania

Jesus Christ, Minecraft requires 16GB now??? Please tell me thats not the minimum and is just reccomended... Still egregious though

Oooh, I didn't know there was a lockpicking comm here! I've never tried it but it seems like fun

Congrats on the victory! ☺️