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You can say that people who identify as introverts use more concrete language, but there’s no reliable way to identify intro/extraversion because it’s about as scientific as an internet personality quiz.

Jung’s original definition that some people get energy from socializing while others have to expend energy to socialize doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. We’re social primates and sometimes we like socializing and other times we find it taxing but often it’s a little of both.

If you really don’t like socializing you may have some degree of social anxiety, and maybe you identify as an introvert. Which is fine of course - most people will understand what you mean.

But I think it’s important to remember that we’re not talking about a real thing that actually exists in our genes or brains. It’s just a vague description of your attitude to socializing.

Nazis in the 1940s were actually socialists

No, they were not. Not at all, not even a little.

You can’t eat urinal cake and great danes don’t get a vote in the national elections in Denmark.

Sometimes a name is misleading.

Don’t Do What Donny Don’t Does!

This is objectively within the bounds of “normal” human experience. It’s seen in primates and other mammals too.

Sleeping in the same bed as your family was the norm for a long while, across many cultures. It was also perfectly normal for say a noble to sleep in the same bed as some of their staff, or for merchants or other traveller to share a bed while on the road.

Most people in many western cultures would probably find it weird, but they’re the weird ones for needlessly sexualizing the act of sleeping.

how can I have good long time memory while having zero short memory

Sometimes when people have short-term or working memory issues, the brain over-relies on long-term memory to compensate.

A vast patchwork of incredibly different lifeways that you can flee to whenever then taxman and his goons come round.

nothing gets out of your brain on its own, except heat.

I heard a recording of a song made by reading a brain that was thinking that song. It was far from perfect, but you could tell which song it was. I’m no neuroscientist, but if that information can already be plucked from a brain, surely that’s proof that reconstructing thoughts is possible to some degree?

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neuroscientist-pink-floyd-music-brain-activity

If it’s a nation state, it’s already not a democracy.

The idea that choosing which particular rich people sit in a fancy building is somehow democracy is quite funny.

It’s important to remember that Republicans are committed to ending democracy because the majority of people do not support their brutal white supremacist vision for the country.

If they had majority support they wouldn’t be illegally seizing and destroying the institutions of governance.

Yes, unarmed. As in not bearing a weapon. A toy is not a weapon and poses no threat at all.

When the police kill an unarmed child and then try to justify their actions, they’re going to have to lie because there’s no justifiable reason to kill an unarmed child. Hence claiming that the dead child both fled and menanced them and pre-discrediting the evidence against them.

There’s an ocean of examples of police lying to cover up their killings. They lie so often that they got the courts to confirm they have no duty to tell the truth.

Your radical denial of where all the evidence points is not as moderate as you seem to believe.

If you’d read the article, the police admitted that they are lying about it:

The department said it is also aware of a video circulating on social media of the incident but warned that it does not portray the incident in its entirety.

When the police say ‘believe us not the evidence’, that means they’re lying.

A whimsical hat for daleks

Free will.

It’s hard to accept, but free will is just not compatible with reality. It’s like geocentrism. It seems obvious on its face because of our limited perspective, but nothing else in the universe makes sense if it’s true. We live in a mechanistic universe and cause and effect doesn’t suddenly stop when the atoms are part of a human.

I freaked out for about a week once I came to realize how much of our society is based on a scientific impossibility. Redesigning justice, ethics, healthcare, the very concept of blame, etc. to account for this is a daunting fucking prospect.