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  @xChaos @FeloniousPunk Not aware of the other 2 being detectable by brain scan. Psychopaths absolutely are.

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  @pmjv @xChaos @FeloniousPunk Not sure what you're getting at here. Unless you're suggesting that the traits shared include the incapacity for empathy, which I couldn't find in the article, I don't think you're addressing what I suggested. I think the blind person drivers license discrimination is a better analogy. Certainly some papers state that a brain scan is not diagnostic of psychopathy. That's valid too. If it doesn't work, I with...

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  @xChaos @FeloniousPunk Fully agree. I can't think of a safe way to do it. It's just frustrating to know that psychopathic traits are detectable and are reliably disastrous when people with those traits acquire power. It's easy to imagine people being disadvantaged by faked test results. "Computer says psycho" as a form of disenfranchisement. With visual impairment, it's hard to hide and easy to understand and independently verify. Not true of...

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  @pmjv @xChaos @FeloniousPunk I read the Solomon story as a gamble that the real mother would speak up, the ruse hopefully pre-arranged with whoever would have carried out such a brutal sentence, so the kid would never truly have been at risk. But maybe that's a naïve view. Regarding the decision capability question, I want any moral decision that is made with limited oversight to be made by someone with a conscience. Are you suggesting we might need a heartless ruler sometimes?

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  @pmjv @xChaos @FeloniousPunk same!

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  @pmjv @xChaos @FeloniousPunk > the onlookers would probably classify that as psychopathic behavior Not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about using the ability to determine without reasonable doubt and without any behaviour sample whether someone is a psychopath. > i believe that all human traits can be utilized to some benefit, Ok. I don't. > we will always need people to make decisions nobody else does, Maybe, but that doesn't sugge...

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  @pmjv @xChaos @FeloniousPunk Nope, it's shorter. It's near enough identical for the point I'm making. Without empathy, psychopaths only fail to harm people by chance. https://mindpsychiatrist.com/are-all-psychopaths-evil/ Failing to consider the impact of actions on others is not a trait anyone can reasonably want in someone wielding power. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you seriously suggesting that discriminating against psychopaths in...

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  "Israel is where we go when it happens again." It is such a powerful message of pain, tight with centuries of unjust oppression. It's compelling rhetoric, and it's a trauma response. Because it's a trauma response, it's not rational. What if the next time it happens, it happens in Israel? Is there something that makes Israel magically immune to injustice? I think that's part of the struggle some people have with calling out Israel&...

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  @MaddieM4 Ooo the motors and the pots and the capacititititators!

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  @micr0 Work BYOD device means I have little option. I recognise that 2 physically distinct devices would be the better thing to do, but given that the level of chaos my ADHD regularly provokes means I must set reminders to brush my teeth, see sunlight and drink water, I don't think I could reliably remember to carry both machines.

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  @SecureOwl CS S

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  @aeva @oblomov @mcc *Ballmer sidles up* it is real, it's just not what ppl think...

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  Listening to an old James O'Brien episode from a few weeks ago asking why the massive reduction in inward migration to the UK doesn't please the anti-immigration far right. They don't believe that it's true, despite the data coming from the same places they quoted when the figures were higher. My guess is that they don't believe it because they don't see their lives getting better. The fash thesis is, "your life sucks because of immigran...

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  Senators Propose Age Verification for All Computer and Phone Operating Systems https://ground.news/article/senators-propose-age-verification-for-all-computer-and-phone-operating-systems_b260ef?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share I read it as "Senators Propose Striplighting in my Anus" Makes as much sense, as likely to happen. Poor old USA though. You literally have grumpy senile old farts proposing "down with this newfangled doohickey" a...

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  @hllizi@hespere.de @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com I think there were more steam and other explosions than one would want, but I take your point. The machines also enabled mass production of high quality weapons, so anyone who looked like they might not want to deconstruct their local industries and send all their wealth to the owners of UK sweatshops would soon find their capitals being randomly deconstructed by mass produced explosive shells. Models ena...

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  @0xabad1dea How very dare you! 89.43% still contains a 9.

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  I think I'm getting more resistant to disease as I get fitter. The last 3 times my wife and kids all got colds, I felt run down and tired for a couple of days, then felt OK again. I was like, "any second, my nose is going to start running and I'll have a sore throat," but it didn't break out. I hope today is another one of those. I'm so tired I feel like a human skinsuit scarecrow thing held up by coffee and hope this morning, but no other physi...