LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Those pesky immigrants! 4 days ago:
Ooohhhh Long Donson!
Thanks for your service.
- Comment on Those pesky immigrants! 4 days ago:
This image needs to be all over twitter and truth social. Trump hates images like this. I want him to see dozens of copes of this whilst he shits at 3am. Just flood him with it.
- Comment on my version is better 6 days ago:
‘Carry a laser down the road that I must travel
Carry a laser through the darkness of the night’ - Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
I’m saying I’d like to watch it if they actually played the game. I enjoy rugby, for instance, and some hockey.
American football just doesn’t have much actual game in it anymore.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
People have been saying that to me for years – often angrily – but honestly, every game I’ve ever seen has been like 5 minutes of game during which a guy touches another guy the wrong way, followed by at least a half hour of back-to-back replays interspersed with a few guys debating every aspect of the way each guy touched another guy, plus at least ten minutes of advertising.
I’m pretty sure even fans wouldn’t disagree with my timing breakdown.
- Comment on Animals live in an entirely different reality FYI 1 week ago:
The only way I can think to describe is kind of like, you know when you’re driving over rumble strips in your car, and you can feel the vibration in your body? A human hearing sound would be like the vibrations at, say, a moderate speed, and a dog would hear/feel them at a slower speed. A hummingbird would feel them at so slow a speed, they could almost feel each bump separately.
I’m not sure how to explain the accompanying pitch, except that it’s like a shift in colour – when the sound slows down, it also lowers in pitch, so an analogy could be that if a human would hear a medium pitch (which we could call blue), a dog would hear a lower/deeper pitch (which in this analogy would be a deeper/darker blue).
Does that help, or am I making it more confusing?
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- Comment on Sand Boa 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate what you’re saying, and did not downvote you. I think you may be underestimating how many phobias exist in the world, though. It may benefit you to have an app that filters images on your device. I’m pretty sure that exists. Everyone trying to add spoiler tags or whatever to every image that might trigger a common phobia would hide more images than you might think.
- Comment on Sand Boa 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Bold of him to make that move without a toddler protecting his head from gunfire.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The mask has been slowly coming off for at least 15 years. If you haven’t noticed and this seems like a surprise, I honestly don’t know what to say.
- Comment on Now give me a treat 4 weeks ago:
Bullets. We’re talking about bullets.
- Comment on Now give me a treat 5 weeks ago:
You’ll never find hidden stashes of weed or cocaine. However the stashes of lead will find you if you follow your dog towards stashes of weed or cocaine.
- Comment on Now give me a treat 5 weeks ago:
Could have been the new owner who dumped a retired K9 at the pound, perhaps since sometimes those dogs have PTSD and can be more of a challenge than expected, or the owner died. Animals wind up in odd places for many reasons.
- Comment on Now give me a treat 5 weeks ago:
On a dog’s brain? Who even knows?
- Comment on Now give me a treat 5 weeks ago:
Put the food bowl in there. He’ll feel validated, like he hit the jackpot, and it will desensitise him. 2 birds.
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 1 month ago:
That’s a really unhealthy colour. You should get that checked.
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 1 month ago:
Godammit Kevin.
- Comment on bird flu 1 month ago:
Well then at least have the decency to stay in your home, rather than subject us immunocompromised to another round of dodging a minefield of disease incubators.
- Comment on A scientific discovery 2 months ago:
Not in science, you can’t. Only in the colloquial versions of those words.
- Comment on What % of Lemmy memes and reaction-bait is posted for the purpose of farming Lemmy comments? 2 months ago:
Right, I think I wasn’t clear. I didn’t mean farming karma here, I meant posting here to copy Lemmy comments to post on Reddit to farm karma there.
- Comment on What % of Lemmy memes and reaction-bait is posted for the purpose of farming Lemmy comments? 2 months ago:
If you want good karma with top comments that won’t be immediately called out as stoked from another Reddit thread, maybe, since some people have got wise to that? I dunno. I’m probably giving this more brain power than I should.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 11 comments
- Comment on And there was no on line manual 2 months ago:
It’s been decades, but… you press the button, spin to the station, then release the button?
Am I remembering correctly or should I check into the home now?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Watergate took 3 1/2 years and it was orders of magnitude less complex. Cases of this scale involving political actors have always taken time.
- Comment on why is my whisky evaporating? 2 months ago:
A quicker way to eliminate a variable would be to pour a glass of each to the same level and leave them both out for a day or two. If the levels remain consistent, it’s definitely something about the decanter.
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 2 months ago:
‘Stop poking me!’
- Comment on We were there monkeys all along 2 months ago:
We’re both. Apes are new world monkeys.
- Comment on same as it ever was 2 months ago:
What about caring for the elderly and disabled? We see anthropological evidence of many behaviours that can only be explained by compassion and empathy, some of which would have actually detracted from security.
The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has clear evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and cohesion.
Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.
And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.
Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them both for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.
