Notices by CJ Paloma (cjpaloma@universeodon.com)

@tess

related...you don't have to accept follow requests from anyone. Just now I declined a guy in fintech- (look at my fucking history dude) and dudebro felt it perfectly acceptable to request again. I declined again. He tried a third time. I reported his ass and blocked him.

@aral I'm pretty convinced that (mostly unconscious) mindset level beliefs in "might makes right" are at the root of virtually all our problems as a species.

"Might makes right" is what colonizers believed in. They believed "conquering" other humans showed they were (wait for it) superior people. Authoritarians still do this overtly. We see it as silly, but the truth is many (probably most) of us still have some implicit biases around this.

Dominance based corporations give us news and entertainment that reinforce and normalize these beliefs: The result being that millions of people still believe that competition is what human survival is based on. It's not. Humans survive (and certainly only thrive) because we give and receive cooperation and compassion towards each other (as kids and adults).