Ransom

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[–] Ransom@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you’ve stopped using the r word because it’s offensive, that’s great! Really. Hopefully this discussion (like the linked article) will convince you that there are other terms commonly used that are just as offensive. If you can find alternatives to the r word, then you can also probably find alternatives to “deaf” and “stupid”, for example. Regardless, I appreciate that you’re trying!

[–] Ransom@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t think there are equivalents. We know that certain parts of the brain house, or are associated with, ways of thinking. The closest I can think of would be the PFC as equivalent to ego. But no, neither Freudian nor Jungian psychology are useful beyond certain English departments using Freud and/or Jung as a form of critical literary analysis (literary theory). It’s like how the Bohr model of the atom is still taught in schools even though it’s incredibly primitive, and physics has long moved past it.

[–] Ransom@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

We don’t use those terms any more in cognitive psychology… are there other branches of psychology that do?

[–] Ransom@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Plus hosts. I haven’t seen an ad in many years.

[–] Ransom@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Corporations acting all parentally “disappointed” because they were too cheap to properly code it isn’t okay.

[–] Ransom@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

A spokesperson for the supermarket said they were disappointed to see “a small minority have tried to use the tool inappropriately and not for its intended purpose”

Disappointed. Bloody hell. A company that’s too cheap to curate some actual recipes is “disappointed” because the tech they built is creating lethal recipes. I wonder what their liability is if someone tried and got hurt/sick.

[–] Ransom@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I had a student do that. Just a post-it note that said “Sorry for the damage :(“. It was a kid that I wouldn’t have expected to play a prank like that, too: very quiet and reserved.

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