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fromSilicon Canals
1 day ago

There is a specific kind of loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people who only know the version of you that keeps everything together - Silicon Canals

The better you are at managing your emotions, the less emotional support people offer you. It's not cruelty. It's perceptual bias. People take your composure at face value because it's efficient for them to do so. A study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people consistently underestimate the emotional needs of those they perceive as high copers.
Psychology
Philosophy
Growing understanding of shrimp cognition can trigger unexpected empathy and expose an empathy gap toward widely consumed, alien-seeming animals killed by the trillions.
fromSlate Magazine
7 months ago

Floods Are Becoming Deadlier. We Aren't Worried Enough About It.

With 3,600 flash-flood warnings in 2025 and the year barely half over, the National Weather Service is likely to pass its annual average of 4,000 warnings before long.
Environment
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