• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    hey now, some of our parents at least voted against enshitification.

    they didn’t do shit like protest or volunteer, but they taught my bro and I empathy quite well.

    I like to blame lead, but does lead poisoning correlate with marked low emotional intelligence? I think, rather, there is a fundamental flaw in the original patriarchal system that led men to develop toddler-level emotional intelligence, and the women just went along with it.

    Now that we have wisened up, accept more diversity, and given some power to women, the toddler men are freaking out because they had their special blanket taken away. And one consequence is accumulation of all the resources.

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      11 months ago

      but does lead poisoning correlate with marked low emotional intelligence?

      Yes, strongly. Lead exposure, especially in childhood, is known to lower IQ and also decrease empathy.

      The other things you mentioned are definitely major factors as well, but yeah all that lead fucked the older generations brains.

    • EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Sometimes it feels like my mom is the only boomer that isn’t a giant pile of shit. But, I guess you don’t typically teach special Ed for over 40 years if you’re a bad person.

  • wallmenis@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    Honestly this is the he worst way to make a child stop crying. Threats can cause scars.

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      11 months ago

      I think the problem isn’t the “threat” but the implied “I couldn’t possibly care less why you’re crying”

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        11 months ago

        Yes, it’s invalidation of feelings followed by the infliction of physical violence to make the abuser feel better.

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          11 months ago

          I got hit many times. A few times it was physically a little bit bad, but typically I was more upset that my parents had “turned” on me to the point that they would even want to do such a thing. A lot of it is mentally abusive :(

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      11 months ago

      “At least I never hit you!” “If I did that at your age I’d get beat.” “I got the belt for talking back”

      Yeah I wish I had the validity of physical scars, nobody sees the ones words leave.

      Sticks and stones may break my bones, but soon the sting will pass

      But names can dig so many graves, you won’t know where to stand.

    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      This is such a shit take. You brought people into this world, you owe them, not the other way around.

      The good life is the bare minimum a parent should provide their child.

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        11 months ago

        My parents provided me with a good life. And they used the things that causes global warming to do so, as do you while posting the internet.

        They brought me to school when it rained with their car. Bought a color tv, vcr and Nintendo to keep me entertained. We went on holidays during summer with the car or a plane. We went to see car races, went karting. We did boat trips. And I enjoyed every bit of it.

        Everyone blaming that generation for global warming. While their survival chances were uplifted times 100 because of hygiene. Clean clothes, warm houses, safe and dry traveling. Electronicss for learning. 1/3 of the people complaining about them causing global warming wouldn’t even survived or be here to complain about it if that generation didn’t use the tools at their disposal.

        Everyone thinking that generation caused it and they themselves did not benefit from it are just hypocrites.

        That said, we should try and minimize global warming.

        • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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          11 months ago

          Nobody’s blaming previous generations for causing climate change before it became widely known that it was a problem. We blame them (or the ones a majority of them elected, to be precise) for fighting tooth and nail to avoid doing anything once it became clear how big of a problem it is.