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"Birth order refers to the order a child is born in their family; first-born and second-born are examples. Birth order is often believed to have a profound and lasting effect on psychological development. This assertion has been repeatedly challenged.[1] Recent research has consistently found that earlier born children score slightly higher on average on measures of intelligence, but has found zero, or almost zero, robust effect of birth order on personality.[2] Nevertheless, the notion that birth-order significantly influences personality continues to have a strong presence in pop psychology and popular culture.[3][4] " from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_order

This is a wonderful theory, that really makes sense to me. Wish I had an older Sister to look up to growing up.

@Karthikdeva @freemo @_lunawinters
That is actual academic Psych professor reasearch ,and I read with interest and agreed with.

Discovered the Older Sister that was missing in my life and would have been a boom for my future relationships with other ladies.

A good early sis mothering and exposure to the feminine way of thinking makes dealing with ladies later a lot smoother; you are not learning on the spot, so to speak.

@_lunawinters @IshaKaushik@mastodon.social
It worked, Isha, re: first post, reel them in. 😉

@Karthikdeva @_lunawinters @freemo

https://www.ukessays.com/essays/sociology/birth-order-theory.php

@_lunawinters
LOL... Where in the kids timeline are you? First Born? Last Born, or one of the middle ones?

It changes things a lot.

@Karthikdeva @freemo

@Karthikdeva
Yes indeed. Being first born, I had to be the exmple for the younger ones, there were 4 of us kids.

But recently I read about the order of birth therory, and really wish I had an older sister to look up to. 😺

Aaditi is much younger than me, but I found a friend on my last trip that, on looking back on our hiking, travel together, I think of as the older sister I never had.
@_lunawinters @freemo

@DissidentKitty@radical.town Wonderful posts, thank you!

Went looking for a source, based on a copied para from fist post. I assume it came from here?

https://eclipse-phase.fandom.com/wiki/Anarchists_1e

@elplatt @neil

Wonderful thoughts, thank you. Glad to find your post and try to spread it a bit more.

@timorl Wonderful book, look at those fine illustrations. Even if you don't like the contents, it's a cultural artifact to cheer and keep, pass on.

Quality is going downhill, some of the older, fine editions are so beautifully made, printed and bound.

@SelectElderberry
I had the same experience too, listening to music from LPs, which molds my listening habits to this very day -- enjoyin an entire album, more than tracks mixed in playlists.

Although I love the randomness in some great Spotify radio. We wouldn't do that kind of thing back then, it was too time consuming.

Put the record on, sit and enjoy the album art, have some conversation. And was so nice to get some new LPs to listen to, even if borrowed for a short time.

Remember listening to a cassete tape all night, when it was the only one we had. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon all night. 😄

We have unfettered access to music now, even free accounts on streaming servers allow more music than we could dream of having back on the day, eh?

My Fiio is impressive, and reachargeable, plus the DAC capability.

Headphones, real ones, can't sound good with anemic phone or laptop outputs driving them.

And Fiio products are reasonably priced to boot. 😉

@rodolpho See also :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy

@ajeeshrp7

There's more fun stuff where that one came from!

http://www.lopscoop.com/content?id=20133

@_lunawinters @IshaKaushik@mastodon.social

@IshaKaushik@mastodon.social
No Isha, I live in North America, Canada.
@_lunawinters

@_lunawinters

LOL....

I think the end result might be better than spoiled and entitled kids and grown ups, from too open and unrestrictive parent.

As a teacher, we had to deal with this daily. And mom's calls to the office if we said something they considered nasty or demeaning, etc.

Glad to be off the trade, it's becoming harder and harder - even at the university level.
@IshaKaushik@mastodon.social

@Sphinx @Rovine

Good tools for any trade are worth paying for. And once you get used to them, it's hard to give up and keep productivity.

So, if it is good I think perfectly natural to stay with it.

@_lunawinters @IshaKaushik@mastodon.social

God thank you for Bing.

No idea what a flying or not chappal was until now! 😏

@freemo
Yes, being in a moderation position, its more difficult since you need to see the traffic, like it or not, to respond to it if necessary.

There are stories on the net about how people working in content moderation for Facebook (under subcontracting, low pay, many hours and quotas to meet) have had their mental health affected by constant exposure to some of the worst content, which they were obliged to recognize and deal with.

Your position is admirably open minded and fair, imo. Responding to another network node's refusal to act is perfectly natural.

No damage resulted, as I am still able to follow a post to its source there if I wish; I did follow a thread and visited a spinster profile yesterday in fact.

Contrary to some wil largue, this is not censorship. Some people use the 'free speech' and 'fist ammendment' lines as catch all, justify anything lifesavers.

Many others disagree, and we all have opinions and thanfully live in various jurisdictions with different philosophies and legal structures.

I find Europe the most sane and civilized place to live at this moment in time. Wish I was there, when I return to North America from a trip there, it's always hard to cope. 😔

@mngrif @iamo

@Full_marx
You are welcome for the mention I placed above, I see you took it in stride and produced a large and thoughtful response to it - wonderful.

WE need to think about the issues, and how one can react and continue on with their own activities. Plus there is the mosre difficult wider discussion, which can turn noisy, and worse, nasty, unfortunately.

I enjoyed that you mentioned the tribes; it's one of my beliefs that true humane forms of governing a community went downhill from that, the tribe level.

Ideally, government wouldn't be necessary - but that seems not to work above the tribal level, if it ever does.

I will have to reflect on the points you made and return to them. Glad we have nice discussions like this.

The technology that enable the internet was made to be distributed, by design - to survive a nuclear war, as the protocols and routing were created on projects funded by DARPA, way back in the 70's and early 80s.

Soem great people worked on this, and the suite of protocols, TCP and IP are still robust, alive and well, with the deluge of traffic we have today.

Technology can be used for Good or Bad, it's inherently neutral in my opinion. However, the development of any programme can be funded and directed by political or economic interests - and that largely molds what they result in.

My opinion is that a lot of Net content has gone downhill since the mid to late 1990s.

@rodolpho

@11112011 Muito obrigado, Blitz! Muit gentileza sua. Vou visitar e ler o artigo, tenho varias bookmarks no site do ministerio de relações exteriores tambem, excelentes paginas com muito detalhe, bem explicado.

Uma boa tarde, amigo. 🌆