Madhur @madhur@qoto.org

@freemo

Of course it varies from person to person, and culture to culture. Insects, etc feature in traditional Chinese diets, if I remember correctly.

@freemo The empathy for insects is very weak, while the disgust is dominant by a big margin. Except for butterflies, I don't recall myself ever reducing the pain or suffering of an insect.

Good #RandomQuestion, from the birdsite.

https://twitter.com/GadSaad/status/1036744139805782016?s=19

I'll attempt to answer where I stand. Consider the following:

1. It is generally considered bad (kinksters, kindly excuse me) to capture, enslave, kill, or eat humans.

2. Animals are much like us. In particular, their flesh and blood is like ours. They even die by same mechanisms as we do. To see an animal in pain invokes empathy in many of us.

3. Insects are not as much like us as animals. Many of their organ systems are totally different from those of animals. Their blood isn't even red!

4. Insects, alive or dead, provoke disgust (or fear, in many of us), rather than empathy. To see an insect in pain doesn't change that.

To summarize: Most vegetarians avoid eating animals because of empathy; but they avoid eating insects for different reasons - disgust and fear.

I come from a largely lacto-vegetarian community. Personally, while I occasionally consume animal meat, I find the idea of eating insects as disgusting even to consider.

Replicability in social sciences.

Only 13 out of 21 (about 0.62) major studies of decade past (which were attempted to be replicated) were found replicable to significant (more than 0.75) extent.

Sample size used in replication was 5 times of the original studies. These replication efforts have been described as 'collaborative' as against 'hostile' efforts from earlier.

#MetaStudy #SocialScience #Research #Psychology #BiomedicalScience

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/27/attempt-to-replicate-major-social-scientific-findings-of-past-decade-fails

@freemo

A day long fast, followed by traditional food. In the evening all the temples would be decorated and we'll pay a visit to them.

Thanks @arteteco!

@Muo

@arteteco
Well we do have cat fossils ...
@n

@arteteco

Digging animal fossils? You may then be known as a Paleontologist. That's cool too - you'll find only so many fossils.

But cats? Cats are everywhere!

@n

Its #Janmashthami today.
The birthday of Lord Krishna as per Hindu calendar.

A #HappyJanmashthami to all!

@4of92000 About typos and English grammar, as long as you can make out the meaning unambiguously, I couldn't care less.

Life is too short to correct each typo or to remove pen drives safely.

@4of92000 Its helpful to point out that they used to do their evil stuff together, even in 2007.

A fellow Indian. Welcome @Varrun !
I hope you you find here what you are looking for.

@freemo Doing my bit. :)

@freemo
#Qoto is transitioning into a good phase.
The core idea, question others teach others, is a refreshing foundation.

Lets build a grand castle on this foundation : one that lasts a thousand years and remains fun to explore to its very end.

@4of92000
Stalin and Lenin both were involved, going by wiki.

@freemo
Is there any academic emoji ?

@MominRasool Opening a wallet doesn't need any money. Bitcoin can have decimal values and it can be mined.

@MominRasool You have internet access. You can have a bitcoin wallet. Or any other alt-coin for that matter.

@tom79@mastodon.social Well, something doesn't feel right. Can we have a two column display like in Twitter or Tusky?