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hectordon The rise and decline of thinking over feeling

Men tend to suicide more often than women. Men are also more likely to killed/be killed (although this is slowly changing).

Is it because men are intrinsically more violent than women? Or is it because of the way we bring up our kids? It's still unclear.

I went through a depression a few years ago. I noticed that my suicidal thoughts were related to my inability to express my feelings. I don't think I'm the only one.

hectordon The rise and decline of thinking over feeling

Both you and the author of the blog post assume that rationality is better than being able to show our emotions. The scientific paper doesn't say anything about it.

A few decades ago we expected women to "show emotions" and men to be strong. We are now trying to change this cliché since it hurts all of us. What we see in the paper is that this change is taking place. I think it's good news.

The idea that rationality was more prevalent until the 1970s since we "believed in science" is compelling. Since the 1970s we focus more on our emotions as you say. What's interesting is that this change took place before the era of social networks. Social networks might be an amplifier but it's definitely not the root cause.

hectordon President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment

The number of Chinese students is already already in decline for various reasons [1]. It means less money for the American universities. It also means less tensions between students in the future. I don't think it's good news for the US though.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/international-students-impa...

hectordon Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

Please don't generalize. Far-right parties are not mainstream everywhere. Europe is complex, as much as the US.

The issue with this way of thinking is that you look away from countries which might have good policies. These policies could be used in the US.

hectordon The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying

If you think from an economic standpoint, Amazon should price AWS only a bit cheaper than the on-prem options. It's a way to maximize their profits.

Then you have competition (GCP, Azure, Alibaba) which will tend to lower the price, but for now the cloud industry grows. Their goal is to attract new customers who didn't use the cloud before.