Hegar

This is a very clear and comprehensive run down.

That’s a fine general principle but some places around the world have very little, and no one locally to give rich-westerner levels of resources.

Giving not-locally can make way more of a difference in more people’s lives.

I honestly don’t know if i find it better or worse to use image generators for this.

Showcasing the effects of poverty without having to watch an actual human suffering doesn’t seem the worst thing.

Long term, maybe it becomes easier to dismiss these things if theyre known not to be real photos? But maybe its always visceral, or everyone knows that is still what it really looks like.

Generating enough images to get something useful is cheaper than flying photgraphers out - lower overheads for charitable groups should actually have benefits, unlike cost savings for corporations.

It feels extra disengenuous to use ai here, but I dont know that my feelings are what’s most important in this particular example.

It’s the I-don’t-care-who-started-it injustice.

Often people in authority will see injustice and respond as if the real problem was that everyone else disturbed them, failing to even attempt to actually understand the situation first.

This is because power has been shown to cause changes in the brain that make you less capable of empathy.

I blocked like that on reddit but here there’s fewer users so I have a higher block threshold.

Plus I want to give people credit for choosing to be on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a “well maybe you just had a bad day”.

The bear minimum is one bear. And a great band.

I love this about us.

It’s just delightful how many situations our brain is willing to shrug and say “close enough” to. Oh wait the pencil has a name now? I guess it must be basically the same as me.

If I pretend an object is talking, my partner will instantly feel bad for how she’s treated it.

It’s not sad, it’s just how brains are.

Yeah I was like, "it’s a map of the world with the Korean peninsula highlighted, what’s the problem?’

‘Nazi mouths off at event’ is always a distraction.

Choosing the source then the destination is the correct order. The money moves from X to Y, of course you should choose X first and then Y. Destination then source feels inherently wrong to me too