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  • Probably the opposite.

    Our “higher reasoning” and “state of awareness” (needs defining) gives us the ability to do thigns other animals can’t. For example chronic pain sufferers are taught how to manage their pain with a variety of CBT techniques. Not something you can teach a dog or cat.

    People in intense periods of intense suffering may have thw ability to dissociate from the experience (“go to their happy place”) to lessen the pain experience.

    We’re not aware animal shave this ability.

    If anything mammals of all kinds that feel pain don’t have our higher cognitive ability to help manage and supress it.

    Having said that it’s possible we feel more emotionally complex pain. Pain induced from our own minds by remembering trauma or imagining painful situations. As someone pointed out below a dying animal probably isn’t thinking about the loss of it’s family as it’s dying. But it will be feeling the pain of dying acutely.















  • Top 3 most upvoted comments always being unfunny puns was getting insufferable on Reddit. Everyone was trying to be a fucking comedian - that’s what was popular and got upvotes.

    The early Reddit you could have long, interesting arguments with people and you’d both be getting upvoted because you’re both making interesting points.

    It honestly feels like my brain is waking up from a digital coma since coming to Lemmy from Reddit. My own personality and opinions don’t feel pointlessly supressed and sanitised.


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    1 year ago

    Don’t call other people stupid just because they see beyond your attempt to be clever.

    You think I’m trying to be clever by speaking my own language?

    You think I speak my own language to seem “edgy”?

    The word “faggot” on reddit gets site-wide deleted which means even saying it in the UK subs where people will know the meaning it would get deleted. Yes it’s happened and that’s fucking moronic.

    It’d be like banning Spaniards from their own subs for saying "Tiene negro gato ".