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I try to contribute to things getting better, sometimes through polite rational skepticism.
Disagreeing with your comment ≠ supporting the opposite side, I support rationality.
Let’s discuss to refine the arguments that make things better sustainably.
Always happy to question our beliefs.

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  • oce 🐆toComic Strips@lemmy.worldThe Sunk Cost Fallacy
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    15 hours ago

    Yes, that’s a good example for something that follows the rational use case. But let’s not take a toxic relationship extreme, I think in the case of a human relationship, the sunk cost may sometimes positivly contribute to the affection/intimacy/love. The sunk cost created memories, habits, foundations for a relationship that you cannot just suddenly ignore and only look at what comes in the future.
    I think one must be careful about applying rational principles telling you to not listen to your emotions to subjects where reason doesn’t play the main role.









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    Maddie Nomen the young redhead? I feel like it was part of the author’s checklist on how she wanted to see a lesbian romance properly potraited, including not idealizing it: more than one relationship, jealousy (if she turns against her by jealousy) or absence of it (VI doesn’t care), betrayal or malevolent seduction (if she was a Noxus agent from the beginning).






  • From one of the article sources:

    The Somali refugee presence in Minnesota owes much to the strong voluntary agencies (VOLAGs) in this Midwestern state. These organizations sponsor and assist refugee resettlement programs. A combination of the very strong Minnesota economy in the early 1990s (with unemployment dipping to around 2 percent in the late 1990s, the lowest rate in the whole country 19) and the presence of the robust refugee assistance network largely explain the Somali concentration in Minnesota. Cawo M. Abdi, University of Minnesota https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/bildhaan/vol11/iss1/12/

    VOLAG, sometimes spelled Volag or VolAg, is an abbreviation for “Voluntary Agency”. This term refers to any of the nine U.S. private agencies and one state agency that have cooperative agreements with the State Department to provide reception and placement services for refugees arriving in the United States.[1] [2] These agencies use funding from the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) along with self-generated resources to provide refugees with a range of services including sponsorship, initial housing, food and clothing, orientation and counseling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOLAG