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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • Neither does the woman who defined the term and wrote a whole book about it.

    Ruinous Empathy is an interesting concept, but unfortunately much like toxic empathy (but without the obvious malintent from the start), it’s mostly used by psychopaths in positions of power to justify their antisocial behaviours in environments that generally forbid it.



  • I made the mistake of buying a Sonic the Hedgehog sticker pack off Amazon for my kids. Honestly it could have been worse, given how hard Sonic “fan art” goes.

    Oh wow, I had literally the same experience, Sonic stickers too. Thankfully I had a quick look through before I threw them in with the Mario and Pixar stickers, and noticed Amy had some “interesting poses” … And it kind of got worse from there.

    It was my first head-shaking “wtf is wrong with people” moment as a father so I guess there’s that.