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There are two kinds of empathy humans experience: Cognitive Empathy and Emotional Empathy. These are unrelated to interoception (or alexithymia), or the ability to recognize your own feelings and emotional control.

You can be very empathetic and still have trouble controlling your emotions. I’m autistic and work with adults on the spectrum, and while it for sure is a spectrum, most of us struggle with cognitive empathy but are highly sensitive with emotional empathy.

Dziobek et al. (2008) utilized the “Multifaceted Empathy Test” to prove that autistic adults showed deficits in cognitive empathy but no deficit in emotional empathy compared to controls.

Mazza et al. (2014) replicated these findings in adolescents, showing that autistic participants had difficulty interpreting mental states (cognitive) but were fully capable of empathizing with the emotional experiences of others (affective).

Bird and Cook (2013) argue that the emotional symptoms often attributed to autism (like dysregulation) are actually due to co-occurring alexithymia.

Mul et al. (2018) found that alexithymia mediates the relationship between interoception and empathy, supporting your claim that these are distinct but interacting mechanisms.

You can be highly intelligent and have high Emotional Empathy (feeling everything) but low Interoception (not knowing what you’re feeling), leading to a meltdown rather than ‘Emotional Intelligence.’

Minority Report and “pre-crime” IRL

Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects. Started about a decade ago to fight illegal border-related activities and the trafficking of both drugs and people, it has expanded over the past five years. … * This active role beyond the borders is part of the quiet transformation of its parent agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, into something more akin to a domestic intelligence operation. Under the Trump administration’s heightened immigration enforcement efforts, CBP is now poised to get more than $2.7 billion to build out border surveillance systems such as the license plate reader program by layering in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The result is a mass surveillance network with a particularly American focus: cars.*

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

Refocusing homeless initiatives from providing housing toward rehabilitation and moral development, involuntary confinement will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness” and guide homeless people “towards human thriving” through social and addiction services.

are now calling themselves _housing providers_ 🤷🏻‍♂️

“(…)you know we’ve all got alcohol in our bodies… sort of natural alcohol? Even if you never touch a drop in your life, your body sort of makes it anyway… but Captain Vimes, see, he’s one of those people whose body doesn’t do it naturally. Like, he was born two drinks below normal.”

“Gosh,” said Carrot.

“Yes… so, when he’s sober, he’s really sober. Knurd, they call it. You know how you feel when you wake up if you’ve been on the piss all night, Nobby? Well, he feels like that all the time.”

“Poor bugger,” said Nobby. “I never realized. No wonder he’s always so gloomy.”

“So he’s always trying to catch up, see. It’s just that he doesn’t always get the dose right.”

Christian Nationalists
Nationalist Christians
NATionalist-ChristianS
NAT-Cs
Nazis

https://bigthink.com/the-past/secret-police-loyal-uneducated/

there is cause for concern regarding the immediate impacts, as well as long-term consequences of masculinist and male supremacist ideologies on youth, teachers, and schools.

Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2025.2515863

Just like dirty water can’t stop a plant from growing, don’t let others’ bitter or harsh words stop your progress.

his speeches “leave the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes those meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly, a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.”