The Leakey foundation. We really are strange,weird creatures. Perhaps eventually we might evolve into being more peaceful & cooperative, & leave violence & war far behind us.




https://leakeyfoundation.org/the-roots-o...ggression/

"Who we think we are matters. For those who believe we are a naturally competitive species, the frequent reports of violence on the nightly news and the Internet are a reflection of our competitive nature. But this essential image of humans as aggressive beings is not correct.

Humans are more often at peace than at war;┬áwe cooperate more than we conflict. In fact, there is mounting evidence that cooperation may be acentral facet in explaining our success as a species.On the other hand, this does not mean we are egalitarian, nonviolent pacifists. Human nature is neither simple nor linear. Our core adaptation is one of cooperation, but we can and do competeÔÇöa lotÔÇöand often use aggression to do so.

Humans can be aggressive and violent and peaceful and cooperative all at the same time; arguing for a natural state of cooperation or a natural state of conflict is missing the boat. But humans sometimes are both aggressive and violent. Why do we see aggression flare up in so many contexts?
One simple answer is that we are highly social and complicated beingsÔÇöwe spend most of our time around other people. Our big brains, imaginative minds, and super complex social lives often cause interpersonal conflict, confusion, and resentment, to which we sometimes (but not always) respond with aggression and violence. We have to negotiate potentially hundreds of social interactions each day. ┬áMost of the time this goes well; sometimes it does not. Because the diversity of individual needs and desires do not always gel with social, political, and economic realities, interpersonal conflicts emerge. Across human history, though, more often than not people have found a way to get along (even if it is more a consequence of social pressure than personal desire).

It is very difficult to train humans to fight and kill one another. To do so, we have to tap our immense ability to cooperate with one another, our strong sense of morality and doing good, and combine that with our potential for engaging in aggression and violence.  In war, cooperation and conflict are not in opposition, they are reflections of human potentials combined, and  manipulated, for political ends.  These same patterns could just as likely be harnessed for peace. In anything, our history has shown our ability to go to war, but it also demonstrates an equally or potentially more resilient ability to wage peace.

Albert Einstein once asked us to us to see what is, as opposed to what we already believe to be true.  Cooperation and conflict are not opposites, and neither are aggression and peace. We can get a lot farther in our quest to understand being human if we discard these dualisms."

I'm running a reunion event for a group of old friends on the weekend. The venue has HDMI connection into their projection screen and sound systems. I have a file of photos which I will use as a slideshow and a file of ripped CD tracks for music. My question is whether both the photo and music can be output and run simultaneously from my laptop (through a single HDMI connection)?

The music is a purpose selected playlist of music from our era (late 70s +/-) so Spotify isn't an option as most of the album tracks would be difficult to find if not impossible. I have about 1,000 CD albums on a HD to choose from.

Perhaps their deity is trying to tell the Taliban something.

This is the third quake in a week, a 6.3  & 90% of those killed in the earlier ones were women & children. People are having to sleep in tents, & the weather is becoming colder.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67114332

Aside from the many stipends for electoral staff, we can only hope the mischieve of electoral folly is over for at least three years.

I have my extra email setup on my Outlook 2019 many years ago  and it's working fine.

I want to set up my xtramail on my Android phone.  Setting up should be easy and straight forward, but I would like clarify the following before I go ahead:

1.  In my Outlook 2019, I have ticked the option to leave a copy at the server, can I do this on the Android phone?
2.  When an email is opened from my phone, will I still get a copy of the email send to my Outlook 2019? 
3.  Or, to make things simpler, is there a way to set up Outlook 2019 to forward any new email Automatically to my gmail account on my Android phone?  I have my gmail account set up on my phone.

Thanks.

Somehow, Kiwi voters have managed to piss off both the McBishop & Liz Gunn. They're not happy campers with the voters.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...fTEHbzj3yI

"Leaders of some of the minor parties that failed to win any parliamentary seats in the election have reacted emotionally over the results, including New Zealand Loyal's Liz Gunn and Freedoms NZ's Brian Tamaki.

Over the last few days I've had a strange thing happen to inputs from my laptop's keyboard inputs.

It seems to happen when I've been inputting text on forums (including this one) and in my daily word games. The letters displayed bear no relationship whatsoever to what I've typed. I have discovered though that if I move to an Excel spreadsheet I have open the problem doesn't occur there, and then when I go back to the website I had been experiencing the issue it has corrected itself, as though by inputting spreadsheet text teaches the keyboard to work properly again.

Any suggestions as to what might be happening? I haven't bothered doing a restart as the solution I've discovered is so easy to do compared to closing down completely and then I don't know if this infrequent issue has actually gone away for what may be some hours.

Intriguing way in which Afghani girls can still get some education.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67017945


"A BBC programme for children barred from schools in Afghanistan has been described as a "learning lifeline" by the United Nations.
The show is being used in secret school lessons, the BBC has learned.
Its name, Dars, means lesson in Afghanistan's official languages of Dari and Pashto.
The ruling Taliban prohibits girls from receiving secondary or higher education.
On the day she was told she could no longer come to work at school, Afsana, who is a teacher, lost her purpose in life.
The 28-year-old worked at a secondary school for girls in eastern Afghanistan. Now, like some other former teachers in the country, she has set up a secret school.

Twenty-five students, all girls, between the ages of 12 and 18, gather in her basement. The only tools she has are a whiteboard, a phone and the BBC Dars programme.
With no signal in her makeshift classroom, Afsana downloads short videos of the show to play to the students, who then write her a summary of what they have seen. "My students watch with interest and passion," she says. "Their hopes have been raised and they are still dreaming for the future."
The show, which has just launched its second series on TV, online and radio, is hosted by BBC female journalists who themselves fled Kabul more than two years ago, after the Taliban's return to power.
Any form of learning "provides safety hope and opportunity", says Yasmine Sherif, the executive director of Education Cannot Wait, the United Nations global fund for the education of children in crisis".

And NZ has said a clear and solid NO to a woke, divisive and damaging government.
The last 6 years has been hard, and change will take time, bit let's all be positive.

Woke up this morning to two of my PCs having a serious hissy fit...

First one was an i7-7700K intel box that I use for a bit of Monero mining and as a STORJ node.  It just missed out on Windows 11 upgrade via official channels, so I upgraded it via other means to Win11 a couple of months back.  This morning it was stuck in a windows update boot loop... I seem to remember MS saying something about this with unofficial upgrades.  Anyway that one is now reinstalled back to Windows 10 where it can stay for a bit longer....

The other one, the power supply had died, swapped out and back up and running...

Bad luck I guess, joys of tech...