QuoteA recent study published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy suggests that over half of adults worry about their sex drive, with most concerns centering on having a libido that feels too low or fails to match a partner's level of desire.

https://www.psypost.org/more-than-50-percent-of-adults-worry-about-their-libido-new-study-finds/

QuoteObservational data indicates that experienced users tend to score unusually high in openness and low in neuroticism. In some populations, such as groups that use ayahuasca in traditional religious ceremonies, individuals also exhibit higher levels of agreeableness and self-transcendence. Self-transcendence is a psychological concept related to feeling connected to the wider universe, spiritual acceptance, and a sense of unity with nature.

https://www.psypost.org/classic-psychedelics-linked-to-lasting-increases-in-openness-and-drops-in-neuroticism/

QuoteResearchers found that manic love, emotional dependence, and love addiction each have distinct psychological profiles, suggesting they should be studied and treated as separate conditions rather than being grouped together.

Higher relationship satisfaction was significantly associated with emotional dependence, but lower relationship satisfaction was significantly associated with manic love attitudes.

Additionally, anxious insecure attachment was significantly associated with love addiction but was not a significant meta-analytic correlate of emotional dependence.

Among the three types of problematic love behaviors, emotional dependence was linked to the widest range of psychological and relationship factors. Emotional dependence was tied to alcohol and substance use, behavioral addictions, violence (both received and perpetrated), and relationship satisfaction. Low self-esteem emerged as a common feature of both emotional dependence and manic love, while behavioral addictions were linked to both emotional dependence and love addiction.

https://www.psypost.org/love-addiction-emotional-dependence-and-manic-love-have-distinct-psychological-profiles/

QuoteThrough statistical testing, they narrowed the list down to seven distinct motives. The first few motives included malicious intent, attention seeking, conflict avoidance, and emotional appeasement.

Malicious intent means wanting to see a partner suffer, while attention seeking involves lying to make oneself seem more interesting. Conflict avoidance is used to steer clear of arguments, and emotional appeasement involves lying to protect a partner's feelings. The remaining three motives were mistake concealment, privacy protection, and sexual avoidance. These involve covering up an embarrassing act, withholding facts to maintain personal autonomy, and making up excuses to avoid physical intimacy, respectively.

https://www.psypost.org/new-psychology-research-reveals-three-distinct-types-of-liars-in-romantic-relationships/

QuoteMy rule is to use the best tool for the job, regardless. Sometimes that is BSD and open source software, and sometimes it is Windows and commercial software. I have no ideology except realism.

But, sometimes, the F/OSS manages to hammer home a point: stuff that volunteers build reflects what the volunteers want to do, not what makes the best tool. You can see this in absolute pieces of shit like LibreOffice, Wikipedia, or Mastodon that work badly and glitch constantly, but are an "easy answer" to tell others so lots of people use them and hide how much they are mediocre.

My phone needed a new SMS client, so I went over to F-Droid to check out what was there. I tried a new client, "Fossify," and at first gave it the utilitarian thumbs-up. It seems to work OK. But then, the glitches emerged. It lost track of group threads. It refused to send JPGs at random. It was very slow.

All of this shows that much as the best tool for the job is the right choice, the best tool for the person or people to make the tool is also a big question. Some have the motivation to excellence, and others ignore basic glitches.

If I had a wish for the F/OSS community, it would be for it to have a different core of supporters than the people who hung out at demonstrations, shopped at organic grocery stores, and boycotted big corporations by buying weird off-brand alternatives. They are fanatics, and this means that like the Apple fanbase, they are blind to the defects of what they are promoting.

In my view, the original shareware authors had it right: remove ideology, focus on practicality. If you send out your software as shareware, people will use it but also hold it up to the higher standards of the market and not ideology. You probably get the same ratio of purchase-to-piracy anyway.

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