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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What is more Dunning-Kruger than Dunning-Kruger, such that it would explain how you would put the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic in a chat thread about plans for a bomb strike? lynnungar.substack.com/p/on-beyond-...

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On Beyond Dunning-Kruger

You might well have heard by now about the remarkable fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth not only chose to discuss details of a military strike on Yemen over the commercial app Signal, but also ...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If Idaho succeeds in mandating that the 10 Commandments are posted in every classroom, what is the educational outcome that they are looking for? Here's a study guide. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Teaching the 10 Commandments

So, there’s a bill before the Idaho legislature that would require that the Ten Commandments be posted conspicuously in all classrooms.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The punishment mind-set says that if your punishment isn't working, you need to do it harder. How's that working with the whole tariffs thing? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Play Stupid Games, Get Stupid Prizes

Well, we seem to have a pattern here.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

What do you strive for after you have already acquired far more than you can ever use? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I find it interesting that the same people who use religion as the justification for taking away rights from women and LGBTQ folks are saying that a sermon calling for compassion and mercy and humility and unity is too political.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I honestly have no opinion about whether TikTok should be banned or not, but I find it hilarious that Trump got them to come back so that his inauguration could be broadcast on the platform. There is literally nothing that man does that isn't motivated by vanity or greed.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It is my considered and professional opinion that if your religion is about judging and limiting other people while excusing and giving license to yourself, what you have is a crappy religion.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

What does it really mean to be an influencer? Remembering the late, great Karen Pryor. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

What happens when the people in charge only know how to yell and object? Anyone remember the cats of Kilkenny? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

There are two stories woven together to make the Chanukah story--two different miracles with two different meanings. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

How do you think about the ethics of murdering the CEO of an egregious health insurance corporation? How do you feel about it? lynnungar.substack.com/publish/post...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

How would it have changed things if Glinda had decided to ally herself with Elphaba in the course of singing "Defying Gravity"? And what are we to do with privilege? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Where did the Democrats go wrong? Whose fault is it anyway?https://substack.com/home/post/p-152386008

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Was eating lunch at a restaurant with my parents when a cybertruck came through the parking lot, gunning its engine. Yes. You heard that right. An electric vehicle making a loud "vroom, vroom" noise. Just when you thought that toxic masculinity couldn't get any more pathetic.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

What would happen if everyone just decided to use whatever public bathroom was most convenient? Then, if someone challenged your right to be there, you could just say: "Are you asking to see my genitals?"

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

All beings are working to get what they need. But what if you have more than anyone could possibly need? open.substack.com/pub/lynnunga...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What does it mean to not tolerate something? What does that actually look like? substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you are feeling dangerously out of control, that makes sense. But you were never in control to begin with. If you have a panicked fear that we’re all going to die, I understand. But there was never a time when we weren’t all going to die.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Is this posting to the Freestyle enthusiasts or to the world in general? We'll see. Everyone needs dancing dogs, right? youtu.be/rP5Y6C_cQJ8

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The Onion has purchased Infowars at auction. Every now and again the arc of the moral universe is pretty damn entertaining.

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

There are lots of ways in to answer the question "What do we do now?" My way is centered in behavior science. (Also poetry. And religion. Yes, also dogs.) Join me on Substack if you're interested in the conversation. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Lynn Ungar @lynnungar.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Consider the case of a dog with an electric fence. The threat of shock keeps them confined. But if the dog accepts that going through the fence is going to hurt, it turns out that it has been locked in solely by the threat of punishment and not by an actual barrier. Then it is free.

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