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TURN ON THE SOUND. YOU CAN'T MISS THIS. THIS IS FANTASTIC.
even the top gets called a faggot
me explaining modern homophobia to aristotle
Your honour, I admit that I do have a superiority complex over not watching Disney "live action" remakes, but in my defense, I am right
#council shall remind the defendant to refrain from such outbursts#particularly because the defendant's opinion on Disney has little to do with her seven counts of manslaughter for which she's being tried
#that giraffe is being so cute and curious and gentle#and that is running full speed because this is the worst fucking day if his LIFE#like IMAGINE having your butt gently scooted by the snoot of a pressence so massive#your body is not designed to even see high enough to see the top of#abd hes just gently nudging you along as you run for your life as fast as your legs can carry you#giraffe is playing humans are enjoying turtle is living out a cosmic horror story
✨️The giraffe✨️:
Vs.
The turtle:
an 18-wheeler died on the side of the highway the other day. a pack of scavenging motorcycles was eating its carcass. one of them growled at me
one of the best academic paper titles
for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"
I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.
I still don’t understand
So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!
These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"
There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:
Dead salmon can recognise human facial expressions. OR
Everyone else's results are garbage also, none of you have data for any of this junk.
I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.
As always, the Irish speak nothing but facts.
How many more innocent civilians have to be killed by Israel before you condemn that for it?
That is a genocide.
That this is a crime on all accounts.
And deserves to be punished to the full extent off the law.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib submits to the Congressional Record the entire South African genocide case against Israel and makes an impassioned call to Congress to stop funding the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
today i learned how they vaccinate sheep and OH MJY TGOD
gotta put the sheep in the sheep chute to shoot the sheep
never have I ever seen a creature so passively Not Having A Good Time before
When a lamb is stuck it'll just Sit There. They won't struggle unless they think they can get away.
#these poor things!#there HAS to be a better way
Poor things? They're fine. This is like a baby in a car seat. The sheep are not in pain, they are not overly uncomfortable, they are not unusually scared. They probably are a bit annoyed. But this setup isn't hurting them or straining their bodies in any way. It's shaped specifically to hold their limbs out of the way without hurting their back, hips or shoulders. It's 'plastic cone on a cat with stitches' level of inconvenient, for a handful of seconds, and it's certainly much safer and easier than the other method (trying to restrain the lamb on the ground with your arms and knees while carefully giving it a delicate vaccination).
Similar concept: Babies getting x-rayed
This is giving off "piping bag of mouse" post vibes
Beautiful!!!
Panda having fun in the snow