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memewhore

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Woman murders man in broad daylight

theknightinslippers

fairygoulish

I'm built different. like incorrectly i think

secondbeatsongs

somehow instead of saying "as a treat", I've started using the phrase "for morale", as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) have to keep us in high spirits, lest we suffer a mutiny in the coming days.

and so I will eat this small block of fancy cheese, for morale. I will take a break and drink some tea, for morale. I will pick up that weird bug, for morale.

I'm not sure if it helps, but it does entertain me

bearloonz

Something about mistranslations and perspectives and trying very very hard.

nkp1981

Bear Selfies Captured By Camera Traps

rozzwellie

This video made me cry so I wanted to put it here

catgirltitties

memewhore

thathomestar

it's funny that this screenshot of the internet "10 years ago" is now itself getting close to 10 years old

thoughtportal

I joked with someone recently “In The Walking Dead, when did everyone decide they didn’t have to go to work anymore?” Or it felt like a joke

I joked with someone recently “In The Walking Dead, when did everyone decide they didn’t have to go to work anymore?” Or it felt like a joke. But my brain keeps returning and returning to it.

Apocalypse movies show us sunny life as normal. Then hard cut to our hero waking up in a world broken beyond repair. No need to check emails at least.

But what happens when the world crumbles slowly? A time of endless uncertainty. When we’ve blown through our mental health days and we’re expected back to work on Monday? When we watch someone else’s apocalypse from the safety of our phones?

I don’t know how we’re expected to keep doing this. To see a father holding the arm and leg of what was his child. To see a boy hugging a body bag. To see the charred remains of a car a six-year-old girl sat trapped in. Trapped with the bodies of her loved ones begging the world to help her. “I’m so scared, please come.” Please come. To watch, to watch, to watch.

And then. To keep moving. To go to meetings. To one-on-ones. To performance reviews. To talk about work load and quarterly goals and oh man, I did drop the ball on that, won’t happen again. I just seem. I guess I. I can’t seem to focus lately. To abruptly look up from our phone as someone impatiently hovers at our desk. God, so sorry. I was just, I was just, I was just. Watching.

Because in this time of politicians so blatantly disregarding the wants and desires of their constituents, sometimes it feels like all we can send across the world is our attention. We drift between two worlds. Skimming the email over and over and over, no room to take it in as our mind conjures only the image of a woman screaming with endless grief.

What is it doing to us to continue to buy into this illusion of structure as everything we ever believed about the world shatters?

cannibalchicken

larsnicklas

gavin giroux mic'd up | via Senators

depsidase

dragonfollies

Link to the artist’s Instagram

you2018

yeah like horrific trauma n stuff but literally imagine the ego boost of surviving a saw trap .

chilewithcarnage

me walking into every rich people function the night after i survived john kramer's dick smasher 3000

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saw heritage post

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I’m obsessed with this video

juelzsantanabandana2

2020 is saved this the funniest shit I ever seen

thebigpapilio

Here’s their YouTube link. It’s the OP there, so y'all can find their other videos easy from there.

I don’t think anything they’ve made tops this bad boy, though.

UPDATE 20/11/2022: BOOOOOOOO IT GOT TAKEN DOWN

rlyehtaxidermist

one of the best academic paper titles

rlyehtaxidermist

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"

derinthescarletpescatarian

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

imightbeobsessedwithsocks

I still don’t understand

derinthescarletpescatarian

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.