why did you people come up with russian names for what is supposed to be a movie set in italy. what was the thought process here. why does she sound like she walked out of a tolstoy novel
an insane response, but i canât fight this. carry on
School: Teaches you something for a week with historical background, context, effects, and outcomes.
One TikToker: Tells you it’s fake while doing a bad contour.
Some of y'all: SCHOOL LIED?!
Some of y'all dunked on anti-vaxxers for “doing their own research”, but you’re perfectly happy to parrot some laughably ahistoric pap from a dubiously sourced book that you got filtered through three layers of social media influencers.
a concerning amount of witchblr will be like “um actually new years was stolen by europeans from the ancient god scroobus mcdoobus” and then you actually try to research scroobus mcdoobus and it turns out he was invented in the 1940s by a conspiracy theorist who powdered every meal with ketamine and thinks that queer people are reincarnated fish
The way fantasy writers talk about a thousand years as this uneventful amount of time is really funny to me because like—in less than 1000 years we went from the Norman Invasion of England to Skibidi Toilet.
Anytime your instinct is to write 1000 years, the accurate time gap is almost always gonna be somewhere between 80 & 200 years
*glances at the timeline in Fallout 4*
And if your instinct is to make it be 200 years, maybe consider 80 years (or at least do research about how nature recovers over time)
And if your instinct is to make it five minutes, maybe consider 20 seconds.
(Seriously, if someone has been quiet for a few minutes, that isn’t an awkward pause in the conversation, that’s a conversation that ended a while ago.)
to any teenagers reading this i just wanna say that you’re right. homework is bullshit, not accepting late work is bullshit, tardies are bullshit, having to ask to use the goddamn bathroom is bullshit. any adult who tells you differently is either lying or doesnt remember how much it sucked
you know what im actually just gonna block anyone who whines in the tags about how it’s actually totally reasonable to tell kids they aren’t allowed to take a piss
for those who donât speak academia: âaccording 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 carefullyâ
I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.
I still donât understand
So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I donât know if they still do this, Iâve 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 âactivityâ in the brain which is like⌠itâs 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 donât actually know what theyâre doing, how to interpret the data, or whether thereâs any real link between what theyâre measuring and what theyâre claiming. Itâs why you see shit going around like âmen 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!â and âif you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!â and âwe found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!â
There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, thereâs a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activityâ, and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.âs work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference â 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 elseâs 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 â the best advances are motivated by spite.
This also very much applies to fanfics. Some people need to take a step back and think before they make straight fools out of themselves.
listennnnn, please say it louder for the folks in the back.
yâall gotta learn to be ok when things arenât about you/catering to your wants. and if you canât learn to be ok, just donât subject artists and writers to your whining.
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