That’ll happen when you set the baby scale to 13,200 rpm.

We are all history buffs on this blessed day.

https://youtu.be/i8IOL5iLwG8

Whoa. That young kid just disappeared. :(

e: trigger warning. Nothing is visible in this video but a massive explosion, but there’s a kid in close proximity before it happens.

Hey, uh, great wizard, perhaps you shouldn’t throw stones? ;)

For real, though, witch hunts were always adventures in scapegoating. People are always easier to placate when you can redirect their fear and anger away from the establishment (whether that’s your chieftain, congregation, parish, fiefdom, governor, or king) and onto someone who can’t defend themselves. That’s usually the marginalised – the homeless, disabled, religiously ‘deviant’, or just annoying – because they can’t fight back. Bonus points if they have property or assets you can seize.

It’s never been about beliefs, and it’s always been about taking from people who can’t defend themselves – and making them that way by separating them from their community. This is what sociopaths have always done when we put them in charge.

1: it’s not last, and 2: it’s not sad, because 3: people aren’t reading the source material. I love xkcd, too, but that doesn’t apply here.

Just because results don’t match expectations doesn’t mean we should throw pies of satire in their face. That’s like the response in the OP of ‘no’. This is actually interesting.

Lemmy needs /c/writteninblood. That sub was one of the highlights of education on reddit.

Yeah, no. That was 2015. Then from 2016-2019 it was:

Then from 2020 to 2023 it was:

Then in 2024 it was:

And now in 2025, it’s:

Science is a whole lot of adjusting after someone died. Like, it’s mostly been that.

e: want nightmares? Here’s the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award. All the precautions and yet… not enough.

Panel 3 makes sense both ways. (x_x)

I agree with you, but I wonder how much of this is that most of us are worked to our last nerve until we’re at least 65, so many of us don’t have the luxury to maintain our brain plasticity? Once we’re 70ish, if we didn’t have that opportunity when we were living hand-to-mouth, our brains are kind of set by that point.

We all have the potential, but not the opportunity until it’s kind of too late? And then add that our society feeds us the equivalent of brain junk food for much of that time, rather than fostering continuing education…

I think the people who are lifelong learners don’t stand out to us as much, because they’re not pig-headed cunts. Thus the societal bias.

And perhaps I’m an optimist because all the elders in my family are the plastic sort (my 89 year old father still works as an aviation engineer and still builds his own computers, for instance).

Anyway, I was talking about potential, not statistics. e: and I mean it’s psycho-social, not biological.

As long as you continue to learn new things, then no, it doesn’t become harder with age. In fact, studies show that people who are lifelong learners can actually increase their ability to learn as they age. Learning, for example, a foreign language in later years has been shown to be just as attainable as in childhood, and might even give some protection against dementia. Your brain can actually become more plastic as you age if you continuously push it to do so.

The idea that learning capacity naturally* diminishes with age seems to be a widely accepted myth (which may have roots in sociological and cultural biases), and the opposite may actually be true.

e: those biases and environmental stressors may also contribute to people becoming less able – or less prone – to try, though, and if you don’t use it, you might lose that plasticity. So keep learning.

My thought at the first panel was ‘welp, time for the Motrin’. Then ‘ohhh’.

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

I found that distressing. I’m gonna assume OP manhandled that dude’s nuts after filming for my own sanity.

I can vibe with that.

I guess my question is more about the ‘challenge’ objects. Like I get wanting to put things places, but it’s the stuff that lands you in YouTube compilations due to ‘misadventure’, that clearly looked risky, that gets me.

Putting the OP bottles in places, or getting your nuts trapped in the slats of a park bench such that the fire department has to remove them, things like that.

Woe, despair, and agony on me.

But the aliens are plant-based…

Fucking LOL!

Yeah. I believe that exactly as much as everything else you and your fascist compatriots have said.

Why can’t some people resist putting things in every orifice? There’s gotta be some innate drive to do this. Does anyone here relate? What’s the attraction? I want to understand. Seeing weird-shaped things is clearly appealing somehow.