Like A Magpie, I Live For Glitter, Not You

We start with Bruce and Jason:

There are cars leaving the warehouse; Jason himself is the one to point out that they aren't Joker's trucks, and the dialogue here of both Bruce and Jason is very very clear that they both believe that Joker is still in the warehouse. Bruce tells Jason explicitly:

"You stay here and keep an eye on that warehouse. Take no action until I get back. I repeat: no action! ... ... Don't tangle with the Joker alone! Wait for me to get back, please! That madman's just too dangerous for you to handle. Do you read me?"

Then:

It is very, very explicit that Jason is deliberately disobeying the orders he has been given (Stay put. Do Nothing.). He knows he is; there's no other reason for him to have the thought-bubble apology.

Jason goes down to the warehouse. What exactly his plan is from there is hard to say, but at the least he was creeping along the sides of it in civilian get-up, and it appears to be luck (Watsonian perspective) that Sheila steps out and he can talk to her outside. There's no way of knowing whether it was his intention to stay outside or whether he would have gone in regardless, but he is certainly having this conversation directly outside the door of a warehouse that he still believes has the Joker in it, and the inner dialogue seems pretty clear that he went down there to save Sheila. (This part is pure extrapolation, but I personally think it's probably pretty fair to say that if Jason believed he had to break into that warehouse to save his mother, he would have done it. I don't think he went down there to stand around outside and look in windows.)

The last three panels in this page are the only ones where Jason believes to some extent that the Joker is not in the warehouse:

Sheila lies to him. She tells him Joker is gone and gets him to follow her inside, and whether it's trust or hope he does. For a few seconds, given his reaction in the last panel, he believes her, but that doesn't change anything that happened before.

Jason did deliberately ignore Bruce's orders to attempt to save his mother. He did not stay put. He did not watch the warehouse. He did not wait for Bruce to get back. He knew the danger and he did it anyway, against orders, because of course he did. That's his mother.

Jason did think he knew, right up until the moment that Sheila lied to him, that the Joker was inside the warehouse. The only action that he made believing otherwise was to follow her inside, but to say that he didn't know Joker was there is ignoring that he very much did know right up until he was told otherwise.

Jason's actions here are unfairly represented a lot of the time, especially by other characters and writers in the DC universe declaring it as 'his fault', but it is true that Jason disobeyed orders, went to save someone from the Joker, and was killed as a result of that. If he had done as ordered — do nothing; wait for Bruce — there's every likelihood he lives (from a Watsonian perspective).

That's it. That's my answer. Endor.

Uncontacted Indigenous peoples reject contact with outsiders, as an active and ongoing choice. Survival International has calculated that there are 196 uncontacted groups worldwide; some of these are entire peoples who are uncontacted – such as the Sentinelese in India. Some uncontacted groups – such as the Ayoreo Totobiegosode in the Paraguayan Chaco or the Amahuaca in Peru – are sub-groups of bigger tribes with whom they share a language and often a territory. All are aware of the outside world, and reject it. They are self-sufficient and resilient. They live independently in forests, sometimes on islands. They resist intrusion, and thrive when their rights are respected. Uncontacted peoples may encounter outsiders sporadically, or not at all. They are aware of neighboring Indigenous peoples, who may be closely or distantly related. The uncontacted Hongana Manyawa in Indonesia have family members who have left the forest, mostly under duress. The uncontacted Pirititi occasionally encounter their contacted Kinja neighbors in the Brazilian Amazon. The Massaco, also in Brazil, were for decades known only by traces in the forest, including booby traps sharpened with rodents' teeth and placed on their hunting trails to warn off outsiders. Uncontacted peoples’ rejection of contact is often rooted in memories of devastating past contact and invasion, which brought violence, epidemics and death. Their denial of contact is a clear expression of their autonomy and self-determination.

Detective Gordon, watching as he walks by, being transported to twenty years prior when he was a rookie cop first on the scene for the Wayne murders and finding a shocked eight year old little boy standing in a puddle of his parents’ blood. Remembering how he wrapped his jacket around him and carried him away in a hurry, tucking his face into his shoulder and whispering, “Don’t look. You’re going to be okay, I promise you’re going to be okay, just don’t look.”

Gordon watching as the supposed playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne does everything he can to comfort Dick Grayson, this little boy from the circus he’s never even met before, because he knows exactly the kind of pain he’s going through in this moment.

If you want your memory or executive function to improve, stare out a window at the skyline or sidewalk or trees or birds on the electrical wires for like 20+ minutes per day. (With no other stimulation like a podcast or TV if you can manage but hey baby steps innit). If you're fortunate enough to have safe outside with any bits of nature, go stare closely at a 1 meter square of grass and trip out on the bugs and shapes of grasses and stuff.

Literally this will make you smarter. Our brains HAVE TO HAVE this zone out time to do important stuff behind the scenes. This does not happen during sleep, it's something else.

That weird pressurized feeling you get sometimes might be your brain on no defrag.