daadi

OH MY GOD?????😭🥹

#better than any disney movies

Edit: they made sure their injured friend was okay too omg

The Corgi’s name is apparently “Big Fat” AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Maxine, the subway doggo 

As a Hungarian citizen, I would like to reassure you: we are long past the stage of feeling embarrassed.

At first we tried. Our ears turned red, we explained to foreign friends that “not all Hungarians are like this,” and that “the situation is complicated.”

Then we realized that this would require a full-time job.

So now we watch events with strategic calm. If Orbán announces that Ukraine might attack Hungary’s energy system, we simply ask new questions:

– When will the army be deployed to protect the stove in my grandmother’s kitchen? – Will there be a National Electricity Meter Protection Task Force? – Will every power outlet receive constitutional protection?

Hungarians are an adaptable species. If necessary, we will defend critical infrastructure: the gas valve, the extension cord, and if the situation escalates, the toaster as well.

Shame? Look, by now it has become part of our cultural heritage.

We prefer to think of it as a unique geopolitical performance: the world’s first postmodern national security cabaret.

And if things escalate further, we are confident the government will soon establish the

National Socket Protection Operational Task Force.

Until then, we kindly ask the international community: please don’t judge us too harshly.

We live inside this reality. Sometimes we laugh. Sometimes we cry.

But mostly we turn off the lights and wait for the next episode. 🇭🇺😄

nO StOP IT

i aM DEAD

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.