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examples:

max -> maximilian -> mr million

conrad -> connie -> confirmation bias -> propaganda -> the proper gander

In contrast to Arthur, I'm also fascinated by how similar Uther and Morgana are to one another from the get go. Morgana from episode one is framed as the kind one who disagrees with Uthers rules. And she does, and she will get upset when Uther does wrong by people. However, if you listen to her talk, her reasoning is more self focused at its core. "You cant get rid of Giaus, he helps me with my nightmares." and "You cant kill Gwen, shes been my maid for years!" Protecting Mordred because he reminds her of herself in a way. Making the death of Gwen's dad about the death of her dad and how she blames Uther for that Etc.

Uther is the same way too, when He's feeling sorry for his actions its entirely focused on how its effecting him currently ie its made Morgana upset with him.

Personally I think Arthur just has son privileges and Morgana is Uther's actual favorite between the two.

Until then, on a goofier note, seeing how Dick is depicted in outside media versus his own comics is always the funniest shit to me omg

Like he’s so cute here. He has been having a weeks-long breakdown in Nightwing. He lays on the floor and self-flaggelates for his perceived failures for a few days and then someone calls him out to help and he’s like “okie :D”

And it’s not like this is some unprecedented mis characterization by BG: Breakout; every series does this. I dunno what to tell you.

If it were just one cameo that did this, the argument could be that the author just doesn’t know what’s happening in Nightwing. But I refuse to believe that at this point. Meaning either:

1) This is an editorial mandate to have Dick adhere to his more well-known persona when popping up elsewhere, and that “well-known persona” is Good Boy McGee.

The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.