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Big news guys, according to CRWBY I am officially the #1 greatest RWBY misinformation page ever in the history of existence. I'm very happy to be acknowledged like this, they said it on Twitter. I couldn't take a screenshot because it was too loud at the time for me to see it. Don't look it up though, Elon Musk personally deleted the tweet to avoid me growing to powerful. Just accept whatever I say as fact.
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just saw one of your posts in the wild edited into a youtube video im watching, like hey! i know them!
I could singlehandedly keep a DMCA lawyer gainfully employed with the number of my posts that have ended up being youtube videos (but I won't because fuck the DMCA)
Crazy how they defunded the CDC and IMMEDIATELY our food quality suffered.
People are going to die.
People are going to die because of diseases we can vaccinate against.
People are going to die because of food borne illnesses.
People are going to die from infested water.
People are already dying.
what do you do if a kid keeps biting/scratching/hitting other kids?
the answer to questions like this is always "find out why and go from there".
like. this could be an emotional regulation issue, a bid for attention from someone being neglected, a sign of abuse, the result of social isolation, an undiagnosed social or cognitive disability, a sensory fixation....
those are just the possibilities I thought of in 30 seconds.
a struggling kid isn't a malfunctioning roomba. you can't draw a straight line from faulty output to corrective input. accounting for their interiority is step one.
I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.
Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…
I'm gonna cut off the whole long-ass pointless thread I saw talking about the finer points of taking iPads from babies because here's the thing:
"a doctor did an MRI and found that a kid had brain damage from iPad use" is a lie. that's not how MRIs work. that's not how brain damage works. if you're arguing about whose responsibility it was to prevent this from happening, you are starting from a premise that is not just unproven, it's impossible. you might as well be talking about whose responsibility it was to make sure the moon didn't get made out of pudding.
This study found a link between higher rates of screen-based media use and "lower microstructural integrity of brain white matter tracts supporting language and emergent literacy skills in prekindergarten children". This study demonstrates real developmental harm associated with overuse of screens at a young age but OP was exaggerating the findings and admits their understanding of this paper came from a fear-mongering type reel/short video.
I have not read and assessed the quality of the study itself. I'm not a doctor and have only a small amount of familiarity with neuroscience through my linguistics postgrad. I'd be interested to hear a more qualified take on this study.
The take-away for most people should be: limit your child's screen time or it may seriously impact their early childhood development, including physical brain development. Read all uncited information on the internet with a grain of salt.
kids & tech was my PhD area so I can give you a qualified take.
as with basically every study on the topic of "screens and kid brains", this one:
doesn't differentiate between types of screen-based activities
is correlational, not experimental, and doesn't control for obvious confounding variables
which makes it basically useless.
take, for example, the existence of tablet apps that are specifically meant for children and parents to use to read together. if "reading with parents" is the actual underlying variable impacting white matter growth, then the medium (screen vs paper) might not matter at all!
if "screen time" is a meaningful construct then so is "paper time", and it would be reasonable to collapse doing crossword puzzles, completing tax forms, writing personal letters, reading novels, and ordering from restaurant menus into one metric and try to measure its impact on brain development. but we don't do that because it's obviously stupid.
I don't know much about MRIs, but I find it crazy how this implies a simple brain scan can reveal the patients hidden sins, like screen time, when diagnosing and differentiating dementias is so difficult. Early diagnosis in a lot of physical brain illness still happens by symptoms, rather than looking at the brain scan, because the changes are not visible until the disease is severe and obvious.
Also kids brains are still growing and I'm kind of curious about how you'd compare them.
the "still growing" thing is a bit misleading since the human brain changes throughout the lifespan. but one of the coolest things about the extreme neuroplasticity of young brains is that there's some evidence they can shift which brain regions perform specific tasks - a finding that calls a huge portion of studies like this into question because a lot of them rely on measuring activity in certain areas of the brain.
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Fun fact, old school shorter beam saber blades are compatible with modern beam saber hilts! If you're like me and you prefer the older shorter ones this is very good to keep in mind if you have any lying around.
reminder to all disabled people that you’re allowed to tell people “i can’t do that” about stuff you can ‘technically’ do but which harms you or requires a period of recovery or preparatory rest etc. you don’t have to explain the complex nuances of your condition to anybody who demands it. i’ve found it’s honestly better to give the least amount of info about your symptoms unless you trust a person a lot. you hold the power over your health information. you choose whether or not to share the details of your condition with people who might not understand.
I saw this video about a doctor who performed an MRI on a 5 year old and discovered she essentially had “brain damage” from excessive iPad use, as the white matter in her brain couldn’t form properly due to an understimulated environment.
Hmm it’s almost like there’s supposed to be adult figures responsible for monitoring her screen time and making sure she develops properly… certainly this isn’t the result of neglect at the hands of her parents…
I'm gonna cut off the whole long-ass pointless thread I saw talking about the finer points of taking iPads from babies because here's the thing:
"a doctor did an MRI and found that a kid had brain damage from iPad use" is a lie. that's not how MRIs work. that's not how brain damage works. if you're arguing about whose responsibility it was to prevent this from happening, you are starting from a premise that is not just unproven, it's impossible. you might as well be talking about whose responsibility it was to make sure the moon didn't get made out of pudding.
This study found a link between higher rates of screen-based media use and "lower microstructural integrity of brain white matter tracts supporting language and emergent literacy skills in prekindergarten children". This study demonstrates real developmental harm associated with overuse of screens at a young age but OP was exaggerating the findings and admits their understanding of this paper came from a fear-mongering type reel/short video.
I have not read and assessed the quality of the study itself. I'm not a doctor and have only a small amount of familiarity with neuroscience through my linguistics postgrad. I'd be interested to hear a more qualified take on this study.
The take-away for most people should be: limit your child's screen time or it may seriously impact their early childhood development, including physical brain development. Read all uncited information on the internet with a grain of salt.
kids & tech was my PhD area so I can give you a qualified take.
as with basically every study on the topic of "screens and kid brains", this one:
doesn't differentiate between types of screen-based activities
is correlational, not experimental, and doesn't control for obvious confounding variables
which makes it basically useless.
take, for example, the existence of tablet apps that are specifically meant for children and parents to use to read together. if "reading with parents" is the actual underlying variable impacting white matter growth, then the medium (screen vs paper) might not matter at all!
if "screen time" is a meaningful construct then so is "paper time", and it would be reasonable to collapse doing crossword puzzles, completing tax forms, writing personal letters, reading novels, and ordering from restaurant menus into one metric and try to measure its impact on brain development. but we don't do that because it's obviously stupid.
Hi, to prove my point on this to my stubborn mother who's a teacher, could you please provide either sources on this arguing against the "screens and kids brains" studies. OR proof of your certification?
One of the articles I read in grad school that really opened my eyes was a paper called "Evolving paradigms of communication research" (Jensen & Neuman, International Journal of Communication volume 7, 2013). The main point it makes is that since the media studies field got going in the mid-20th century, it's been defined by this persistent desire to find huge, decisive impacts across whole populations despite research over and over showing small effect sizes and lots of contextual nuance. I think that's an important framing to have for trying to understand any of this research.
As for things more specific and recent: I really want to find time to do a meta-study of screen effects research, because there hasn't been a good one in the last few years from what I can tell. But this article in Nature by Candice Ogders is a good place to start - it's well sourced and open access.
man if you're disabled you've GOT to find some way to make your fuckass body a source of pleasure whenever you can. jacking off. eating good food. wearing soft clothes. kissing an animal on the head. whatever you can do
reminder to all disabled people that you’re allowed to tell people “i can’t do that” about stuff you can ‘technically’ do but which harms you or requires a period of recovery or preparatory rest etc. you don’t have to explain the complex nuances of your condition to anybody who demands it. i’ve found it’s honestly better to give the least amount of info about your symptoms unless you trust a person a lot. you hold the power over your health information. you choose whether or not to share the details of your condition with people who might not understand.
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maybe im just a hater and i never really engage with true crime content outside of the few times i was forced to in high school but whenever people are like "yeah its just fascinating.... to hear how killers think.... its so interesting to know their thought processes..." and well. 99% of the time its "they realized they had the chance to hurt somebody and took it" and they werent some misunderstood genius it was 1. police incompetence & people not caring about the victims and 2. most serial killers are white guys. and white guys can get away with a hell of a lot
Jude Doyle on Trans Masculine Erasure
Eraserhead by Jude Doyle
READ HERE -> https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/eraserhead/
On writer's block and being a gender traitor.
TRANSCRIPT:
How dare I say I had the authority to speak about women's experiences, how dare I talk over women this way, what was wrong with me.
The obvious answer - that "women's experiences" had been my experiences, until about five minutes ago; that I was still so early in my transition that most people took me for a woman on the street, so it was hard for me to even make any clear distinction - didn't occur to her, and I didn't know how to say it. I was a feminist, after all, and if a woman told me l was being sexist, I should probably just take her at her word.
This wasn't about accountability. This was people tactically forgetting my entire life, including incidents from my life they had personally witnessed or been involved in, so that they could shame me for transitioning. It was bad for me to be a man; if I was a man, I was a bad man, I was all the worst things men are. I was hulking, I was threatening, I was predatory, I was violent. (I was about five foot seven if I stood up straight and wore shoes.) I suspect she's capable of some kind of violent crime, one of the right-wing Redditors said; I was a monster, the Grendel in feminism's mead hall, raging and endangering the cis women, and some hero had to pull out his sword and come take me down. Often, talk of my potential violence led to calls for violence against me:
Ah, the life of the transmasculine feminist: From being beaten up by men to.... being beaten up by men, I guess. Plus ça change.
What are you going to do, cry? asked one man, and it was true: I could cry. I could try to explain why I had a stake in the movement. I could point to my uterus, my continuing need for birth control and abortion, my history of being beaten and threatened and objectified and harassed and raped by men. I could say that my experience had not lined up with the average cis man's. But to do all that, I would have to point out that I was trans. Which is to say: Not really a man. Which is to say: Faking, delusional, attention-hungry, lying, crazy. I would go from being all the worst things about men to being all the worst things about women. I was treated as both genders, but only the most monstrous stereotype of each one.
Because I was now a man, I could not speak about what it was like to be a woman. Because I had been a woman, I could never really speak about what it was like to be a man. Do the math: I could not speak. It was a double erasure, a double bind, in which every experience I had was false, and so nothing I said was credible. I could no longer derive authority from my experiences before transition, and shouldn't even cite them - I had never "really" been a woman, so those things hadn't happened - but those experiences could always be weaponized against me to prove I wasn't "really" the man I claimed to be.
They call it erasure, when this happens. I wasn't prepared for how literal the term was. Every day, I could feel myself disappear.
I fall silent, because a person who can't exist can't argue.
When I have trouble writing, these days, it's not because I have nothing to say. It's because I can't imagine a person who is willing to hear me. I can't foresee anything but hostility coming from the other side of the screen.
trying to not notice incel terminology becoming mainstream and slipping into everything, for my own sanity
no deadass if you're a leftist you need to get more pro-indigenous
NOW
this is non-negotiable
The world record for the number of body piercings on one individual is 58, which is held by Sigmund Freud
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If you could end the oppressive practices of the Republican Party by eating Donald Trump alive, would you?
yes, but I'm getting loaded up with that mouth numbing juice from the dentist's office first
