CerebralCodes

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@NTFabiano The whole anti therapy stance is throwing the baby out with the bath water imo. Modern hiring practices and aggressively pushing for woman to be in the field has pushed men out, this has had huge consequences for not only how it's practiced, but how men view it.

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@Landeur Lol, what a pansy.

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@yepitsthetruth @Alex_Fairfax06 @Landeur @PolitlcsUK @StephSpyro Lol! Perfect 👌

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@MJRabble_Rouser 🤣

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@BovrilG Lol! Jesus Christ. 😬

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@benwehrman Bleak.

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@SNationalist91 Excellent choices.

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@Lionspectre Yes.

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If you are old enough to remember driving in Britain in the 1980s, you will remember the windscreen.

You could not see through it by July. A journey from Leeds to London in August ended with a front bumper that looked like it had been through a war and a windscreen that needed a proper scrubbing with a sponge at the services. Insects on the headlights. Insects in the wing mirrors. Insects packed into the radiator grille so densely that mechanics had to fish them out. This was simply the weather of the British summer, the cost of moving through a country that was still, in living memory, full of flying things.

Get in a car now. Drive the same route. Stop at the services.

The windscreen is clean.

The Bugs Matter survey, run by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife since 2004, has been measuring exactly this. Volunteers clean their numberplate, drive a journey, count the splats on a grid. Between 2004 and 2021, the UK average fell by roughly 59 per cent. England alone: 65. Kent: over 70. The 2024 update found a further 63 per cent drop on top of that.

The windscreen phenomenon has the data to back it up now.

And not just the insects. Between 1970 and 2024, the UK Farmland Bird Index fell by 62 per cent. Turtle doves down 99. Grey partridge down 94. Tree sparrow down 90. A generation of British children has grown up without ever hearing a turtle dove call, because there are, in functional terms, no turtle doves left to call.

Defra's own bulletin lists the causes without embarrassment. Loss of mixed farming. The switch from spring to autumn sowing, which took away the winter stubble the small birds had been feeding on since the Neolithic. The grubbing up of hedgerows to make fields bigger for bigger machines. Increased fertiliser. Increased pesticide.

Specifically, the pesticides. Neonicotinoids on oilseed rape. Glyphosate sprayed as a pre-harvest desiccant on wheat and barley. Chemicals applied in combinations and volumes that would have seemed psychotic to a farmer in 1950, applied to grow the crops that feed directly into the plant-based shakes marketed to people who believe they are helping the environment.

The insects died in the fields where the crops were grown. The birds that used to eat the insects, starved. The windscreen, accordingly, is clean.

None of this happened on the permanent pasture that cattle graze. A herb-rich meadow grazed by cattle has more pollinators, more ground-nesting birds, more beetles, more everything per hectare than the arable field next door. The South Downs and the Welsh uplands and the Cotswold commons where sheep and cattle have been grazing for a thousand years are the places British biodiversity is still, just, holding on.

The countryside did not empty because of the cow.

It emptied because we replaced the cow with the combine harvester, the meadow with the oilseed rape, and the hedgerow with another half-acre of monoculture that needed spraying fourteen times a season to keep it alive.

When someone tells you eating a steak is destroying British wildlife, ask them what was on the field before it became the soy farm, the rape farm, the wheat farm that produced the oat milk in their fridge.

It was grass.

And on the grass, there were cattle.

And when the cattle were there, the windscreen needed cleaning.

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Show this to your mum if she ever complained you spent too much time on your Mario 64 vidya game

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

Playing Mario 64 reverses aging in the brain in trial.

Yes:

Elderly subjects playing the iconic platformer increased grey matter volume in the brain over 6 months.

Those not playing LOST grey matter.

Grey matter is the cell body-dense region of the brain.

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@DiodLeAnarchist @RAWigger Damn bro, if you that young you need to get off the internet 😂

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@BasedNorthmathr 😠

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@BBCNews Lol, how the hell are you supposed to enforce that?!

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@Landeur Couple of poli psy studies have suggested that 'conservatives' are a lot more tolerant than liberals, when it comes to opposing points of view.

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@johannesmkx If you go back to the inception of all the ideas you pointed out, you will find one group of people.

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Right in the middle of a rainy moment, a tiny bird becomes the star of something truly magical—a perfect water droplet lands on its head, forming a crown-like splash that feels almost unreal. The timing is flawless, capturing a split second where nature turns playful.

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@Lionspectre Actually played due to your posts

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@Howlingmutant0 @LauraLoomer @GazeWindward

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@MurfsHello @Babygravy9 Na man, that's limp biscuit

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@benwehrman @ChadKing97 You should watch their home video docs, very funny. Also one of the first metal bands to play in Russia after the fall of the USSR, in 1990 I think.