The Venn diagram between people who think you should get fired for using the R word and people who think you should be able to euthanize your child if it has Down syndrome is almost a circle
@RemyWatkins8535@BigMKilo@elonmusk Facts & history isn’t your strong suit, so look up the Middle Eastern slave castration pipeline & warring African tribes capturing children of rivals and selling little boys and girls.
It’s still happening, but go ahead & pretend a bunch of white men invaded Africa & did that🌑
@RemyWatkins8535@BigMKilo@elonmusk Facts & history isn’t your strong suit, so look up the Middle Eastern slave castration pipeline & warring African tribes capturing children of rivals and selling little boys and girls.
It’s still happening, but go ahead & pretend a bunch of white men invaded Africa & did that🌑
@elonmusk If the British won't stand up after THOUSANDS of their little girls were savagely abused by Pakistani rapists....I'm not sure what it will take.
Dog cages.......read that again.
@elonmusk Let this image be shared all around the world of what happened to Henry Nowak. It is not enough to be angry. Now is the time to organize. We will dismantle the system that allowed this injustice to happen.
@KarinaKlaas@salltweets@Meta Stay on X.
FB hangs users for truth & #1A stances that aren’t liberal enough for that tiny #OvertonWindow.
#Orwell's 1984 is facts on FB, Reddit, etc.
#freedom on X saves the grief & time.
Hang alone on FB or we can discuss reality together on E’s #X platform.
Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.
Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.
A panda hugged its keeper after he fell. Pandas can read human faces. Researchers at the Chengdu research base in China trained the bears to tell angry from happy expressions. The young ones picked it up fast. The same instinct shows up in elephants, rats, voles, and chimps.
Elephants do something similar. When one elephant gets upset, the others nearby drop what they’re doing and come over within a minute. They touch their trunks inside the upset elephant’s mouth, which is the elephant version of a hug. They make soft chirping sounds. Sometimes they form a protective circle around the distressed one. A team watched this happen over and over with 26 Asian elephants at a camp in northern Thailand.
The other elephants also start matching the upset one’s mood. Same thing happens to you when someone near you starts crying. You catch the feeling without trying.
Rats do it too. In a 2011 University of Chicago experiment, scientists trapped one rat inside a plastic tube and left another rat free in the cage. The free rat figured out how to open the tube and let its friend out. Then came the twist. The team added a second tube with a pile of chocolate chips inside. The free rat could have eaten everything alone, but instead it freed the trapped rat and shared the chocolate. Empty tubes and stuffed toy rats got ignored. Only another rat in distress triggered the rescue.
The brain wiring behind this is ancient. A small rodent called the prairie vole grooms its stressed partner until they calm down. Scientists at Emory found that if you block oxytocin (the bonding hormone, the same one humans release when we hug) in one specific part of the vole’s brain, the comforting stops cold. That same brain area lights up in humans when we see another person in pain. We share this wiring with rodents.
Chimps and bonobos do it too. One study followed 44 chimps for nearly a decade and logged over 3,000 fights. After these fights, a chimp who wasn’t involved would often walk over to the loser and put an arm around them. Some chimps did this far more than others, year after year. Comforting was a steady part of their personality.
The panda in the video probably didn’t think this through. It saw the keeper hit the ground and walked over to make contact, the way a vole grooms an anxious partner or an elephant trunk-hugs a herdmate. Same wiring, same instinct. We share this planet with creatures that notice when we fall.
Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.
The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.
After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.
Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.
The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.
Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.
@GsuGrinding Sometimes the best thing a lawyer can do for you is tell you "This is a dumb idea".
And if you go to like three lawyers who tell you you're doing a dumb thing, and then find one who says go ahead...
You are doing a dumb thing.