Old shows like Little Bear were actually better for your kid's brain, and scientists have the test scores to prove it.
Researchers at the University of Virginia took 60 four-year-olds and split them three ways. One group watched SpongeBob, which cuts to a new scene every 11 seconds. One watched a calm show that changed scenes twice a minute. One just colored with markers.
Nine minutes. Then every kid took the same battery of focus and self-control tests.
The SpongeBob kids tanked. Planning, memory, impulse control, all measurably worse than both other groups. The calm-show kids scored the same as the kids who did nothing but draw.
Nine minutes of fast cartoon. That was the whole dose.
Here is the mechanism. A small child's brain has a tiny buffer. Eleven-second cuts stacked with cartoon physics that break every real-world rule jam that buffer faster than the kid can empty it. They leave the screen already overloaded. Little Bear held one watercolor scene long enough for a four-year-old to keep up.
The old shows were built to match the speed of a child's mind. The new ones are built to capture it. CoComelon cuts every one to three seconds for the same reason a casino has no clocks: so you never look away.
That calm you remember was the one speed a developing brain could actually follow. Everything since has been built to outrun it.
Here is imperial psychology, laid flat:
Violence flowing outward from America is "policy."
Violence flowing inward toward America is "evil."
American poverty is "individual failure."
Other countries' poverty is their "culture," their "corruption," their "institutional weakness," never the centuries of extraction and the eighty years of postwar economic arrangements that kept transferring their wealth somewhere else.
American military presence in 80 countries is "stability."
Any other country's military base near American soil is "aggression."
This framework is not argued for.
It is simply assumed.
Built into the grammar of how they discuss the world.
You absorb it before you are old enough to question it.
By the time you could question it, it feels like "common sense."
Breaking that framework doesn't feel like learning.
It feels like losing something.
That is exactly why so many refuse to do it.
Don’t like people wearing watermelon pins at your shitty medical conference?
Don’t care.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” makes you feel scared?
Don’t care.
Seeing Palestinian flags on university campuses upsets you?
Don’t care.
A student calling Israel an apartheid state hurts your little feelings?
Don’t care.
A doctor speaking publicly about Palestinian children being massacred feels “divisive” to you?
Fuck you.
People refusing to condemn Palestinian resistance makes you uneasy?
Don’t care.
Hearing the word “genocide” feels inflammatory to you?
Don’t care.
A keffiyeh in a workplace gives you a panic attack?
Don’t care.
“Globalise the intifada” sounds genocidal to you?
Don’t care.
People interrupting politicians feels disrespectful to you?
Don’t care.
You no longer being able to monopolise victimhood makes you angry?
Truly could not care less.
What I care about are the Palestinian children being burned alive.
The doctors being tortured.
The families erased under rubble.
The starvation.
The concentration camps.
The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and universities and refugee camps and entire civilian infrastructure.
But for the nearly last 1,000 days and decades prior, Western institutions have demanded everyone stop and carefully tend to Jewish emotional discomfort instead.
Not Palestinian lives.
Not Palestinian suffering.
Not Palestinian speech.
Zionist discomfort.
Zionist fragility.
Zionist political sensitivity—elevated, enforced, and institutionalised across universities, hospitals, media outlets, professional associations, politicians, donors, and advocacy groups.
All working in sync to transform Zionist discomfort into institutional emergency.
While Palestinian suffering is rendered invisible.
While Palestinian speech is disciplined.
While Palestinian humanity is treated as negotiable.
That is the function of the Jewish Feelings Industrial Complex.
Not safety.
Not care.
Not protection.
Institutionalised Zionist emotional management at scale.
Fuck every single institution that constantly weaponizes “Jewish safety,” “Jewish discomfort,” and “Jewish feelings” to justify censorship, repression, career destruction, anti-Palestinian racism, and silence in the face of mass atrocity.
If a watermelon pin destabilises you more than the annihilation of Gaza, the problem is not the watermelon pin.
The problem is you.
-- from "The Anti-Zionist" https://t.co/38l41J9sY8
I don't believe you can be a good Zionist anymore than I believe someone can be a decent Nazi. The ideology itself describes a major character flaw.
I cannot take seriously the idea that some ethnicities or religious groups are inherently prone to nefarious behavior; it goes against everything I've learned about the human condition over the course of my strange adventures on this planet. I absolutely do believe there are political ideologies whose adherents are universally dogshit people, though.
If you've been watching the incineration of the Gaza Strip and thinking it's good, or thinking it's complicated, or thinking it's an unfortunate development that can be blamed on a few bad apples in the Israeli government but doesn't reflect Israel's nature as a whole, then you're a piece of shit. You're a horrible human being. It really is that simple.
If you can look at Israel starting all these wars, bombing the fuck out of Iran and Lebanon and Palestine, passing laws to execute Palestinians exclusively while sparing Jews from the same sentencing for the same crimes, and still fail to recognize that the Israel experiment must be aborted, then you have not developed a functioning conscience. You have wasted your time on this earth. You have not managed to mature into a morally healthy human in all these years you've been alive.
There are Zionists who are vegetarian, who are nice to their pets, who give money to charity — but there are no Zionists who are actually good people. John Wayne Gacy did charity clown shows for hospitalized children, but he was still a serial killer and a very bad man. His abusiveness eclipsed any other kindness he may have performed, and became his defining characteristic as an individual.
Being a supporter of the Israel project is exactly the same. It doesn't matter what else you do with your life if you stand on the side of a man-made murder machine which is fueled by the blood of the innocent. You're just plain awful.
BREAKING
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:
“No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression.
Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan.
And it will not happen in Iran either.
They hide behind women’s rights to justify their colonial wars.”
No country has the right to attack & invade another country because they disagree with their culture
Iran didn’t bomb the US even tho it undoubtedly finds the OnlyFans, porn & rampant paedophilia culture abhorrent
Fuck off out of other people’s countries & sort out your own.
The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.
1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.
The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.
Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.
And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”
This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.
We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.
The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.
LMAO amazing :
The commentator listed the crimes committed by Israel instead of narrating the race
The commentator's attitude of not saying a single word about the race during the event went viral. Israel finished last