Perpetual Desync 🧑‍💼

Office-bound comms guy. Gamer. Dad. Swede. No plan, here, just mostly retweets. If it lifts someone’s day, job done. One day we die, but all other days we live!

[Perpetual Desync 🧑‍💼 @fKurki]

Är inte speciellt engagerad i något, men skulle jag välja en kulle att dö på här på twitter så är det folk som använder uttryck eller ideomer felaktigt. Det är okej att det blir fel, men om inte någon påpekar det så blir det aldrig rätt.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Can someone check if she’s actually human?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[King Roy @RoyIsThaTruth]

Im blocking everyone who doesnt know MANSA MUSA was the first a TRILLIONAIRE in the world…and YES AMERICA❗️🤌🏾 HE IS ALSO A BLACK MAN ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[Perpetual Desync 🧑‍💼 @fKurki]

@mariabrostrom Jag är autistisk och hade kunnat göra precis så där eftersom jag inte kände för kakor just då. Hade jag sen läst den här tråden hade jag fattat, känt lite ånger och sen hört av mig ifall det fortfarande går att köpa.

[Göran Greider @GreiderDD]

Det är ett häpnadsväckande vansinne att elsparkcyklarnss inte hårdregleras eller rentav förbjuds. Av folkhälsoskäl, av klimatskäl och för alla olyckor. Kan vi inte ens fixa detta lilla, då lär vi inte klara några klimatproblem alls.

[No Nonsense Neurodivergent @NoNonsenseND]

"Autistic rigid thinking" is really just "things have to make sense before we change our minds"

[goma @soigomaa]

Free my man

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I congratulate Sweden, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM, and all Swedish people on their National Day.

The Ukrainian people will always remember the significant contribution Sweden has made to the defense of our country and of all Europe. We thank you for all your support, for every aid package, and especially for strengthening our combat aviation. We are working hard to ensure that Swedish Gripen aircraft reinforce Ukrainian skies as soon as possible.

It is precisely this unity and joint work with our partners that is needed to bring the end of Russia’s war closer. We wish Sweden peace and further development.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[asparagoid @asparagoid]

Just remembered the world sauna championship. Was one of the most interesting things I've read about

It used to be hosted in Finland every year until the incident in 2010. Rules were that it started at 110°C (230F). Then 1 litre of water was poured onto the stove every 2 minutes

The last person to walk out under their own power won

In 2010, both finalists had to be dragged out

The russian finalist died, burned all over, and the reigning Finnish champ went into a coma and woke up 6 weeks later with 70% of his skin burned, kidney failure and his airways completely roasted

One peculiar thing about it was there were no prizes. Only in one particular year did the winner get 1 small prize, some special heat resistant speakers that could be used in a sauna

But despite this, participants went to the edge of death every year and would do insane stuff like grow their hair out long specifically to cover their ears so it didn't get burned by the boiling water vapor

It was interesting to me because it's another piece of evidence that as soon as you create a ruleset... no matter how ridiculous it is, no matter how small the group of participants, no matter the extremely chance of death, and no matter a total lack of prizes. There will always be men willing to compete to the point of actually killing themselves

The male brain enters a kind of hypnotic trance where it will completely convince itself of the worthwhileness of the task, so long as it begins to venture seriously down the path of a competitive interest

It's kind of like a hijacking of the programming evolutionary mind, where no incentive makes sense but it happens anyway. You can find a million examples of this for every male interest on the planet. Just the simple act starting down a path confers it meaning to the person, and the more they are surrounded by other men who care about the same thing, the more they learn and compete, the more entranced by it they are, until their identity is fully subsumed by it and stuff like these sauna deaths happen

Seeing lots of things like this taught me to be very careful when I start down the path of any competitive interest or business, because getting hypnotized by what you are doing is essentially guaranteed. So it's good to assume it'll happen and be totally sure the outcome is worth your potential self-destruction

[Frank O'Callaghan @ionank]

22nd anniversary

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

Turns out that child who could sit and read a 500-page fantasy novel in a single afternoon without moving, eating, or hearing their parents call their name, but took six hours to finish a simple three-sentence homework assignment, wasn't choosing when to behave. They were just experiencing their very first intense, dopamine-fueled hyperfixation spikes.

[UI/UX Savior @UiSavior]

Lol 😂

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I hate to admit this but Trump was right.

He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof.

I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.

[Shotgun Shogun @_ShotgunShogun]

This is one of the realest things man. I remember one time years ago I was at the grocery store checking out and the girl at the register said she liked my shirt (it was a cool new shirt I had just gotten) and it caught me off guard at first and then she was like "oh cool goblin slayer wallet too!" and man I was on cloud 9 for the rest of the day.