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[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This is the most important image of the 21st century to date. Study it. Never forgive. Never forget.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

Men are not smart.

We've already talked about this.

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

"TRIPLE" since 2020

[Big Tee @societyhatestee]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep.

[gremlin @queerlilgremlin]

“almost four” sure sounds like he doesn’t consider the fetus she’s pregnant with to be a real person yet

weird

[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%.

[jane @ijanedoll]

A college swimmer caught red-handed assaulting an unconscious girl behind a dumpster gets sentenced to just 3 months in jail because the judge "didn't want to ruin his Olympic potential." Once again, a man's hypothetical career is worth more than a woman's actual life.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Instead of adding pink ribbons to their products every October maybe companies should just remove the cancer causing ingredients

[bug girl @buggirl]

in nature if a monkey hoarded 1 trillion bananas the other monkeys would beat that monkey to death and take his bananas

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

You voted for him knowing he was going to make life harder for other people. You just never thought it would be you. Your selfishness got us here.

[The Pink King @DayalSami]

Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species

[ɴᴀᴅɪ.🎀༘ @luvblessingz]

My favorite part of reality tv is when someone goes “I never said that” and then they play a compilation of every time the did in fact say that.

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

If we apologized to children more, we would have more adults that accept accountability for their actions.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

This should legitimately be happening every day

[Maira @maira4yo]

maturing is realizing none of us are easy to be with. It's about who's willing to stay committed to understanding you and actually wants to grow with you

[Taurus Groove @jiggyjayy2]

Our mamas was right, you do have to micro clean every day or your home will be dirty

[𝐄.🚩 @Wyd_eshuu]

why do "balls" imply toughness and "pussy" imply weakness when the slightest flick to the nuts sends a guy to his knees, yet a vagina can push out an entire being.?????

[Oserin💖✨ @DamilohunA]

the fact that they’re so many fine gay men just shows that straight men don’t put effort into grooming. that’s why they’re ugly

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

As a parent you shouldn't be telling your kids that you sacrificed your life for them, It’s hurtful and manipulative, and it’s not true. You chose to have your kids and nobody forced you to have them. Taking care of them is your responsibility.