Common Citizen

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

@SenKatieBritt Senator Britt, For the love of God, please assist Freddys Revilla & Edgarianny Gervis & seven year old daughter in going home. They have followed all the rules. They are not criminals just a family. A seven-year-old should not have suicide ideation in America!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

This should be a national scandal.

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as the aircraft carrier’s deployment in the Middle East stretches months beyond what their families originally expected.

Think about how desperate conditions have to become for American service members, people trained to endure enormous physical and psychological stress, to reach that point.

The roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the Lincoln have reportedly endured food and water shortages, poor-quality rations, shortages of basic hygiene products, broken toilets, mold and mildew in showers, intermittent hot water, disrupted mail service and brutally long workdays with little meaningful time off.

The ship has spent extraordinary stretches at sea without the regular port calls that normally allow crews to get off the vessel, rest, resupply and simply experience something resembling normal life for a few days.

These men and women volunteered to serve the United States. They understood that military service could mean sacrifice, danger and months away from their families.

They did not volunteer to be treated as disposable.

If conditions aboard one of the most powerful and expensive warships on Earth have deteriorated to the point where sailors are reportedly trying to throw themselves into the ocean, then something has gone catastrophically wrong.

Our service members deserve better than this.

And somebody in leadership needs to answer for how it was ever allowed to get this bad.

[Fascist Hunter @bg8rrc]

@MeidasTouch

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Studies show that watching a beaver eat cabbage lowers stress by 17%

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

@JoJoFromJerz Revenge.

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

@RonFilipkowski

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

Say it with your full chest 🔥

[BunniHunni. @__Cocoapuffxx]

@CalltoActivism And the morons cheering i cant 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

@MbarkCherguia A vacuum!

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

@JoJoFromJerz Is this meant to threaten the rest of the world?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I'll hold your beer

[Cis @amberrebekah]

@propublica They had been with CPB since 2018 and 2014, the narrative of them being untrained is wrong! Yes many of them are untrained but the killers are very well trained, Renee Good shooter had over 20 years

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

@propublica And this is footage of them almost killing a U.S. citizen 3 days before… https://t.co/9iN42M7xtI

[Lalajerzeegrl @livfreely211]

@propublica @MadisonMCross4 🤔 Latino really… oh wait Germany did the same killing fellow Germans

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

@propublica Sinners Incorporated Big Tent

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[Linda @Lindademocat]

@covie_93

[Common Citizen @stuartjennifer]

@covie_93 So, there is a bit of Independent press! Wonder if they will now be labelled as a domestic terrorist 🤯