I try this so often yet I remain terrible at these haha

I find it difficult to imagine a future in which humans aren’t making fun of impaired cognition.

I think the context is what’s most important, if anyone actually directs such language (be it retarded, idiot, etc) towards people with genuine mental impairment, that constitutes a slur. But the word ‘retarded’ literally means ‘slow’, and is still regularly used (including by myself) in scientific and technical contexts (compared to racist or homophobic slurs, which are only ever really used in a ‘slur’ kind of way).

I wouldn’t really have a problem with calling people ‘slow’ in jest, and I don’t think many would. Imo if not ‘retarded’, it’ll be something else with the same meaning.

Enjoy the ride 🤘

This man can’t be stopped!

Really loving the heavier direction on this album, but glad he’s keeping up the crazy instrumentation.

I’ve listened twice and I think this is probably gonna be my AoTY, but at the same time it’s so musically dense and all over the place that I need at least 10 more listens to make head or tail out of it!

Genuinely I think the world would have much better scientific outcomes if a decent portion of grants were just straight-up randomly allocated (from a pool that meets a minimum standard I guess). Everyone wants to fund ‘almost complete’ research but there’s such little money for the early-stage ‘high risk high reward’ basic research, which is what basically all applied research is built upon.

10 minutes of sun per day is typically less likely to give you cancer than 0 minutes. Vitamin D (and other compounds involved in the synthesis from cholesterol that you won’t get in supplements) upregulate DNA repair polymerases that protect against carcinogens. Of course after a few minutes the costs of UV exposure outweight this benefit though.

We needed a negative control, dammit!

Went on to play a few months ago with mates, all 4 of us had accounts deleted. Wtf, why wasn’t it an automatic process…

need crumb

I want to put Skype’s corpse on a banner and wave it around to all the software that’s currently undergoing enshittification.

Astor Theatre, Perth, 2019. Was a crazy mosh, and Crumbling Castle was incredible. They ended the show on “The Bitter Boogie” which was a really flat, confusing way to end. Overall a great gig but I still find myself scratching my head at the ending song. The other times I saw them they finished with the Mind Fuzz suite and KGLW, so can’t complain!

Nobody is saying that fish are moral agents that can empathise with other beings. That doesn’t man that they’re not moral subjects; the ability to understand that one is causing harm is not a prerequisite for the ability to suffer oneself. I think everyone knows this intuitively, but it does feel good to have our less moral habits be justified by memes that we would otherwise find to be illogical.