LillyPip

That’ll happen when you set the baby scale to 13,200 rpm.

We are all history buffs on this blessed day.

https://youtu.be/i8IOL5iLwG8

Whoa. That young kid just disappeared. :(

e: trigger warning. Nothing is visible in this video but a massive explosion, but there’s a kid in close proximity before it happens.

Hey, uh, great wizard, perhaps you shouldn’t throw stones? ;)

For real, though, witch hunts were always adventures in scapegoating. People are always easier to placate when you can redirect their fear and anger away from the establishment (whether that’s your chieftain, congregation, parish, fiefdom, governor, or king) and onto someone who can’t defend themselves. That’s usually the marginalised – the homeless, disabled, religiously ‘deviant’, or just annoying – because they can’t fight back. Bonus points if they have property or assets you can seize.

It’s never been about beliefs, and it’s always been about taking from people who can’t defend themselves – and making them that way by separating them from their community. This is what sociopaths have always done when we put them in charge.

This is a good idea, but I’ve tagged loads of users now (that’s a great feature!), so I largely skim past tags, too, unless I have a reason to take notice of them (mostly for trolls or domain experts, which is situational).

So my second use case also applies to tags now, unfortunately.

You’re tagged as a purple unicorn for me too, now :)

e: that looks like Inception

1: it’s not last, and 2: it’s not sad, because 3: people aren’t reading the source material. I love xkcd, too, but that doesn’t apply here.

Just because results don’t match expectations doesn’t mean we should throw pies of satire in their face. That’s like the response in the OP of ‘no’. This is actually interesting.

Lemmy needs /c/writteninblood. That sub was one of the highlights of education on reddit.

Yeah, no. That was 2015. Then from 2016-2019 it was:

Then from 2020 to 2023 it was:

Then in 2024 it was:

And now in 2025, it’s:

Science is a whole lot of adjusting after someone died. Like, it’s mostly been that.

e: want nightmares? Here’s the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award. All the precautions and yet… not enough.

Panel 3 makes sense both ways. (x_x)

I agree with you, but I wonder how much of this is that most of us are worked to our last nerve until we're at least 65, so many of us don't have the luxury to maintain our brain plasticity? Once we're 70ish, if we didn't have that opportunity when we were living hand-to-mouth, our brains are kind of set by that point.

We all have the potential, but not the opportunity until it's kind of too late? And then add that our society feeds us the equivalent of brain junk food for much of that time, rather than fostering continuing education...