What Israel is doing to Gaza is terrorism, and I don’t believe that you always come down hard on terrorism.

He doesn’t need glasses because he got bitten by a radioactive spider. This meme format has been around for a long time and everyone knows about Spiderman

“Water, 35 liters; carbon, 20 kilograms; ammonia, 4 liters; lime, 1.5 kilograms; phosphorus, 800 grams; salt, 250 grams; saltpeter, 100 grams; sulfur, 80 grams; fluorine, 7.5; iron, 5; silicon, 3 grams; and trace amounts of 15 other elements.”

And then there’s the marxist-leninists who saw the government ban black people and women from voting, see the Republicans trying to make it harder for black people to vote, and then said “when minorities vote it helps fascists”, because they’re clowns.

The polygraph confirms he’s telling the truth

The R word is a slur

The utopia of Star Trek was only able to happen because they had a WWIII and the communists won

Most people have their attention decided by a combination of biology and social norms, but can learn to direct it themselves. So if you’re really hungry, maybe you can’t stop thinking about a sandwich. But most of the time your boss can tell you to pay attention and you will, and you can mediate and think of nothing with practice.

When you have ADHD, your attention can’t be controlled by social norms, and the biology of your attention is different. And it’s harder to learn to control it yourself. In school, you literally can’t pay attention if you don’t find the subject interesting, it’s too much work. And maybe instead of being hungry and thinking of a sandwich, you’ll go on Wikipedia to learn about the history of snail entomology and end up going 10 hours without food or water. The way your attention moves around is dysregulated. That’s ADHD. Learning to control your attention is an uphill battle, and you’ll never develop a single habit.

And CO2

I never forgot that I had Warframe but I just got back into it after 7 years of not playing and it’s still great.

And we don’t have to wait for the boomers to die out to buy guns and practice using them

A lot of bending ability comes down to personality. Being adaptable, forceful, consuming, or evasive makes you good at bending. Being rigid, timid, pacifist, or stubborn makes you bad at bending. Katara sucked at waterbending when the show started because she was a stickler for the rules. She always had a nurturing element, but she also had to learn to go with the flow. Toph was a child prodigy at earthbending because she has an incredibly forceful personality. But it’s not something her parents taught her, she had to cultivate it within herself.

It is the duty of the Avatar to embody the wisdom of each element and to undergo the personal growth to be able to see things from everyone’s perspective. Korra’s situation is basically normal. Aang is the weirdo for being a timid pacifist who struggled with earth and fire.

Cactopodes

Marty plays EDM at the prom instead of rock and roll

Fuck off, Dave

Farming is like a memetic prion disease. Every other food production method it touches turns into farming.

Okay, here’s another. Large pupils are a sign of health and of arousal, and make humans feel more attraction, because it’s a better mate for breeding. Ads that leverage a model’s attractiveness will perform better if they use models with bigger pupils or digitally enlarge them.

From the fact that language of our complexity would be very hard to learn if humans didn’t have specialised circuits for learning it, and the fact that evolving better language on a biological level would improve fitness.

That’s a prediction

If you raise a group of human children without ever exposing them to language, they’ll invent their own.