this may come as a shock, but things have dramatically changed in the last 105 years

probably won’t be able to find out how your own brain is structured without getting a scan, but your local university neuroscience lab might be interested in a free test subject and would give you a scan in exchange for studying your brain.

it’s a bit of a “chicken and egg” problem, but yes studies show that conservatives typically have an overactive amygdala. now, is it overactive because they’re conservative, or are they conservative because it’s overactive? hard to say.

I dunno if it was the best, but the pizza that lives in my memory was a whopping 24" pizza from a local place. That’s over 450 square inches of 'za, or 11 square meters for the Europeans.

It was glorious, and took four incredibly high stoners about a day and a half to work through.

and what’s wrong with that!

hate me and you want me dead

she’s perfect

I’m talking from a US perspective, but I work in an education adjacent field that reviews a lot of homeschool student’s academic records from across the country. IMO, there are two types of homeschoolers. There’s the students who are truly brilliant living in a part of the country that doesn’t value education, and they’re practically forced into homeschooling (or a popular online program like Stanford Online High School) in order to receive an actual education that could challenge them. They do get less socialization than their traditional schooled peers, but they’d get mercilessly bullied at a traditional school so it’s hard to say how much value that socialization has.

The other type are the religious fundies. I have even more hands-on experience with this style, as some of my cousins were homeschooled in this manner. IMO, this shit should be illegal. It’s accepted because someone is typically monitoring these students’ academic progress, but I can say with confidence that Republican states are letting a lot of shit slide. It’s religious indoctrination at a level beyond what you would even find at a religious private school. Typically, these students are better socialized than the other homeschool students, though with the caveat that all their socialization happens in religious settings.

sorry did I miss an announcement that Fallout 3 is getting a remaster?

New Vegas is the better game, sure, but 3 is really showing it’s age and I’ve had issues getting it running stable on modern hardware. New Vegas is no spring chicken, but I’d say it generally runs better. Are we just doing a remaster to try and capitalize on the TV show hype?

sorry full of valuable resources? what, corn? dataservers? pedophiles?

the U.S. is not some piggy bank waiting to be cracked. Realistically, the current US military exists to defend America from all the nations it’s pissed off by invading them in the past. It’s a self-fullfilling system.

actually, from a historical perspective, it’s been the Dems who have accelerated ICE. Biden and especially Obama were much more instrumental in the agency coming into more and more power. Trump’s getting to play with the toy now, but it was bought by Dems.

I’m about to take a super shit on the villain of the week

finally, all of that training with my crackhead cat will pay off!

trying (and failing) to be better about getting a good night’s rest this week, that way when I inevitably stay up too late playing Path of Exile next week, I’ve built up a reservoir of good eeps to draw from. (yes that’s definitely how it works)

don’t let the others get you down, wanting to lick/bite is perfectly normal bottom behavior

past me is an asshole, and future me is a chump.

definitely a hole duh

I mean what else are they supposed to do, hit on a stranger? ick

counterpoint: crop top season

okay but the kennel is superior 😎