Ha, yeah, to be fair, I didn’t read the article, I just looked at the research paper it was based on. I’ve given up on a lot of science reporting, it sensationalises things from otherwise sensible studies far too often

The last paragraph of the synopsis above kinda details why this might matter - areas of the brain don’t have such defined and limited purposes as musculature.

A recent similar study found that the area of the brain responsible for spatial location is smaller in people who rely on sat-nav exclusively. That might not seem like much of a problem, as everyone has one in their pocket now, so so what? Well, it turns out that that area is also responsible for mapping our social landscape too, and if it shrinks, our ability to maintain larger and more complex social groups suffers. The ability to read is quite a specific skill, but strongly linked to the kind of imagination used to create these complex worlds and characters in your imagination - how would loosing that ability affect designers/artists/architects etc?

Make a nice safe and fabulous space for everyone to scream “aaaaah fuck, there’s a giant skeleton!”

Pretty much the topic of Blind Boy’s latest podcast, and I can wholeheartedly say that it’s on off feeling to be quite so empathetically called out twice in as many days

It forgot “carry on with the shooting of morally bankrupt CEOs”, but I suppose you can’t blame it for not being bang up to date

They’re actually for big, manly super-straight homophobic alpha blokes

The world crumble further into a dystopian hellsc…. Oh wait, casual conversation. Sorry, yeah.

Wayne. This week I rewatched the series Wayne, and it’s still one of the best things ever made. I’m gutted that the channel folded before the second series got produced

I’m not sure rotting is going to be an option. You reckon any of those Korean cons are going to be happier to see him than the guys who’ve been hunting him down on the outside? I don’t, and these dudes don’t have to follow a twitch stream to know where he is. I reckon he’s going to gain a new understanding of what the comfort women went through pretty quickly. My money wouldn’t be on him surviving a 16yr stretch in all honesty

Nah, he’s been banned on almost every platform, and by the time he gets out of jail, no one will remember his name

I watched a video by Botgrinder on YouTube called “you can’t mini whoop the president” or something similar, where he was messing about with an fpv drone at a Kamala rally. Turns out that the Secret Service won’t let you buzz her with a small drone for fun, and if you stand around in fpv goggles they’ll come and give you some grief. He wrote a very funny ai country song about it, worth a watch. However, he didn’t say much about jamming, it was being stood about in the goggles that got him I think. I’d assume that the Secret Service’s jamming is a fair bit better than the Russian’s, but the way the Ukrainian drones have been dealing with that shows that jamming only does so much - if the drone is falling toward the target on an essentially ballistic trajectory, jamming it won’t do jack

Duolingo is serious these days

Honestly, I’m half expecting some disenfranchised kid to learn from the Ukrainian conflict, and take one of these muppets out with a drone. It’s pretty tricky to shoot even as large a target as trump with his security cordon, but this pillock wanders around in public, and it really would be pretty ironic for someone to live-stream the tech-daddy moron getting fpv’d into a fine paste

It’s just coincidence that every country that’s even vaguely close to the US has a huge problem with American guns in the hands of criminals. Couldn’t possibly be related

That figure’s come down significantly since the age of vikings though

Yeah, if we start listing all the things he’s going to negatively affect, we’re going to be here for a very long while

I mean, it’s already half way there, all they got to do is make it funny

Give a different spin to saying “come home covered in glory”

No, he genuinely has a face like an ai-generated thumb. He’s the kind of prank bellend that’s going to get shot eventually, and absolutely no one will care, he’s a gimp

If only there was some recent example of a western country doing something stupid like this that isolates its self from a major chunk of its agricultural workforce, and really screwing over its fresh food supply… (Politely clears throat in post-brexit British)

Close enough for the girls I go out with