Americans barely know ‘acetaminophen’ , too. Some, sure. Most know Tylenol.

Literally no Americans know what paracetamol is. Randomly ask anyone.

Americans know brand names: Tylenol, Advil, Prilosec, Ambien.

I’ll bet you could survey Americans and 999/1000 have never even have heard the word paracetamol. Or zolpidem, and slightly less often, omeprazole (though that one may be increasing due to the general state of things and subsequent need for prescriptions). Most won’t have heard anything but the brand names, and the brand names have been drilled into their heads by way of constant advertising.

US brands have spend stupid amounts of money making sure people think of their propriety name instead of the real name of any drug.

My neighbour has raised concerns about me because I’ve stopped trimming parts of my lawn to foster the bees. Apparently it’s weird and concerning to let some areas grow wild. I didn’t rake the back last year, and started to see fireflies again.

I was going to buy a wildflower mix, but that will be too unkempt.

Fuck HOAs.

And before that, it was all kinds of slurs I shouldn’t say. It’s been here forever, we’ve only developed empathy for it recently.

I could believe the bikini girls, too. I assumed it was a charity car wash, which was pretty common on weekends. Haven’t seen those in a while.

Didn’t even need to use the machines, because most people didn’t care. When I wanted to walk to the store in my teens, my mother would give me extra money to pick up cigarettes for her. Cashiers always sold them to me, no problem.

Yes, please.

They’ll still have their own place, we just won’t have to deal with them. Defederation doesn’t remove their instance, it just means their content won’t be shared with us.

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

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.

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.

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…

I think the people who are lifelong learners don’t stand out to us as much, because they’re not pig-headed cunts. Thus the societal bias.

And perhaps I’m an optimist because all the elders in my family are the plastic sort (my 89 year old father still works as an aviation engineer and still builds his own computers, for instance).

Anyway, I was talking about potential, not statistics. e: and I mean it’s psycho-social, not biological.

As long as you continue to learn new things, then no, it doesn’t become harder with age. In fact, studies show that people who are lifelong learners can actually increase their ability to learn as they age. Learning, for example, a foreign language in later years has been shown to be just as attainable as in childhood, and might even give some protection against dementia. Your brain can actually become more plastic as you age if you continuously push it to do so.

The idea that learning capacity naturally* diminishes with age seems to be a widely accepted myth (which may have roots in sociological and cultural biases), and the opposite may actually be true.

e: those biases and environmental stressors may also contribute to people becoming less able – or less prone – to try, though, and if you don’t use it, you might lose that plasticity. So keep learning.

My thought at the first panel was ‘welp, time for the Motrin’. Then ‘ohhh’.

But the aliens are plant-based…

Too many fact checks, hmm???