The future will absolutely need cultural anthropologists and sociologists to re-form society. Just… uh… ride out the collapse and you’ll be golden. 👍

My loaf is stale. Is there something I can do, or shall I bin it?

Step 1: commit a crime.
Step 2: graduate university in prison.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit.

• my attorney has informed me not to comment on step 3, which definitely didn’t include digging up the duffle bag full of money I absolutely did not bury during step 1.

Hey man, they’re your rats, not mine.

Either start charging them rent or give me a discount for their upkeep. My rental agreement didn’t include a whole colony of roommates.

surprise wild rats

Found my new band name.

Punching Nazis is always self defence, since being a Nazi in public is an act of violence.

Tbf, some other countries are schizophrenic about it, too. The UK uses miles for some distances and km for others, metres for anything more than about a body-length, when it might switch to feet depending on context or location. That doesn’t even broach other (sometimes overlapping) units. Humans are* remarkably inconsistent considering how universally we talk about things relying on measurement.

That’s done intentionally to obfuscate the quantity, since most Americans can more easily estimate a half-gallon. It’s to encourage consumption.

Oh wow, that’s still a thing?

John Kellogg, known for cork flakes, calamari, and an unhealthy obsession with children’s junk.

I’ve honestly wondered whether circumcision dulls boys’ empathy?

If the first experience you have in the world is extreme pain in your most vulnerable place, what does that teach you?

I wouldn’t change anything except the assumption in the overall medical field that infants can’t feel pain. I don’t know much more about this specific condition, but I have a different condition in which they assumed infants can’t feel pain, and they were wrong enough that I still have trauma from that.

Take any medical knowledge from 20+ years ago that sounds horribly painful with a grain of salt, because that was the assumption relatively recently. Some doctors who learnt medicine more than 20 years ago still think that.

e: Groundbreaking research in 2015 says babies do feel pain. 2015.

It’s not something that needs medical intervention, necessarily, because there’s nothing that can be done, and most live through it. Also, until shockingly recently, the medical field assumed (or maybe hoped?) infants can’t feel pain.

Turns out they can, though.

e: I can’t spell

Every inch of your body’s skin being hardened and cracked to the point nearly every surface nerve is exposed and raw doesn’t seem that bad?

What does seem bad to you?

If you still believe in a god, google ‘Harlequin Fetus’.

If you don’t, don’t. Seriously, don’t.

‘Three words that made me an atheist: Paediatric Oncology Ward’.

I can’t remember who said that, but it’s spot on.

Oh, that’s all? Followed.

e: thank you.

I’m confused, then. Do I bridge it from Bluesky?

I clicked your link but it didn’t make sense from my end.

Apparently I need to make a new account; it’s been a loooooong time *warning, Reddit link).

I’ll make a new mastadon account and link it here.

Shit, sign me up. I could definitely use some amusement.