Fiat 126 MiniMaxi, 1978, by Moretti. A buggy-type vehicle based on the rear-engined 126. The windshield is hinged to lie flat

People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter

[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]

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“Holy shit two cakes,” I mutter to myself as I do fucking anything these days, this post was a godsend

one of the best academic paper titles

for those who don't speak academia: "according to our MRI machine, dead fish can recognise human emotions. this suggests we probably should look at the results of our MRI machine a bit more carefully"

I hope everyone realises how incredibly important this dead fish study is. This was SO fucking important.

I still don’t understand

So basically, in the psych and social science fields, researchers would (I don't know if they still do this, I've been out of science for awhile) sling around MRIs like microbiolosts sling around metagenomic analyses. MRIs can measure a lot but people would use them to measure 'activity' in the brain which is like... it's basically the machine doing a fuckload of statistics on brain images of your blood vessels while you do or think about stuff. So you throw a dude in the machine and take a scan, then give him a piece of chocolate cake and throw him back in and the pleasure centres light up. Bam! Eating chocolate makes you happy, proven with MRI! Simple!

These tests get used for all kinds of stuff, and they get used by a lot of people who don't actually know what they're doing, how to interpret the data, or whether there's any real link between what they're measuring and what they're claiming. It's why you see shit going around like "men think of women as objects because when they look at a woman, the same part of their brain is active as when they look at a tool!" and "if you play Mozart for your baby for twenty minutes then their imagination improves, we imaged the brain to prove it!" and "we found where God is in the brain! Christians have more brain activity in this region than atheists!"

There are numerous problems with this kind of science, but the most pressing issue is the validity of the scans themselves. As I said, there's a fair bit of stats to turn an MRI image into 'brain activity', and then you do even more stats on that to get your results. Bennett et. al.'s work ran one of these sorts of experiments, with one difference -- they used a dead salmon instead of living human subjects. And they got positive results. The same sort of experiment, the same methodology, the same results that people were bandying about as positive results. According to the methodology in common use, dead salmon can distinguish human facial expressions. Meaning one of two things:

I cannot overstate just how many papers were completely fucking destroyed by this experiment. Entire careers of particularly lazy scientists were built on these sorts of experiments. A decent chunk of modern experimental neuropsychology was resting on it. Which shows that science is like everything else -- the best advances are motivated by spite.

btw it is sexy and cool to uplift and admire people who have skills you wish you had without using their ability as a stick to beat yourself with. even and especially if you are jealous of them.

i do write for attention, actually, because that's a normal reason to create art

did you hear about that actor performing a play in front of a crowd? clearly only doing it for attention

im trying to say something and im not gonna say it in an empty room

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kind of misses the point of the show

if he were actually dead he wouldn't be a halfa

You’re missing the point it’s a crossover :) it’s not in the show.

crossovers should be true to the shows they come from. This is really the biggest flaw of Danny Phantom/DC crossover writers

Oh you poor unfortunate soul, you must be new to both fandoms. After all, DC stands for Disregard Canon and Danny Phantom has always been just framework

I get that. To me having Danny Phantom be dead when one of the main things of the show is he's NOT dead is going to far from the show to actually say you're using is as a framework

It is open to fan interpretation. In fact! Even one of the developers for the show liked the idea of Danny being dead, but was constrained by the channel the show aired on from exploring it further, as Nick would have never allowed for such dark content.

This is a great example of fandom taking the spirit (hah!) of what the developers wanted to do with the original canon but couldn't and expanding on it.

Hope this helps you enjoy fandom more!

I just, I'm laughing. Thank you, I needed this. I just--"crossovers should be true to the shows they come from" is so fucking funny as a concept. That FANDOM should be true to the shows they come from is already hilarious. But that crossovers--the innately crackiest form of fandom--the form of fandom that innately has to be changed in order to mess together should be true to canon as if TRUE has any meaning. Aaaaaah hilarious, misguided, and a miserable way to be.

(And as someone who watched DP when it aired, there was never any doubt that Danny died in the portal accident as a viewer. He just also came back.)

Being sensitive to changes in barometric pressure is crazy what do you mean my problem is that the wind changed direction. What do you mean it's the fuckin clouds

Seen someone say “I can’t die, I got graves to dance on that hasn’t been dug yet.” And honestly, that goes hard. We need to keep that energy.

hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

watching the realization publicly dawn in real time in the comments is fucking amazing

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Brother Ignatz trying to get out of dish duty by pretending to be a stand of reeds. again.

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