"i Don't Comment On Ao3 Because I Don't Wanna Be Annoying Or Weird" Skill Issue + You Greatly Underestimate

chilchuck is so confused, bless his soul

Am I bad man for fucking my friend who’s married while i am also married? no. Because we’re both men, and homoesxuality is a construct, and therefore, I’m not actually fucking him. 

As an optician I see this ALL THE FUCKING TIME. 'If I wear glasses I start needing them' NO! You become used to seeing! Your eyesight does not worsen! You just become aware of an actual problem you have!

There are SO MANY people overexerting their eyes, and ACTUAL MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS are telling them to keep at it! It is NOT normal to end you day with a migraine, it is NOT normal to be forced to take breaks from reading because of eye strain and if you're driving on the regular, you *absolutely* should be seeing the best you can! 'I can manage without' you can also manage without shoes, Susan, and you but you like your feet with no holes in them don't you? 'Oh you shouldn't need glasses, you see well enough' how about you let your patient decide that, doc? Some people won't care for seeing %10 better, but some people absolutely will! My doctor sure as hell doesn't decide the quality of eyesight I require, or even want! Someone doesn't want to see the best they can? That's fine, but it's their damm choice!

DONT use glasses, youll become dependent on them to see!!!! #WARONDRUGS #OVERPRESCRIPTION #CORRECTIVELENSADDICTION

chilchuck would totally be a calvin and hobbes type of dad. all like

FLERTOM: hey dad why do old paintings look so weird

CHILCHUCK: oh that was before perspective was invented. yeah we used to be sliding off of floors all the time, dodging giant monks

FLERTOM: ohhh ok. thanks dad!

CHILCHUCK’S WIFE: i’m going to throw a rock at that man’s head

The whole "the brain isn't fully mature until age 25" bit is actually a fairly impressive bit of psuedoscience for how incredibly stupid the way it misinterprets the data it's based on is.

Okay, so: there's a part of the human brain called the "prefrontal cortex" which is, among other things, responsible for executive function and impulse control. Like most parts of the brain, it undergoes active "rewiring" over time (i.e., pruning unused neural connections and establishing new ones), and in the case of the prefrontal cortex in particular, this rewiring sharply accelerates during puberty.

Because the pace of rewiring in the prefrontal cortex is linked to specific developmental milestones, it was hypothesised that it would slow down and eventually stop in adulthood. However, the process can't directly be observed; the only way to tell how much neural rewiring is taking place in a particular part of the brain is to compare multiple brain scans of the same individual performed over a period of time.

Thus, something called a "longitudinal study" was commissioned: the same individuals would undergo regular brain scans over a period of mayn years, beginning in early childhood, so that their prefrontal development could accurately be tracked.

The longitudinal study was originally planned to follow its subjects up to age 21. However, when the predicted cessation of prefrontal rewiring was not observed by age 21, additional funding was obtained, and the study period was extended to age 25. The predicted cessation of prefrontal development wasn't observed by age 25, either, at which point the study was terminated.

When the mainstream press got hold of these results, the conclusion that prefrontal rewiring continues at least until age 25 was reported as prefrontal development finishing at age 25. Critically, this is the exact opposite of what the study actually concluded. The study was unable to identify a stopping point for prefrontal development because no such stopping point was observed for any subject during the study period. The only significance of the age 25 is that no subjects were tracked beyond this age because the study ran out of funding!

It gets me when people try to argue against the neuroscience-proves-everybody-under-25-is-a-child talking point by claiming that it's merely an average, or that prefrontal development doesn't tell the whole story. Like, no, it's not an average – it's just bullshit. There's no evidence that the cited phenomenon exists at all. If there is an age where prefrontal rewiring levels off and stops (and it's not clear that there is), we don't know what age that is; we merely know that it must be older than 25.

NO OTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM GETS TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES!! THE SIZE AND DISTANCE OF OUR MOON FROM EARTH AND THE SUN MAKE THE PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCES TO GET TOTALITY!!! THE EARTH AND MOON ARE SOOOO COOL AND OF COURSE OUR SUN!! I LOVE LIVING ON EARTH I LOVE YOU EARTH I LOVE YOUUUUU MOON I LOVE YOU SUN

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