I never really “got” Bach until I saw the smalin visualizations.

The 2nd latest thing I saved was a comic from the Library of Congress archive that I cleaned up to post on !truecomics@midwest.social:

If you have a cat named “Garfield”, you are in big trouble.

It is a period of brain maturation, learning about intimacy and mutual support, intensification of pre-existing friendships, family-oriented socialization, and the attainment of those social skills that are needed for mating and reproduction.

Awesome, thanks!

Hey so what is this cognitive development that I may have missed out on? I tried googling but nothing comes up. Can you point me to some reading about this? Or some term to search for? Thanks.

Sorry fam I didn’t mean it that way, I’ve just learned to be suspicious.

the last cognitive development stage, which happens around 26-27.

Wait, what? I don’t think I got the memo on that one. This isn’t some “manosphere” thing, is it?

Love that Muhammad Ali pose.

The sad thing is, that amazing story would be listed as just “through friends” on the survey.

Q: “Why didn’t you get in touch with that guy you met at the kung fu fight?”

A: “In fact, he was a little bit frightening…”

I think this is the data collection info: https://data.stanford.edu/hcmst2017

The data are nationally representative, as the Ipsos KnowledgePanel recruits subjects into the panel by by Address Based Sampling, and subjects without Internet access at home are given Internet access.

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Response rate was 3510/6753=52% in 2017, 2107/2431= 87% in 2020, and 1722/2073=83% in 2022.

Half of all randomly selected subjects (by address) responded to their survey? I’d need to read a bit more about what exactly is going on there.

I was gonna complain about the lack of pipes, til I looked at the ceiling.

Link to the article.

IRL clowns are usually hard-working professionals with great people skills. Just sayin.

A bare bear on a bear, bairn.

Fun fact: modern Coca-Cola contains cocaine-free coca leaf extract. Do Coke-flavored Oreos?

Yeah, not the same thing and a couple decades earlier but Wilde’s “De Profundis” is a useful contrast.

I kind of understand the objection, though. It’s a short step from “it isn’t manly to be enraged” to “just pull yourself up from your bootstraps.” I don’t think that’s what Marcus Aurelius was saying, but I can see how someone might read it that way.

I’m not sure I remember correctly, wasn’t that artist very pro-Reddit during the API protest?