Of course, but sinophobia and yellow peril narratives having been going strong in Aus for over a century.

To be more unpopular than Xi with australians is a big deal.

Got the muchies for a california cheeseburger.

I lean toward that interpretation but am open to being wrong.

I work in mental health and was surprised by the amount of people in the field who believe marijuana is part of the problem, not just a symptom of it.

Cannabis use was more common among: … Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods

Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.

That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:

THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.

However we still don’t have definitive evidence of causation:

Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness? A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions

Stick mexican flag bumper stickers to cybertrucks and sports cars, got it.

My favorite UFO explanation is that it was largely a ploy to waste the USSR’s money. They’ll have to expend more resources chasing down a red herring than it takes us to lie about it. No coincidence then, that as a near-peer competitor emerges again we get UAPs.

“I’ll release some BS we made up” is incredibly appropriate as a desperate distraction.

This misunderstands the situation.

Most of the conservative majority on the court are active participants in the ongoing fascist coup, probably a few are just committed sympathizers.

This isn’t the supreme court enforcing the law against the president, this is a disagreement between factions within the regime about the priorities and direction.

Shootie and the blow-fiend.

This should be in an Enough Newsom Spam community so we can block it.

There’s only one pro-american program i’d like to see.

Stay tuned for the seasonal finale of We Got The Guillotine, where someone very famous will shit himself on camera for the last time!

Idaho > Oregon does not seem correct.

This might be the single least shit shitpost i’ve ever seen.

That clock rules. What a thing of beauty.

I don’t think any hominin of floresiensis-like size emerged from Africa. Just floresiensis on Flores and luzonensis on nearish Luzon. They’re probably descended from erectus that shrank “on site” so to speak.

They are some aboriginal australian stories about two other kinds of people - tall thin good ones and short stocky bad ones. I’ve wondered if that’s describing neanderthal, denisovan or some other close but extinct branches of homo.

The dot com bubble burst but we still have more interwebs then ever.

AI can be both a bubble that pops and an inevitably large part of the future - the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

30% of US adults voted for trump.

In a democracy, that would be a crippling defeat that might spell the end of your party, not give you complete control of all branches of government.

Underrail is so good.

Gaudi architecture is legit amazing and worth the wait and crowds. Didn’t even have time to see the sagrada familia, just the hotel and the park. Then we had the worst meal of my life in a tourist trap resteraunt on las ramblas. Even including that, so worth it.

Jiufen, taiwan - the village that people falsely claim inspired miyazaki’s spirited away - is also just incredible. The views, the winding lantern-bedecked staircase, the teahouses. It’s crowded and full of touristy knick knacks but i still took everyone who visited.

You don’t purge the military of anyone who disagrees unless you plan to do some shit that the military would try to stop.

This move can only be read as our illegal fascist regime consolidating it’s grip on power.

Once i had to make a sign on a whiteboard for a deaf patient that said: Remember No Meth for 1 Week!

Unsurprisingly, the sign was less powerful a motivator then methamphetamine.

Oh! Duh-eye-ber-vil? Or maybe Die-ber-vil? Is that how it’s pronounced?

At first I was getting angry at MS for having a Dilbertville.