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Sure as hell know which one I'd rather do.

To be honest, I have nothing against anime.

I just don't get all the hatred people garner towards Reddit. Yeah, there might be a lot of circle-jerking retards on that site, but there are some decent people. And it's an easy way to find information on things relevant to your interests, and to find funny/informative/whatever pictures.

Hell, almost everything I've posted here I've found on Reddit, and it's all gotten pretty good reception.

It's just that 'it's cool to hate' culture that festers on the internet, the same thing can be found for people too. I have nothing against Justin Bieber for instance, I don't like his music but I find the best remedy for this is to not listen to it. I don't know him as a person so I can't hate him. If you enjoy Reddit, fuck what everyone else thinks!

Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife

Abstract

Recent reports show that fewer adolescents believe that regular cannabis use is harmful to health. Concomitantly, adolescents are initiating cannabis use at younger ages, and more adolescents are using cannabis on a daily basis. The purpose of the present study was to test the association between persistent cannabis use and neuropsychological decline and determine whether decline is concentrated among adolescent-onset cannabis users. Participants were members of the Dunedin Study, a prospective study of a birth cohort of 1,037 individuals followed from birth (1972/1973) to age 38 y. Cannabis use was ascertained in interviews at ages 18, 21, 26, 32, and 38 y. Neuropsychological testing was conducted at age 13 y, before initiation of cannabis use, and again at age 38 y, after a pattern of persistent cannabis use had developed. Persistent cannabis use was associated with neuropsychological decline broadly across domains of functioning, even after controlling for years of education. Informants also reported noticing more cognitive problems for persistent cannabis users. Impairment was concentrated among adolescent-onset cannabis users, with more persistent use associated with greater decline. Further, cessation of cannabis use did not fully restore neuropsychological functioning among adolescent-onset cannabis users. Findings are suggestive of a neurotoxic effect of cannabis on the adolescent brain and highlight the importance of prevention and policy efforts targeting adolescents.

source: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/22/1206820109

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It's because of two reasons. The less important reason is that it loots 90% of its' content from 4chan. The more important reason was that it had a thriving underage nudity industry until recently.

It's kind of a shithole, basically.

Well, 4chan is pretty infamous for the latter, and I don't really mind the former 'cause for the most part I can't stand going on 4chan. So it's pretty much like the good stuff from 4chan is being delivered right to my doorstep.

I admit that there are a lot of thieving cunts on reddit, though.

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Well, 4chan is pretty infamous for the latter

To play Devil's advocate (Like fuck to I browse boards where this is at all likely to happen) you can and will be immediately banned from 4chan and get reported to the authorities for posting anything like that. From what I've heard, Reddit did the whole 'Free speech' thing until they were forced to take action.

No that's just funny.

I couldn't be arsed to wait for Phylum's birthday.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9...6p8o1_1280.jpg

I fucking love Old Spice.

Record your own Old Spice Muscle Music. Yep.

That's actually extremely fun to play with.

I remember that. I used to waste so much time in Comm tech playing with that.
Here's mine. Reminds me of the original Crash Bandicoot.

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Too bad the notes aren't labeled like A... A8, B... B8, C#... C#8, etc.

In case you're wondering, the numbers tell you the octave. So middle C would be C4 and concert A would be A5.

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Too bad the notes aren't labeled like A... A8, B... B8, C#... C#8, etc.

In case you're wondering, the numbers tell you the octave. So middle C would be C4 and concert A would be A5.

cool insider knowledge! pentatonic scale, etc

If nothing else you have to appreciate the ammount of effort that went into this.

A couple in Devon, England found something way more (or, arguably, slightly less) valuable than a Kennedy half-dollar while poking around under their living room sofa recently: a 33-ft deep medieval well, filled with old peasant weapons and, most likely, magic and a passageway to times unknown.

The Telegraph reports that Colin Steer had wondered for years what caused the floor under the family's couch to dip. One day, while performing some maintenance work, he dug down about a foot into what appeared to be a steep shaft, filled in with the foundations of the house.

Steer, evidently mistaking a hole for a rainbow, hopefully speculated that he might "find a pot of gold at the bottom" if he dug down deep enough.

Enter: Vanessa, his killjoy wife. She requested that her husband please not dig a hole to Hell in the middle of their living room, lest any of their three young children fall into it.

Luckily, now that the kids are grown, Colin Steer is retired, and Vanessa's pained sighs have become nothing more than white noise, there's nothing to stop him from exploring the unknown through a deep scary portal in his living room.

In fact, Colin's already found a centuries-old sword in the stone-sided hole that, contrary to what Vanessa would have us believe, sounds like a perfectly safe place for toddlers to roam.

"[It] sort of just fell out. It looks like an old peasant's fighting weapon because it appears to be made up of bits of metal all knocked together."

Wells are valuable resources for archaeologists, as, once they are abandoned, they are often treated as refuse dumps. Artifacts discarded down well holes or privy pits "can often be reassembled into nearly complete objects," because they've been left to lie undisturbed for centuries. (Even when "nearly complete," though, they're still just some schmo's trash.)

The land on which Steer's home now stands was woodland until the late 19th century. The watercourse that fed the well was built in the 16th century.

Though he hasn't yet encountered a pot of gold, a changeling, or the beast numbered 666, Colin remains optimistic about the hole's untold treasures.

"I love the well and think it's fascinating. I'd love to find out who was here before us. I've got a piece of Plymouth's history in my front room."

His wife, Vanessa, was less enthusiastic.

"I hate the well."

The photograph says it all.

http://i47.tinypic.com/dpa1rk.jpg

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Actually it's because of disgusting pedophiles and a conglomeration of the most noxious, detestable atheists on the internets but hey nice pseudoanthropological try champ

This reaction video for The Odd Life of Timothy Green almost makes me want to see it.

I just learned that some species of cicada have hatching cycles of prime numbers of years, so that they don't repeatedly run into predators with more regular cycles.

So, a bug that eats cicadas might have a 6-year cycle. You can't divide 13 by 6, so even if they and the 13-year cicadas hatch at the same time and a swarming, airborne massacre occurs, it won't happen again for 78 years. There's no synchronisation. For animals whose main measurement of time is their own reproductive cycle, the hatching cicadas seem to keep "moving around". It's like generational teleportation.

Maths is GREAT