Not only can we do this, we can imprint false memories (knowledge of a maze) via neural stimulation. In theory it would be possible to do this without going through the skull and just putting a screen in front of their eyes, and if we can do it in mice, most likely people too

I read this a long time ago, but I still think of it whenever I knowingly make a mistake

Idk why I’m stuck of this train of thought but if you think about it onlyfans is really something like fractional ownership of a girlfriend

At a certain point buddhist deep meditation practices cross the line into wireheading. That monk staring at a wall for twelve hours a day hasn’t transcended the physcial realm, he’s become a spiritual gooner

I’ve changed my mind, the best business model of all time is prostitution, there’s 0 overhead, pure profit really

My favourite monday ritual is having a 1-to-1 with my manager where he asks me if I did anything interesting over the weekend (I never do), and when I ask him what he got up to he tells me he had another argument with his wife

What % of the adult population of the UK is functionally illiterate?

This is what reading the norse sagas feels like

There’s a guy like this in every pub in liverpool

Every pub in manchester has these three guys

Citizen journalism

Imagine the insurance underwriter that sold flood insurance to a city in the middle of the desert thinking it was the easiest money in the world seeing this in his inbox this morning

POV: Someone sent your tweets to vault HR