memes are a catalyst for our political direction, culture clashes, etc

thats pretty amazing and fucking scary all at once

So, you're saying that memes move politics? <:Kappa:327142715592540171>

memes condense an entire idea into a quickly consumable artifact

simply a modern extension of "a picture is worth a thousand words"

Yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoHhfTgWV9Y

tim just went live a few secs ago

http://www.newsweek.com/parents-are-making-their-children-drink-bleach-cure-them-autism-793197

WHAT THE FUCK

I guess they consider dying a cure for autism?

Which is sad considering autism isn’t a disease, you can’t cure it.

We can't cure it with the tech available to us right now, but we might be able to in the future.

I think it will eventually be treatable.

There’s nothing to cure though. Autism isn’t a sickness, it’s a disorder that effects state of mind.

As someone that has autism: no, fuck you. It absolutely is a disease (disorder is a subset there of) and there absolutely is something to cure.

Sure in the future you might be able to temporarily readjust their state of mind, but the default will always be the same

It is a neurological development disorder.

It's a mental condition just like any other.

And eventually treatable, maybe even cured.

Considering no mental condition in existence has ever been cured

From what I understand about autism, it would be something that probably has to be treated in utero

We do not know what the future might bring.

Treatable sure, but there’s a major difference between take this drug once and you’re good to go vs take this medication once a day every day

Of course.

Assuming that we'll never develop some form of medical tech capable of doing things we can't even imagine now is absurd.

holy heck hes live

Go explain an MRI to a doctor in the US civil war.

I sincerely doubt medicine will ever evolve to the point where humans have learned how to rewire a human brain

We're getting close to being able to stop Alzheimer's from spreading

It's not rewiring a brain, but it's the closest we've gotten to date

because the trials required to do so will almost assuredly be considered torture

being a furry is a mental illness

#facts

@ping I think the human condition is a mental illness

And unless we get the second coming of Nazi doctors who don’t give a shit about their patients o don’t see us ever getting there

then there is no point in classifing things as a mental illness

I thought the brain rewires the brain

nothing rewires anything

weights just change

I don't think we have to go straight to 'Nazi doctors' in order to advance medical science.