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2026-05-17 08:32 UTC

@cczona@hachyderm.io Degenerative brain disease is, kind of by definition, the sort of condition where lots of tiny parts of one's brain gradually go missing. And this opens plenty of voids for the remaining neurons to try and hallucinate ghosts into. But eventually, the voids go from emerging to merging, and then it'll be ghosts hallucinating ghosts all the way down. @pojntfx@mastodon.social

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@riley@toot.cat 2026-05-17 19:06

@cczona@hachyderm.io Hey, quite a number of ressearch questions could be developed from the hypothesis that our currently living in the stupidest timeline has something to do with human lifespan growing so rapidly in the 20th century that people suffering from occult brain degeneration have suddenly become a major voting block. Also, possibly, the generational lead exposure event coinciding with the growth of lifespans. Lead is known to contribute to a number of measurable neurological dysfunctions, and strongly suspected to contribute to evn more subtle and hard-to-measure things. Its effect is the strongest when the exposure happens during childhood, particularly, early childhood. @pojntfx@mastodon.social

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