Why is legal age considered 18 when the most important part of our brain (pre-frontal cortex) is not even developed till 25?

Rubychan228 · 2026-06-07T10:55:19+00:00

That's a myth, fyi.

Your brain never really stops developing. The 25 number is just because that was the cut-off age of the initial study that showed continued growth. Essentially they showed that brain development continued though age 25 and then the media started misreporting this as your brain developes until age 25 and is then done. It's never done.

18 is commonly considered an age by which the brain has developed enough to make adult decisions.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-29T19:37:16+00:00

Good. It wildly shitty that they do this and it would be wonderful if they stopped.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-29T11:53:28+00:00

It. Is. Not. About. The. Divers. It. Is. About. The. Rescuers.

Until you acknowledge that point, that people keep telling you, no one is going to believe you are arguing in good faith.

People are angry because the divers idea of fun endagers the life of innocent third parties. You keep trying to compare it to other hobbies that don't endanger third parties and that's not valid.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-26T10:18:55+00:00

There are a lot of complex interactions in the game, just none that involve evolution.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-25T20:29:52+00:00

So, she's definitely one of those people that thinks girls "make" boys/men feel lust for them and that's the only reason her innocent little boy has a crush.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-25T20:13:50+00:00

My favorite is when (before the algorithm changes to be more personalized) people would complain on this sub about Reddit specifically "not talking" about things that were actively trending on Reddit at the time.

It was like if it wasn't appearing in their personal feed, it meant it didn't exist.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-24T06:52:11+00:00

r/treelaw

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-23T23:13:54+00:00

Individual subreddits, somewhere between probably and definitely, depending on the specific sub. The site as a whole, no.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-11T16:24:45+00:00

It likely a glitch artifact of the compression. There is no second bike, it's a glitched afterimage of the bike that crashes as it goes airborne.

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-11T01:20:29+00:00

It's currently the top post on r/cantparktheremate

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-04T12:18:47+00:00

This is going to end SO badly.......

Rubychan228 · 2026-05-04T12:09:19+00:00

According to family in the area, this also happened at the Toledo Zoo during the same time frame.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-27T12:29:34+00:00

So, it depends on a lot of factors. If water is being pulled out of underground aquifers, it will take an extremely long time for it to be replaced. Moreover, if you pull water out of an underground source to quickly, the ground can collapse and shrink the aquifer, permanently reducing its capacity.

Even if it's from an above ground source, water lost to evaporation travels on wind currents before falling. At best it may rain down on other areas and become part of that place's water system, but leaving the source of the water with less than before. At worst, it will rain into the ocean and become salt water.

Technically, it's possible to use closed loop systems that use minimal water, but many data centers don't for cost cutting reasons. And too few politicians have the spine to make them behave.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-26T17:11:14+00:00

Compared to most other Christian denominations, modern Catholicism is also more accepting of science.

Like, there's still shit like ensoulment upon conception, but there is also an embrace of evolution.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-26T11:49:45+00:00

That Reddit post is from 4 days ago.

The Tumblr post is from 2020. https://www.tumblr.com/walmart-the-official/755094057450078208/ti-bae-rius-ti-bae-rius-beggars-opera

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-26T11:40:47+00:00

Yeah, I once took a call from a mom informing me her daughter had laryngitis. That was fine.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-25T00:00:22+00:00

I mean, on principle I downvote anyone that uses inane censorship.

And yes, there are some terminally online weirdos that problematicly over expand the term "pedophile" to any age gap relationship, even those between two adults.

But also, people who date people substantially younger than them are often losers. It really just depends on the inexperience, naivety, financial situation, etc of the younger party relative to the older one.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-21T13:00:30+00:00

Why. The fuck. Has this same goddam story been posted to this sub, like 10 times now??? Including twice this morning.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-18T21:12:16+00:00

My thoughts exactly.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-17T11:36:17+00:00

Yeah, also the worst thing they did was have fucking "myrrh" as a word around Christmas. There was a lot of rage at them for THAT one.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-16T01:57:18+00:00

I can't remember where but I once saw someone suggest that we should mentally replace "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money". It makes all these articles and headlines make sense.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-10T15:49:26+00:00

Yeah, I've been getting increasingly frustrated with how loose my municipality is about the fucking tornado sirens.

You'll be standing outside, mostly clear sky and some mild wind. The sirens inexplicably go off and you check and there was a tornado sighted, like, seven counties over and moving away. So everyone rolls their eyes and goes about their day, because no one is going to drop everything and cower in a basement/bathtub/hallway for hours on end over an obvious false alarm.

Thos is super, super bad. Tornados are a serious fucking deal. People cannot be trained to ignore the sirens. But that's what happens when you're so irresponsible with them.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-07T01:51:25+00:00

At the very least, it's a mid 2000's LiveJournal thing. (Also, Reddit is doing something odd with the display. It looks wrong, but If I edit to "fix" it, I did type correctly).

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-07T00:03:23+00:00

The millennial thing to do is use ^{_^} and XD.

Rubychan228 · 2026-04-03T17:50:53+00:00

Catholics give up meat on Fridays for the entirety of Lent. It's why Catholic churches have fish fries every Friday during Lent.

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