I see kids riding bikes on the roads and drinking from hoses, and I live in a major city.

Are you AI? You write like it.

You have a masters, in what?

The median salary for a MA holder is 95K. More than enough to afford a nice home in most places in the USA outside of HCOL. And a good quality of life.

Oh I have met plenty of scientists who are scientific only about their own research field. And complete dumbasses about anything else, like they do biology all day but can’t drive for shit because they have zero understanding of the laws of physics, including gravity, and they get hyper defensive if you tease them about this.

It’s mind-boggling, but that’s just how human beings are. And if you aren’t wired like that… it’s pretty hard to socialize successfully because social group identity is so often solely generated on shared beliefs many of which are ‘hard fictions’.

HEALTHY TEETH AND GUMS ARE THE FIRST STEP OF THE TRANS IDEOLOGY.

they are all the same people.

they just have different origin stories for their crazy beliefs.

None of those things will end human life. It will simple be reduced. It has happened before.

Bullshit. That’s just doomer hysteria. Short of an asteroid impact there isn’t going to be some apocalypse.

Climate change is just CHANGE. Things will change. Species will adapt, or die, and new species will emerge.

Sadly, change terrifies people. This is also why they refuse to ‘make things better’ even though we have the means, because that means CHANGE. ooo scary!

Define better. Net worth or something?

My parents had a way worse life than mine was. Maybe yours had a better life than you?

The only people I know who seem to legit feel this way are the rich kids who are mad they won’t be richer than their parents. Like temper tantrum butthurt they won’t own a big house and a giant SUV car their parents drive. But they spend all their money traveling and drinking and eating at expensive restaurants anyway…

except when you inject them in your pp to make it hard.

adults will be fine. it’s kids who get fucked w/o fluoridation, and will have lifelong dental issues.

people don’t understand science at all.

It’s not a ‘do it once and it’s the truth forever’ type of thing. It’s a perpetual process. You are SUPPOSED TO REPEAT STUDIES. Result replication is the point. You also re-do studies to create new datasets, see if baselines have shifted etc.

The notion science is some system of eternal truths is not science. That’s Scientism… where science has been elevated to a extra-empirical authority.

It’s also why you do experiments in science class… and you compare results.

anyway, a couple of times I tried to explain this to people, even as a teacher, and they basically told me that means science is stupid and worthless if that is how you are suppose to do it. people generally, do not think science is an empirical process, they think it should be revelatory, like the ten commandments.

who argues that? I haven’t seen that.

And what is their reason? that it would be cheaper?

This is such an irresistible way of belonging to some group and getting that special feeling that it’s becoming a real problem for most of us.

It’s a base human drive, that is far more powerful than critical thought. The only reason we sort of got around this was we had built institutions and had collective identities… and a lot of that is crumbling away the past few decades.

So people are reverting to forming their own little tribes around some niche set of beliefs to make them feel empowered. As most of them no longer feel apart of their larger tribe.

Anecdotally, I left a volunteer org I’d been a part of for ten years because this brainrot had taken it over. The new members wanted our org to some super special club for cool people only, instead of being just open to anyone and my emphasis on it being open and accessible made me persona non grata. BECAUSE HOW COULD I NOT WANT TO FEEL SPECIAL AND SUPERIOR. oh, and they also started saying they should be paid for volunteer work… because felt they ‘deserved’ all that money we were getting from donations from the public…

When Putin goes it will be another 1990s scramble for power and the Russian people will follow whomever is the biggest thug who makes them feel a sense of pride and stability, which is precisely how Putin came to power.

People forget that before Putin Russia was in economic collapse throughout the 90s. And that all of Russian history the central government been authoritarian and corrupt af

Sounds like you should run for office under those talking points. Good luck.

is freedom bad?

I hated it for the same reason I hated Interstellar… ‘the power of love will save the universe’ nonsense ending.

So much build up and world building, and brutally cliche cop out endings… but i guess that’s why most people LOVED them, because you know PARENT-CHILD LOVE SAVES THE UNIVERSE.

it’s a niche kind of comedy that won’t connect with a general audience.

when it came out i loved it buy everyone I knew I showed it to HATED it. and thought it was stupid af, and generally black/dark comedy turns off general audiences.

years ago. the average theatrical run is like 3 weeks, maybe 4-5 if it’s a BIG movie with staying power like Mario Galaxy.

the days of a movie being in theaters for 2-3 months are 10 years ago or more. after 2-3 months the movie is available to stream. 2nd and third run theaters also don’t exist anymore.