don’t you fill up a water bottle at a water fountain?

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

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.

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?

the same as lorem ipsum. it’s great for filling up space with text.

it will be another year or two.

they are still actively investing in this. once the money starts drying up then the bubble will pop.

and all the tech companies will ask the government for a trillion dollars to cover their asses, and we will give it to them, because America.

Yeah, because they suck.

Businesses that suck in a shrinking market, are going to close. Education is a business in the USA, not a public good.

I knew people who went to these schools… they were often indebted for poor quality educations in basic liberal arts fields and spent their 20s doing service jobs because nobody wants to hire someone from a fourth rate no name college who reads/writes at a 10th grade level. A lot of my peers who went to these schools got scammed, and frankly had no business going to college in the first place.

Good riddance. Students and governments are better off expanding their flagship and 1st tier institutions and making those more accessible by expanding their seats and their aid packages. Kids who get C averages in high school shouldn’t be going to college anyway. They should be going to trades or other labor training.

the heart muscle dies. they can tell via EKG

heart attacks come in many different forms. even silent ones.

my dad had a major heart attack at 51. when they evaluated him he had had three previous heart attacks that he never knew about.

No. You’re wrong. What happens is the real estate stays empty. They never lower rents, because lowering rent devalues the asset.

They make more money leaving it empty.

why? the ads are 40% of the airtime.

even with ad service streaming, you are only seeing like 10-20% ads.