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by yucky 4y ago
Imagine if someone claimed dominion over a chunk of the sky or an acre of water. You'd call him a fool and ignore him. Well, governments do exactly that.
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by yucky 4y ago
In other news, person who buys house throws out old furniture that remained. This always happens when a company is taken private.
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by yucky 4y ago
Science is political is just saying that what gets researched is influenced by politics Yes, that is a problem. As explained above. But the people I'm referring to (who not only exist, but in large numbers) are the ones that
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by yucky 4y ago
Wasn't that one of the reasons we fomented the Ukraine coup in 2014? Or maybe that was just a "happy coincidence".
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by yucky 4y ago
Wikimedia's funding is potentially the issue though. For those who don't know, it's endowment is run by the Tides Foundation, perhaps the most politically biased organization in the US. Maybe that doesn't come though in
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by yucky 4y ago
Science can't be politics, by definition - or it doesn't work. In politics, there are things you can't say or do because you will hurt feelings. If you make science political you have ruined science. You are left with just po
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by yucky 4y ago
So to clarify, the formation of the Milky Way wasn't political, correct? I think it's important that we quickly dispel the "Everything is political" disinformation. Bumper sticker philosophy is hot garbage.
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by yucky 4y ago
OK now do Sasha and Malia Obama vs some kid from the trailer park. See, skin color is a proxy that only serves to institutionalize racism towards those who are already powerless. The majority of poor people in the country are white and we&#
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by yucky 4y ago
Well let's test that. In what undergrad class (any school, you pick) is there information and wisdom not found freely online?
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by yucky 4y ago
Then doesn't this prove that Affirmative Action is structurally racist? The vast majority of white kids don't benefit from legacy admissions, and so the system forces them to " squeeze into the slice of the white quota that h
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by yucky 4y ago
Ah yes, Tall Poppy Syndrome. How quaint.
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by yucky 4y ago
the overwhelming majority of emergency orders surrounding COVID have all expired or been rescinded, or have been watered down Too late for the countless people forced to give up bodily autonomy in order to stay employed, and for t
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by yucky 4y ago
Science lives online. Universities are mostly parasitic at this point, seeking only to maximize their endowments while burdening the youth with debt.
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by yucky 4y ago
Unfortunately science and politics are not actually separable things. Let's test that theory. What was political about the Milky Way forming?
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by yucky 4y ago
When you say "i.e. white people" can you explain how legacy admissions benefit some white kid from the trailer park or Appalachia or whatever? Because it really sounds like you're describing something that benefits a specific
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by yucky 4y ago
How many hairstylists and interior decorators does a village really need though? I kid I kid :)
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by yucky 4y ago
Expect Twitter to become a Chinese propaganda platform soon. If TikTok has shown us anything it is that people don't actually care about Chinese influence.
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by yucky 4y ago
And to silence or deprioritize dissenting voices. Isn't this what Twitter has been doing here in the US?
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by yucky 4y ago
Because people use their phones on the shitter, always.
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by yucky 4y ago
Yes I think the point is that no physical menu can match the uselessness of a poorly scanned PDF on a small screen.
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by yucky 4y ago
Agreed, why don't poor people just buy more money.
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by yucky 4y ago
Not quite, a lot of people earn extra cash doing this and selling their Rx on the street.
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by yucky 4y ago
It's getting harder every day to tell what is/isn't parody.
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by yucky 4y ago
If few people want it, why are there multiple cases in front of the Supreme Court this term to determine the legality of it? Why does every Fortune 500 company have DEI policies, and how are they enforced?
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by yucky 4y ago
How many races are there? How many genders are there? How do we differentiate between them? Yet we're supposed to take these nebulous categories seriously enough to treat people differently based on these characteristics that can'
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by yucky 4y ago
How was the creation of the Milky Way political?
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by yucky 4y ago
I, for one, am grateful that our technocratic overlords protected us from this information for so long. We can't be trusted with the truth, it could impact our spending habits.
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by yucky 4y ago
Yes, this was all vey predictable. But I have a different take. Something needed to break this fascination with useless college degrees. Having them devalued like this should accelerate that process. That's not to say college can'
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by yucky 4y ago
I've had enough of the "prove god doesn't exist" discussions with fanatics over the years to know where this is going, but since I'm bored on a flight I'll indulge you. A random galaxy formed billions of years
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by yucky 4y ago
See above.

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