Hot take, trying to reverse the progress of humanity should be considered the highest crime with the most extreme punishments.
I'm on the side of Sweden and other places when it comes to wanting to rehabilitate most criminals, most people do deserve redemption. But demons who intentionally try to make a society's education worse, all to make a quick buck? I'd get banned for saying how I feel about them.
I’m inclined to think most people share your sentiment (even if not as passionately) and if everyone who thought that went out to vote, we’d be living in a much better world right now. But they don’t, voter turnout is abysmal across the board.
It feels like we're dealing with a nihilism-coded fascism this time around. Like there's no giant posters of Mussolini looming over, but instead a torrent of apathy propaganda reminding everyone how pointless it is to try to do anything.
People seem to mistake cynicism for intelligence often, which again is caused by a lack of quality education. So they lap it up and remind everyone else that voting doesn't change anything, even though it costs them nothing to not say that.
When Rupert Murdoch can't manage to sell the idea that the right wing parties are competent to voters, he quite literally does exactly this. He switches the propaganda from "progressive parties suck, conservatives are good" to "both sides suck just as much as each other". Rupert Murdoch is arguably the most powerful man in the western world because of his stranglehold on media. He doesn't own everything, but he owns enough that he was able to drag media down to the point that even outlets he doesn't own just reprint his propaganda. And he understands the real power of it.
You can't really use propaganda to tell people what to think. But that's not what it's for. You use propaganda to tell people what to think about. And human nature does the rest.
So to bring it back to the original apathy induced fascism propaganda. This is accomplished by suppressing positive stories and focusing on negative ones. Only print news that will be read by most people as "everything sucks and there's no point trying to fight for better" and you'll never have to actually tell anyone to think that.
The worst part... there's a good chance none of this is intentional. It's not some grand conspiracy. It's just every entity involved acting in its own self interest.
I think we're fucked no matter what because of climate change, but I still try. If I stopped trying completely I'd learn Ukrainian then go die in combat. My goal is to try and make it less bad.
It feels like we're dealing with a nihilism-coded fascism this time around. Like there's no giant posters of Mussolini looming over, but instead a torrent of apathy propaganda reminding everyone how pointless it is to try to do anything.
The annoying this that too often it's true. I can vote and try and convince people to vote, but if the voting system itself is rigged it's hard to even FEEL you're making an impact.
The older I get the more I lean left because the whole spectrum is shifting right but the voting system is such that I most often will need to compromise to at least get SOMEBODY in the government that will SOMEWHAT represent me, but the further it goes one, the harder it gets.
While the right's rhetoric is easy, just find something that appeases the masses and then do whatever the fuck you want, the left is often embroiled in in-fighting when they're not trying to appease corporations themselves to get SOME sort of funding to actually mount campaign efforts.
It's a loop. Voting works, but if you convince people to vote monsters in, they'll make sure that voting doesn't work as well, and then those monsters further push the idea that voting doesn't work, so less people will vote.
The only way to solve that is for more people to vote in order to outdo the disenfranchisement, so you can vote people in who will slowly make voting matter more again, so you can get back to voting for what matters.
If it's bad enough, sometimes you need people to vote the old fashioned way, with violence instead of ballots. It's a progression-based system, which is why people prefer to have things climb upwards instead of descending all the way downwards.
Our votes don’t only choose the winner, they also tell politicians what the people want. If the guy that represents you only gets 1 vote while the “compromise guy” you went with gets 10 votes, even if neither of them win, it tells the guy with 1 vote that he needs to shift more towards the right in order to truly represent you.
So vote for him even if he doesn’t have a chance of winning. Because it tells everyone else they need to shift more to the left in order to get more votes next time.
Thing is, they let other things take priority. Maybe they hate immigrants, maybe they love guns, maybe they're rich and want less tax, maybe they're gullible and believe what's best for them is socialism, or even that the education system is out to get their kids, there'll be people who vote against their own interests.
It's more nefarious than that. It's not just votes, it control. Critical thinkers are much more likely to question why certain people have all the wealth and power. The only reason the democrats don't go along with it I'm sure is because there are other people who need their employees able to critically think. America has a huge economy with hugge natural resources and a powerful army. Oligarchs, monarchs, and dictators around the world salivate at the thought of it.
Those faucets were supposed to be for dispensing deionized water. It's a vital resource for many lab reactions. In some places, due to budget cuts they often don't have a source of deionized water hooked up and in-class labs are no longer done by students.
Yeah, it's not like education in the US is oddly focused on woke-DEI-trans, critical theory, revolutionary mumbo jumbo to the detriment of teaching science, math, etc.
Could you take a moment and reflect on your statement? Do you ever think that this mentality is part of the problem? You're happy to bitch and make jokes, but when it comes time to vote, you sit at home on Reddit bitching, moaning, and cracking jokes.
Go to the seafood counter at the store. Ask the man if they have crab legs. When he says yes tell him wear a long coat and high boots and no one will notice.
To be fair to him, if I had a voter base that was this stupid I too would not put in more than the teeniest tiniest bit of effort into making my grift believable. It would be overkill and a waste of my time.
That’s not the “faith” kind of “believe”, it’s about people deliberately being brainwashed into believing anything discovered through a scientific method is bad and created by satan.
I’m a scientist myself and I understand how this works. My comment is about people who oppose anything we discover about our world and societies through scientific research; i.e., don’t “believe” that science is a tool to gain knowledge (such as vaccines overwhelmingly save lives, as an example).
I know you’re probably being sarcastic but this is reddit and there’s a 50-50 chance you’re a genuine idiot and you mean that literally. Please add an “/s” if your comment is intended as sarcasm.
You can't "believe" in "science." You can adhere to logical methods and processes with the aim of producing repeatable results though.
That’s nonsense.
You have done none of the experiments and research that makes the phone you are reading this on work.
It us precisely belief that allows to read about and use technology we simply have no means in confirming, or even understanding on even a slight level.
The error correction only that is fundamental to the internet and input devices is something that few people even know exists as a field of study, let alone understands
And seriously if you think you can design a repeatable experiment with regards to error correction in signal processing, it probably says more about your lack of understanding of the field than anything else
So much of what the phone you are using is based on statistical science which is inherently nonrepeatable.
As is the case with all science that is not sliding blocks down inclined planes
Yeah many things in science requires a PHD to even have a basic understanding of it, and then a lifetime studying it to acquire a deeper understanding. for most people, we just have to trust the scientific community and believe what they say.
I am pretty sure ARM does not support a non repeatable ECC algorithm, even if signal noise is mostly a game of probabilities yes. Otherwise it wouldn't be able to ECC at all. Might not be able to predict when spooky radiation is gonna flip bits in your architecture, but you can sure as shit prove your algorithm will spot when it happens. Don't be intentionally dense, esepcially since you are clearly educated.
Thus is where the little bit you understand of the magic box you are staring at gives the “I know how it works disease” about the entire process.
The error correction is in every single bit of the process and cosmic ray bit flips are the one place that it is not really important.
You don’t understand what people have spent their lives studying. No one person does.
You want to think you do understand in any real sense, what people spend their lives struggling to understand, then there certainly is some ‘religious’ belief going on.
Only it is not where you think it is.
The era of repeatability and falsifiability was left behind about 125 years ago. We are well into an age of acceptance that the science and technology we use is flawed and incomplete, but it is also the most effective and useful.
And this is true at the basic level of particle physics. We throw out many of our results precisely because we trust that previous measurements were correct and if we are outside previous measurements our methodology is somehow wrong
And over time it occasionally happens that all the previous measurements were wrong, and we threw out good results.
The only justification for this is the shared belief in the process. Even when it is later shown to be unjustified in some case.
So we only hold mostly justified, mostly true beliefs. And we do not in any case subject any of those beliefs to repeatability and falsifiablity standards, and have not done so for all of modern science.
The effectiveness of the overall process justifies the beliefs, not the results of any given experiment.
And if you can make a strong case that this idea, that the success of the mechanism as a whole is a good rationale for the belief in the value of the mechanism as a whole, is somehow a different sort of logical result than William James’s ideas in Will to Believe, which is all about actual religious belief, in a Christian God, then you will be the first to do so.
It is only the effectiveness of the overall process, and not even close to the results of any experiment that gives us belief. We disagree with James not because his reasoning is wrong, as we use the same reasons to believe in science. We disagree with James because we do not find the result of his reasoning useful or desirable.
Reminds me of the STNG episode where Data had his memory wiped and found himself on a planet that was Renaissance era and did not yet understand science. Here it is.
Literally half of nearly every country believes space magic is real instead of science.
We're all doomed if we continue to let sky worshippers have a dick measuring contest with their gods and allow them to use WMDs to prove their god has the bigger D
You can't educate away insanity, nor can u stop parents from forcing their delusions onto children
Yes, perhaps a mild political statement. But I disagree with the rest. All politicians are conmen and women, just varying degrees of how well they do to disguise it. There are very well-educated people that get conned all the time. Education has nothing to do with it.
What is unfortunate is many people not having the ability to divorce their opinions of the political person from their policies. The person is meaningless. The policy is what impacts peoples lives years down the line.
I mean, I figured they meant test tube (even though that’s a graduated cylinder not a test tube). But yeah they lost me on the god part too, although their other comment was unhinged so I’m inclined to think they’re a little mentally challenged.
Edit: I looked at their profile and I take it back, I think they’re just a troll and I can respect that.
Science talks about 2 SEXES and multiple genders. Unless you’re talking about our outdated 1981 biology textbook that did not differentiate between the word “sex” and the word “gender”.
So to answer your question, I’m talking about up-to-date science, which is the only science.
If you like outdated “science” only then you shouldn’t go to a modern hospital if you get sick, you should have a “doctor” drain all your blood to cure your cancer.
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u/greenalbatross1 Mar 31 '24
Teachers, pay them well and respect them because without education we’re doomed