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to go one level up the discourse ladder, i think if you asked singal, he’d say his point is in the ballpark of the post below. unfortunately though he’s a dishonest shithead getting his bag capitalizing on a moral panic against vulnerable people so we should all ignore him

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those things vary across eras/countries/fields/institutions, and are basically impossible to evaluate directly from the outside, so there’s even another layer of uncertainty as we evaluate our proxies for those things

yeah i agree the whole concept of consensus is squishy, and the amount of weight we give it should account for whether funding is transparent/methodology is rigorous/mouthpieces are trustworthy, etc etc

and to be clear, i do believe scientific consensus is a powerful tool for shaping a worldview! lots of researchers are out there treading the fog and trying to uncover truth. i just think “trust the experts or else” is a cop mentality that ignores external forces on those experts

yeah singal is even exaggerating the extent to which scientific orgs are changing tack, then conflating their statements with those of hate groups. if his worldview wasn’t enough evidence to disregard his opinion, the transparent dishonesty ought to be

scientific consensus from not-that-long-ago was that hysterical women should be lobotomized, queer people should be chemically castrated and nonwhites were inherently violent

disregarding this at the time wouldn’t have been arbitrary foolishness—assuming we’ve eliminated those biases now would be

something tells me you know the answer to this one!

Science Banana @literalbanana A famous study by a Harvard psychologist published during the 1970s was so counterintuitive and influential that it has been referenced for different claims by academic and popular authors for decades. Knowing nothing else, you guess this study is basically…

i would ask everyone reading this post to ask themselves the question in the screenshot and consider the implications of their answer

the replication crisis turned up countless faked results that most educated people could have looked at and gone ”hmm… i don’t think so…”

idiomatic purity test:
have you ever literally
+1 painted yourself into a corner
+1 struck out
+2 looked a gift horse in the mouth
…
+5 been keelhauled
+5 been hosted by your own petard

programmer, debug thyself

resist libs are talking about adrenochrome on threads, the gas leak app

if only there were writing about this elsewhere than the evil blog that makes you evil

we climb the ladder of abstraction ever higher

Sometimes you've gotta ask yourself if the infrastructure you're building is roads or chainlink fences

The electric pole workers reference is in regard to the continued austerity measures and privatization of the Puerto Rican electrical grid and the fact that the island experiences planned blackouts every day and has since hurricane maria in 2017.

The first big fascist wave in Germany and Italy was driven by the humiliation and suffering of WW1. Our current wave of American fascism is largely driven by rich guys who want it to be illegal for you to laugh at them.

i consider myself a lowlife, in the sense that i am constantly at 1hp

classic “man you gotta check out this music video” music video

fever dreamin by no age?

we will greet them as liberators

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the Dude Nozzle

if you ever find them, let me know

more like the nothing app

it is what it is and i am sick of constantly being surrounded by people that refuse to see it for what it is

likely file for you to be interested in

Headline: “CALVIN JONES RETIRING AFTER 28 YEARS AS DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AT PARK TOOL” and a picture of Calvin in the park tool video bike shop

it’s easy to forget in the current information environment, but the web was founded on Sharing Information Because it Makes Everyone’s Lives Better

there are few better examples of this than park tool’s bike repair library. tyfys calvin

great. now you’ve squished some worms in the lid