Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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41M views · 10K reactions | "She's a cracking looking bomb like"...
"She's a cracking looking bomb like" Murphy Williams is 76% sure he's found a potentially explosive device in his field..
some good tips in here @MN5
Here's my seven and a half secrets for getting shredded abs! Watch, learn, shred....
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@nta was reflecting on this over the week as we dealt with some religious/cultural perspectives. Science is being killed, in the name of catering to people's superstition. And we tolerate this collectively - even our freaking reserve bank is promulgating creation myths that make my head explode.
What worries me is that we are moving past 'I understand this irrational belief is important to you' to 'I'll adopt your belief system wholesale'. Regression... but who knows where it will finish up.
FML I guess. Also frustrating as science underpins damn near all of our major civilisation achievements. If we are going to respond to global warming, it's through science - but I think we are catering far too much to emotions (anti GMO, anti vax, etc).
And don't get me started on the 'wellness' industry. Those assholes seem to exist to paper over the cracks in people's lives, and charge accordingly.
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... and then I stumble across this
It's time to abandon the cruelty of meritocracy | Steven Pearlstein
“Because of heritability and upbringing, there can never be genuine equality of opportunity,” writes Steven Pearlstein, the author of Can American Capitalism Be Saved
The harsh reality is that the education system today reinforces class lines rather than blurring them, helping to further widen the lead of those already advantaged by natural talents and family income.
There are some really valid discussions to be had about helping people, but moving from equality of opportunity to equality of outcome has been tried already in a number of places, and didn't work very well. My head just explodes at some point.
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@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nta was reflecting on this over the week as we dealt with some religious/cultural perspectives. Science is being killed, in the name of catering to people's superstition. And we tolerate this collectively - even our freaking reserve bank is promulgating creation myths that make my head explode.
Please explain?
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@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nta was reflecting on this over the week as we dealt with some religious/cultural perspectives. Science is being killed, in the name of catering to people's superstition. And we tolerate this collectively - even our freaking reserve bank is promulgating creation myths that make my head explode.
Please explain?
Orr among the forest gods
Almost 1300 years ago, the English missionary priest and bishop Saint Boniface confronted the belief of some pagan German villagers in Thor, god of (among other things) oak trees. Tree gods (or bel…
Summed up in there I think.
Ironically, the imagery used is from Bora Bora, rather than NZ.
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@booboo he's wordy, but interesting. Has written the most convincing case for why our housing prices in Auckland are so insane. Not fun to read, but very convincing, and I'm yet to see it rebutted. Basically a combination of 25+ years of RMA constricting supply, and immigration fuelling demand.
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When your shadow does not have your back
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@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nta was reflecting on this over the week as we dealt with some religious/cultural perspectives. Science is being killed, in the name of catering to people's superstition. And we tolerate this collectively - even our freaking reserve bank is promulgating creation myths that make my head explode.
What worries me is that we are moving past 'I understand this irrational belief is important to you' to 'I'll adopt your belief system wholesale'. Regression... but who knows where it will finish up.
FML I guess. Also frustrating as science underpins damn near all of our major civilisation achievements. If we are going to respond to global warming, it's through science - but I think we are catering far too much to emotions (anti GMO, anti vax, etc).
The great thing about science is that it works whether you believe in it or not
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@stockcar86 yeah, it works based on people not trusting each other
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What counts as sexual harassment these days? Brace yourself for the funniest five minutes you'll see on Facebook today... 😳😂.
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Youtube is down. Most unusual...
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@salacious-crumb and Insta had an unusual outage the other day too. Normally those platforms have so much redundancy it'd take a nuclear strike from orbit to take em down! hmmm must be the Russians aye!!
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Glorious! Highly recommend bitchute.com as an alternative. Now if only Facebook and Twitter could have some sort of breakdown too.
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@paekakboyz instagram and youtube the past couple days... right now if i had to guess given the timing i’d say it’s the saudis
