Iassume by "the main stream media" you include the right-aligned media, which being 50% of the population is certainly mainstream. You really dont think any of the right-leaning mainstream media has ever made fun of those three presidents... really?
@jcsamuelson The alt-left would be the extremist elements of the left, those violent or disruptive to anti-free speech views or similar veins of extremes.
As for Biden, calling a senile episode, something has regularly, a "gaffe" is a bit reductionist IMO.
@LouisIngenthron nice! What did you throw out the window?
The alt-left will actually try to tell you with a straight face that this man isnt senile... yea ok
@ech Democracy doesnt require an ethnic clense.
I really hate whataboutery.
If I post something about Ukraine, someone will ask, "But what about Gaza?"
If I post something about Gaza, someone will ask, "But what about Ukraine?"
It is okay to have an interest, but it is really not okay to waste everyone's time by popping up in every thread on Mastodon to ask, "Is my preferred topic not more important than this?"
It is not helpful. You are not not changing anything. You are just spamming, and that is not cool.
Dude, really, your not going to even mention the fact that you support cancer survivors in this post... UNFOLLOW!
@mike805 Not at all my personal expiernce. I do t expiernce any effects outside of hunger co trol and blood sugar effects.
@ech They could pack up and leave since they have no right to be there in the first place.
In all seriousness though its not israel that should act at this point, the world shoukd declare war on both sides, wipe out their governments and ellect a new country wide democractly for all.
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I see a lot of people talking about #science as a #religion, or the closely related idea of “#scientism,” the purported ideology that says science is the only way to know things. Oh, I’m not talking about you, they’ll solemnly assure anyone who objects. Naturally you know better. Just … you know … them. Those people, out there. The great unwashed. On the #internet, nobody knows how long it’s been since you took a shower.
You know what I hardly ever see? The phenomenon in question.
There are people who think that way. Yes. Ideologues of scienceโhardly if ever #scientists themselvesโwho invoke The #Scientific Methodโข (that’s a whole ‘nother rant) as the be-all and end-all justification for whatever nonsense they spew. Such posts and comments have crossed my feed a time or two. But they are vastly outnumbered by those who complain about them, at least where I can see both groups. I have no reason to believe my experience is atypical in this regard.
As a scientist myself, I think science is a very good way to understand certain things. In my field, it’s the best way to know what makes you sick, and hopefully what will make you better. There are other ways to learn these things, sure, and many of them can be useful places to start. If you don’t end up with a #clinical #trial sooner or later, you’re as likely to kill as cure.
To know what we’re seeing when we look up at the lights in the sky. How the natural world around us, of which we’re a part whether we like it or not, changes and how we both affect and are affected by that change. What came before us, and what might come after. The fundamental building blocks of reality. All these require science for real understanding. If you try to puzzle them out any other way, you may learn something, but you’ll also fill your head with a lot of nonsense. Sorting the wheat from the chaff later is a lot harder than doing it right the first time.
Other questions are at least amenable to scientific inquiry, although that process itself may not be enough. What my fiancee does as a #historian looks, to me, a lot like what I do as a #biomedical #researcher. Make observations, construct #hypotheses, gather evidence, test and revise. (And revise, and revise, and …) But #history vanishes every minute. What’s left is always fragmentary, and shaped by the interactions of modern minds with those long since gone to dust. There will never be an objective truth, only the truest story that can be told.
And then there are things beyond any kind of quantitative analysis, or even rigorous qualitative description. We may be able to agree on what makes a true story, more or less, but what makes a good one? That’s inherently personal. A happy marriage, a tasty meal, a satisfying jobโonly we can define what these goals mean for ourselves. Science may at best, occasionally, provide vague guidelines. Even then, my advice will not determine your experience.
My perspective is unusual in one key way, sure: not too many people do science for a living, at least not compared to other jobs. With regards to the way people talk about science, I think it’s not unusual at all, except maybe that I pay particular attention.
The division aboveโthings that clearly belong in science’s domain, things that clearly don’t, and a whole bunch in the middleโis a whole lot more common than the idea of science as the One True. It’s at least somewhat more common than blanket rejection of science too, but not as much as it should be. That’s also a rant for another time.
Which all makes me wonder what people who never miss a chance to bring up “scientism” and science-as-religion get out of it.
@medigoth Lately that certainly seems to be the case, at least on the fedi.
I hate scientism thinkingโฆ but i hate even more anti-scientism extremists that use it to discount everything science has to say as hookey.
Everything requires nuance and balance, and even where and when to apply science.
Coffee also is great for headache when the headache is caused by vasodilation (the most common type).
Also aspirin is literally just a isomere of salyssillic acid that occurs in I think willow tree bark. which even in its raw form is a reasonably effective pain killer.
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My stance on various issues:
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Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
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Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
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