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@htimsxela @cjd @dhfir @Hyolobrika@mstdn.io the jet engine was developed long before the science was understood - I can dig it
@vriska you don't need your own week to be based, that's a decision you can make for yourself every day
cringe but true.
@vriska international women get a day and you're just gonna grab a whole week
@taylan @cjd @Hyolobrika@mstdn.io @dhfir
Wolfgang Pauli was no fool and collaborated with Jung on philosophical discussions about certain correspondences between physics and psychology. Ideas like synchronicity are almost impossible to prove in the repeatable, scientific sense - this doesn't mean they don't play a role in the lives of individuals.
True scientific advances often don't look scientific until after the fact. Quantum physics and relativity theory were both seen as outrageous at the time, see the quote above that started this conversation. Common sense =/= scientific truth, and in fact the former is informed by the latter, on a long enough time scale.
That being said, such advances come only at an extremely high threshold of hard work, intelligence, imagination and good fortune - once or twice in a century.
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@Elaines2cents this the same Fukuyama who predicted the end of history when the wall came down?
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@Hyolobrika @dhfir @skells
Re-labeling distrust and critical thinking as mental illness is a really obvious example.
Another one is ADHD and medicating against being bored doing boring repetitive activities.
Less obvious is there's-a-pill-for-that-ism, treating every problem as an opportunity to medicate => feathering the bed of pharma companies while making people more weak/dependent.
Controlling how people perceive reality has always been a great and highly coveted source of power.
@MisterRogersSnapped they used to use small animals all ground up like
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google is so deeply distrusted by the general population that yandex a state funded propaganda machine is a preferable alternative. just let that sink in, that's how fucked the USA is.
@thatguyoverthere @Dave @11112011 @oxblood more than that, they've said that calling for violence against Russians is acceptable
@thatguyoverthere @Dave @11112011 @oxblood tbf was thinking earlier that by the whole "freedom of speech until you incite immanent violence" thing Putin can actually censor facebag
@11112011 @thatguyoverthere @oxblood @Dave kordokovsky still quivers from the gulags, the man's a ruin
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