Perpetual sheeple are going to be constantly flabbergasted that the people they idolize hold views that are verboten crimethink without ever realizing that the ability to maintain a herd-independent belief system is a necessary part of becoming an achiever.
— Plague Misha (@drethelin) August 20, 2020
Got it in one.
This is why so much art is so very boring now. Groupthink and good art have no relation.
very few of you have actually live in a commune type situation so let me be the first to tell you that actually, it fucking sucks. it is a full time job. everyone is rude and irritating and no one cleans the fucking kitchen. every large commune of the 60s collapsed the same way
— helter skeletor (@3liza) August 19, 2020
Exactly.
FUCK THAT.
No matter how many plutes and puling libs want me to, I will not live in the pod and I will not eat bugs.
Something like 80% of print books are now unreadable for me as the font is too small. I can still technically read them — my eyesight is about the same as it was at 18 — but I’ve been spoiled by e-readers so just can’t tolerate it anymore.
Why would I want to squint at six-point font intended for ants when I could read some other book available in a format where I can easily change the font size and everything else? I do not and will not.
The US Green Party is completely unserious about winning or building working-class political power and should not be encouraged by serious leftists. Don't @ me
— Jonathan Smucker (@jonathansmucker) August 19, 2020
If you replace the “US Green Party” with the “US Democratic Party” the sentence is equally true.
We are surrounded by morons.
This is a good one for the people who refuse to concede that “crime” is socially constructed. https://t.co/W1NIatUTtr
— Nick Encalada-Malinowski (@nwmalinowski) August 20, 2020
Every hourly worker I’ve ever met in a service industry has experienced wage theft. Every single one. And yet no one goes to jail for this.
Bernie or even Elizabeth Warren would’ve won in a landslide.
That Biden still might lose to Trump (legitimately lose, not due to election tampering) shows what a terrible fucking candidate he is.
Genuine question:
What human population could a +4C world support?
— Richard Lawson (@DocRichard) August 19, 2020
I think about 100-300 million, but certainly not greater than a billion. Since a +4C world seems about what we’ll hit, I’d say by 2200 if we don’t completely apocalypse ourselves (also very likely, due to nuclear war), there will be 300 million people alive on earth.
If we do nuke ourselves (I give this a 60% chance), possible extinction, but I’d say 2-3 million alive on earth as most likely, with about 50/50 chance of extinction.
I silently still laugh at the fact that teachers told us we wouldnt be carrying around calculators
And now we have smart phones, and I havent done math since high school, and all things numbers I pay other people for
“You’ll see”….yeah fucking right
— Alexander “Chadicus Rex” Cortes PhD (BroScience) (@AJA_Cortes) August 19, 2020
That is funny. My teachers told me the same thing. It was a lie, and I knew it even then.
This is apart from my dislike of doing math, but I can almost guarantee that math education will become less and less relevant over the next 20-50 years. It’ll all be handled much more competently and quickly by AI/expert systems and beyond understanding the basics in 50 years, even 99% of scientists won’t actually use much math directly. It’ll decline in teaching and importance and the “M” in “STEM” will come to stand for “Machine Learning.”
Most math education is an utter waste of time and is just busywork anyway, so no great loss.