Economist: There are no shortages if you exclude food, microchips, cars, houses, and energy.
Normal person: So anything I need to live is excluded. What sense does that make?
Economist: You don’t have a PhD so you obviously don’t know what you need to live, peon.
(We need better experts. Really really need them.)
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Not sure if this is good for my laptop pic.twitter.com/Mz2PprY7F8
— Misha Gurevich. Angel Investor, Photographer. (@drethelin) October 29, 2021
Lick it to find out.
One thing that a proper foundational training in science gave me was a deep appreciation of the following fact:
Just because you find something ethically or politically distasteful, doesn’t mean it isn’t still true.
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) October 30, 2021
Indeed. There are certainly tons of things the right disbelieves that science shows very conclusively (such as the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines of late), but there are also many things that the left refuses to believe that are also true or quite likely are substantially true.
A friend of mine refers to this as “dangerous knowledge,” at least some of the items on that latter list, because if they were true it’s probably worse for the world than if they were false.
Sometimes, depending on my mood, I agree with her and sometimes I don’t. But Nils is right: there are truths in science that ethically, politically, and humanistically suck.
and i mean like the bowling ball i am getting corrected into the middle, I have learned a lot about what the world thinks is normal and what's weird, and I am pretty good at predicting it, but it doesn't feel *intuitive*, I have to pay it conscious attention.
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) October 27, 2021
I have the same problem. I have to think consciously about, “Is this weird? Would normals think this is weird, and if so, why?” before I do anything.
LIke Aella, I’ve gotten pretty good at predicting it, just as I learned to have high-quality social interactions, but not a thing about it is intuitive as it is for others.
I’m not really a Dune fan overall, by the way. It’s a very bleak and hopeless vision of the galaxy and of humanity’s future. Regressive, too.
It’s just not something I am particularly interested in for itself. I like the spectacle and seeing what people do with it on the screen, though.
Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm.
An 11-story, 1.68-million-square-foot structure that would house up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom would not have windows in their small, single-occupancy bedrooms.
Getting people ready for the pod life, I see. (I am kinda serious about that.)
This is an extremely poor excuse and if it’s the best her and her lawyers can come up with, it’s not looking good https://t.co/0jdDA4gL8T
— Tits McGee (@Scientits) October 29, 2021
Let me see…the armorer, the person whose whole fucking job is to know what’s happening with the firearms on set, doesn’t know where the live ammo came from. As if ammo just appears out of nowhere somehow and jumps in a gun. Alrighty then.
Trying to figure out if the trans ideologue people really believe there is no such thing as biology, don’t understand biology, or it’s a complex psyop to con the rubes.
Maybe all three? Either way, though I am not anti-trans, that shit is doing them no favors at all.