I read Scientific American only for the photos, illustrations and center-fold.
Yeah. When the new owners took out the centerfold, I canceled my subscription. Besides, those geologic cross-sections and periodic tables can be gotten for free at various websites, and without staple holes.
We’ve raised a generation or two of people who don’t rely on logic, so their brains aren’t really wired to process it. I would imagine that in their heads, all the things they don’t like must be somehow directly related or they wouldn’t be all filed together as “things I don’t like.”
Unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, and all sorts of other unscientific nonsense just compounds their delusional thinking, so they wander around in a dark, demon-haunted world that they can’t even begin to understand, so they interpret the world like it was some carefully staged morality play where they’re both hero and victim.
Unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, and all sorts of other unscientific nonsense just compounds their delusional thinking, so they wander around in a dark, demon-haunted world that they can’t even begin to understand, so they interpret the world like it was some carefully staged morality play where they’re both hero and victim.
There’s so much garbage out there, and I think it’s there because they need to shoehorn the world into that morality play. Fluid subjective woo is ideal for this process. Something like stochastic terrorism is so conveniently vague that it fits into anyone’s play.
In addition, I think there’s evolutionary pressure among these ideas – in part because they become stale and obvious, and partly because there’s this weird competition for generating such in academia and elsewhere.
We saw this before with “equity”, which sounds like “equality” but means the increase in value of an asset. They take a technical word and shoehorn it into meaning something it doesn’t.
Micro as a prefix means one-millionth (1 x 10^-6). For example, a microgram is one millionth of a gram. Micro designates something very small. If someone gets upset about one millionth of an aggression, they’ve really weak. When I was 18 (1975), I went through Army basic and infantry training at Fort Polk, LA. All of our drill sergeants had served multiple combat tours in Vietnam. They dealings with us consisted of full measure aggressions and decaaggressions. Some got pretty close to kiloaggressions. When you have someone like that getting into your face and yelling impolitely about all of your ancestors back to Adam and Eve, you grow a thick skin. Little stuff doesn’t bother you, and it “don’t make any difference because we’re all going to die anyway.” Some people need to toughen up. If micro-aggressions make them practically want to soil themselves. they’re too delicate to survive in the real world.
It doesn’t really bother them. These people are rude and crude. It is just a means of using fake offense to control people.
“Stochastic terrorism” … That’s sorta like “Antifa isn’t a real organization, it’s an idea!” Right?
I read Scientific American only for the photos, illustrations and center-fold.
Yeah. When the new owners took out the centerfold, I canceled my subscription. Besides, those geologic cross-sections and periodic tables can be gotten for free at various websites, and without staple holes.
We’ve raised a generation or two of people who don’t rely on logic, so their brains aren’t really wired to process it. I would imagine that in their heads, all the things they don’t like must be somehow directly related or they wouldn’t be all filed together as “things I don’t like.”
Unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, and all sorts of other unscientific nonsense just compounds their delusional thinking, so they wander around in a dark, demon-haunted world that they can’t even begin to understand, so they interpret the world like it was some carefully staged morality play where they’re both hero and victim.
Unconscious bias, micro-aggressions, and all sorts of other unscientific nonsense just compounds their delusional thinking, so they wander around in a dark, demon-haunted world that they can’t even begin to understand, so they interpret the world like it was some carefully staged morality play where they’re both hero and victim.
There’s so much garbage out there, and I think it’s there because they need to shoehorn the world into that morality play. Fluid subjective woo is ideal for this process. Something like stochastic terrorism is so conveniently vague that it fits into anyone’s play.
In addition, I think there’s evolutionary pressure among these ideas – in part because they become stale and obvious, and partly because there’s this weird competition for generating such in academia and elsewhere.
We saw this before with “equity”, which sounds like “equality” but means the increase in value of an asset. They take a technical word and shoehorn it into meaning something it doesn’t.
Micro as a prefix means one-millionth (1 x 10^-6). For example, a microgram is one millionth of a gram. Micro designates something very small. If someone gets upset about one millionth of an aggression, they’ve really weak. When I was 18 (1975), I went through Army basic and infantry training at Fort Polk, LA. All of our drill sergeants had served multiple combat tours in Vietnam. They dealings with us consisted of full measure aggressions and decaaggressions. Some got pretty close to kiloaggressions. When you have someone like that getting into your face and yelling impolitely about all of your ancestors back to Adam and Eve, you grow a thick skin. Little stuff doesn’t bother you, and it “don’t make any difference because we’re all going to die anyway.” Some people need to toughen up. If micro-aggressions make them practically want to soil themselves. they’re too delicate to survive in the real world.
It doesn’t really bother them. These people are rude and crude. It is just a means of using fake offense to control people.
“Stochastic terrorism” … That’s sorta like “Antifa isn’t a real organization, it’s an idea!” Right?
…is about suppressing
freeyour speech.Fixed