(Un)official Science Man

When people want to return to Classic Nuclear family, that's excluding the grandparents?

That's even dumber then, so what in reactionary world, when you have a child your parents just off themselves? Can't have an extended unit, that's woke!

killing a rich couple to steal $100k worth of jewellery and watches in order to escape poverty?

❌ bad, wrong, you're a murderous scum and should go to prison for life (we'll be praying for your soul)

joining the military to help kill and maim foreign people, in order to escape poverty?

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

while realism means--exactly that, adherence to the specific logics of actual reality and its physics, logistics, etc.

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

the set of ships is nonempty and finite

(any reasonable notion of) size induces a total order on the set of equivalence classes of ships of the same size

every nonempty finite total order has a maximum

there exists a ship that is no smaller than any other ship

the set of ships is nonempty and finite

(any reasonable notion of) size induces a total order on the set of equivalence classes of ships of the same size

every nonempty finite total order has a maximum

there exists a ship that is no smaller than any other ship

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.