Meme - Memes of Liberty: "You know someone doesn't understand science when they say "Trust the science". That's something politicians say on news networks."
"As a scientist, it baffles me when people say things like 'trust the science'. Scientists are the most skeptical people on the planet, we absolutely would never 'trust the science', we doubt everything thing that our peers claim at every single step. Scientists don't trust other scientists so why the hell does everyone else? You shouldn't trust science, science isn't supposed to be based on trust."
Meme - Chaya @chaya... (Jewish Girl): "We have no other land"
@vikasindiafirst (Indian man): "You can consider India as your second home"
Meme - sheamoisturepapi @kcveggies: "I can not make this up. these niggas at uwf broke a free condom vending machine. free. niggas broke into it."
Meme - ig: @selfcvresis @selfcvresis: ""called in sick to work one day. saw one of my students at the beach. we nodded as we both realized we were skipping my class""
Meme - Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman: "4 out of 5 doctors can't answer an introductory statistics question Doctors are midwits maintaining a medieval guild system, not geniuses"
"The participants, all doctors or medical students at Harvard teaching hospitals, were asked, "If a test to detect a disease whose prevalence is 1/1000 has a false positive rate of 5%, what is the chance that a person found to have a positive result actually has the disease, assuming that you know nothing else about the person's symptoms or signs?" This wasn't a very difficult question, which made the results all the more shocking. Fewer than a fifth of participants gave the correct answer, and most thought that the hypothetical patient had a 95% chance of having the disease."
Michael Thomas @curious_founder: "I think about this cartoon a lot."
"Honey, come look! I've found some information all the world's top scientists and doctors missed."
"Trust the Experts"!
Meme - "EVERYTHING WILL KILL YOU. SO CHOOSE SOMETHING FUN *man fighting giant octopus with knife*"
Meme - "Missionary so I can do this: *woman presenting tips screen*"
Misunderstanding Singapore - "Mainland Chinese misunderstand Singapore because they assume that since nearly three-quarters of the country’s roughly 3.5 million citizens are ethnic Chinese, Singapore is a “Chinese country.” In some ways it is. In most ways that count it isn’t. Singapore is the only majority-ethnic-Chinese country not geographically part of historical China... In the 19th and early 20th centuries a small but significant minority of Chinese in Singapore sought actively to modernize by adopting many British institutions and manners, including English and sometimes Christianity. Meanwhile, in China efforts to modernize traversed the 1911 Revolution on a roughly similar trajectory, but soon detoured into chaos and then Marxism... Most ethnic Chinese in Singapore, too, as also in other Southeast Asian countries, are descendants of minority dialect communities... Singaporeans, meanwhile, understand China better than Chinese do Singapore, because they need to. This has led to muted schizophrenia. On the one hand, many Chinese Singaporeans feel proud to have tutored their big brother to the north on how to run an efficient, “smart” one-party state system, despite knowing that the sources and nature of the one party differ. On the other, many upscale Singaporean Chinese wince at mainlanders’ brusqueness, lack of worldliness, and the cloying nouveau riche behavior of wealthy Chinese whilst traveling abroad—including to Singapore’s spiffy Marina Bay Sands and Orchard Road shopping meccas. Many Europeans, and British if we count them separately, not only misunderstand Singapore, but some lately do so willfully. It’s been sporting to drag the country-cum-metaphor into the desultory but encompassing and protracted Brexit bust-up of the European Union. Both “remain” and “leave” factions in Britain, and diverse Continentals too, have over the past few years enjoyed tossing Singapore about by calling a would-be post-EU Britain a “Singapore on the North Sea” or a “Singapore on the Thames.” What is usually meant by such epithets is that Britain will adopt beggar-thy-neighbor policies to get the better of its former partners. Some commentators, for example Pippa Norris in a recent Foreign Affairs essay, have specifically mentioned environmental standards, labor rights concerns, and food safety protocols. By implication, therefore, they suggest without apparently having thought it through that Singapore’s environmental standards are lower than, say, Indonesia’s; that its labor rights record, for citizens and permanent residents at least, is worse than Thailand’s; and that its food safety protocols are inferior to, say, Malaysia’s. This is nonsense, of course. But it doesn’t matter when European scribblers do battle with each other... Singapore has a famed maximum-security private warehouse—so not a bonded warehouse within the jurisdiction of Singapore Customs—called La Freeport, nicknamed Singapore’s Fort Knox. La Freeport is for wealthy people to store and transit expensive items without taxes levied, customs fees collected, or questions asked about where the stuff came from. (Several countries have free-port facilities.) It is true, too, that as the world’s largest maritime transshipment hub, officials know that the parade of ships lined up coming to and leaving the Port of Singapore Authority may be carrying cargos not fully listed on their manifests... Look, we’re talking here about a society heavily populated by overseas Chinese in a place that before World War II had a well-deserved reputation for over-the-top gambling, prostitution, opium dens, and more... It is also true that corporate taxes are low in Singapore. But what attracts large corporations to site their Southeast Asian operations here is not mainly the tax rate or any banking “courtesies.” It’s the presence of ample talented human capital available to work for multinational enterprises, Singapore’s lack of “friction” (read: bureaucratic corruption), its safety, political and fiscal stability, and willingness to invest in itself. Indeed, if one looks functionally at Singapore, it resembles less a typical country than a multinational corporation with global reach that just happens to have a flag, a U.N. seat, and an anthem... How do Americans misunderstand Singapore? Let us count a few of the ways. Singapore is an authoritarian state, right?"
Seanan's Tumblr — Today I got a detention for standing up for what I... - "Today I got a detention for standing up for what I believe in.
Teacher: Write down 3 things you dislike about yourself
Me: *sits there*
Teacher: Ciara, why aren't you writing?
Me: I can't do this. I will take a zero, sorry.
Teacher: Why?
Me: Because I refuse to promote self-hate. Because some people in the world can fill out 20 of these front and back with no blank spaces and this can trigger someone.
Teacher: Ciara, you have to do it or I am sending you to the office.
Me: Okay. *gets up and walks to office*"
What happens with the cult of self-esteem
Meme - "One day, someone will think about you for the last time in eternity. You will be forgotten by the world and the universe."
"Not if I eat the Mona Lisa"
Meme - "I've become a bread crumb dealer to 4 crows in my local lake. And they pay me with a bit of everything. Shiny stuff, fabric, pens etc. But recently they paid me with 20$ they've found somewhere. So i decided to buy them some more expensive bread. They loved it. So they understand what to do. Give me dollar notes. And i've problamy racked up 200$ at this point. Is it morally wrong though, i mean. They're the ones who steals it from someone. Or perhaps they just got a big pile laying somewhere. Should i keep on doing this?"
"This sounds like the start to a Batman villain"
Scott Dozier, Nevada death row inmate who fought to be executed, dies in apparent suicide - "Prison officials say a Nevada death row inmate whose execution had been postponed twice in recent years has died in an apparent suicide, ending his prolonged legal effort to die at the hands of the state. The Nevada Department of Corrections says 48-year-old Scott Dozier was found hanging from a bedsheet that had been tied to an air vent in his single cell in Ely State Prison... Dozier, who was sentenced to death following his conviction for the murder of Jeremiah Miller, voluntarily gave up his appeals and volunteered to die. But his executions have twice been delayed by outside parties, most recently via an eleventh-hour legal challenge by Alvogen, which sought and received an emergency hold on the state using one of its products in the execution just hours before Dozier’s scheduled July 11 execution... Dozier sued the state, saying he was denied access to attorneys and placed on suicide watch with no clothing but his boxers. The state said in responding court documents that Dozier had gone to great lengths to try to kill himself, including trying to obtain drops of a deadly drug on paper sent through the mail."
Habib Khan on X - "The Taliban has banned women from speaking to one another. Khalid Hanafi, Taliban’s minister for virtue and vice, declared it forbidden for adult women to let their voices be heard by other women, further restricting existing bans on speaking and showing their faces in public."
Wilfred Reilly on X - ""Women can speak only when spoken to by a man" is now literally the law in Afghanistan, after the withdrawal of the Western arms that made other law possible."
Wokal Distance on X - "Radical leftists think both human nature and reality are infinitely malleable. So instead of making political and social theories that conform to human nature and reality, they try to make reality and human nature conform to their political and social theories"
António Guterres on X - "I’m on my way back from Kazan, where I once again attended the Outreach session of the Summit of BRICS that represents nearly half of the world’s population. In the session, I called for a just peace in Ukraine in line with the @UN Charter, international law and General Assembly resolutions. I emphasized that everywhere, we must uphold the values of the UN Charter, the rule of law, and the principles of sovereignty, political independence and territorial integrity of States. On the margins of the Summit, I met with several Heads of State & Government. In my meeting with President Putin, I stressed that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was in violation of the UN Charter & international law, and I reiterated the points I made in the Summit session. I also emphasized my strong support for the establishment of an agreement for safe navigation in the Black Sea, an essential avenue for global food security."
AG on X - "This is the UN General Secretary bragging about a meeting with a leader who has had an open ICC arrest warrant since 2023. UN rules forbid such meetings. The UN is a joke organization that applies rules selectively and we should stop wasting billions each year funding it."
Alexander on X - "One stereotype that probably isn’t true is the “dumb jock” - adolescents who do school sports actually get better grades and have better school performance by other metrics, too. The relationship doesn’t seem to be causal: when controlling for personality traits, sports participation hardly predicts academic outcomes at all. Motivation, future-orientedness, and self-discipline predict both sports participation and doing well in school."
Sports participation and academic performance: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Chinese entertainment giant accused of wanting ‘bigger tits’ and ‘no blacks’ in a film it funded - "writer and journalist Alanah Pearce discussed her experiences working in the entertainment industry, and claimed that the Chinese gaming giant Tencent has “a bunch of problematic s**t” and shared some rules the company is rumored to have set out for a film it was funding. “I have a friend who had a film that was offered to be made by Tencent – or funded by Tencent – and they were like ‘no black people’ and ‘bigger tits’. Like, a lot of rules that they have that I think also have had a hand in, you know, some AAA games,” said Pearce."
Over 75 percent of people who cheat claim affairs improve their marriages - "Affairs actually improve marriages, 77 percent of cheats claim. And two-thirds of love rats say they have a happy relationship, despite playing away. Just 33 percent of those having flings said they were in an unhappy relationship. The study of 2,000 married cheats revealed that the women were more likely to say they were still in a happy marriage — 71 percent, compared to 63 percent of men. Men were more likely to think an affair improved their marriage, with 81 percent saying a fling was good for it against 72 percent of women. The survey also found that, despite admitting cheating on their partner, 94 percent would be furious if they found a spouse doing it to them."
Couple cheat - with each other - "A young married couple from the central Bosnian town of Zenica decided to divorce after realising they had cheated on each other with each other on the internet, media reported on Wednesday. Sana, 27, and Adnan, 32, Klaric, used the nicknames Slatkica (Sweetie) and Princ radosti (Prince of Joy) when they met in an internet chat-room. During a couple of months of internet communication they became closer and opened up their souls to each other, discussing their daily and marriage problems as well as their newly discovered secret love and understanding. "I was suddenly in love again. It was beautiful, I thought I finally found someone who understands me, and who is in a similar situation - in a bad marriage, like I am," said Sana... "It is still so hard for me to believe that Sweetie, who told me so many sweet things and who understands me, is in fact the woman I am married to, and who never told me such words," Adnan said."
Meme - "When you wanna nail her so you gotta do white people shit *sullen black guy in outfit jumping in air beside excited white girl in outfit also jumping*"
Meme - "Peas and mayonnaise pizza?! Yes please"
emo dad @fatsoburgers: "pineapple and non-pineapple pizza eaters must put our differences aside and defeat this evil"
Meme - "Francesca, 35 ans, décède après etre tombée du 5e étage"
"Evadez-Vous, ouvrez une fenêtre"
Meme - "ISUZU. 3.5t ELF Truck Launching *truck with female elves with sword, etc*"
Meme - "That's my Halloween outfit sorted ... The Fly! *bra and panties on face*"
𝒥𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓅𝑒𝓇 🌻 on X - "Do you know why birds sing in the morning? Because they don’t have to go to work."
Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "What does labor-saving technology do to workers? Does it make them poor? Does it take away their jobs? Let's review! First: Most papers do support the idea that technology takes people's jobs. This needs qualified. Most types of job-relevant technology do take jobs, but innovation is largely excepted, because, well, introducing a new innovation tends to, instead, give employers money they can use to hire people. But if technology takes jobs, why do we still have jobs? Simple: Because through stimulating production and demand, it also reinstates laborers! This is supported by the overwhelming majority of studies: This reinstatement effect is largely consistent across types of technology, with innovations still looking a bit odd. That is the weirdest category of technology besides "other", so roll with it. Now the operative question is, if workers lose their jobs and end up reinstated in other jobs, what happens to their incomes? Well, technology introduction tends to boost incomes! Across types of tech, this result is pretty consistent: studies agree, technology makes us richer! But, you might ask, whose income is boosted? Because if reinstatement affects far smaller numbers of workers than replacement, some people might still be getting shafted. Well, the net employment effects of technology are highly ambiguous: If we look across types of technology the picture I mentioned above for innovation-style technology shows up again: many studies suggest it's good for employment. The reason impacts on net employment are so ambiguous is because they really have to be qualified. For example, in general, when robots cause manufacturing employment to fall, there's a compensatory effect on service-sector employment that's at least as large in magnitude: What makes that impact so interesting is another way it's qualified: It's smaller in industries more at-risk of offshoring. In other words, industrial robots save American jobs from going overseas. Industrial robots also contribute directly to reshoring. In other words, when Americans buy robots to do their manufacturing, Mexicans lose their jobs. The welfare impact for domestic workers is positive. Not so for Mexicans, but that's just how things go. Overall, labor-saving technology is clearly good, and the longer we delay adopting it, the poorer we will be relative to the world in which we picked it up immediately."
"This time, it's different" doesn't just apply to financial crises
Colin Wright on X - "Just because we don't know how life began on Earth naturally doesn't mean we must give equal weight to the possibility of a supernatural origin."
Dinesh D'Souza on X - "We don’t know HOW life began on Earth naturally, or even WHETHER life began on earth naturally. Therefore we must be open to the possibility of either a natural or a supernatural origin, and it’s impossible to assign weights or probabilities to either option"
Colin Wright on X - "I'm unaware of any natural explanation for a phenomenon that has been superseded by a supernatural one. Conversely, science has a long history of turning supernatural explanations into natural ones. Additionally, supernatural explanations are essentially infinite in number and utterly unfalsifiable. We can't give equal weight to all forms of "magic" as an explanation. That's not tenable. We must instead admit that when we have no current explanation for something, we must assume a natural explanation until substantial evidence to the contrary manifests, which it never has."
i/o on X - "Words cannot describe how vastly I prefer the values of social restraint and dignity in the old Republican establishment to whatever garbage-level populist vulgarity this is."
Eric S. Raymond on X - "I preferred the style of the old Republican establishment too. The restraint. The dignity. Unfortunately, being civilized turned out to be a complete failure at preventing crypto-Marxists from seizing control of the media, education, entertainment, and an alarmingly large portion of the government. So now conservatives are trying being rude and assertive. Can't really say I blame them for it, even when it makes me wince."
PQ leader says story time poster by Montreal library example of 'religious invasion' - "PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said: "Is it normal for a library in my riding to feel the need to advertise a religious sign with a photo of a veiled little girl aged between three and six? Do you really think that this little girl is making a free and informed choice, with full knowledge of the facts, to be subjected to a religious symbol?""
"My hijab, my choice"
We were told that Islam is very clear that the veil is only for women who have passed the age of puberty, so isn't this distorting Islam and thus Islamophobic? Then again, this might explain a lot - if a 9 year old girl can have hit puberty, why not a 6 year old?
Colby Cosh: 'Green slush fund' scandal shows Parliament can't deliver on basics - "we have a Senate committee pulling disapproving faces at Bill C-282 , an extraordinary private members’ bill passed in the Commons in June 2023. C-282 was introduced by the Bloc Quebecois before being hastened through the House with all-party support, and is, as far as anyone can tell, a completely original novelty in 21st-century world government. The text of the bill simply forbids our foreign affairs minister and her agents from “making commitments” in trade negotiations to reduce tariffs or increase quotas on imported poultry, dairy and eggs. Our supply-managed food sectors are to be excluded from trade talks by statute , something no country has yet done. Few would even consider tying the hands of trade representatives in such a way. It amounts to cutting off your nose to spite your face and then setting to work on your gonads. There appears to be political kabuki here: no party wanted to oppose C-282 in the House, because milk and chicken are sacred foods in mystical ways that beef and canola aren’t of Quebec, but everybody expected the Senate to take its time with the bill and slow it down, possibly pushing it beyond a prorogation or dissolution of Parliament. Sen. Peter Harder, a former close Trudeau advisor who is now part of the “Progressive” caucus in the Senate, gave a speech in April that was full of incisive, vigorous criticisms of C-282 — exactly the kind of speech one would have expected someone to give, on behalf of liberal trade principles, in the House. The upshot of it is that C-282 turns the usual premise of trade negotiations upside-down. Normally the minister sends someone out into the world to make a trade deal, and then Parliament says yes or no. But here we have a Parliament proposing to create statutory negotiating taboos by which future ministers and representatives will be bound in advance. It is enough to make one wonder what the hell Parliament is supposed to be for. When it expects to seek information about obvious malfeasance within Canadian government — a “slush fund” scandal that has no apparent connection to foreign relations at all — it meets with a brick wall. But when it seeks the power to obtrude upon hypothetical future trade negotiations, perhaps conducted by officials not yet born, this happens precipitously, almost by accident. “Make it make sense,” my mind cries out to itself, and it finds itself helpless."
Clearly, the Senate needs to be abolished because it is undemocratic
Mom left three kids home alone in Ohio to jet off to Florida ‘for friend’s liposuction surgery’ - "An Ohio mother has been convicted of endangering her children after leaving them to go on vacation in Miami. Dominique Knowles was charged with two counts of endangering children earlier this month. She had left her 7-year-old twin daughters with her 10-year-old daughter for three days in February to go to Florida... Knowles told police she was traveling to Miami to support her friend undergoing liposuction surgery"
Subway sandwiches are short on meat, lawsuit claims - "A new lawsuit accuses Subway of "grossly misleading" customers by advertising sandwiches that contain at least three times as much meat as it delivers. According to a proposed class action filed on Monday in federal court in Brooklyn, Subway ads for its Steak & Cheese sandwich show meat bursting from within, reaching about as high as the surrounding hero bread."
Hallmark exec sought to replace 'old talent,' lawsuit alleges, naming actors like Lacey Chabert
You're not allowed to cast whoever you want to appeal to the audience, it seems
Honey fraud is rampant. Scientists have found a new way to detect it - "A research project led by Maria Anastasiadi , a professor in bioinformatics at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, England, successfully tested samples of honey diluted with rice and sugar beet syrups using a non-invasive light analysis technique... A separate March 2024 research paper published in the Journal of Food Protection identified honey, along with milk, olive oil, spices, fish and seafood, as being especially prone to fraud. Last year, the European Commission found that nearly half of the 147 honey samples tested were adulterated. In 2018 , the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) diverted roughly 12,800 kilograms of adulterated honey, valued at almost $77,000, from store shelves. Of the 240 samples tested, the CFIA found that 21.7 per cent had been cut with inexpensive beet sugar, corn syrup, rice syrup or sugar cane. All of the tainted samples were imported; the domestic samples were unadulterated... “The industry spends hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for very expensive, very sophisticated tests. And somebody’s like, ‘Oh, well, take it home and do the flame test, or the water test,'” Eric Wenger, member of the board of directors for True Source Honey, told Ambrook Research . “We just shake our heads, and it’s like, please don’t promote those tests because if they worked, we would all do them because they’re very cheap.”"
