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05-11-2020, 04:13 PM #17601
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05-11-2020, 04:16 PM #17602
There's no place to go, so why go out?
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05-11-2020, 04:35 PM #17603
I'm not "way too afraid" of this thing... but I'm extremely selective these days in what I do outside the house. I figure it's the least I can do not to be an unwitting carrier/spreader (however unlikely that might be) in my community. And I'm fortunate, because I don't *have* to leave the house for work, etc.
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05-11-2020, 04:36 PM #17604Registered User
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05-11-2020, 04:41 PM #17605
The determination for many basic scientific facts are often easily understood in their method of determination with minimal effort by a moderately intelligent and educated individual. Often these facts are readily and cheaply verifiable if that person were to desire to put for the effort. Measuring the distance to the Sun falls under both of those.
Cassini's method can be surmised from a history book or wiki and requires only time, basic trigonometry, and a $250 telescope with the right eye piece. I bet most the country could verify the fact if sufficiently individually motivated.
But if there were a concerted effort by a powerful portion of society to blitz social media with a claim that the sun is not 93 million miles, and if by accepting that claim, there was a promised reward, whether the promise was economic or emotional/ideological in nature, it seems a very large part of the country would then believe counterfactual information and develop rationalizations as to why anyone verifying the fact was wrong while refusing to make their own verification. They would readily accept flawed claims of verification of the counterfactual claims.
Verifying facts and policy implications relating to human health, much less when pandemics are involved, requires a much higher intelligence, education, expertise, and time investment than verifying the distance to the sun. It is extra hard when facts are still being discovered. And yet the primary methodology of attack on facts is to claim falsified data and cabals of conspirators hellbent on destroying freedoms and the economy while enriching/empowering themselves.Originally Posted by blurred
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05-11-2020, 04:50 PM #17606
peeps need to determine whether preferred "news" sources are actually fact-based news or just entertainment with some reference to current events
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05-11-2020, 04:54 PM #17607
Obama’s tenure as president was corruption free
You truly are a fucktard
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05-11-2020, 04:56 PM #17608
This is absolutely true
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05-11-2020, 05:05 PM #17609
Oh, yeah, right, that explains not one banker or mortgage seller in jail, and then the reward of a 12 million dollar summer home on Martha's Vineyard last year, and vast wealth until both die. You know, a community organizer and academic who campaigned for change certainly deserves to live better than most retired CEOs, I guess.
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05-11-2020, 05:08 PM #17610
https://www.washingtonpost.com/trave...ing-right-now/
What the fuck? This is down the rabbit hole shit.
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05-11-2020, 05:12 PM #17611
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05-11-2020, 05:15 PM #17612I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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05-11-2020, 05:15 PM #17613
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05-11-2020, 05:17 PM #17614
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05-11-2020, 05:19 PM #17615
[QUOTE=Benny Profane;5981474]Oh
Last edited by Bunion 2020; 05-11-2020 at 06:03 PM. Reason: why bother, keep it in polyass.
I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
"Happiest years of my life were earning < $8.00 and hour, collecting unemployment every spring and fall, no car, no debt and no responsibilities. 1984-1990 Park City UT"
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05-11-2020, 05:24 PM #17616
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05-11-2020, 05:27 PM #17617
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05-11-2020, 05:29 PM #17618Registered User
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05-11-2020, 05:35 PM #17619
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05-11-2020, 05:35 PM #17620
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05-11-2020, 05:37 PM #17621
Anybody mention the updated IHME projections yet? Still only through Aug1.
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05-11-2020, 05:38 PM #17622
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05-11-2020, 05:41 PM #17623
In your opinion. Corruption isn't top to bottom. It exists in small islands.
I wouldn't call the police force or the military corruption free either. Bad actors
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05-11-2020, 05:46 PM #17624
me too, i wish there was a simple list
there are media review sites, of course, but they aren't infallible
you have to double check sources on your own these days to see how stories are presented
educate your kids to read critically & not just react to emotional presentations, tho admittedly we all fall prey to them...no one's immune
keep learning every day
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05-11-2020, 06:01 PM #17625
I disagree about "we are never taught in school how to evaluate the validity of information and the reliability of sources". I don't know about Michigan, but here in CA we were taught that often, and it appears to still be taught at least as of 8-10 years ago when my daughters graduated high school. I certainly got taught it more in my biology undergrad, and it was pounded into us in vet school, but even without secondary and post secondary school it was taught. It was even taught indirectly in critical thinking execises in such classes as English. I do not ever recall being taught "dogmatic" science. We pretty much always went into the history of the science behind most important discoveries. Maybe it was because I have always been a science nerd and paid attention. Of course I have forgotten more then I learned, but the important thing I learned is the method. I doubt its true, but when someone asked Einstein his phone number he pulled out a phonebook and looked it up, replying "A smart person knows how to access information and doesn't need to memorize it." I couldn't tell you off the top of my head how to calculate the distance to the sun, but could do it given a book or two and some hardware.
All that said, I will agree that the majority of the population doesn't habe the critical thing skills they should. Maybe it is a teaching problem, but I suspect it is more likely an effort problem, or more accurately, a lack there of.
I agree it is a constitutional right for Americans to be assholes...its just too bad that so many take the opportunity...iscariot
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