FloodAnxiety wrote on Mar 19, 2023, 14:45:
What were they waiting for? To see if they could cover it up?

That is precisely what they were waiting for, to see if they could get away with it.

Blue wrote on Mar 20, 2023, 08:57:

ZenAbra wrote on Mar 19, 2023, 16:46:
I gotta admit: I'm hoping Blue just didn't look closely at the "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things" article. It's deeply disturbing.

It does a fair job disguising its true intention, and I'm sure plenty of people just skimming the first few paragraphs may not realize it.

I did not vet that article properly... I'm not sure what happened, but I did not intend to post something like that, particularly under "science." I removed the link. I appreciate the benefit of the doubt.

It's a sneaky article. The first few paragraphs at the beginning and end are pretty reasonable. In the middle it gets pretty extreme. Given you post 100 articles per day, I'm sure you don't have time to read them all end to end. Maybe ChatGPT can help?

ZenAbra wrote on Mar 19, 2023, 16:46:
I gotta admit: I'm hoping Blue just didn't look closely at the "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things" article. It's deeply disturbing.

It does a fair job disguising its true intention, and I'm sure plenty of people just skimming the first few paragraphs may not realize it.

I did not vet that article properly... I'm not sure what happened, but I did not intend to post something like that, particularly under "science." I removed the link. I appreciate the benefit of the doubt.

This comment was edited on Mar 20, 2023, 10:54.

SlimRam wrote on Mar 20, 2023, 01:24:
Me in that situation: “Yes, the bear's coming closer to me now yes...I can see it, hey honey, I think I just filled my pants. I know that you and I can both smell it but, do you think the bear can smell it? I mean my pants are really full right now. I'm waddling to the left side of the trail yes, over to the left side I'm waddling oh yeah... These pants are full".

We went hiking yesterday. My wife says, "I could never go hiking anywhere that had bears" out of the blue. We live on an island and the nearest bear is 3000 miles away. The largest fauna on the island are wild pigs. Oddly, a few minutes later we ran into a little 20 pounder rooting around in the leaves under the guava trees. I suspect it was someone's pet that had escaped (or was just on an adventure). First it was a light brown, and the wild pigs here are black. Second, it was completely undisturbed by people talking and walking by, whereas my other chance encounters with wild pigs have them bolting into the woods as soon as they hear you. Third it's tail was continuously wagging, a behavior I've never seen in a wild pig before.

Me in that situation: “Yes, the bear's coming closer to me now yes...I can see it, hey honey, I think I just filled my pants. I know that you and I can both smell it but, do you think the bear can smell it? I mean my pants are really full right now. I'm waddling to the left side of the trail yes, over to the left side I'm waddling oh yeah... These pants are full".

For a long time my cell phone ringtone (and alarm clock by extension) was just the start to Icky Thump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evypdgY6KpQ

Now I've got it swapped out for just a classic beeping cell phone ringtone, like an old old Nokia or something.
Very beepy.

Our Man Flint Blowdart Fly Clip
https://youtu.be/WOkAzQNuK6I

PHJF wrote on Mar 19, 2023, 18:35:

The Flying Penguin wrote on Mar 19, 2023, 18:30:
Blue: I have a special ringtone just for my wife (she has the same ringtone on her phone for me). It's the sound of the presidential red phone from "In Like Flint".

When it goes off in public, I'll occasionally get a priceless look from people who are fans of the In Like Flint movies.

Flint presidential telephone ringtone SFX (clean):
https://youtu.be/CokN5HgyfD8

Sounds like Austin Powers to me. I'm too young for In Like Flint.

Our Man Flint https://youtu.be/X84V81FuC7M
Americas answer to James Bond

The Flying Penguin wrote on Mar 19, 2023, 18:30:
Blue: I have a special ringtone just for my wife (she has the same ringtone on her phone for me). It's the sound of the presidential red phone from "In Like Flint".

When it goes off in public, I'll occasionally get a priceless look from people who are fans of the In Like Flint movies.

Flint presidential telephone ringtone SFX (clean):
https://youtu.be/CokN5HgyfD8

Sounds like Austin Powers to me. I'm too young for In Like Flint.

Blue: I have a special ringtone just for my wife (she has the same ringtone on her phone for me). It's the sound of the presidential red phone from "In Like Flint".

When it goes off in public, I'll occasionally get a priceless look from people who are fans of the In Like Flint movies.

Flint presidential telephone ringtone SFX (clean):
https://youtu.be/CokN5HgyfD8

I mean, the author believes some stupid things, but I'm unconvinced he's actually smart.

That is, pretty obviously, not his main point. He just wraps his main point in that faux rationality to sneak it passed people.

But I'm just gonna hold my nose and slowly back away from this potential dumpster file.

FloodAnxiety wrote on Mar 19, 2023, 15:11:
This article is like one big strawman argument about "woke" views.

His main point that the best way to avoid bias is to be curious seems valid to me. Do you disagree with that premise?

I gotta admit: I'm hoping Blue just didn't look closely at the "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things" article. It's deeply disturbing.

It does a fair job disguising its true intention, and I'm sure plenty of people just skimming the first few paragraphs may not realize it.

Re: "Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things. "

What the ... did I just read? This article is like one big strawman argument about "woke" views.

How about this "unbiased" gem: "The popular woke myth that sex is a spectrum is...".
Or: ""Labyrinthine sophistry like “sex is a spectrum” prevails among cognitively sophisticated cultural elites, including those who should know better such as biologists, but it’s rarer among the common people, who lack the capacity for mental gymnastics required to justify such elaborate delusions.""

Gurwinder is the embodiment of the dunning kruger effect. He thinks he is an expert, when in fact, he is not smart enough to know what he does not know. The fact that his own article is a better example to fit his thesis than his own examples just goes to show the extent of their own hypocrisy. This fool even starts arguing against giving people more knowledge and reasoning.

Blue, you may want to review what you post or are you trying to enflame the forums with more debating about trans rights? This article and author is just a bunch of ignorant garbage masquerading as intellectualism. But if this is your cup or tea and the types of views you want to spread on your site, well, it IS your site, so...

It's worst than 400k leaked waste, they hid it for 4 months because they were trying to get their license renewed to run the plant till 2050.
Not sure what happened, had it all prepped and thought I sent it to Blue, last week. I spend most of my time, half awake or half asleep.

Missouri pollution is so bad it hurts other states. Power plants ordered to cut emissions.

Lawmaker Confirms ‘October Surprise’ Plot to Sabotage Jimmy Carter’s Reelection

Re: 400,000 gallons of radioactive water leaked from a nuclear plant in Minnesota.

“Now that we have all the information about where the leak occurred, how much was released into groundwater, and that contaminated groundwater had moved beyond the original location, we are sharing this information”

WTF, they have known about it since Nov 2022, and are only now making it public? The info they had should have been public immediately. What were they waiting for? To see if they could cover it up? jfc

Like Texans believing Whataburger is anything more than a grease sponge garbageburger with no redeeming value.