• justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    If somebody would ask for a source it would already be a big improvement. Usually you are just classified as idiot if you dare to have a different view.

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      15 days ago

      Eh. By now I’m pretty sure most people just interact with the internet in order to reconfirm their already held beliefs because they expect the algorithm to give them exactly what they want and a few “wrong” things to dunk on easily for bonus points.

      They don’t need sources they are already right.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Same here in Slovenia. 15 years ago we had at least 30cm ofsnow each winter that would stuck around. Now if we even get any snowfall and not just rain it either rains the same day and the snow is gone, or the rain comes a day later and the snow is once again gone.

      • CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee
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        There must be a way to have winter back. We have to do it for future generations at any cost. I refuse to live in a tropical hell just because some CEOs couldn’t fuck off.

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      16 days ago

      Republicans have a hard time understanding nonliterals, it’s honestly weird and one of the most common denominators between them I’ve noticed

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        16 days ago

        Weird to think that human civilization will collapse out of a misplaced sense of fairness where we think it’s better for uninformed people to have a choice even if that choice dooms us all. Liberalism is going to collapse in the silliest way

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          16 days ago

          The goal should be to have less uninformed people overall by educating the population. But unfortunately the people in charge keep voting against funding education (and basically anything beneficial to society).

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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          Weird to think that human civilization will collapse out of a misplaced sense of fairness where we think it’s better for uninformed people to have a choice

          Every one who wants something other then what i want is uninformed.

          To the uninformed, no representation for you. Get over it. Go to therapy to cope with your new forever.

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            16 days ago

            Yeah when it comes to fascism, climate change denial, failing to meet the basic needs of citizens, and other conservative platforms, I don’t give a shit about their representation

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    F’real I think my kids have had maybe one snow day so far, and my oldest is in second grade. We live in southeast Mass.

    I thought about buying a new snowblower, but the fact is that I think we had maybe one storm in the past 5 or 6 years where I actually would’ve used my old one. The little dustings we had were easily cared for by a shovel.

    I also have a part of my driveway that has a lot of tree overhang and never really gets much snow on it. It also happens that the winter morning sun has a direct path to this patch of asphalt, so if we get only an inch or two, it’ll all melt away as soon as the sun comes up. Assuming it’s not too overcast.

    • IMongoose@lemmy.world
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      Covid killed snow days around here, they are now e-learning days. They figure if teachers could handle an entire year of e-learning one day is nothing.

    • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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      Source? Because that’s so not true. Birds are an invention by the government, they are robots to spy on us. The government wants us to believe they always existed. It’s all fabricated lies created by the government. Source

      I fucking hate newsletter emails but this is the only site I registered for one. I’m launching my ass off every single time. 😂 I love satire haha

      • pfm@scribe.disroot.org
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        Obviously, that’s what the “arms race” refers to. Birds used to have very strong arms which they used while racing in their super-fast arm bikes.

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    17 days ago

    “Do you have a source?” means, “I already know you are wrong but you won’t believe me unless you find out for yourself.”

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    I’ve already had people demand “source?” for the most mundane facts. Why yes steroids do enhance physical ability.

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      That’s a bit unfair. You can actually buy a flying car today. A few companies recently got their vehicle fully certified and are doing commercial sales. It’s not cheap. If you can’t afford a second Ferrari don’t bother.

      The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.

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        Yeah it’s called a helicopter.

        Most of the extremely wealthy use then to avoid traffic and occasionally die in them cause flying is more complicated than SciFi made it seem.

        Look at the mansions and companies that all include landing pads. They aren’t just for die hard movies.

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          And the modern replacement for the helicopter is the eVTOL. That one is also often called a flying car, although they’re not street legal. As far as I know nobody died in an eVTOL yet.

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            Right but none are what the past thought of. None of these are cars or street legal really in any way.

            Also it’s cheating to say no one has died in them if nobody is really flying around them. There have been crashes but like a really limited sample size.

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    You get people who believe jet contrails only started appearing in the 90s even though that they didn’t is literally within living memory.

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    16 days ago

    People who make memes mocking the expectation of a source are the ones responsible for the downfall of society

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      Not everything needs a source. There is such thing as “common knowledge” . Things get very out of hand and very messy if you try to source EVERY claim. Obviously there are limits to this and I put common knowledge in quotes for a reason but seriously I mean it when I say not everything needs a source.