Dude is lucky we said tax the rich. That’s the socially agreed option. If they stop respecting the plebs, well…

The explanation given in this link is complete hogwash.

There are stop signs in the middle of nowhere Ohio, where there’s literally a few cars on the road a day. I don’t see how volume should come into play when you’re next to a playground.

Nah, this was stupid. If he felt obligated to fix something broke, it’s on the county/town, not him. All he did was make the area safer.

We got covid, and a lot of countries governments took advantage of it and spread misinformation and active vaccine denial. That’s about as close to an alien invasion as we’re gonna get, and we kinda failed disastrously at it.

I used to think we’d come together over an external threat too. Now I’m not so sure. In fact, we might even get people denying that it’s even happening.

Yeah, I am too. But, I don’t need people calling me names for not risking my neck to kill people.

The amount of venom in this thread is astounding. I’m close to leaving lemmy. The amount of hate people are spewing for shit that’s not our fault is starting to get old.

I disagree with a lot of Ted Kaczynski’s reasoning in his manifesto. But he wasn’t wrong that we are destroying the environment and letting consumerism ruin everything. Honestly, I think most of the people on this site would agree with his assessments even if he came to the conclusions under faulty assumptions.

Half the people on this site are advocating for stochastic responses to the current U.S. government anyway. So whats the difference?

The lesson is not to reject aspiring artists from art school, lest they decide to take over a country and start invading their neighbors.

Yeah, taxes are supposed to support services for people living in a country. Their comment is exceptionally dumb.

Wow, I’ve never seen a post get a whole 100 downvotes before. This is a special moment for me.

Social media is a scourge on society, mostly bcz of the propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation campaigns from state actors. This is a very different and real issue we as a species are dealing with.

Wow, just wow, you insensitive asssface. Have some decency…the man is dea…

Ah, I cant keep that up. Keep on keeping on dude. Fuck Charlie Kirk.

This is what I do. When the current news cycle is too much for me, I just browse my front page for a few days and avoid the news.

The answer is we don’t know unfortunately. I dont think scientists have found a definitive answer on this one. The theory tho is that it had some evolutionary benefit in the past, but we dont know why that would be either.

You responded to me and told me im drinking too much Kool aid…go be a jackass somewhere else. Jesus, blocked.

Yeah, and? This was a conversation about the science. If you want to have a different conversation about how we dont have proper social safety nets, be my guest, and start a different thread elsewhere. You’re just changing the argument bcz you know you’re wrong.

Please, enlighten me on how 50% funding cuts to NASA science budget, and cutting NSF grant funding isn’t an attack on science? I’d also like you to further explain to me with your clearly superior big brain how banning all things considered DEI or climate change related, isn’t an attack on science…

Clearly, you know more about all the interworkings of this stuff than someone who is involved in this shit.

We are literally in the middle of one of the largest wealth transfers in history right now, driven by dipstick billionaires who are frothing and foaming at the mouth at the prospect of screwing this nation out of all scientific progress we’ve made, and you wanna tell me im a fucking sucker.

GTFO with your weak sauce arguments.

Ya am I? Guess all that first hand experience with it must be a lie…

NSF funding cuts, declining enrollment bcz of the ICE crap (people are afraid to come to the U.S.), covid funding issues still being felt, lots of government employees vying for university positions, attacks on science across the board forcing experts to leave the U.S., or go to the private sector. Its bad, and it’ll probably get worse.