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Cake day: September 28th, 2024

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  • Carl Sagan, in 1995:

    I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

    The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance


  • Remember when they said it was about their freedom to choose? When they said they’re problem was that its not right to force it onto people? Obviously lies and bullshit then, but what’s the argument here?

    Like seriously, what’s the argument against letting people choose? Isn’t that what you wanted? Because when there is tons of evidence that vaccines are good and safe, you can still choose to not have them. So, hypothetically, if that flipped and they were able to get some “evidence” vaccines are bad and dangerous, wouldn’t it still be your right to choose? Just like it was their right to choose, even when it shouldn’t have been.

    It goes without saying, obviously hypocrisy, but holy shit. And the unfortunate thing is that it is much easier to prevent vaccines than it is to supply them.