Coal power plants.
Measles.
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Young earth creationism and flat earth
What’s weird is the young Earth thing is relatively new. Before the 1850s or so, you would be laughed out of the room. As ignorant as we were, naturalists were having a hard time trying to figure a world that was millions, or 10s of millions, of years old. Churches, of any stripe, sure as hell wasn’t preaching it.
And here we are, with the flat Earth idea being even newer.
Young earth creationism
What I hate so much about that, is all the “evidence” just points to some near extinction level event that humans worldwide suffered.
And obviously for that to have happened, it means there had to be a lot more people.
Like, entire cities/tribes/whatever were wiped out everywhere, but some had individuals survive. Which explains how “the last two people” could have kids who just happen to later have spouses and kids of their own without any explanation for where the new people came from.
They were just outside of walking distance.
Over the 300,000 plus years anatomically modern humans have been on Earth, that’s probably happened a bunch. Hell, we’ve had 2-3 actual ice ages over that span.
We don’t know shit about 250k of those years.
From what I understand (and as a Christian), it’s those Christians that take a literal reading of the Bible, not understanding that those parts of the Bible aren’t meant to be read literally but are about the WHY of creation rather than the HOW. It’s about WHO God is rather than how He did things.
Either that or Genesis is just an explanation made up by a people group that had little to no idea how anything in the natural world works lol
If you squint real hard, Genesis is a tale of stellar and planetary formation. Then comes evolution. Give the first bits a read! Yeah, evolution is mixed up a little, still surprisingly on point for a bunch of Bronze Age sheep herders.
Then there’s a second tale, in the same short book. What a clusterfuck. But I can still see some real history in it. If I squint real hard.
Squint so hard your eyes are closed, maybe. Any overlap between biblical verse (translated through at least two languages) and modern scientific understanding is coincidental.
Like a prophecy referencing cities burning being reimagined as a nuclear exchange instead of, you know, a fire.
Yeah seeing as the writers of the Pentateuch didn’t even know what the stars were, I’m pretty sure that’s all a coincidence lol.
I always thought 2 Peter 3:8 basically addressed this issue.
Wow! Nailed it! I had thought that as a young Christian, didn’t know there was a verse for it. Lost my religion long ago BTW.
Gender essentialism and tuberculosis
IPv4! Hail IPv6
but IPv4 is so much nicer to read :((((
/s in case it’s not obvious
Every single fucking isp (at least in the states): nah
Really? Both my home internet and my mobile phone internet give me ipv6 addresses.
My cellular yeah, though I don’t consider them an isp since most throttle or deprioritize data after ~50 gigs. But both isps I’ve had, and all of the friends who I’ve helped with networking stuff (basically all of them), IPv4. Sometimes, some janky ‘conversion’ at the modem that leaves them with just v4 anyway. That was with their isp-supplied hardware…
Social media
Pandas.
The animals or the python thing?
yes
Polars gang
only kept alive by the CCP, because they can use it as a form diplomacy. otherwise the chinese wouldve eaten away the pandas or turn them into herbal medicine.
They are cute chubby cuddle fluffs though. Just look at them!
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Private health insurance.
Racism, but here we are in 2025 it being more prevalent than ever.
Racism will never die as we evolved to be tribal. Best we can do as a society is make it unacceptable. Which was happening when I grew up in 70s/80s America. Now we’ve backtracked and gone all-in with dog whistles.
Dog whistles? It’s open now.
That’s not true. Sure, we have tribalism, but there’s no reason it has to be about race. It could be about religion, politics, country of origin, and countless other things
In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.
Lol
Speak of the devil and the ones equating skin color with culture will appear
Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.
Mhmm, the nuance of racism and “it just being biology/tribalism/instinct,” haven’t heard that before.
The was no ‘just’, just as there was no equating.
equating skin colour with culture
Not equating. They said that people of an ethnicity are often also of a culture common among those of that ethnicity.
I’m in Costa Rica, and people are likely to (correctly) assume that I’m a foreigner here because I’m white.
It’s not equating. It is, however, a way to tell what is likely.
Sports. Watch the crowds in some European soccer or basketball matches and you’ll see how we managed to keep tribalism alive and well, but (mostly) harmless.
(You need stadiums that can handle tens of thousands of people bouncing on the stands for ninety minutes without collapsing, though.)
interesting timing
Humans
Blockchain. It was an interesting poc, but it has yet to have a useful implementation apart from scams.
Tamper evident logs are a good use case for blockchain.
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I worked in a company where this was used for implementing tamper evident logs, that allowed auditors to check for tampering.
Blockchain is just a tool that can have legitimate uses other than scamming people.
Nazis
In the USA: complicated tax returns that require tax software and/or professional help. It’s a rent-seeking scam.
Thank the fucking tax software lobbies for that. Assholes
The complication is mostly determining what actually counts as income and the insane amount of deductions and credits you might be eligible for.
For most people a simple standard deduction is very easy to file, and can be done on paper in 15-30 minutes. But I agree that this is still too complicated.
