Seriously, we need to make statistics basic education so that people won't be able to lie with them so easily.
I’m so glad that things like survivorship bias and statistical outliers became memes I wish more critical thinking skills would become widely-understood this way, I’m not kidding let’s get on this
This one made me laugh. So I share it with the handful that follow me.
A copper retriever with her unoxidised puppies
Obviously
I work with conspiracy theorists. This is 100% how it works.
I took developmental bio. Seriously, nothing is simple. Gender least of all, perhaps.
"there are only two sexes, it's literally third grade biology!" and pronouns are taught in kindergarten and you dont seem to understand those either
So much truth here! Among other things, they remove the gatekeeping of knowledge to those with a certain level of income, as well as removing barriers to access to all kinds of information and tools for learning more. How can that be anything but a public good? How can that be anything besides necessary for society?
Good lord, yes, all of this.
But hey, those not-like-us people are SO very convenient to get people stirred up and angry... and NOT questioning why, say, the government lowered taxes on billionaires but raised it on everybody else.
That's a good idea, honestly. Maybe even offer both?
Yeah, it was always obvious where they were going. This is why unity matters in opposing bigotry; the leopards will always eat your face, too.
I mean, yes. I listen to the new stuff. I listen to the old stuff. I buy music. I sponsor albums when I can. There is so much joy in music of all kinds and all types and all shapes and all eras and why wouldn't I?
'you still listen to music from 10 years ago 🤨?' bitch if prehistoric humans had audio recording technology id be sat up here listening to grog and unga bunga's greatest hits don't play with me
Sounds like a heck of a move.
Turning off reblogs for every post on the site is an unconventional move, but let's see where they're going with this.