Klairabelle

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I guess that depends on your definition of facts. If you objectively observed human behavioral trends, where do you think you would see higher instances of racism, classism, bigotry, self-righteousness, sexism, and prejudice would lie? Or if we were to dig historically into the roots of those behaviors, or how pervasive to society they’ve been. I don’t think it’s down to intelligence, people can be very knowledgeable and capable of the most terrible things. People can understand very little about the world and still choose to say that their neighbor is a neighbor. Unfortunately, there are negative echo chambers that exist that perpetuate fear of the ‘other’ or the ‘unnatural’ or just…’it didn’t happen to me so I don’t believe it happened to you’ or ‘the way I fixed the issue was special because it was me but nobody else should be allowed to have it’.

What is intelligent conversation to you by the way? Is it a discussion of true, verifiable facts (via peer reviewed research, holistic historical accounts, etc.) or one of initially civil opinion until someone throws a tantrum because they can’t convert the other?

Your account is barely a week old and you’ve managed to piss off a lot of people. It’s amazing that the left always gets blamed for the lack of progress when the right is constantly finding new ways to dismember progress as crudely and primitively as possible. If you don’t want the left to focus on bigotry, hatred, and violence, then you need to stop contributing to those issues and be an actual decent human being maybe we wouldn’t focus on it so much then 😉

on oopsie poopsies · c/science_memes · 1 pts · 170d

I have mad respect for the scientist that did this, can you imagine how much urine they had to get? I’m pretty sure part of the story was they asked a tavern for access to their urine trough or something or asked to collect the urine.

on Genes be crazy · c/science_memes · 5 pts · 199d

There’s a couple different chemical compounds that can activate your bitter receptors (caffeine for instance) but there are a few bitter chemicals like Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) or N-Propylthiouracil (PROP) that have been linked to variations in a specific gene (TAS2R38). Where I used to work we used PROP strips you’d just put on your tongue to categorize participants into tasters, non-tasters, and potential super-tasters. If it tasted like nothing, you didn’t have the genetic variant. If it tasted like bitterness, it could either be not that bad or, for example in my experience, it’s really really terrible and takes some effort to remove from the tongue.

on grindset · c/memes · 2 pts · 239d

This is absolutely Wind in the Willows! ❤️

Just gonna say this, there is a massive amount of work that goes into creation, validation, and maintenance of information for these drugs even after they’re out on the market. These may have become a hot drug category as soon as it caught on that it was good for treating obesity as well as diabetes, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t continually doing work in the background to keep information, including incidences and likelihood of side effects, up to date.

on Something about incentives · c/memes · 11 pts · 334d

Does anybody else’s company do this with laptops? You tell them something doesn’t work so they take it and just give you someone else’s that had an issue they didn’t fix?

on Please contact support · c/memes · 1 pts · 336d

If I didn’t see the bottom left image, I would’ve thought this was a once-a-long-time-ago-acquaintance fallen victim to MLM.

on Frick · c/science_memes · 3 pts · 361d

If you are so inspired, you can follow Nightvale's example and begin an after-school volunteer 'Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness' campaign.