Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nta was reflecting on this over the week as we dealt with some religious/cultural perspectives. Science is being killed, in the name of catering to people's superstition. And we tolerate this collectively - even our freaking reserve bank is promulgating creation myths that make my head explode.
Please explain?
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@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nta was reflecting on this over the week as we dealt with some religious/cultural perspectives. Science is being killed, in the name of catering to people's superstition. And we tolerate this collectively - even our freaking reserve bank is promulgating creation myths that make my head explode.
Please explain?
Summed up in there I think.
Ironically, the imagery used is from Bora Bora, rather than NZ.
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@booboo he's wordy, but interesting. Has written the most convincing case for why our housing prices in Auckland are so insane. Not fun to read, but very convincing, and I'm yet to see it rebutted. Basically a combination of 25+ years of RMA constricting supply, and immigration fuelling demand.
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When your shadow does not have your back
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@nzzp said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@nta was reflecting on this over the week as we dealt with some religious/cultural perspectives. Science is being killed, in the name of catering to people's superstition. And we tolerate this collectively - even our freaking reserve bank is promulgating creation myths that make my head explode.
What worries me is that we are moving past 'I understand this irrational belief is important to you' to 'I'll adopt your belief system wholesale'. Regression... but who knows where it will finish up.
FML I guess. Also frustrating as science underpins damn near all of our major civilisation achievements. If we are going to respond to global warming, it's through science - but I think we are catering far too much to emotions (anti GMO, anti vax, etc).
The great thing about science is that it works whether you believe in it or not
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@stockcar86 yeah, it works based on people not trusting each other
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Youtube is down. Most unusual...
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@salacious-crumb and Insta had an unusual outage the other day too. Normally those platforms have so much redundancy it'd take a nuclear strike from orbit to take em down! hmmm must be the Russians aye!!
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Glorious! Highly recommend bitchute.com as an alternative. Now if only Facebook and Twitter could have some sort of breakdown too.
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@paekakboyz instagram and youtube the past couple days... right now if i had to guess given the timing i’d say it’s the saudis
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@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
100 websites that shaped the internet.
DiscussComplete bollocks. TSF not in the top 10?
Must be bollocks. Pornhub was 13th.
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@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
100 websites that shaped the internet.
DiscussI remember the day I heard about "google", and that it was this new search engine that would be the next big thing because of how it worked... pretty much just trawling every "weblink" it could find. And ranking according to how many links there were. Thought: "Bullshit, easily manipulatible". Kept using AskJeeves for as long as possible. Nek Minnut... biggest thing ever, and, kinda... yeah.
Wikipedia as #1 - Respect. A whole lot of fuckig respect for those fluffybunnies, to the point of considering donations.