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Anyone upset that xkcd is supporting Harris is probably also mad that RATM got political
Anyone upset that xkcd is supporting Harris probably hasn't been paying attention for the last 19 years. I wonder if this header image is a foreshadowing for XKCD 3000 (!) tomorrow.
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I am always shocked to find out how many engineers are hard right wing. Even more surprising is how many of them are legit insane conspiracy theorists. Not even like mainstream stupid conspiracies like pizzagate. Like ancient aliens built the pyramids to capture Elvis and Batboy to force them into gay marriage before changing both of their genders so that they're in a double gay marriage then force them to write children's books so that the children will willingly go with the aliens conspiracy theories. Shit that's so complicated that there's not enough red yarn in the world to connect it together.
I swear this always happens to intelligent people when they age
Me and my best friend are both gifted kids. Our families are all very smart people and so his mom and dad but for some reason, his mom is a really conservative conspiracy theorist (chemtrails, bill gates and the jews stuff) and his dad has weird spiritualist beliefs and rituals (cult inspired from buddism I think? I'm not sure) even though such stuff is forbidden under islam
Recently his mom randomly showed us a video where "they" are "vaccinating the fish". I was going to burst into laughter if I didn't hold myself so hard. My bestie is a progressive leftist, he believes in science, and he has a very materialist point of view. He says it's sometimes embarrassing for him when his family members do such thing in public
And the weirdest part is these are not caused by cognitive decline due to age. They still do understand everything pretty good and they can still process new information in a much more efficient manner than "average" people
My main idea about it is that skepticism can sometimes be a curse for boomers who did not have a source of knowledge to base their skeptic ideas on, and they are just not used to accuiring reliable knowledge from the web. Reliable knowledge often being in English and majority of boomers in my country not knowing English also contributes to that
Yeah.
One thing that gives me some peace is that there was a metric fuck ton of lead (and other dangerous crap) in the previous generation's childhood. I'm sure there's plenty of new threats to my brain health, but at least my baby rattle wasn't lead.
So it's not 100% a guarantee that I'll go that way as I age further.
Shit that’s so complicated that there’s not enough red yarn in the world to connect it together.
Sounds exactly like the type of software an incompetent software engineer spits out.
I met a mining engineer once who believed in flat earth ... I debated with him for a while for fun because I thought he was joking. Half an hour later I realized he was serious.
I had to laugh because at one point I told him that if he honestly believed all this, his work place hazard in mining would be that he could drill right through the plane of the earth and fall right through into infinity ..... or onto the back of a turtle.
Even more surprising is how many of them are legit insane conspiracy theorists.
So you're saying that didnt happen?
Ok but linear equations are like early highschool, like the slope intercept y=mx+b and all that. I would hope that most people at least know of them.
I’d wager most people learned them but few as adults remember them enough to say they know them.
I'm back in school to pick up a new degree and even the engineering students suck at math so I'm not that sure how well most people learned them in the first place.
I'm back in school to pick up a new degree
Don’t be greedy, leave some for others
No
Yeah! And for that matter, when did Green Day get political?!
RATM got political
got ?
Weren't they always? ;-)
That's the thing. People genuinely were upset they "got political", completely missing the machine they were raging against...
Yeah, maga nut jobs didn't get what ratm meant with their songs
that's the above comnenters point yeah