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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    toScience Memes@mander.xyzmercy merci
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    1 month ago

    People of Earth, your attention, please. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.

    The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.












  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    toScience Memes@mander.xyzCause and Effect
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    2 months ago

    The problem is not and has not been science. The problem is messaging.

    Yes, but the actual factor driving this is the meteoric rise of the top 1% richest, it is wealth inequality that creates a coherence to misinformation by establishing systematic incentives. There have always been nebulous, destructive, cancer like forces of misinformation, it is as human as human can be but we aren’t really fighting to transcend the pitfalls our own nature, we are fighting to get on the same page about the rich fucking us all over by artificially supercharging these tendencies within us for their own gain.

    It is irrational to just see this as an abstract conversation about the human brain’s susceptibility to misinformation as it ignores the costly material operation being undertaken to manipulate us with said misinformation.