You’re conflating modern sciences with historic geology, and tossing in a dash of denialism to boot. There’s a well known adage called Planck’s principle (IIRC) which basically says that science advances one funeral at a time:

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Also, science was very much a good ol’ boys club of people that often came from wealthy backgrounds because they could afford the education to become scientists, so they were very much big egos trying to keep their theories and discoveries attached to their names even in the face of more correct or contradicting information.

Nowadays the egos may not be quite as large, though there definitely plenty that resist change due to ego or other personal interest, but absolutely politics influences science in multiple ways. It determines who gets funding, what commercial interests pay and benefit from the discoveries, and what gets presented to the public.

Sure would be nice if all scientific results were unbiased, accessible, and free, but unfortunately that’s not always the case.

Oh look, the “you can’t take from the rich, that’s redistribution of wealth and communist!” people are wanting to take from the wealthier states and redistribute wealth.

Consider one of those protective cases that has the flap that covers the charging port. Yeah, a minor annoyance when you want to plug the charger in, but it keeps the port crud free. I’ve used variations of that style for years and it keeps the phone in good shape even when it’s collecting rust- or sawdust in the shop.

Following, just because I hope someone will post where this is.

Shitty argument that subjectively implies a min/max. Exactly how many people need to be killed by rapid-fire mods for you to change your mind? No, don’t butwhatabout some other unrelated statistic… Spell it out. What number of people dying will be enough for you to decide that increasing the fire rate of firearms should not be done?

“They’re just sayin’ that because that’s where they hid the good shit.”

I work for a company that formerly used CrowdStrike. Since the event we no longer do.

There is a serious threat of blown fuse plugs or fire. The carbon brakes create a lot of heat really quickly, but it takes a few minutes for that heat to soak into the wheel assemblies. There are plugs that melt to release the tire pressure so they don’t explode and cause further damage, but fire can still be a problem.

Dude is a terrible governor. He’s as reactionary and as stubborn as W.

Same length as a string.

It’d be a great skit, but the gag would get old pretty quick for anything full-length.

“Some people are just bad…”

But it’s never themselves just wanting addicts to die, breaking up immigrant families, breaking up or preventing lgbtq rights, or wanting to enact violence on anyone who disagrees with them.

Hates it? Why? Because it’s completely unrealistic?

Same old shit. Companies treat employees like machines and numbers on a spreadsheet and demanding more and more productivity while paying lip service to rules and regs yet knowing that employees will skirt, bend, or break the rules to meet whatever sterile metric the beancounters set within the expected window.

Don’t meet the metric? Get some bad performance reviews. Start referencing the safety rules that slow you down? Not a team player. Get fired for some nebulous problem.

Most of the time it’s ignored, but when something goes wrong the company just blames the employee for failing to follow regs.

Automated system reporting just keeps the costs down by creating a higher turnover of employees.

That’s the idea. Replace them with driverless vehicles.

Ugh. Hate that so much info is forcing search results to lead with video results because adspace. 20 minute video on how to fold a towel when a single image with a few lines of text would do.

The Rookie is another Copaganda show.

A bunch of cops all nerding out over following the law, ethical treatment of minorities, keeping each other in line, actively forcing out bad cops…

What planet is this?

I really like the cast and the show is fun, but it’s as much fantasy as the Rings Of Power.

Double benefit from my perspective. I block people for three reasons, they are not mutually exclusive. Willful stupidity and being argumentative. If someone refuses to learn objective truth or insists I believe their objectively wrong position I have no need to interact with them in the future. I’m done with them. The third reason is getting the last word, myself or them. I have a hard time shutting up sometimes, so if someone meets either of the above criterial and has to continue to keep commenting on any rebuttal I make I just block them. There’s no reason to allow myself to continue the interaction, and the other person has no interest in a good faith discussion.

Everyone’s already hit the high points.

Sports fanbase tends to not be a tech base, which Lemmy primarily is.

Sports are paywalled to hell and back, the userbase here is far more inclined to avoid paywalls and the content behind it.

People dislike the celebrity gossip and stuffed suits surrounding sports.

My own personal disregard for sports leans more towards the dislike of the monied celebrity of the entire genre, the worship of the players, and the pointless obsession and discussion of things like stats that have all the meaning of dowsing rods. But that’s literally just my opinion and obviously plenty of people feel otherwise.

Covid was a mixed blessing in that sense. Moving around and generally having much more privacy and space in public was great, but then the part of you that really dislikes change is faced with the glaringly obvious “this is not normal” public and facing the uncertainty of at least the immediate future.