Gloomy

Second this, one can’t just say something like this and not give a source.

There is no concept of hell in the old testament. That’s something the new Testament added on.

You… You think a battery is a magic physics defying substance?

I mean, I don’t see capitalism beeing a way to solve the climate crisis and do belive that degrowth is going to happen (by design or desaster), but the success of renewable energy is very much a capitalism success story.

That video shows like 70 % to 80 % of the people beeing white. How is are you calling this fake news and then post a link that literally proves the point of the article??

I wanted to give you an upvote, but you are at 69 right now an I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

I agree that it limits the number of woman that might be options.

But you are making it sound neat impossible. And that that is just not true.

Somebody will be out there who sees something in op. It might take a bit to find her, but honestly, as long as he learned to treat her as a human beeing and not as an asset to aquire he’ll be good.

I met my wife with 36 while she was 38. There are reasons she was single. There where reasons I was a single.

We have been the happiest couple I can imagine and I can’t fathom how much luck I had.

Don’t give up. Learn to be a descent humans. The rest will fall into place eventually.

but considering how many people get a large soda in the morning and sip on it all day,

I am European and this sentence broke something in my soul.

What is this, lost earth?

Reading random studies

I searched for related studies and found this one relevant. That is not random.

you find on news sites

It’s from a scientific journal tough, not a new site?

that are outside your area of expertise

While true, this is not a study about biology or medicine. It’s not hard to understand for lay people.

an easy way to be led to believe something based only on parts of the truth.

That’s why you read more then one study. You know, like I specifically called out that this one links to a lot of related work?

In this case, as in many, we have to rein in our judgments for what the study indicates

It indicates that republicans are more likley to belive fake news.

Just because it says it found A doesn’t mean B is true.

Yes, but nobody did that here? I’m confused what you are getting at.

It doesn’t answer your question completely, but apparently conservatives are more likley to belive fake news.

Here is a quote from a study with a lot of links to related works.

In particular, Grinberg, Joseph, Friedland, Swire-Thompson, and Lazer [[42], p. 374] found that “individuals most likely to engage with fake news sources were conservative leaning.” Indeed, political bias can be a more important predictor of fake news believability than conspiracy mentality [43] despite conspirational predispositions playing a key role in motivated reasoning [44]. Perhaps because of this, an important body of research has examined whether conservatism influences fake news believability [45,46]. Tellingly, Robertson, Mourão, and Thorson [47] found that in the US liberal news consumers were more aware and amenable to fact-checking sites, whereas conservatives saw them as less positive as well as less useful to them, which might be why conservative SM users are more likely to confuse bots with humans, while liberal SM users tend to confuse humans with bots [48]. In particular, those who may arguably belong to the loud, populist and extremist minority wherein “1% of individuals accounted for 80% of fake news source exposures, and 0.1% accounted for nearly 80% of fake news sources shared” ([42], p. 374).

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378720622001537#bib0045

Streng genommen ist eine Ampel ohne gelb besser statt eine Ampel die mal gelb wird und mal nicht und wenn sie gelb wird nach Laune entscheidet, wie lange. Das ist dann nämlich eine scheiß Ampel.

Oder halt wie beim Bürgergeld handhaben. Was man selbst oder ein Familienmitglied verdient wird von der Diät abgezogen :-)

Yes, let’s have exponensial groth instead.

The report by the special rapporteur also accuses Palestinian militias, including those involved in the October 7 massacres in Israel, of violating human rights. Albanese states that the Israeli occupation and the Gaza blockade does not justify the actions of Palestinian armed groups. The report further implies that their indiscriminate rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and children can be viewed as war crimes. However, the report concludes that Israel’s brutal reprisals on Gaza’s densely populated residential areas also cannot be justified.

This sums up this whole mess rather well.

Nobody bothered to give any arguments against it tough…?

Here is what he wrote. Judge for yourself.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/13/gayrights.thefarright?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Now, I doubt that many of these blokes were shagging each other, not least because, for religious reasons, none of them drink, so it was hard to lower their inhibitions. But after a long smoke and a lot of flattery, Mo was fairly easily coaxed. Of course, he seemed a bit hung-up about it afterwards. Since I was nearing the end of my undercover gig, I tried to persuade him that perhaps gay people weren’t evil, especially in light of the fact that he had just been having wild gay sex.

Slam-cut to LA and Russ. He was a harder nut to crack, but at least he could (and did) drink an awful lot of vodka. I’ll spare you the details: suffice it to say that Germany did successfully invade Poland. So what’s the moral of this tale? Part of me wants to trumpet it as a victory for gay rights. Even in the most intense centres of homophobia and gay-bashing, you can still find the odd bit of sodomy. We are, quite literally, everywhere, including (literally) inside homophobes. Part of me is a bit ashamed - in the cold light of day, both Russ and Mo have some pretty repulsive views. But there’s something uniquely rewarding about bagging a homophobe. In fact, I reckon that this should be the new path for the gay rights movement. Every gay reader of the Guardian should henceforth dedicate himself to seducing every gay-basher they can find. Our response to hatred shouldn’t be to hate back; it should be to give them a jolly good seeing-to.

I know you are making fun and all, but things like this are indeed reproduced.

Basicly it’s a process of cultural and collective copy and pasting, where media and indivulas reproduce a concept by either activly using it (or not) or passives acepting it.

It’s a bit more complex than that, but you probably get the idea.

Wer benutzt denn den Wahl-o-Mat?

Fand ich auch mal ne spannende Frage.

https://www.bpb.de/themen/wahl-o-mat/177430/die-nutzer-des-wahl-o-mat

Bei der letzten Bundestagswahl waren es immerhin knapp 21 Millionen Menschen.

Allerdings sind drei Viertel der Nutzer Menschen mit Hochschulabschluss. Dafür verteilt er sich auf alle Altersklassen. Und Männer nutzen ihn viel eher als Frauen.

Das Gros der Leute wählt doch nach Bauch

Ist somit zumindest nicht komplett aus der Luft gegriffen.

Fair.

82 % Der Deutschen sind der Meinung, dass Klima nicht das Wichtigste oder Zweitwichtigste Thema ist.

Besser?

Ich war ziemlich schockiert, als ich das gestern gelesen habe, weil es mir vor Augen geführt hat, wie sehr ich in einer Bubble lebe. In meinem Umfeld ist das Thema Klima sehr präsent. Anscheinend nur dort.

Ich beschäftige mich jetzt seit mindestens drei Jahren intensiv mit dem Thema Klimawandel (als Laie), höre Podcasts, lese Berichte und Orginalstudien, etc. und halte die Klimakrise für das wichtigste Thema der Menschheit. Mit Abstand. Weil so viel davon abhängt, wie gut oder schlecht wir damit umgehen.

Und dann sieht man sowas… 82 % der Bevölkerung halten das Thema nicht für relevant. Und in ganz Europa werden die Menschen, die dagegen protestieren und versuche, ein Bewusstsein zu schaffen, kriminalisiert und mit Terroristen gleichgesetzt, drakonisch bestraft (siehe z.B. GB, wo zwei friedliche Aktivisten zu je drei Jahren verurteilt wurden) und in gesellschaftlichen Diskurs egal ob durch Medien oder Politik nur als Störenfriede gelabelt.

Ich fange langsam an jegliche Hoffnung zu verlieren. Meine Kinder werden in einer von rechten Arschlöchern regierten und von Hitze, Dürre, Wasserknappheit und Multikrisen zerrissenen Welt aufwachsen und es macht mich bitter und traurig das wir da sehenden Auges reinrennen.

Musste raus. Sry fürs rumgedoome.