[P] There's a special quality to humanity. Sapience sat atop the dumbest instincts in the animal kingdom (hands down, bar none).
Problem: Overshoot and Capitalism are killing us. We are rapidly running out of water.
Real solution: Just fucking breed less and consume less, be sustainable like other animals already are.
Human solution: Let's build a moon base to mine moon ice, and fling it back at the earth!
#psychology #actuallyautistic #humanity #science #badscience #justplainstupid
[P] I still like the mirror test as the purest example of neurotypical nonsense. It exhibits such limited thinking to not reason that: i.) an animal might not be narcissistic enough to be bothered by a mark (it's forcing a vain human behavior on a non-human animal); ii.) that any mirror-related behaviors might not be what humans think they are from a human perspective; and iii.) human senses are not equivocable with non-human animal senses.
The forest service has been pushing lies about how thinning and clearcuts reduce fires and/or intensity. This is absolutely not true. Here are a couple articles with top scientists shining a light in this "mitigation" and how trump wants to make it even worse with the "fix our forests" act.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03022026/congress-forests-act-wildfire/
https://olyclimate.org/2026/01/31/a-logging-bill-masquerading-as-wildfire-protecTuesd
#climate #forestservice #logging #thinning #badscience #fixourforests #trump #wildfire #climatechange #nasa
A House hearing exposed sharp divisions over whether loosening environmental laws and expanding logging will protect communities from catastrophic fires. Scientists urged a shift toward investing in fire-resilient homes and landscapes.
[P] See, the belief in the face of an ongoing absence of evidence strikes me as just another typie repetition of aether and phlogiston. If the perspective had been "I don't know!" then perhaps we'd be exploring better alternatives than dork matter/energy. That isn't very typie though, is it? We have to wait for them to exhaust themselves, only for those same typies to deny they had any part in it later. Yay science.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] I mean, this is why I don't like theology or atheism either, as both represent absolute beliefs rather than a healthy dose of "I don't know." I might be falling into the Dunning-Kruger trap, but "I don't know." feels like the healthiest thing to say. A healthy "I don't know." would've avoided the farcical, comical, clownish hubris of aether and phlogiston, we would've learned about tectonics sooner, too.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] It's like typies have to believe in the church of science or they'll be eaten by space sharks or some shit. It feels like the addle-brained tribalism of a primitive mind to me. "US must know ALL! If US does not know ALL, the evil doomsharks from the great black THEM-OTHER of SPAYCE will eat us!" It angers me a lot. I don't like absolute faith in something, it's the greatest of follies. Space sharks won't eat you.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] We have the power to shrug and say that—without evidence—we just really don't know. It's fine. There's so very much I don't know. I'd say what i know counts next to nothing, an infinitesimal value contrasted against the myriad possibilities of existence. But that isn't typies, typies feel like they have to delude themselves into believing they know, they can't admit they know almost nothing too. So here we are.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] Bloody typies and their god-fearing inability to admit that they simply don't know has been anathema to science for so long as there's been science. A nonsense assumption peddled by charlatans is accepted because typies can't stop clutching rheir magic god crystals, manically babbling about the terrors of space. It's very tiresome. Carl Sagan called this out, too. It's an ongoing pathology. We can simply not know!
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] It's a consistent truth that we have no evidence for dork matter/energy, but thanks to snake oil-selling charlatans we're doing it again! It winds me up as so much research money has been wasted (yes, wasted) chasing the magical space-dorks. Eventually the dork matter/energy nonsense will be quietly slid into the same filing cabinet of humiliation that aether and phlogiston sit in. I hate that science has to be this.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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[P] Reoccurig? I mean, aside from the reproducibility crisis wracking many fields thanks to typie cults of personality? We've been here before. Aether, anyone? Phlogiston? It's typie idiocy that's left me jaded about science. The pyrite of dork matter and dork energy are no different than aether and phlogiston. The intelligent neurodivergent admits "I don't know." The typie buys snake oil from charismatic charlatans.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #badscience #darkmatter
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