Angus McIntyreRemember: we live in a world where the people buying $400 gold sneakers from a known con-man probably consider themselves smarter than the people who just reconfigured a malfunctioning spacecraft twenty-two light hours away over a 40 bps communication channel.
Allpoints@angusm Do I have to remember that? Can't I just be happy in my little bubble of clueful people?
gavinisdie 
@angusm seriously, imagine paying $400 dollars for sneakers 💀
Marg Eliz 
@gavinisdie @angusm And for those hideous sneakers too! 🤮🤮
Poligofsky@angusm Doesn't it come down to objectives?
The former would scoff at the value of expanding the frontiers of knowledge. They see success in narrow terms of being on the "winning" team.
They see the latter as part of the opposition. Anything they (scientists, researchers) do is in support of the wrong (loser) team, and thus inherently not smart.
Logic based on incomplete premises about how society functions, leading to bad conclusions, but not completely bad reasoning.
BlueintheSouth
DelRider@angusm “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov
― Isaac Asimov
tudor@angusm oh they fixed it? wow. let me check.
Ch M[ae][iy]e?r 🇪🇺 🤍 🇬🇱This was todays update:
https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112201347148130250
AkaSci 🛰️ (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Great news on Voyager 1. Richard Stephenson of DSN Canberra reports that engineering data was being received from Voyager 1 last night at 40 bps. No science data yet, perhaps because they did not switch to the higher 160 bps rate, but this is a major step towards recovery and validates the diagnosis (failed memory chip in the FDS computer) and fix (rearrange software to bypass the failed memory area). Now waiting for a status update from NASA. 23/n
glutto@angusm
Don't forget about the signed bibles.
Don't forget about the signed bibles.
AkaSci 🛰️@angusm
Please check out the thread at https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112201347148130250 for some background info on the comm issue with Voyager 1 over the past several months.
Please check out the thread at https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112201347148130250 for some background info on the comm issue with Voyager 1 over the past several months.
AkaSci 🛰️ (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Great news on Voyager 1. Richard Stephenson of DSN Canberra reports that engineering data was being received from Voyager 1 last night at 40 bps. No science data yet, perhaps because they did not switch to the higher 160 bps rate, but this is a major step towards recovery and validates the diagnosis (failed memory chip in the FDS computer) and fix (rearrange software to bypass the failed memory area). Now waiting for a status update from NASA. 23/n
Urwumpe@angusm and that spacecraft is almost 50 years old. 😎
That sneakers likely don't even survive the first rainfall.
Canadian Crone@angusm without a single solitary doubt
lupus_blackfur
True Slicky@angusm They're also the same pepe who blame Biden because prics are too high & they can't afford groceries, after spendng all their money on Trump merch...
Jima 
@angusm You left out the part where the spacecraft is 46 years old, too.
Jason, Human, Average 
@angusm
Certainly.
But the ones that really worry me are the ones that have a foot in both worlds. How the hell can a brain take that level of dissonance and not catch fire?
It is horrifying to realize how small this window of history is, and that the violence that erupts from these petty notions will happen when no one remembers why.
Just Tom... 🐁@tompearce49
I'm sorry, that sounds terrible. Both having a loved one in that sort of spell. But also taking the bible literally. I've read that book, it has some pretty awful parts. I can't imagine using it as a literal daily rule book. Doubly so if I were a woman.
@angusm
I'm sorry, that sounds terrible. Both having a loved one in that sort of spell. But also taking the bible literally. I've read that book, it has some pretty awful parts. I can't imagine using it as a literal daily rule book. Doubly so if I were a woman.
@angusm
@angusm True meditation lies in knowing the entire set is actually the same smart monkey I am.
Ministerofimpediments@angusm
Gold Sneaker Conman People: “Space doesn’t exist.”
Gold Sneaker Conman People: “Space doesn’t exist.”
blathoudVery nicely summarised 🙂
Thanks!
LisPi
zendao42@angusm
Dunning-Krueger is real
Dunning-Krueger is real
Jennifer
Gabriel Pettier@angusm I hope the latter feel pretty good about themselves, because they should.
Brain Bug@angusm R U talking about Voyager? What happened there?