Georgiann Baldino
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES@obtener because some parasite is making money, and he can spend a little of it to sway the opinions of ignorants to keep the gravy train flowing
Delta Wye
AutistiCritic@obtener Or vaccines? Or Covid? When did being smart become frowned upon? 🤷🏻♂️
Simon@benjamincox @obtener what makes you say being smart is frowned upon?
Everyone thinks they are smart or at least the people they idolize are smart and anyone who disagrees is ignorant of a greater truth.
KrazyKat@obtener How long have you got?
Korma Chameleon@obtener science communicators are terrible about error bars. The eclipse WILL take this path vs the temperature will probably do that
Virginicus@obtener Some scientists suggest fun things to do. Other scientists make you feel bad.
paul
Tyler Carroll@obtener not an excuse BUT eclipse calculations have been done by civilizations for a good while with pretty accurate predictions. Meanwhile those same civilizations have been much quicker to predict the end of the world with 0% accuracy thus far. What is weird is they are usually much more successful about convincing the general population of their demise. I don't know if the pr problem for global warming is under or over sensationalization... 🤷♂️
SarcastiCanadian@obtener Well, not EVERYONE https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4580464-greene-defends-claim-that-eclipse-earthquake-signs-to-repent/
Greene defends claim that eclipse, earthquake signs to repent
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday defended an earlier statement saying Monday’s eclipse and Friday’s New York-area earthquake were signs from God telling people to repent. After two days of backlash, Greene addressed a community note that was added to provide context to her original post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.…
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@obtener Folks tend to believe things they *like* and that are simple to understand. Moon goes in front of sun. Simple.
Pandemics and Climate Change are frightening. Not believing them spares you the anxiety. Both are more complex than an eclipse and involve causes that are *not visible* and therefore it's easier to deny their existence.
John Panzer@obtener Because an eclipse is fun and not damaging and we like to think about it, and climate change is not fun and very damaging and we don’t like to think about it.
bartholin (Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz arc)@obtener ain't no solar eclipse cuz ain't no space cuz ain't no earth cuz we all livin' in a dream of David Lynch
Jakob Voß@obtener climate change, in contrast to solar eclipse, is told as conditional prediction, instead of invetiable forecast.
ferricoxide@obtener
Astronomers have better reps than the glorified TV weathermen, climatologists?
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Astronomers have better reps than the glorified TV weathermen, climatologists?
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Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🍋@obtener
I don’t travel to eclipses. I do my own investigations. The sun shines.
I don’t travel to eclipses. I do my own investigations. The sun shines.
J. Williams@obtener I had a similar thought. The same folks which claim the scientists are all lying to us trust their predictions of other natural phenomena?