The silver lining to the shit show of the last 9 months is that the Republican drama has finally gotten entertaining.

Epictetus. “Some things are up to us and some are not up to us.”

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Horror has always been a source of social commentary, though. Going all the way back to at least Frankenstein, published in 1818.

I should be more clear: “Huge mistake” means it’s an opinion piece from a person who has a clear bias, not factual journalism. And the fact that the title gives no indication of what it’s actually about means the only thing I have to go on is the author disagrees with something, but won’t say what until I pay them for an opinion I didn’t ask for.

I would personally rather be given the information and form my own opinion.

Clickbait title that is clearly partisan, looks like not worth reading regardless of content.

Up until recently, I always scoffed at presidents running on “the economy” due to the classical wisdom that presidential policies are a small drop in the bucket in the overall economic picture and that the influence they do have typically isn’t felt until after they’ve left office.

Trump proved me wrong on this one. He’s speedrunning a recession.

Normally I’d accuse you of doomsday speculation, but he already proposed this:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-simply-floated-idea-of-deporting-u-s-citizens-white-houses-leavitt-says

Yep, back in the 90s they were in some places. My local supermarket had one like this, except without the annoying ad on the left side.

That wasn’t so much a “fact” told in school as it was a prediction, and it was true for them. Some people carried pocket calculators, but most people didn’t. Some supermarkets has calculators built into their carts, but most didn’t.

Failing to predict society’s norms in 20 years isn’t the same as teaching a false fact.

Same. I’m playing GTA San Andreas on mobile (through Netflix if you interested) and while the game holds up, all the minigames suck ass. I’m likely not going to complete a single one. Maybe I’ll cave and do burglaries for infinite sprint, but probably not.

A knockoff iPhone charger from China. I plugged it into my computer and it literally caught fire.

Wong says the team’s new vaccine could also provide protection against coronaviruses that cause influenza and the common cold.

Ugh science reporting is terrible. “This new tool could stop the cockroaches that cause bedbugs.” See how stupid that sounds?

Influenza is caused by influenza viruses.

Expert consensus has a different role than the OP. It’s a statement made by people who are intimately familiar with a body of evidence and are consolidating the many narratives of that evidence into clear statements.

Yes, it’s not true merely because they say it’s true. It’s most likely true because these experts have analyzed the thousand tiny individual pieces of evidence out there and have determined they are all pointing to the same key conclusions. That’s not an argumentum ad populum, that’s analysis and interpretation. Ignoring that because you saw some TikTok video is the actual fallacy (argument from authority.)

Authoritarianism

Ok. It’s an estimated solid 45 blue electoral votes so let’s go ahead and make Canada a state!

But does the measles vaccine make your body forget your immunity to all the other viruses out there? Nope, only measles does that! Checkmate!

Yep, exactly. Biden spent 4 years cleaning up Trump’s mess, then Trump claimed that Biden made the mess and his voters bought it because they’d been dealing with a mess for 4 years. Now Trump’s back in office making an even worse mess, and the person after him will get blamed for cleaning it up.

That’s actually a trend for Republican presidents in general. Many voters believe that Republican presidents are better at handling the economy, but in reality Republicans consistently make a mess and leave Democrats to clean it up.

Oh lovely

I’m not familiar with it.