Censorship in academics by the state is nothing new. Ask Galileo.

But what's happening in the US is on par with the pyromaniacs who burned the library of Alexandria.

Oh, so I (and, everyone else) should just believe everything I see?

If you tell me that you "can set a bowl of water on fire with a lighter"... I won't believe it until I can get a bowl of water from my sink and just light it on fire.

So... you've lived in your apartment for ten years, and you're telling me that fist-sized hole has always been in that wall... if I just believe what you tell me, then I should just hand you a wad of cash for your security deposit... if I use a thing called critical thinking, that would tell me you passed inspection for 9 years, then there was a hole in that wall... because ghosts and bugs don't punch holes in walls, that means you did it, and you security deposit will be used to pay for it.

No, I think he's pointing out that it's a big ask. Especially in a democracy that has been voting against tax increases for education and instead been following the low expectations and regressive education mandated by the Texas Book Repository since the days ol' Lee Harvey Oswald graced their notorious base of power for that American jihad that by dint of being the largest single buyer of textbooks enabled them to bully publishers in dragging standards down to their level; metaphorically doing to America's children's brains what Oswald did to Kennedy's.

Just look at this century: despite America's intense focus on STEM, math scores are testing at a very retro 1970's level and the ignored subjects critical to democracy: civics and literacy... horrid. America is a nation of uncritical anti-intellectual biases who did their own 'research' and firmly believe that NASA astronauts did not really land on the Moon, the Earth is not billions of years old, and is, in fact, flat, not round. Think about it, most Americans have no idea what the capital of Canada or Australia is, or for that matter, differentiate between Australia and Austria.

America's happy as a little lamb that their current minister of Education has no experience in the field! What a boon! The nation literally has a career carnie from the WWE in charge of shaping our children's future by putting a bottle of 'A-1' in every classroom! And it's nothing new. Despite 20-30 year focus on STEM, the nation's math scores are worse than before Reagan and students are burdened with greater and greater debt.

The only upside I can see, with decades of grade inflation since I matriculated, my GPA is nearing triple digits. But it doesn't really compensate for living in a nation that chased the top AI minds along with countless other critical academics out of the country for being either foreigners or Americans who can read and knew it was time to go. The signs have been clear for a long time. Your kid's teachers and maybe even your favorite prof from uni are either living in their car or one emergency from homelessness. We literally treat our educators like garbage. With GIGO is our plan for development, what could go wrong?

For comparison, think of the country of Luxembourg, a nation most Americans couldn't find on the map. In my memory (going back to he 70's), the nation's most valued job has been kindergarten teachers. Could you imagine if that were the case in America and the job of teaching and caring for small children had been valued in America that long? We wouldn't be having this conversation.

From my observations, I would image the experience of social media in poor countries is similar to what Spain went through that led to civil war when Germany's Condor unit covertly promoted the violence so they could turn the country into a testing ground for the new tech being used to rebuild the Luftwaffe and army while still restricted by the Versailles treaty from doing so. How many years did Facebook profit from promoting conflict and genocide in Myanmar and other countries around the world?

If history rhymes, they're just getting ready to say hold my beer. Or as Mark Zuckerberg posted on X, “Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.” He did sign a "morally binding" (not legally binding) agreement to that effect with all the other players.

I'm sure he learned his lessons profiting from mass murder and child abuse that I am pretty sure I trust him not to do the same. Although sometimes I find it difficult to believe he actually has a moral compass that points anywhere but Hades (that's Latin for Hell, a language ol' Marko wears on his sleeves because he believes he's the reincarnation of Nero or some such nonsense).

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/w...

The warning of Socrates regarding the written word damaging our memory and intelligence? I fully agree. Were he to view the level to which our lives are improved due to our media saturation, I honestly know he'd change his mind.

Even if you shared with him a low ball pitch like the syllabus for Andrew Tate's university, you seriously can't but know he'd be like "wow! this not only solves the problems I feared, but completely disproves, what I now see were simply naive fears."

What he really should have feared is litigiousness bastards! With his paranoia though, I doubt he ever got anything it in writing. And look where it got him...

And somebody better clue in all these countries going to 20 mph speed limits because of the greatly reduced traffic fatalities at that speed. Somebody better tell them about the foolish experts claiming that traveling at the high speed of 30 miles per hour would cause the human body to disintegrate or drive passengers insane.

Granted they don't immediately disintegrate, but many do rapidly exhibit symptoms of death almost immediately in conjunction with traveling above 30 mph and almost all humans exhibit an allergic reaction when making contact with road surfaces even at much lower speeds.

But no one really knows why. Except, I suspect, the Danes who have freakishly low highway death stats. They're definitely behind it in an attempt to control Americans.

On that second part, the reality is that it's sitting in a car 40-80 hours a month in a car you regularly splash out a considerable display of money on because it can do 200 on the open roads but instead you spend the significant amount of your time in full-stop traffic jams with all the other egos who just can't seem to figure out the lights are actually coordinated for a smooth flow of traffic, not a drag race.

Why, because creating a virus a year after it was named defies the time space continuum or because examination of archived tissue samples determined it has been circulating in the general population in a weaker variant going back 50 years?

10 Ways AI could Kill Everyone. You won't believe what happens when you click on number 4!

Yeah, I have it on good authority that COVID was planned to segregate people without critical thinking skills from dragging down the information economy. COVID-19 was released as a pretext to condition the mentally feable with dangerously high levels of medical mistrust so when the real killer virus is released, the dead weight will check themselves from the gene pool shouting like Disney's lemmings as they compete to outperform their peers in showing everyone what sheeple they are for submitting to medical advice.

I've heard the Brazilian Jujitsu already took ol' Zuck out of the game via repeated head trauma.
They say he's practically brain dead. A puppetCEO. It's what motivated Facebook to go all in on the goggles, he needs them to compensate with short term memory issues and an inability to remember names, places, basically anything.
The severe memory lapses is also why the statue of the wife: he's tried to get combative with her when failing to recognise her; now she just points to the statue. It has reduced her need to use the stun gun on him when he gets unhinged and security is distracted.

When people say they want to make the world a better place, it's important to ask, for whom?

Actually it was started by a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, who was paid nearly a half million pounds by a lawyer fishing for a lawsuit against a vaccine maker who gave him a dozen files, 8 of which had autism.

From this, Wakefield decided to make his case that vaccines caused autism using more fraud and Hollywood influencers to create a scare.

He was eventually discredited, lost his license to practice, and moved to Texas to become central to the wellness movement. As a result Texas has had some 3/4 million measles cases and two deaths in otherwise healthy children.

I'm not saying it's not a conspiracy backed by money. Money is definitely a motive. But if there really is a Plandemic, promoting medical mistrust is the first step.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/ne...

Testosterone replacement is gender affirming treatment.

It is well documented that Lance required his teammates to dope in order to keep their jobs https://www.npr.org/sections/t...

No one had the systematic organization to cheat as the one Lance put together.

Lance did pay the central doping doctors so they wouldn't juice his competitors with the top shelf stuff. He bought his strongest competitors and paid them to work for him as domestiques, he paid off doctors and officials to avoid testing positive, and he even committed insurance fraud to pay the bills.

I think it's hard to say he possessed any natural talent beyond grifting.