A frustrating article: Why Being Anti-Science Is Now Part Of Many Rural Americans’ Identity | FiveThirtyEight
At the end of the day, science is about repeatable experiments and pushing humanity’s knowledge forward. To be of the belief that your opinion is more valid than scientific results is just a disappointing view of the world.
Unfortunately there are a lot of people who make a lot of money by encouraging this, leaving the world a worse place than where it started.
My father used this stuff all the time… I use it occasionally and this site looks like a great way to generate a wide variety of it.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript
Never know when this is going to be needed…
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/
Once again, hanging onto this for the inevitable discussion about vaccines and “they don’t work”.
I look forward to the day where covid stops messing up the world.
This sort of thing is just so destructive. How many tens of thousands of people saw this and thought “See! These vaccinations are killing people!”
As a result of this, people will likely have died.
A few months ago my dad (a loyal Fox News watcher) claimed that it was Democrats that weren’t getting vaccinated. I didn’t have the data at the ready to disprove this but had read several articles about it.
I’m saving this here just in case it comes up again. I doubt facts will be listened to, but it’s worth a shot.
Oh, and he is vaccinated – he had a rough bout with Covid-19 last year and wants to make sure it never happens again.
As I get older, I worry about falling behind on technology. I don’t want to be one of those old people who don’t engage with modern tech. I don’t ever want to be like those people afraid of computers, or claim that typing isn’t something someone needs to do, etc.
I am, however, very skeptical of blockchain and ‘Web3’. I just can’t quite get it to work in my mind. Yes, I understand low trust situations, but there are already ways to handle that. I also understand the desire for contracts that are binding and execute without any intervention, but the examples that have been presented to me depend on both parties actually wanting to live in a world where there is no independent control of cash flow. A company may want to manage cash flow by withholding money for a few days, or alternatively, reduce costs by offering to pay sooner than agreed upon, if the recipient agrees to a very slight reduction in the amount they receive.
I have yet to see an actual compelling (to me) use of cryptocurrency. I’ve bought some, and now that it has spiked by 200% and then dropped back down to almost the original value, I don’t see how it’s any ‘better’ than stocks.
The latest craze with NFT’s just seems like money laundering. At this point in time, at least one game publisher is working on creating NFT’s for in game items, which is better… how? Oh, you can have a serial number embedded on your in game character? Okay, why can’t that be done with existing tech – it’s not like it’s hard to keep track of add-ons or stuff that is equipped on your character? Oh, you can transfer ownership? Sure, that could be done using existing tech. You ‘own’ it, the publisher doesn’t? Uh-huh, right until the publisher kills the product that it depends on, which will happen.
In short (ha!), I’m a skeptic. Always looking to be proven wrong, and who knows, maybe in a few years I’ll be a complete convert.
In the meantime, here’s a good read on ‘web3’ : The Web3 Fraud | USENIX
Just hanging on to this for the next time someone tells me that the vaccinated are why Covid-19 continues to mutate into new variants.
I only use a couple of things that TinkerTool enables, but it is a wide ranging tool! It’s important to note that it is only changing the built in behaviors of MacOS – it does not add functionality that isn’t already there. Having said that, there is a lot of MacOS functionality built in that is not exposed! Want to show and hide your Dock without delay? Run with a single app focused? Change the default file type or naming when taking a screenshot? Work how some Unix systems do and automatically activate windows as you mouse over them? All available, along with hundreds of other settings.
Explore, enjoy, and remember what you changed so you can change it back if you want to!