UlyssesT [he/him] @ UlyssesT @hexbear.net

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Scare quotes around "gas-guzzling"

Saying "planet-burning" instead

I hate to have to say it

No, you quite enjoy it considering the wall of text that followed.

I'm sorry if you were angered or offended

Politician-tier slimy non-apology.

The older 80s-90s versions of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, the ones illustrated by Stephen Gammel, are evergreen reads. If you have a good narration voice, ideal for campfire telling or other all-ages sharing.

Warning if you look them up: the Stephen Gammel illustrations are very creepy.

I wander around at weird hours with food and drinks on me, offering them to homeless people. A lot of them are initially (understandably) suspicious because they might think I'm trying to grift them into attending some church or exploiting them in some startup scheme, but with some patience and established trust they often get used to you when you come around the next time.

There's lifetimes lived out there and people that will share their stories with you if you brought some pizza.

Garden!

It can be an act of physiological and psychological desperation. There's thousands of years of recorded history of people dying of thirst drinking seawater as a coping mechanism before the end.

No I'm just amusing myself

You're trying to win a last word game while demonstrating how very not mad you are in the most transparent way possible.

You had nothing from the start but your bloviating arrogance, and now you have nothing left but enraged immaturity after calling me a child (because children are contemptible to you, Redditbrained as you are).

Since you're not posting anything of value (and didn't do so before) I'll just repost a reflection of what you're continuing to do.

So much for your fedora-tipping farewell. You needed to add just how not mad you are at having uncomfortable issues brought up that you failed to address.

this child

Assuming people that disagree with you are children, and using that for insult purposes only demonstrates your contempt, even hatred, of children.

You failed to address what I talked about so of course I repeated myself. You had nothing to respond to but your own arrogant dismissal of issues and your empty sense of superiority.

You think it's anti-intellectual to address intersectional society-wide concerns? Is it truly "intellectual" to pretend that they didn't happen or that they only happened in the past?

It is the pinnacle of ideological arrogance to believe that scientific fields, as practiced by scientists, exist in perfectly sealed vacuums that require no interaction with government or society and that every experiment that is funded, all research undertaken, is powered by sheer scientific purity instead of the unfortunate material realities of funding and decisions made of "what" is researched and for how long.

It does affect all of the above fields if funding and resources are wasted in pursuit of junk science. Announcing that such junk should be "free" and distributed out there under the belief that it will magically be banished by the light of truth and cease being distributed entirely because it is wrong with no other actions necessary is willful ideological ignorance.

We're very critical of the racism and sexism in medical research.

You're demonstratably actively and overtly ignoring examples given to you, right now, showing just how flawed your claimed "critical" status is of such issues.

And still none of that has anything to do with physics, chemistry, materials science, geology, oceanography.

Yes, you have that ivory tower of yours crammed so high that you're willfully ignoring intersectional issues that do affect the application, interpretation, even the funding and political will to allocate resources to such fields.

For everything that you can point to as a current problem, I can point to another thing that used to be a problem and now has been corrected.

That only demonstrates that correcting the process and actively rejecting bad/false science requires ongoing vigilance, not smug and arrogant dismissal of concerns.

therefore we shouldn't do science at all

No one said that and you're willfully ignorant at this point.

Someone else responded better than I could to what amounts of your wall of arrogance that was toward someone with an opinion and a take so similar to yours that it applies to you as well.

Every single time someone does a report on crime and breaks down data by race you're seeing racist social science in action. The way we do clinical trials. Decisions about what to study, like the impacts of lead, or education, or pharmaceuticals, all of it lies on top of and interpermeates racist superstructure. Recent? Forced hysterectomies. Public statements from researchers that genetics are not politically correct. Mauna Kea. Environmental impact studies in Guam. I mean, it's never ending.

Doesn't it say "THE END" instead of "GAME OVER?"

Baldur's Gate 3. Karlach's reaction once you kill Gortash.

That hurt in my soul.

Ah, yes.

You should have stuck with your "good day" if you have nothing left to provide but more Reddit tier smug condescension.

And I didn't lie.

Yes, you did lie. The lie was that, direct quote, you "didn't even mention antivax theories."

That arbiter is not doing a good job considering the proliferation of antivax, race "science," and climate change denialism, among other things.

Feel as above the fray as you like, but normalizing the mass distribution of junk/shit or otherwise false science under some lofty ideal of "the free marketplace of ideas will select for the correct data" is clearly, demonstratively, and repeatedly not doing that and hasn't in the past either.

So your response is "no, u?"

You're very good at putting words into people's mouths

You're very good at putting words into people's mouths (I didn't even mention antivax theories)

You previously said:

Strong disagree, given the vaccine hysteria was on the part of the deniers. The science supported and continues to support the vaccines effectiveness and safety. It's primarily people who aren't scientists and don't know how to interpret medical studies that are claiming that they are dangerous or ineffective.

Nice to meet you, I'm a medical scientist that specializes in Alzheimer's research. Absolutely none of my colleagues think vaccines are dangerous.

If you're going to complain about "putting words into people's mouths" don't be a liar on top of that.

Good day