Read Hernan Cortez’s own description of the Aztec empire when he arrived.
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“repaint history” = correct historical inaccuracies in textbooks
“In the worst way possible” = as correctly as possible
“Using standards that should not be applied” = using the proper standards and I don’t like that for “reasons”
“No wonder people are so miserable and divided these days” = No wonder people don’t like people that spread the same misinformation as me at the moment
“When we are led to be miserable in everything” - “when led to learn from our prior mistakes and try to improve the future of ALL peoples”
Bravo.
So if I “discover” a house down the street I’ve never seen before, I “achieved” the title of “discoverer” as well! Ok so I guess he did “accomplish” something, I stand corrected.:
He “discovered” the place that was not called Hispaniola by any of the people that called it home.
He “discovered” the gold that those people were literally wearing at their home. I guess that means he can keep that too?
He “discovered” that he could force those at gun point to bring him all the gold they could find from their home.
He “discovered” that he could coerce the people into doing that by beheading the leaders of their home.
He “discovered” he and his crew could rape the women they found in their home.
Such an interesting choice of words you were taught to describe home invasion, rape, murder, robbery.
Hacker News is well on its way to become the Nazi bar by allowing the thinly veiled racism to survive.
A slowly boiling frog.
“State mandated dose of neutral..” what?
You clearly didn’t go the same brain washing public school systems I went to in America (California of all places) where they told us a gigantic pile of lies about basically everything that happened in our history that I’m still trying to unlearn 20+ years later.
Those field workers, that literally keep us fed, have like 2/3 the life expectancy of the average American in the same area, or something ridiculous like that. Too lazy to google the exact numbers at the moment (on my phone). This is an open “secret” of the industry. Sadly slavery still exists, just doesn’t look like it used to.
I think you think you know more than you actually know. When I started reading about it, I wished I hadn’t. I felt sick to my stomach hearing the shit that still goes on to this day.
“Looting the coffers for welfare…” <- this is hilariously wrong. If I recall correctly, illegal typically pay into the system, but typically do not withdraw for fear of deportation. Your numbers are backwards. Last I checked, white Americans were the largest recipients of welfare by a substantial margin.
The reality is so bad, I can’t stomach learning any more about it. I feel so awful for those poor people.
I’ve met many women with the same story that didn’t even know they were autistic until they heard someone explain “masking” behavior as an autistic coping mechanism, and they said: “wait, isn’t that what everybody does?” They then go to a doctor to help them understand, etc. Lots of actresses have it, some of them are public about it.
I’m surprised to see that 80% number cited without bold caveats mentioning the limitations.
Historically most clinical studies up until around the 2000’s were done with a large percentage of participants being white men, often times there were NO WOMEN in the study.
A lot of rework is being done, which is great to see, but that’s going to take a long time before we have a true understanding of the variations between sexes caused by nature and/or nurture.
Where on earth did you hear that?
Source?
Laziness is basically a myth/misunderstanding of the underlying cause. The use of the word is made in ignorance of the science.
Though I’ll admit, while high, my thinking is different, it isn’t dumber.
I don’t suddenly forget facts I knew beforehand. The speed at which I solve a puzzle would be slower, thus I wouldn’t operate heavy machinery, but that’s not because I have lost the knowledge of how to do so. It’s (partly) related to the altered state of the mechanisms that affect my perception of time (among other things).
For a supposedly pro-science website, there always so many (often proudly) ignorant takes on scientific research.
I think I’m just now starting to realize that by trying to avoid the arm chair quarterbacking amateurs that couldn’t perform anything they criticize people about (in athletics), I’ve just traded it for armchair quarterbacking of scientists about something they know nothing about. Yet here I am getting sucked into doing (almost) the same thing (with only a motivational difference of attempting to identify poorly constructed studies that will end up being fuel for the anti-bodily autonomy crowd.
Governments should have zero privileges concerning any human’s decisions about their own body. They should instead be vehemently upholding those rights. Funding education and scientific research to help people make those decisions and about the risks of their choices when exercising those rights is fine.
That’s it.
The right and the left are both historically terrible at this, but lately it’s been mostly the right. I swear the inmates are running the asylum over there now. I hope they can find their way back to sanity.
“While our study did not differentiate between methods of cannabis consumption, cannabis is most commonly consumed by smoking,” Kokot said in an email. “The association we found likely pertains mainly to smoked cannabis.”
That was kind of a “no shit, Sherlock” moment for me.
Why even conduct this study if there is no control for smoke vs edibles? This makes the entire study, effectively, useless.
I promise I’m not a weed apologist, by any means, just a casual user when I catch up with old friends. I actually want to know the answer to this question.
I veerrrrry rarely smoke. I’ve always hated it. I’ve smoked it maybe 10-15 times in my entire life, but I’ve eaten plenty of weed gummies. Them shits is delicious too. All it takes is one each for me and my friends, and we have a hell of a time talking shop about our various professions. Yet a couple of these comments still repeat the same tired argument that only stupid lazy people use it. Not saying you’re a racist, but you’re using the arguments racists used to lock up and murder tons of minorities, soooooo maybe you’re just sadly propagandized. It happens. Do better though, now that you know.
The people in the room, by the way: audio engineer, software engineer, head of logistics, car-t cell therapy something something, I forget.
Hell Feinman smoked weed.
People really need to get better about getting over their stubborn need to believe the propaganda they fell for.
Everyone falls for propaganda at some point. Figure out a process for yourself to undo the damage, once you realize you’ve been had. I really don’t understand why some folks just need to hold onto a hyper specific position that contradicts all evidence to the contrary.
Everything is made up.
People in power are always just the most high functioning sociopaths that clamor for it, communism or not.
The people on the other hand are truly wonderful human beings that would love to be able to have visitors or visit other countries themselves.
Who cares if some politicians feelings get hurt. People want to be free to do what they want in a supposedly free country.
As an older straight male, I grew up when it was still commonplace to be openly hateful toward your community and it’s taken decades for me to unlearn that hatred I learned as a child, but the effort has been worth it, so I thank you for your effort to educate me, as I still have a lot to learn from your community.