crustyoldhuman

we're house hunting right now--actually going to use this!

this reminds me of old school internet. just tiny little purposeful pages and that's it.

this is wild i literally did not realize we had them so small at this point

thank you so much for this! love how this looks, it's such a clean typeface

EDIT: I kept getting problems downloading it--errors acting like nothing was there. After clicking around on the download links a few times, it eventually made it to my downloads and I got the file. Not sure what's going on there, but just a heads up for anyone else

This article is correct but it bummed me out. It made me think of how much of science has been perverted into other goals, like medical science for example. The advancement of human health largely depends on corporate interests, and that is so insane to my brain it hurts to think about. very few independent scientists can research anything because everything costs money so you need a corporate interest to even do research. And the corporation gets the "rights" to those findings? It's absolutely insane to discover something natural and claim it as your own, and science is natural nobody is inventing it or being creative and writing it themselves, they're essentially walking up to a mountain and saying "Ok it's mine now I'll charge you 100$ to walk on the mountain". It genuinely makes my brain do somersaults in my skull that we've somehow backed SCIENCE of all things into this weird gatekept scenario its in now. It wouldn't bum me out so much but it clearly does nothing but hinder progress

The point at the end "The scientific revolution succeeded because it insisted on transparency, reproducibility, and constant scrutiny." is a good one. But the real kicker that makes the situation so bleak is it's not the scientists who get to decide whether or not these things get applied to science or not, it's government policies and corporate interests.

I feel like I see this headline ever 2 months. it's like cancer research. lots of fluff, never any progress. then you get the alien people saying it's cuz they're hiding aliens. i'm exhausted.