November 23, 2024 at 3:45 AM
The real question is--why do so many Americans believe the MAHA message, despite it being so obviously false?
And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health.
Let me explain... 1/🧵
And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health.
Let me explain... 1/🧵
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
April 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
#Uncertainty is a #SolidFact
Grasping the world's shallow elements. Uncertainty keeps us from finding time and spaceyet no one wants to be fully consciousfor too many strange things dwell in the grey matter
July 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#Uncertainty is a #SolidFact
#Knowledge is not #Elite; yet those with #Knowledge are generally undermined as such
#SharedFacts for #ProblemSolving
#Uncertainty is a #SolidFact
#GeneralSemantics
#SharedFacts for #ProblemSolving
#Uncertainty is a #SolidFact
#GeneralSemantics
November 24, 2024 at 4:25 PM
#Knowledge is not #Elite; yet those with #Knowledge are generally undermined as such
#SharedFacts for #ProblemSolving
#Uncertainty is a #SolidFact
#GeneralSemantics
#SharedFacts for #ProblemSolving
#Uncertainty is a #SolidFact
#GeneralSemantics
Haribo Roulette werden einfach immer besser, je länger sie abgelaufen sind, wenn man sie kühl, dunkel und trocken lagert. Die hier hab ich schon seit 2024 und sie war schon einen Winter lang im Auto. Ein Gustostückerl, das ich sorgfältig hüte und für einen besonderen Moment aufhebe. #solidfact
March 18, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Haribo Roulette werden einfach immer besser, je länger sie abgelaufen sind, wenn man sie kühl, dunkel und trocken lagert. Die hier hab ich schon seit 2024 und sie war schon einen Winter lang im Auto. Ein Gustostückerl, das ich sorgfältig hüte und für einen besonderen Moment aufhebe. #solidfact
#Uncertainty is a #SolidFact
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
#Semantics #Perception #BrainFunction
Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it?
A professor of statistics explains that living is about taking risks and not knowing the outcome, and why it’s important to accept and embrace that
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:25 PM
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻#solidfact
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
March 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻#solidfact
Doubt also a #SolidFact and ought to be proudly touted and affirmed
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
January 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Doubt also a #SolidFact and ought to be proudly touted and affirmed
This is 1000% the place I come to after big news to see the best memes and content, not even close.
September 26, 2024 at 3:37 AM