anver atkins

migrating from prev blog! hoping this time i don't get shadowbanned for no reason!

[byjove]

my mom brought her ILL-BEHAVED, UNWASHED DOG into our HARMONIOUS HOME

[cheese-wiz-for-bones]

that is the most black cat looking black cat i've seen in my life, good for them.

[byjove]

she has been practicing since she was very young

[merimaybe]

What a dignified and shapely beast…

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

[cutecipher]

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I left research science for a multitude of personal reasons but a big one was that my autistic arse just could not keep up with the politics. Trying to increase your profile and your work's appeal for grant money (both critically important factors for succeeding in science) by carefully tailoring your work focus, grant proposals and papers to attract the interest of various grant committees focused on what research is in fashion and also to try to maximise the number of references to your papers in other people's papers takes so much time and just isn't interesting.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

People in the notes are all like "yes sometimes The Government or The Lobbyists remove funding from sciences that might reveal things that they do not want known" and yes yes covid and climate change and vaccine denialism and racism and all that, but it's not just the obvious stuff. When I was working in labs, metagenomics was the next big thing, so EVERYTHING was metagenomics. If you worked in environmental or medical microbio, there was an 80% chance that you were taking some mud or poop or something and doing metagenomics on it whether or not it was the best way to analyse what you wanted to analyse, and bam, that was a paper, possibly two, it kept the lights on. And if 100 labs run 100 experiments where they do metagenomics for random things to do with the human body, then at a 95% confidence interval, 5 of them will find a completely nonexistent correlation for any random thing you can think of if they happen to check their data for it, and they need to keep the lights on and the PhD student who's running the experiment needs a paper so even though that wasn't what they were looking for, bam -- everyone's seeing that men and women have different microbiomes in their large intestine! People with autism nave different microbiomes, people with MS have different microbiomes, kids who are vaccinated have different microbiomes so watch out! And there's not enough papers to do a review paper for six or seven years, and when that review paper is done only other scientists will read it, because Everyone Knows that vaccines alter your microbiome so stay away from them, and Everyone Knows that men and women are so so different because why else would their large intestines be so different? Look at this paper!

And the psych guys are doing MRIs because that's the Next Big Thing, and any bias culturally relevant enough will get positive papers for it because the 100 labs will check their 100 papers and the 95 that show no difference at 95% confidence are of course never published because there's nothing to say. And the medicine guys are running ten thousand seaweed extract experiments to kill cancer cells, and their confidence intervals do tend to be better, but there is no defense against an industry where the only way to survive is to publish and the only way to get funding is to look into something that the grant committee wants you to find something interesting about, and you'd better find that something interesting even if you kind of have to publish your study before repeating it to check for that confidence interval -- someone else will repeat it, or you will once the paper's out, but you've got to get the paper out. And that paper had better be useful for other scientists to reference, even if you have to change the tone and the implications and choose which results are worth referencing, because getting more references is how you keep your job and how you convince the next grant committee.

Big Bad Government Lies About Covid is a problem, but it's not the problem. A perfect government with a massive science budget does not solve the problem. The system of research is inherently political because it is inherently competitive and because it deals with numbers and statistics that are not intuitive to humans.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#fuck capitalism

Nono this problem also exists outside of capitalism. Any economic system has to distribute resources and any actually useful one has to care if its workers are actually producing something.

[citystompers1]

Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

[memebf]

man why didn’t they just have this guy fight him off. dude’s huge

[sigmaleph]

i wouldn't fight godzilla if i was this dude's size, for roughly the same reason i wouldn't fight a komodo dragon at the size i currently am

[squareallworthy]

Not even to save New York?

[sigmaleph]

what has new york ever done for me

[konoko]

[red-garden]

The thing is, in order to have a healthy and robust fandom, a piece of media NEEDS to leave some questions unanswered. Some relations unshipped. Some plot holes unfilled. Some backstories unwritten. Some lore unexplained. You need possibilities that will keep people up at night. The beautiful thing about an empty lot in a neighborhood is what people make in it

[thatpinkkwitch]

i just heard the phrase “if you wouldn’t trust their advice, don’t trust their criticism” for the first time and i don’t think i’ve ever needed to hear anything more

[dhia-dreaming]

And once I was told "if you don't agree with their actions, why do you seek their approval"

[shadowscripted]

STOP sending me verification codes. it should be illegal to send me verification codes

[shadowscripted]

just had a website send me a verification code by text then send ANOTHER code by email! two codes just to log in! fuck this and fuck you

[xostargirlox]

[baphonnicula]

nowhere else

[johnnycrass]

[fairycosmos]

[killxbunnyyy]

why ppl leave things in jesus hands knowing he got holes in them, is beyond me

[tpwrtrmnky]

*cracking open your moral intuition systems* ohhh i see, there's the issue, you're running secularism on a kernel built for protestant morality.

Tricky one cause the kernel's built around creating the need for salvation from a higher power, and you'll have to change up a lot of the systems for evaluating your own and others' moral worth to avoid operating with a deficit when there's no inbuilt release valve.

You haven't been going around making up ad-hoc solutions for redeeming sinners instead of trying to patch out the notion of sin, right?

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

forgive me father for i have opened a notification and read the message within to make the red dot go away and then forgot to reply for a month . it will happen again

[sandersstudies]

“They’re just looking for attention.”

Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?

Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?

[mikehasfleas]

[homunculus-argument]

Evidently, for the most part even the people who are pro AI will argue that AI is good for everything except the one specific thing where they have personal skill, experience and expertise in. Naturally that particular field can only be done by human hands and cannot be replicated.

Which only serves to illuminate that the techbros who insist that 100% of everything can be done by machines are just admitting that they don't actually have any field or area of human life, existence, or anything at all, in which they'd know shit from shinola.

[yiddish-american-princess]

“israel harvests organs!” “israel poisons the water supply!” dawg at least get original material this time around

[stoptheantisemitism]

The Zionists are at it again. It's not libel if it's TRUE. Stop entangling actual historical antisemitism with things Israel has ACTUALLY DONE.

This tactic is getting old and it's genuinely antisemitic. You do realize that this is harmful to Jews right? And it allows for ACTUAL blood libel to go unchallenged right?

Remember when Israel admitted to harvesting organs without consent? Dr. Yehuda Hiss literally admitted to this.

Dr. Yehuda Hiss, the former head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, admitted in the early 2000s that autopsy teams had taken organs (such as corneas and skin) from Israeli soldiers, civilians, and Palestinians without proper consent during the 1990s. This was a real. It happened.

Is this 2004 Oxfam report lying about how the IDF systematically targets the water supply in Gaza?

What about this report by Reuters?

How about this Yale Environmental report from THIS year that talks about how Israel has contaminated the water supply in Gaza??

No? How about Amnesty, HRW, Doctors Without Borders?

Literally every single one of these sources talks about how Israel deliberately contaminates the water supply in Palestine.

Brushing off legitimate criticism of Israel by labeling it as an "antisemitic trope" when there is clear evidence of wrongdoing dilutes both historical antisemitic tropes, harms Jews around the world, and weakens honest discourse.

You're a fucking antisemite who loves their ethno state more than Judaism

[o-kurwa]

[minakatana]

Tag compilation

[shadowscripted]

obviously there's a magnet in his butt, and a helper moving a second magnet around the ceiling of the floor below.

[revizyonist]

1- socialism

[revizyonist]

It's admitted in the video too, pretty much. Socialism and government control not being up to private companies allowed it to happen. China created a 5 year action plan with goals. They shut down 2000+ factories the most responsible for pollution. They relocated some factories to other cities. That part alone alone cost billions. Would a bourgeois government where the private factory owners are the one governing allow this?

They laid out a plan to switch coal for alternatives such as electricity, and the government covered majority of the cost. They removed old cars from the road to replace them with electric. They expanded public transport infrastructure, making clean public transport the easy choice. They made the cleaner alternatives cheaper. They planed over 54 million trees and created jobs to maintain them. They also made more eco-friendly plans affordable and profitable for farmers. People were not punished into the changes, the changes were made the logical path by the government, and that made it sustainable. They extensively deployed fire-fighting forces, monitored through satellites. In just 10 years, the transformation was radical, making the city livable again

Would any of this be possible if government control belonged to private corporations? Would a government of bourgeois allow any of this? The clear answer is found all over the world with bourgeois governments actions. The Indian workers unfortunately are not the ones in control of their government, they are left to their deaths from the air they have to breath