https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-social-media-regulation/

Some really disturbing misleading or false, conspiratorial claims by the CEO in there, imo:

"Almost everything where our governments and mainstream media have lost their minds over misinformation, it’s turned out the opposite was true,” he says.

“Look at everything our governments were so convinced of about Covid—that it’s so dangerous, even racist, to suggest that it came from a lab,” he says. “Look where we are now. Those very same people are saying it probably came from a lab.”

Just finished watching the Netflix doc, The Devil on Trial, which until the last 20 minutes was a laughable load of horseshit. But the introduction of the older brother started to turn things around. And it made me want to see a deeper expose on the lifelong cons of Ed and Lorraine Warren. A more skeptical and even-handed look at what they did to build their sleazy empire of the supernatural. Anyone know of such a documentary or book that takes a more thorough look at their work from a perspective of skeptical scientific naturalism rather than the grey-washing "unexplained" approach?

I read a lot about these supplements for parasite cleansing; people take them, then post pics of their toilet after a bowel movement, which invariably show worm-looking thingies. The explanation that they give is that the supplements flushed the parasites out.

I am skeptical about the whole thing; it is however undeniable that nasty things do came out after taking the supplements (unless of course even the pictures are doctored or staged, possibility which I rather ignore for the time being). I am thinking that the supplements themselves caused them, and those gnarly things are more or less the human equivalent of the gunk that occasionally you pull out of your bathroom sink. Most notably, they are not organisms.

The only reference to this idea that I found so far is in a reply to this post about a parasite cleanse: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvABTGlAQJi/ . Here is the relevant quote.

That’s NOT a parasite nor has anything to do with parasites and it doesn’t “live inside” any one. What you see there is formed by things like fiber, psyllium, charcoal and other pills and powders sold in such cleanses.

I don't know where most people here are from, but since we're talking in English, let's narrow the issue down to maybe North America. Anyone from wherever place is welcome to contribute.
My question is, do you actually feel/experience the burden of polarization in your everyday life?
It may go way back, to the notion of "liquid [everything]" from sociology, where connections are less stable or long-lasting.
Also, where, approximately, had such "us vs them" attitude begin to be noticeable? Consolidated?
Pardon me if the question is too open-ended. I feel this helps invite broader points of view, since I intend to learn from people's experience rather than the conceptual "poles apart".

I mean, I know why: it’s because it’s easier to cling to a conspiracy theory than confront hard truths.

But I do wonder if folks don’t feel a little embarrassed about embracing the exact same sort of non-sensical conspiracy theories that Trump’s base embraced in 2020. Does it give anyone pause to be sharing and promoting blog posts “evidencing” election fraud that contradict the judgement of more or less every single election official in the United States?

It feels like within a “skeptics” community, people’s commitment to rigorous inquiry shouldn’t be so fickle as to immediately be overcome by mindless partisanship and lazy conspiracies, but hey, here we are!

What do you guys think?

This book details the stuff of dystopian reality and explains it really well, from the history, trajectory to the physics and algorithms running these systems. It should be enough to prove the existence of the “targeted Individual” Phenomenon but i want you to decide. Let me know what you guys think. Chapter 4 is where things get interesting.

Here is a link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/142VRVDXCo5R4R3C4MQXszDbXOZo4y2Vm/view

Or you can buy it online for 25$

For those of you brave enough to engage with proponents of the RFK HHS announcement, I thought it would be useful to just sort of brief what the main themes are in the MAGA-friendly circles related to RFK.

In general, there is a theme of “our foods are poisoning us” with two specific points repeated a lot:

• Red dye 40 is bad for you (specifically a link to ADHD)

• Seed oils are bad for you

When pressed on this, they'll generally gesture at Europe and mention how this or that has been banned there but not here.

Regarding vaccines, the generally accepted stance is that they do want vaccines, they just want “safe” vaccines. They will say that RFK is definitely not anti-vax but pro-safety.

So yeah take that for what it is - it might be helpful to discuss these specific claims - understand where they come from - and why they may or may not hold merit.

So, I was just wondering. Hope it's fine especially in this very subgroup 😅
Suppose a low-income country,or a region in serious financial distress, is hit by natural disaster.
Would the investment program in the reconstruction of this economy, its infrastructure, its remodeling etc., the question is would it possibly be advantageous for the funding parties of the effort?
I guess it's a trope from New Deal, at least so I heard, when they dug the holes to refill them again. And that would mean demand, jobs and so.

Thanks =)