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“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” - Carl Sagan, Demon-Haunted World (1995)
Although an agnostic himself, he seems to be rooted in discovering the truth, no matter the cost. Clearly he believes that truths are absolute, even if unknowable; that feelings can be deceiving to that pursuit. It’s amazing to me how much this aligns with the world today. US manufacturing is dead. We export culture and services globally. BigTech is controlling information flow with unchecked power. Schools teach beating the test, not rational independent thought. CNN is literally telling us to stop thinking critically or else we’re conspiracy theorists. Social progressives compare star charts, rubbing their crystals, waiting for retrograde to be done with.
The Leftists think they’re so free because of their “I fucking love science” attitude, “freedom from religion”, or unwavering adherence to Marxist axioms. They’re blind to the fact they’re just zealots who ignore science that disagrees with their worldview. Authority derives from their dear dogmatic leaders. If you dare ask too many questions, then clearly you are a racist, transphobic, bigot.

>> No.12792284

>>12792267
>That jpg
Boomers are so cringe

>> No.12792287

do americans really?

>> No.12792296

Is this another “only Nazis really understand science” thread?

Get raped.

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>> No.12792354

>>12792287
It needs more labels.

>> No.12792374
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Drought in Venice

"Water level will rise" she said

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Frozen Texas

"USA will become an extremely hot Desert" she said.

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"Florida and Manhattan will be underwater in 2020" - Politicians said 20 years ago.

>> No.12792397

>>12792326
>Fight climate change!! *OH GOD I NEED ANOTHER BURGER THAT USED 1 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER ARGGHGHGHGHG*

>> No.12792409

>>12792378
Do you think all of Greenland and Antarctica is just floating on the surface of the ocean?

>> No.12792421

>>12792374
>>12792377
>climate changes
>"this disproves climate change"

>> No.12792434

Huh no. Science is just a method to shit out statistics. And even worse, when they shit some claim like ''event A occurs 0,0000001% of the time according to our backlog'', this event A can totally happens. Rare events happen al the fucking time. Especially in finance. science is 100% statistics, ie rationalism, which is why there is no truth in science. Rationalism is not compatible with empriicism. It is rationalists who try hard to merge their rationalism with empiricism and the end result is what they call science but there is no empiricism in this. It's like a redefinition of empiricism by scientists. Scientists are not empiricists. An empiricist does not run an 'experiment'and even less a 'thought experiment. Running an experiment already is part of rationalism. The whole secular infatuation over empiricism started by the self proclaimed enlightened secular rationalists who hated the christian rationalists larping as greek philosophers. The secular intellectuals hated the endless christian speculations that they saw as unverifiable about god and the use of logic from aristotle. So they said they could speculate on nature and with their verification meme, their rationalist system about the world would be the truth. So in order to be separate from the christian clerics, the secular rationalists said they were empiricist. Their big idea was the empirical proof which is completely retarded oxymoron. A proof is never empirical. A proof always on the side of speculations passed as rationality. Logic is just a field by autistic pedants about well formed formulas and valuations, ie a map sending a formula to 1 or 0 and asking what are those valuations which are stable under inference rules. Zero truth in this, especially truth in the casual sense. Tarski truth is moronic, meaningless. Peak atheist. Just like there is no truth in science, just some stats and a stat convention for saying ‘’if p value is XXX then the result is """"""""""""""’true"""""""""""

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>>12792378
Can we use that campaign of ther to discredit and dismantle governments all over the world. A reason to do so today (they failed even much worse in the past, so let's not allow them to fail even worse in the future) is appearance of artificial intelligence which can invent a transparent system of governance, using another (maybe even more important) thing of recent years: unexpensive surveillance. All the old solucions are obsolete.

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>>12792374
>>12792377
>global = local
>climate = weather

>> No.12792514

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>>12792378
>>12792378
>"Florida and Manhattan will be underwater in 2020" -
This is retarded propaganda of the left. I agree.

>your pic
This would work if both substances would have the same density in their fluid state.
Retry this experiment and put in the cup salt (ocean water has 3% salt) and use for the ice cubes distilled water.