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They’re narrative opportunists. They seek out ways to dilute the information sphere, because that weakens the effectiveness of any productive conversation overall.

• Did cigarettes give you cancer, or could it have been asbestos from an old house?
• Did greenhouse gases cause global warming, or is it cold outside right now and that means everyone except you is an idiot?
• Are we setting up a surveillance state, or do we just want infrastructure to help you find your lost dog one day?
• …

Truth becomes arbitrary, opinionated, prone to interpretation… how can society continue to operate when they can’t agree on anything? When the ball isn’t in the court of institutional knowledge, it’s free of the taking by whoever wants to construct narrative in their favor.

Check out what percent of psychology studies these days can actually be reproduced via peer review.

Does the pope shit in the woods?

or an almanac that is basically 50/50 guesses?

Lol, they copied the groundhog day from Pennsylvania in Wiarton, Ontario, an area farther north. So the whole "if he sees his shadow, it means six more weeks of winter, otherwise spring comes at a normal time" is actually worse than our normal spring time (though many years in the past few decades have been exceptions to this). Like if it warmed up by mid-March, that would be an early spring.

Worst part is that I noticed this on my own. Like I'm probably not the first, but it's not like the usual BS where people might repeat it but are also quick to say it's inaccurate, my experience is that the groundhog gets brought up, I'll mention that even the "bad case" sounds way better than reality, then people stop and think before agreeing that yes, it is that way. I'm hoping it's because they weren't taking it seriously in the first place.

... Yes. The rodent they typically expect to dictate the weather mostly uses a sharpie, but it was only a matter of time before they recognized all rodents.

Ashton Kutchner hates freedom, and is integral to bringing the trojan horse of ai threat detection in to survel everything everyone does or says online.

Family Guy had a good take on Ashton, a better tv show for him...

They don't care about the snow. They care about getting people mad at their enemy. The post, and conservatives more generally, are bad,. dishonest, people.

They know what they’re saying is stupid. They are trying to build anger and when there is nothing material to twist, they have to invent something. Eventually they will build an entire alternate universe mythology around Mamdani, just as they do with all their enemies.

Former NYC resident here. Growing up, NYC rarely got snow like the storm we just had the last week of January. Like maybe it happens Once every 2-5 years. On top of that, the city tends to warm up quickly because of the jet stream and being on the coast, so the snow tends to melt faster. (Specific heat of water keeps the temps there above freezing.) It's been freakishly cold in the city, well below the freezing point of water, for an extended period of time, so it's not melting as fast. It just gets pushed around. Also, the mayor took office 1 month ago. Like give the guy a break.

Trump did almost immediately...

But that's only because people who think they understand it but don't keep saying "global warming" instead of climate change

As long as naive idiots who think they understand keep saying "global warming" you can't expect the other idiots to understand the problem.

But good luck convincing any of them to stop using the phrase they learned 30 years ago, or to incorporate new information.

In 30 more years they'll all be acting like boomers because they never actually understood any of this, they're literally doing the same as boomers and insisting what they were told in he high will always be true

It's incredibly depressing knowing it's gonna keep happening.

Surely, Mamdani has a sharpie somewhere. He could’ve easily altered the storm path. No excuses /s