Only if you want to ensure that anything innovative gets filtered out and The Science becomes a circlejerk around The Established Narrative. Which the last fifty years of gatekeeping pretty much have.

Even longer, really, when you consider how long it took to convince surgeons that maybe washing their hands for surgery might be a good idea.

Yeah, there are a lot of nuts around. But there are also a lot of nuts and grifters inside The Science who don't want anyone spoiling their fun.

This site. Became a left wing echo chamber long ago. Remember all the complaining about politics infecting our technology discussions? We were rudely told off that the personal is the political and there can be no neutrality in the age of King George W., the president who was literally Hitler. Remember when we used to have actual NASA scientists comment on space articles? Drove them all off, with the rest of the dotcom era crowd. And I've been reading this site since it was a web log called Chips N Bits. I've been nodded into the dirt by a behind the scenes cabal who silence anyone to the right of Mao. If you wonder why there aren't 500 comments, a decade of far left politics replacing tech topics is the reason. I think I'm about done, too. I eventually left EFnet IRC and I'll leave Slashdot too. A relic of a bygone age. This entire comment thread is the hard Left whining they don't get their way. Politics instead of tech.You killed Charlie Kirk and it's OVER. Americans are sick of your shit. Go find another country, you can't stay here with us, that much is clear. Go now and lick the hand that feeds ye, and may history forget ye were oura countrymen.

Covid was in the West for months before "The Pandemic" was declared. Very few people noticed it because old, sick people dying of respiratory disease is normal.

Trump's original plan to tell old, sick people to stay home while the rest of us caught it was the correct one. Instead the government wrecked the economy, got a lot of old, sick people dead, destroyed the social contract and most of us caught it in the end anyway.

> They have an aging population, not enough children to take the places of their parents, and this population is increasingly unhappy with their government.

You could say exactly the same about the West. Our rulers are trying to fix demographics by importing millions of Indians, but that just makes the population even more unhappy with their government.

The elites on all sides thought they could loot the West's wealth by shipping all the jobs to China and then moving to China and taking over. Xi happily took all that wealth but then told the elites so go to hell when they wanted to move in and rule China.

This is why they're now pushing for war with China. Their plan failed and now instead of being God-Kings of China they're stuck in the collapsing West that they destroyed.

Modern politics makes a lot more sense once you understand this. They worked diligently for decades to destroy the West and enrich China and now they're suddenly faced with having to try to fix what they deliberately destroyed. Hence the rapid flip in the US from Woke Climate Change nonsense to 'Drill Baby Drill' Christian Warrior Nationalism.

Self-driving semi + low-trust society == semi sitting at the side of the road with someone standing in front of it while their friends loot the cargo.

Crooks know the truck will stop rather than hit them and the cops won't arrive for a while after it sends an alarm to warn that it's being robbed. Unless you're going to fit it with automated machineguns to shoot thieves it's going to be an easy target for them.

None of these tech-utopia ideas work in a low-trust society. They only work in Star Trek.

I, for one, am glad SOMEONE has stepped in to defend the evil megabillion dollar corporation and tell off the little guy. But you go! Speak truth to the powerless!

That's true. I've taken far less sick days while working at home because I don't have people coughing and sneezing around me all day.

You have to remember that MBAs don't care about getting work done, they only care about increasing the stock price so they make more money when their options vest. It doesn't matter if the company crashes and burns after that because they'll be counting their options somewhere else by then.

Yeah, I'm supposed to start working in the office more next week where I'll be making Teams calls to the people I work with who are all at least 200 miles away. Except we now have too many people to fit in the office so they're still trying to figure out where they'll put us.

I presume they're doing it to see if they can get people to quit since it makes no sense otherwise.

When I was a kid we were going to be in a new Ice Age by now and oil was going to run out by the year 2000.

The older you get, the more you realize there's a lot of money to be made in fear-mongering.

The real climate change we're seeing is largely due to solar changes affecting the jetstreams but we'll do absolutely nothing to adapt to that because there's a lot more money to be made and power to be gained from blaming carbon dioxide.

All the "excess death" studies I've read in the past made big claims about massive numbers of deaths in the summary but when you actually read the paper it turns out the "excess deaths" are of people who were already sick and close to death who might die a couple of weeks earlier due to air pollution but there was no way to prove it so really they were just making up a number. So I ignore anyone talking about "excess deaths" these days, it's a glaring red flag for fear-mongering.

When they release Omicron.

How do you not see this for the obvious publicity stunt that it is? You must have voted Trump.

But it worked, you got enraged and engaged with the content.

Congratulations, you're the problem with the internet today.

Oh, and I am aware of the irony of posting a reply in order to condemn it, so you needn't bother pointing that out.

From Roseanne to Hussein Obama on X, "Remember when you and your wife called Bog Iger to have me fired?"