We learned a lot during the pandemic. For example, we learned we can't tell the difference between the beginning of a pandemic and the end.
We learned that our government will lie to us if they think they have a good reason. Also, they always think they have a good reason.
We learned the difference between "the news" and an organized brainwashing operation. (Summary: There is no difference.)
We learned that experts are super helpful because you can find plenty of them to support any position as well as its opposite.
We learned that the difference between data and guessing is mostly in the spelling.
We learned that we need to bypass the gatekeepers of information and do our own research. Also, we learned that doing our own research was basically a way to marinate in our own confirmation bias until it congealed into hatred.
We learned that the Fake News business can "disappear" enormous stories. And we learned it is coordinated.
We learned that listening to a highly credentialed expert talking with an independent podcaster seems like a great way to learn what is true about the world but in fact it is often the opposite.

jk, we didn't learn that yet.

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5 Dec
Here's the Fake News telling you in 2020 that using UV Light as a disinfectant inside the body is a bad idea and (so Trump could be wrong).

usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
Here are the trial results for using light as a disinfectant inside the body. It worked. Conclusion: Trump asked a well-informed question on a topic his own "experts" did not yet know about.

biospace.com/article/releas…
Here's the full transcript of Trump's comments about "injecting a disinfectant" inside the body. Note his references to light at the start and the end are typically edited out for the Fake News clips you have seen. Removing them changes the meaning.
Read 8 tweets
25 Nov
I give you the world’s shortest Thanksgiving Day play — based on a true story — in one thread:
Her: “Where did you put the turkey?”
Him: “What turkey?”
Read 4 tweets
19 Nov
The country's level of awareness has changed dramatically in the last few years. Examples:

We used to think it was only the other side's news that was fake.

We used to think official data was mostly honest and sufficiently accurate.
We used to think "never again" was serious. China taught us it was only a slogan.

Many people thought the 2nd amendment didn't offer any real protection from our own government. See Australia.

We used to believe some humans make decisions based on facts and reason.
We used to think courts ensured fair elections. Now we know they don't hear those cases. (The Left still thinks they do.)

We used to believe in an objective reality, but now all evidence suggests none of us can see such a thing if it exists at all. We see our own movies.
Read 4 tweets
16 Oct
Trump’s seemingly unhinged pounding on election “fraud” looks to most people like bad strategy for getting re-elected. But is it?
Imagine a world in which substantial fraud is someday verified in at least one precinct that flipped from Trump to Biden. Suddenly Jan 6th looks different even if it shouldn’t.
Now ask yourself how likely it is that a vast and sometimes chaotic process such as a national election could have at least one discoverable example of confirmed fraud in one precinct. Maybe 100% odds?
Read 8 tweets
28 Jul
Debunked mask arguments:

- Science says masks don’t work
- Masks only make a tiny difference
- Masks harm people (physically)
- Masks don't block virus
- Masks allow lots of leakage around edges
- People wear/touch masks improperly
- Only N95 masks are good enough
Debunked doesn't mean untrue. For example, science could be wrong about any of these items. I'm just presenting the current scientific opinion so you know if you side with science or not.
In this context, it can be true people wear masks suboptimally and also fuss with them too much. The debunk is that it doesn't make them useless.
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11 Apr
The topic of slavery reparations makes everyone run to their political team and get into battle mode. But just for fun, what if we looked at it like a puzzle to solve instead of a fight?
The puzzle is how to make everyone happy at the same time. Seems impossible on the surface. But maybe we are just limiting ourselves in our thinking. Let me see if I can fix that.
Let’s stipulate that any solution that makes one group happy and another group unhappy is not a good enough solution. It has to make everyone happy with both its scale and structure. Impossible?
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