wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on It's barely a science. 6 hours ago:
It’s a soft science at best, but some people try to treat it like it’s a hard science.
I still hold that it displays characteristics of pseudoscience by operating on unsound premises and unverifiable assumptions though
- Comment on It's barely a science. 9 hours ago:
Oh, I see. Yeah, I didn’t think the sociologist’s quote made any sense either…
- Comment on Truth hurts! 11 hours ago:
You wouldn’t miss what you never knew. The comfort of modern life creates more problems for every one that it solves.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 11 hours ago:
Yup, if someone is simply applying the scientific method without truly understanding its theoretical underpinnings, what are they really doing?
It’s like driving a car with no mechanical knowledge. Not impossible, but if something goes wrong with the internal structures of it then you won’t be able to figure out the problem and fix it on your own without seeking the help of someone who understands it.
And to be honest, I’ve seen a lot of dogmatic assertions from self-proclaimed atheists who view themselves as scientifically-minded while having no understanding of the philosophy of science.
Empiricism is great for what it’s good for, but it’s limited to observable phenomena. And without rationalism, it’s like having a bunch of pieces of a puzzle and being unable to fit them together.
Here’s a fact, here’s another fact, and here’s a third fact, but whether we realize it or not, we can’t construct those facts into a coherent argument which leads to an accurate conclusion without utilizing rational processes. It’s like focusing on factual soundness without paying any mind to logical validity.
And I see so many scientists making logical leaps that are quite simply invalid or fallacious. The most common one I see is “There’s not enough evidence to support this hypothesis, therefore in must be untrue.” It commits the fallacy of negating the antecedent.
If there’s sufficient evidence, then the hypothesis must be true.
There is not sufficient evidence.
Therefore, the hypothesis isn’t true.It does not follow that the hypothesis isn’t true.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 12 hours ago:
The global economy is being run by capitalist oligarchs, whose central premises for existing are based on classical economic theories (private ownership of capital, extraction of resources, and exploitation of labor), their operational strategies are based on classical economic theories (infinite pursuit of growth at all costs, externalizing risks while internalizing profits, quarterly profit margins being the sole indicator of growth, cutting costs to minimize expenses and manufacturing scarcity to maximize pricing, etc.), and the policies meant to regulate and/or stimulate economic activity are based on classical economic theories (austerity for the poor, supply-side “trickle-down” economics for the rich including tax breaks, subsidies, and bailouts).
The tariffs are an exception attributable to the overt buffoonery of an extortionist grifter running the show. It doesn’t negate all the other examples of how classical economic theory is destroying society and the planet.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 13 hours ago:
And yet the global economy is still operating on the same basic assumptions…
They’ve been made even worse by further developments of those basic assumptions as expounded by neoliberalism and reaganomics, but the underlying premises are still the same.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 13 hours ago:
You mean like natural selection?
That’s a sacrifice I am willing to make.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 15 hours ago:
This one?
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 15 hours ago:
So you’re saying there’s a world where Bernie Sanders won in 2016, trump died of covid without the presidential medical suite, americans have universal healthcare, rent control, net neutrality, and free tuition, citizen’s united was repealed, the US never pulled out of international treaties, russia never invaded Ukraine, the latest iteration of the Israel-Palestine conflict never kicked off, the Taliban never took back control of the Afghan government, the resurgence of white supremacy and militant nationalism never took off, criminal justice systems were reformed into data-driven, prevention-first, community-centric public safety models, social and mental health services are fully-funded and effective addiction treatment strategies implemented, reducing demand for the illicit drug market and financially starving out violent criminal syndicates, victimless crimes were decriminalized and regulated for harm-prevention and reduction, nations actually kept their commitments towards climate action and reduced warming to below the target of 2° (possibly even below 1.5°), financial oligarchy was stopped in its tracks, billionaires and corporations are taxed at a fair rate, world hunger has been abolished, and we’re all well on our way towards world peace and prosperity?
- Comment on I liek tudles 16 hours ago:
That’s a big tawdle
- Comment on I liek tudles 16 hours ago:
Betsu ni nani mo nai deshita
- Comment on Truth hurts! 17 hours ago:
Now I’m even more disappointed that I wasn’t around to see them!
- Comment on It's barely a science. 17 hours ago:
I’ve tried explaining this to people, and they just don’t get it. They say philosophy is just some pointless, meaningless, armchair activity. I tell them, “All fields of study are a subdiscipline of philosophy” and they call me a misinformed idiot.
Like, dude, whatever you study, the field itself wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t firet developed by philosophers upon a philosophical foundation that was in turn developed by generations of philosophers.
The history of philosophy is the history of human ideas and of humanity itself. All of the sciences, both hard and soft, are simply highly specialized fields of philosophy.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 17 hours ago:
I keep calling it a pseudoscience.
Someone told me that I “don’t know what a pseudoscience is” and that I was “using the word wrong.”
No. No, I know what it is, and I used it precisely the way I meant it.
Wayyy too many people think classic economic theory is a legitimate field…
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 1 day ago:
Most excellent!
- Comment on I took a picture of the back of my pizza box for you guys just in case you were stuck home because of the snow and needed something to do. 1 day ago:
I’m more upset about the pizza pan being the clock 😩
- Comment on Bugger! 1 day ago:
Or endocrinology and endoscopy
“I’m going to see my endo! 🤗” “Wut 😳”
- Comment on Bugger! 1 day ago:
I feel sorry for her…
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 1 day ago:
It’s a good thing they’ve never heard of dispersion 👀
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 1 day ago:
Everyone needs to see his stupid high&tight
- Comment on Bugger! 1 day ago:
Everything is an innuendo if your mind is in the gutter.
- Comment on Who farted? 2 days ago:
Damn dude, you went there…
- Comment on Might as well be the same thing 2 days ago:
Cause I would rather run over an IED, then ever have to hear the BC speak to me…
And it’s a… fucked up arrangement. Our PPE prevents proper engagement.
In OIF seven or seventeen, it really doesn’t matter I’m OFP.
The war’s already over, so let’s go home. Can’t wait to go on leave so I can get stoned…
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 2 days ago:
Socrates only knows enough to know that he doesn’t know anything.
The reason the Oracle of Apollo said “No man is wiser than Socrates” is because no man is wise, and Socrates is only wise enough to know himself to be a fool.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 2 days ago:
A basic AAA battery has enough amperage to kill a human without the ohmage that the skin provides.
One time a guy got curious and poked himself with copper wires so they would be in direct contact with his electrolyte-filled blood. Those wires were attached to a 1.5v battery, and he electrocuted himself and died.
- Comment on Thanks 🙏🏻 2 days ago:
What would we replace it with? The raw chaos of the universe in its unformed state?
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 days ago:
That’s so fucked up. I hate when asshole cut down trees.
- Comment on pls no 3 days ago:
You want morning glories, not datura
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 3 days ago:
But those phonies had a taser!
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 3 days ago:
Wave that poison in someone else’s face!