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What did you think you would never see and are disappointed every time you see it? (piefed.world)
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Nothing is ever 'pure.'

The old name for Down's Syndrome was Mongoloid Idiocy, because mostly European doctors thought the eye folds made people look 'Asiatic.'

The point is that you have people who are trying to discover an objective truth, and people who think that their Truth is already perfect.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    this is why a lot of folks don't think science is real though, because it doesn't produce eternal truths that simplistic and easy to understand in simple algebra F = ma. Once you go to mechanics and calculus, you lose them and it's magic and wizards.

    they think the fact you can make Pluto not a planet means science is just shit people make up on a whim. and they aren't wrong, in principle. it is made up shit, but it's done by consensus of peer-reviewed experts often over years and decades of work pointing us to a new conclusion.

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