I would not trust an article that does not get the ages of Millenials correct.
23/24 is the very bottom of the Millenial age cohort depending on which year you use (80 or 81). The top of the Millenial range is now 38/39ish. If they wanted to survey Millenials you would think they would select an age range in the middle of the target group.
The surveyed group is the top of GenZ.
To the point though, it boggles my mind that people sit there on their phones and computers denying basic science…while using those devices based on all those fantastic scientific advancements.
Yup…point was more that…Amercia has the highest amount of Flatearthers, and they…voted ahh lets not get political.
No Physics → No Semiconductors, No batteries, No LCD - Screeens, No Cars, no electric motors, no washing machine, no lightbuld, no laser, no projectors and thus no cinema. Just nothing what is used everyday in a modern day life.
Flatearthers should go the extra - mile, deny the existance of everything and make some sort of armish village
Amish use wheels, pulleys, etc! Heh. I agree with you though. People who don’t believe in science should get rid of EVERYTHING that is man made based on scientific discoveries. I am sure they will find caves or brush shelters quite comfortable.
One tiny hope I have is that people who answer those surveys are being edgey or sarcastic. I have met people IRL who think the Earth is only a few thousand years old, but so far nobody who thinks it is flat.
Ahh i had the pleasure already to talk to a few flat-earthers , and believe me they are not edgy and/or sarcastic , they are just plain stupid. Thats what decades of Jerry Springer & Co brought upon us xD
Do they not realize we called the period where people thought the Earth was flat and that Medicine/sanitation was witchcraft the Dark Ages? There was a reason for that.
I never thought a society would EVER want to go back to massive plagues and death - willingly - but it is 2020. I had hoped to only see it in video games
Yeah, hating people with “unnatural” hair color is still a thing.
I just got boxes today. Six months of coffee, TP, cleaning supplies, batteries, etc. I am not leaving the house if I can help it for a long time. Except to VOTE. I shall be visiting a secure drop box soon.
It’s especially delicious that those phones have GPS built in. I’m genuinely curious what they think the geostationary satellites that GPS relies on are in stationary orbit around.
The earliest documentation of a spherical Earth comes from the ancient Greeks (5th century BC). Since the 600s AD, scholars have supported that view, and by the Early Middle Ages (700–1500 AD), virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint.
The first statement is a myth and it’s false.
Greeks and Romans thought the Earth was round, so the Dark Ages
thing was made up, considering that happened way later.
And as far as modern medicine goes, many alternative methods of
healing are looked at as witchcraft today, but they still work.
Don’t get to caught up in modern society being the end all
be all.
Most people are pretty stupid nowadays, and wouldn’t survive
outside for more than a few days.
So called primitive society had many things the were
way ahead of their time, just look at some ancient artifacts.
If modern science is so wonderful, then why are many people
going hungry everyday, and why is the wealth of the world
in the hands of a few.
Before you guys bash flat earthers and other theories, maybe look
at all the things science got wrong over the years, instead of
what they got right.
People are panic buying again because of the massive spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. I was forced to snag two large (64 Oz) GermX hand sanitizers in case I can’t find any during a potential second lockdown. I use the sanitizer for two purposes: cleaning my hands upon returning to the car, and in conjunction with a paper towel sheet to sanitize shopping cart handles, since the spray the stores use is so watered down in the name of cutting costs I don’t trust them.
The reason I know people are panic buying again is because I’m seeing bare shelves of items that have been in stock for months. And for the life of me I can’t find Del Monte pear halves (normal, not Lite, which sits on shelves still like fruitcakes would).
I still can’t get Annies Shells White Mac and Cheese. It is something I have only 3 or so times a year as a treat. I am just annoyed i can’t get it! Once I have my doc appointment and get meds in Nov I should be good for most of the winter for both me and the cats.
Most of the stuff I can’t get is no big deal. I can use dish rags instead of paper towels then launder them. I have most cleaning stuff, and can make more with vinegar, baking soda, or bleach (not all together). The car has a full tank of gas and I just took it out for a 45 min battery charging run last week.
He’ll be going down to Bakersfield for a couple weeks at least, so that’s two weeks I don’t have to worry about potentially infecting him. It’s a load off of my shoulders, for a little while at least.
Only thing I really need is toilet paper, but since my grandpa has a major preference for Quilted Northern 3-ply (as do I as 2-ply chafes), we’re almost out because nowhere has it for a reasonable price. Costco stopped carrying it at their business center here.
Also, holy hell, a turkey got blown off the neighbor’s roof onto the spiked fence they built around their back yard. It totally got skewered after being blown by the 50-60 MPH wind gusts we’re getting here this morning. I ain’t going out in this wind, so hopefully the (now dead) turkey won’t attract coyotes up in our yards before I can get to it when the winds die down.
Wild turkey isn’t really all that great. It isn’t plumped up like the Butterballs we’re used to seeing in stores. When I get it off of the fence later today I’ll toss it down the hill for the animals around here to feed on. We’ve got deer, turkeys, boar, coyotes, and even a couple foxes. Once the turkey is off the fence I’ll just power wash the blood off of the spikes so it’s clean and doesn’t attract unwanted pests.
Wild turkey is on my short list, with goat, of meats I have not had. I want to try it! My dad does not like wild bird so ducks and geese were only in mixed meat stews so I never got to try them. When I was growing up turkey was so rare we could not hunt them. It is only the past 10 or 15 years that turkeys came back and we could even take one! So yeah, no chance to try one.
Also why the heck am I still awake at 6 something AM?! I have not gone to bed yet. Anxiety sucks.
And… welp, I don’t have to get the turkey off the fence. Four other turkeys came and literally went into flight mode to push it off the spike and carried it off. Didn’t know turkeys do that kind of stuff. Then again, these are mean little bastards. The turkeys here must be cousins of the Canadian goose because they’ll block the road, and if you try to move past them they’ll gang up and start pecking the living crap out of your car until you gun it out of there.
2020 is certainly not letting up on weird crap, that’s for sure.
