Al Gore is a sleazy motherfucker and he made the issue highly politicized, that is true. But the current political climate, at least in the US, seems to be against environmental protection. So I definitely wouldn't call it government propaganda since the government itself is against it.
Besides, even if climate change wasn't a thing, what's wrong with being eco-friendly anyway?

@princessmonstertru Exactly. But Socrates was one of the first people who promoted a narrative based on observation and reason. The Greek society was in a kind of nihilistic/relativistic state because the people realized that beliefs and norms are subjective, they're based on culture and they're different in every society, and the Greeks' ethics and morals started falling apart. Socrates promoted dialogue, weighing all options and seeing what is right "with the eyes of reason". So shouldn't you be for the mainstream scientific narrative since the scientific community decided what is correct by using reason which is based on observation?

I agree with the first point. But I attribute this problem to the media, not to scientists themselves. Many media outlets present stuff that sells, like scandals, gossip and other crap that doesn't actually have any impact on real life, instead of focusing on the important stuff. Even many politically focused channels spend way too much time looking at totally unimportant things like Trump's tweets instead of actually analyzing world events.
As to the second point... by that token we shouldn't trust anything that we hear or read, ever. There will always be disagreements, exceptions in data, wrong conclusions drawn out of improbable correlations. We can't discard the majority of results which produce consistent theories though, else we'd all be pre-Socratic Relativists.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. You learn something new every day.
Still, one letter isn't such a problem imo. I also sometimes pronounce B as V because I have an overbite. And he is way more eloquent than I'll ever be.

That's true but there are also some kind of purge camps as far as I know. It's disgusting.

... in concentration camps they kinda did genocide and all that.

Pseudo-scientists paid by politicians are a thing, sure. But the scientific community does check itself, too. It's called peer-refiews. Most of these "scientists" who get paid for nodding to politicians get called out by the scientific community.

@princessmonstertru I think there's a difference between unfounded fear and a logical assumption. Propaganda is based on fear and usually comes from politicians while a logical assumption/an educated prediction comes from experts on the topic and actually goes against politicians. The former could be things like "the Red scare" or "refugees will convert all of Europe to Islam" while the latter is stuff like net neutrality (ask anyone working in IT, they're gonna tell you that net neutrality has to stay) or climate change. Maybe humanity is finally realizing that listening to experts is better than listening to politicians who sold out to a bunch of companies.

What I wanted to say is that it's a combination of factors. But imo people who always claim how unnatural it is don't realize that homosexuality is a thing in animal species too. Besides, most things humans do are unnatural. We live in houses built of steel and concrete, we invented computers by making a piece of metal think, we wear clothes not for protection from the cold (because we made heating systems for that) but because it looks nice. Almost nothing we do is "natural".

I'm chemically imbalanced, and I get acne and really bad period pains. Being gay isn't "chemically imbalanced" because it implies that there is a biological norm, but there only used to be a social norm that is luckily going away now. Can we just let people sleep with whomever they want? Honestly the only thing you should be concerned about with other people's sexual history is STDs, if you want to get involved with that person I mean.

Read the second sentence again. You're probably just sleep deprived.
Speaking of periods, aren't you a bit defensive today.

That was, uh... almost English?
I can almost imagine Jacksfilms saying "oh Olga" while reading the second sentence.

Me: *Makes a joke*
FS: STOP HAVING FUN!!!!! (You know, because apparently I'm not allowed to have fun on a website called FUNsubstance)
Seriously, who put the sand in your vaginas? If you didn't find it funny, move on and stop moaning.

Downvoting to prove your own point? That's very weak.

It's a well known fact that education in the US is slightly below average when compared to other modern countries. Saying that as I did in my older comments wasn't complaning or judging based on one situation, it was just stating facts.
Also, ironically, this "it was a foreigner" theory of yours doesn't work because according to the statistics, foreigners outperform naturally born Americans.
http://www.compareyourcountry.org/pisa/country/usa?lg=en

The +1 on my comments suggests otherwise.

"Muh country is importanter than yours" sounds like you got some complexes you gotta deal with, buddy.
As I said before (y'know, those 3 years ago), you don't have to know where all the countries are that but maybe you should know how to use google, it would be enough in this situation.

Humor is subjective, you don't have a monopoly on deciding what's funny and what isn't

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Everyone on FS apparently