To be fair, the dye they used to use for Red M&Ms was banned for being a suspected carcinogen in the 70s.
Stop it about boomers.
Some boomers, yes, but also some GenX and millenials.
In fact, the last election was heavily influenced by millenials shifting to the right.
But of course, not every milenial
Dividing based on age is part of the political agenda.
I don’t think you want to solve the issue. At first blush it seems to me you have an alt account arguing the opposite.
That’s the only reason I can think for someone starting a post with “boomers”.
Stop it about boomers. Some boomers, yes, but also some GenX and millenials.
Thank you - beat me to saying this. (And Gen Z too)
The irony is that boomers have been alive long enough to remember how different the climate used to be. They’ll remark how it never snows as much as it used to, or how there are more storms, fires, droughts, etc. Yet they refuse to see that climate change is what is causing this change.
Yet they refuse to see that climate change is what is causing this change.
If they accept climate change, it means they have to acknowledge that their actions helped cause this and it means they need to change their behavior. People aren’t good at either but most Boomers especially suck at self-reflection.
I’m in my 30s and remember the weather being very different in my childhood… winter never had 30 degree differences between yesterday and today like we had this past week. Was nearly 60 degrees one day and then we got 6+ inches of snow the next day.
i’m mid 40s in central europe and can clearly remember that summers were around 32°C max in my childhood, last 2 years we had 40°C. I can remember winter being a lot colder, regulary freezing the Danube river for extended periods, allowing skating - these times it’s a bad idea stepping on the thin ice that never freezes over completely. And i can clearly remember huge amounts of insects, making a mess of the windshield when driving - nowadays the windshield nearly stays clean. The boomers are lying to themselves, because the truth is too hard to acknowledge.
For being a science meme group, I’m seeing a distinct lack of understanding of how psychology, especially cognitive bias, works.
For being a science meme community, it’s a place people can vent about things that they can’t vent about elsewhere. We can understand psychological phenomena, but still be personally frustrated by it.
Though I do wish this post weren’t targeted toward Boomers. Younger people buy into this type of thing, too.
If they can’t handle the blue ones, I’m afraid to tell them what the yellow ones are doing to them
Climate change is real and we’re causing it
“I definitely did not do this and won’t change anything I do.”
Blue M&Ms cause cancer
“How could the M&M people do this to me?”
where does this come from?
People believe based on feelings, not facts. That’s all it is.
Where does the 97% figure come from? I thought it’s pretty much unanimous at this point?
97% was reported by earlier small surveys, but I think the most rigorous and widely reported survey of scientists was Harris Interactive in 2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change#2005–2009
That was followed up in 2010 by a survey of specifically climate scientists, whom hit 97-98%.
The ‘concensus’ has been constantly challenged in conservative media and circles so there have been many such surveys / meta-analyses continuing over the years and it’s been hitting 100% for the last several years. If any idiot ever parrots “science doesn’t work on concensus” my usually response is something like, “no it doesn’t, but when an entire field of scientists have determined a theory to have vast evidence-based backing its considered settled. The only thing that would change that is significant contradictory data being presented, yet instead every year we’re measuring huge volumes of data that confirm the concensus.”
Someone’s arse. The irony if it being another social media post is awesome
Next are you gonna suggest green jelly beans don’t cause autism?
Well, whoever posted it just linked them, didn’t they?
Shown it on a TV that did the whole gig of Snowden right before Snowden showed up and they did him too, without him, too.
All over a decade ago.
Am I too high, or does whatever you just said make no sense at all?
Newsroom
Is that a quote from the old show?
No. Just describing the reality behind the picture posted.
What does it mean, what does newsroom mean in context?
It’s a three season show that told it didn’t tell what Snowden said right before Snowden did it.
Which instance is the aneurysm posting community on?
I’ve been banned from your Lemmy for talking like this. Apparently there are unwritten rules for talking about blindmensions.
