Dear #Europeans, If you want to keep #MAGA #Americans from visiting your countries in #Europe just remind #MAGA that visiting Europe requires a #Trans #Atlantic journey by air or sea. Bubba and Lulu will opt out and visit the Alamo instead. #Rational Americans

From ‘The Times’

I am sure the title will have been chosen to enrage the gammon amongst their readers (most of them) but this is a sane article from the head of the (English) National Trust

#UkPol #Labour #Conservation #Housing #Rational #Choices #Votes #Lobbyists #Blindness

Is it all-or-nothing for the expanding #Universe? : Medium

The #Slop #Cycle—How Every #Media #Revolution #Breeds #Rubbish and #Art : Sci Am

Be #Rational: #Chimp #Decision-making is guided by the strongest #Evidence : Nature

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

10 Proofs That #Jesus Doesn’t Exist

#JesusMyth #GodlessAndGrounded #Atheism

For centuries, billions have accepted the story of Jesus without ever questioning the evidence behind it. But what happens when we step outside #blindfaith and look at the #historicalfacts, #contradictions, and #mythological borrowings with a #rational mind?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCuNtS1Yf6g

The ability to change your mind in response to better evidence is a hallmark of human #cognition. Experiments now show that chimps are capable of #rational thought, too: doi.org/10.1038/d415... #ethics #animalwelfare #animalrights

Be rational: chimp decision-ma...

"Our new reality? Irrational certainty now undermines almost every rational trend!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

So, how do you take on the unique times in which we find ourselves?

How do you carefully take on what is still, weirdly, a significant future trend that could, to some, be controversial? Carefully! How do you approach a delicate topic with appropriate delicacy at a time when delicacy is demanded? With delicacy!

A time in which science is fake, reality is false, and falsehoods are reality?
Well, you simply acknowledge that 'the future is now, well, just weird.'

That's how I took on the topic the other day, introducing an entirely new section to my slide deck in an energy keynote in Tucson.

So with that intro, I spoke to the audience about a topic I wrote about here a few weeks ago - the arrival of what I call "confident stupidity."

I then shared this screenshot with the audience, as an example of where we find ourselves today. Given that I was speaking to an energy/utility conference, my example had to do with that industry. This is but one of countless numbers of irrational things I see online.

Continue reading to see the whole story unfold!

After all, who cares about simple math?

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**#Reality** **#Misinformation** **#Science** **#Facts** **#Certainty** **#Trends** **#Truth** **#Evidence** **#Rational** **#Progress**

Futurist Jim Carroll still believes that math and science are real things.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-our-new-reality-irrational-certainty-now-undermines-almost-every-rational-trend/

Nice!

Someone has begun an #HPMOR comic! 😄

https://www.hpmorcomic.com/

Who would have known that a JKR-free #rational fan fiction of #HarryPotter (love the work, don't care for the author) would be awesome enough to be made into both audiobooks, podcasts and a cartoon?

I'm really happy more are exposed to this work. It's _really_ good! 😄

(Triva: I learned of it in the #rakulang IRC channel, back when it was called #perl6 <3)

Recommended!

If you like the first chapters, you'll like it all!

Emotional vs Rational Ads: Mana yang Lebih Efektif untuk Produkmu?

#Iklans - #Emotional vs #Rational Ads: Mana yang Lebih Efektif untuk Produkmu? - Dalam era #digital yang penuh dengan banjir informasi, #iklan bukan hanya sekadar media promosi, melainkan senjata utama untuk membangun kesadaran merek (#brand awareness) dan mendorong keputusan pembelian. Namun, pendekatan dalam membuat iklan tidaklah tunggal. Dua #strategi yang paling sering digunakan adalah…

https://iklans.com/blog/emotional-vs-rational-ads-mana-yang-lebih-efektif-untuk-produkmu?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

"Being able TO TALK ABOUT IT ... is a privilege." Words matter ... not condoning violence. #debate #politics #rational #philosophy #law #analysis #social #issues #society #errtlings #android_dreams #policy #psychology #persuasion #politician #lifestyle #cambride www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn0_...

Cambridge Debate Coach Reveals...

@drmorrisj consider doing your own debian blends like enc persistent bootable nvme - i mean you have to install most of the forensics tools yourself first - with the enc persistence that would be all set up for the user#forensics_full #chattr #federated enclaves #distributed inference #compintel/osint/BI #erp #crm #tagged metadata #pkt cap #audit trail #tcp_replay #rational clearcase #malcolm ids #kibana dashboards #monitoring

#rational : relating to the reason

- French: rationnel

- German: rational,vernünftig

- Italian: razionale

- Portuguese: racional

- Spanish: racional

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#Zoomposium with #Walter #von #Lucadou: “At the #boundaries between #physics and #psychology - #hauntings, #ghosts, and other #physical #phenomena”

It turned out that von Lucadou is anything but a #spiritual #ghosthunter; on the contrary, he is more rooted in #science and #rational, using #empirical ##methodology to try to explain #physically explainable #phenomena.

More at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gQIhyCNq7BHPOPpHKOLki?si=P5hET7hnQbCtQ2t0igHFnQ

or: https://youtu.be/TPCADLkSBWM

#Zoomposium mit Dr. Dr. #Walter #von #Lucadou: „An den #Grenzen zwischen #Physik und #Psychologie - #Spuk, #Geister und andere #physikalische #Phänomene“

Es stellte sich heraus, dass von Lucadou alles andere als ein #spiritueller #Geisterjäger ist, sondern im Gegenteil eher in der #Wissenschaft verortet ist und #rational mit #empirischer ##Methodik, die #physikalisch-erklärbaren #Phänomen zu ergründen versucht.

Mehr auf: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gQIhyCNq7BHPOPpHKOLki?si=P5hET7hnQbCtQ2t0igHFnQ

oder: https://youtu.be/TPCADLkSBWM

#Religion is #Humanity's Oldest #Delusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkQ-lBfOKfo

#religious #christianity #judaism #islam #atheist #atheism #rational #reason #gods

“ #Economics thus became the only #socialscience in our period (1875 to 1914) undisturbed by the problem of #non-rational #behaviour, since it was so defined as to exclude all transactions which could not be described as being in some sense #rational.” - #EricHobsbawm, The Age of Empire (1875-1914)

Pinkerite: One of the articles censored by #Rational Wiki - Charles Murray

#CharlesMurray @Pinkerite
https://www.pinkerite.com/2025/05/one-of-articles-censored-by-rational.html

#Economists and others are used to building #forecasts on the assumption that the agents involved in what they’re forecasting are #rational #optimizers. Makes it difficult when the most important actor is a #narcissist with an inexhaustible need for ego gratification.

#Zoomposium mit Dr. Dr. #Walter #von #Lucadou: „An den #Grenzen zwischen #Physik und #Psychologie - #Spuk, #Geister und andere #physikalische #Phänomene“

Es stellte sich heraus, dass von Lucadou alles andere als ein #spiritueller #Geisterjäger ist, sondern im Gegenteil eher in der #Wissenschaft verortet ist und #rational mit #empirischer ##Methodik, die #physikalisch-erklärbaren #Phänomen zu ergründen versucht.

Mehr auf: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/03/12/grenzen_physik_psychologie/

oder: https://youtu.be/TPCADLkSBWM

#rational : relating to the reason

- French: rationnel

- German: rational,vernünftig

- Italian: razionale

- Portuguese: racional

- Spanish: racional

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