I am sick of people who pick up their cell phone, full of silicon chip technology,

[ZonkerHarris]

semiconductors, Ethernet connections, Bluetooth capabilities, and Wi-Fi enabled to upload or download data through broadband fiber optic networks and send it to satellites in geosynchronous orbit above the earth that have been placed there by giant rockets, actual fucking rockets, so they can connect to a social media website that is powered by acres of computer servers processing terra gigs of data every second just so they can tweet about how they “don’t believe in science.”

Had to get that off my chest.

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Or believe

in BS conspiracy theories about how the COVID-19 vaccine which, unlike any vaccine in recorded history, somehow has a tracker in it.

[elias7]

34. As if their phones couldn't have been used for the same if they'd been relevant enough

[lagomorph777]

2. "Silicone" is for caulk and breast implants; "Silicon" is for chips.

But yeah, it's ironic that anybody in this era can pretend science doesn't work.

[ZonkerHarris]

3. darn dictation app

[NurseJackie]

18. Silicon Valley vs Silicone Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation.

Silicone Valley is the nickname for the San Fernando Valley in California, known for having a lot of porn studios.

[lagomorph777]

23. LOL!

And coal lovers have their "Carbon Valley".

https://ramacocarbon.com/carbon-valley/

[RVN VET71]

55. Not to mention Death's shadow

You know, the one everybody walks through every so often, fearing no evil.

[lagomorph777]

59. Yeah, I think that Psalm is referring to Carbon Valley.

[Caliman73]

4. Yup. Just be honest...

Say, "I don't understand science and it scares me". Or, "I know that science, while not perfect, is the best method of arriving to understanding of our natural world, but I choose to accept superstition, emotional responses, and other much more fallible concepts as a basis for my world view".

At least we will know what we are dealing with.

[DBoon]

35. or, "I can't tell the difference between science and fakery disguised as science ...

... so I don't believe any of it"

"Of course I believe everything my preacher says, so I give him all my money"

[The Magistrate]

5. Damn...

[lpbk2713]

6. Justifiable ranticide.

[Leghorn21]

7. Beautifully written, Zonker!!

They also have electricity running inside their homes, drive cars, watch tv, take this medication or that, have refrigerators and air conditioning, and *still* claim to have no use for “science”!!?

Bravo, Z, thanks for your excellent post!!

[leftstreet]

8. Nicely done!

[niyad]

9. Exactly.

[TDale313]

10. "They're putting chips in the vaccine so they can track us!"

Sent from my iPhone

[sdfernando]

11. Literally EVERYTHING humans do, especially these modern times is rooted in science.

and I do mean literally EVERYTHING.

[AZ8theist]

12. Except religion

It's been said: If you could erase religion from every human on Earth, nobody would notice. But if you could erase science, we'd all be living in caves.

[sdfernando]

14. I'll give you that one.

[Shermann]

29. Cariocas might notice if that big statue goes missing nt

[getagrip_already]

38. Not really, it could stay but everyone would wonder....

Who the guy with his hands out is......

[Moostache]

30. With all intended irony....AMEN!

Unless and until man rids itself of slavish devotion to fundamentalists of ANY and ALL religions, he will never attain his full potential as a species.

The way things look most days, we simply won't ever reach that point of critical mass when enough people stop pretending to believe in sky daddy and cease giving the premise undue deference. When someone can believe that "gawd" sacrificed himself to himself to allow forgiveness of an initial transgression tens of thousands of generations previous when a rib woman misled a clay man to eat from a forbidden tree's fruit of knowledge...well its alot easier to convince that same person that many other equally nutty propositions are just as likely "true"...

Humanity needs a MUCH BETTER BS detector, and religious deference and devotion prevent that from developing in the open and being a guard against insanity and inanity and the power mad who don't care either way.

[AZ8theist]

62. You are spot on. Sam Harris said it best:

"The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation."

[OMGWTF]

32. Science demands one thing that religion does not: Prove it.

[UpInArms]

13. Well said

They need to be scrubbing their laundry on rocks in the river

[sinkingfeeling]

15. And they run to doctors when dying of covid.

[moose65]

63. Another in a long line of contradictions

If the vaccine is "fake" and the science is "fake" and the doctors are all in on it, why on earth would you trust them after you've come down with the virus? Wouldn't that mean that they have "won"?? I can't really wrap my head around anything that conservatives think. after watching supposedly religious people who love Jesus but worship Trump more.

[lunatica]

16. They should stop breathing the air too.

[lame54]

17. And they believe the vaccine has a microscopic tracking chip...

Which sounds very sciency to me

Plus they "learned" it on their phone which is always on them and can be tracked

[IronLionZion]

19. There's not much orbit since the Earth is flat

I did my own research on this, on Youtube

[MuseRider]

20. Perfect!

Made me laugh out loud then I had to read it to my husband who is still chuckling about it across the room.

Well done and thank you!

[NullTuples]

21. The ability to be inconsistent w/o social repercussion is a massive flex

It's saying they're above the social rules everyone else has to abide by.

They're following the Trump & GOP model.

It's what was promised them in return for their undying* loyalty

*or until COVID kills them, whichever comes first.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

22. We will happily pee in a cup if our employer requires it

But don’t ask us to vaccinate or put a piece of cloth on our face to protect everyone.

[Missn-Hitch]

24. That is why the unvaccinated need to be turned away and told to go to their churches for healing.

[OMGWTF]

33. THIS!!!

They go to the end of the line or back home.

[BlueIdaho]

25. To the uneducated

Is all magic and sorcery.

[SergeStorms]

43. Selective magic and sorcery.

They refuse to believe the science behind the vaccines, yet they're easily convinced horse de-wormer is the correct drug to combat COVID. Well, one of their "friends" on Facebook said it was the truth, and that makes it totally acceptable.

[Pepsidog]

26. Yea I hate that kinda stuff too.

[infullview]

27. That's not science, it's magic!

[DBoon]

36. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

[Moebym]

28. Not to mention

the glass on their phones is likely Corning Gorilla glass, which is scratch-resistant, drop-resistant to 1.6m, and allows for an under-display fingerprint scanner.

And that ultra-bright OLED screen with saturated colors and sharp images with which they view those stupid anti-vax and anti-mask Minion memes? That front-facing camera with which they record all of their angry anti-vaccine and anti-mask Instagram Live rants in 1080p resolution?

ALL the result of scientific research.

[JuJuChen]

31. did you make this post using an abacus?

[jcgoldie]

37. "I don't believe in that"

That's a pretty standard response to anything factual from this crowd. I blame churches.

[Joinfortmill]

39. 👍

[mrsadm]

40. Could not agree with you more!!!

[wryter2000]

41. Wow

You need to post this where some MAGAts will find it.

[ZonkerHarris]

46. we don't frequent the same places. :)

[Stuart G]

42. Stupid is Still "Stupid"..".These idiots haven't got a clue".says Stu..

[crickets]

44. Brilliant rant!

[malaise]

45. Great post

Rec

[ZonkerHarris]

50. Thank you

[Pinback]

47. LOL

and complaining about bandwidth while refusing to get an injection of 5G!

[bringthePaine]

48. you are a model of self-restraint in clear, concise communication👍

[question everything]

49. And some of them object to space exploration

yes, including this evening by Shift 4.

[lastlib]

51. Idiots gotta idiot......

It's called hypocrisy, and it's what the nutcases do. You can throw everything from genetics to comparative anatomy to molecular biology to organic chemistry at them, and they'll brush it all aside, and say they trust Jaysus and a book they claim Sky-daddy wrote (that says nothing on the subject) on the idea of evolution. Looking facts square in the eye and saying they're false (or their new favorite, "fake news" ) is what makes them repuglikans. If you could reason with them, they wouldn't be repuglikans. You can only educate them with dimensional lumber across the forehead, and sometimes that's just a waste of good lumber.

[empedocles]

52. Nutcases and hatecases

[KPN]

53. Epic! Bookmarking.

[Klaralven]

54. Very little internet traffic goes via geosynchronous satellites

Geosynchronous satellites are not cost competitive with terrestrial and undersea fiber optic cables except in very specific situations, such as north-south connections to landlocked countries.

The new fleets of large numbers of cheap low earth orbit satellites being deployed now may be economic in the future.

[Irish_Dem]

57. Same thing with masks and vaccines. They don't believe in science but then rush to ERs and ICUs.

[ZonkerHarris]

64. Oh the hypocrisy

[Historic NY]

58. The same phone that tracks their every movement....

all day every day....even on the shitter.

[Wicked Blue]

60. It's all magic. Witchcraft.

Dontcha know?

[Blue Owl]

61. No. Fucking. Shit.

My sentiments exactly, and elegantly stated!

Also, these same people call Democrats and science believers 'sheep' while here they are taking livestock dewormer. I guess they are too stupid to see the irony in that...

[Uncle Joe]

65. I believe what they're really expressing is fear

of the unknown and science; being the preeminent and relentless vehicle in the search for truth is in itself a profound unknown for better or worse full of risk and reward.


Thanks for the thread ZonkerHarris.

[seta1950]

66. Yes

They use all this technology that follows them everywhere, knows everything about them in real time, then they complain “ I want ma freedum “

[drmeow]

67. or don't want to

Pay taxes!