Since this has been cross-posted, I thought it would be good to summarize the other conversations:
In other news, Oxfam finds that water is wet, the sky is blue, the Pope is Catholic, and that bears shit in the woods.
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Water is wet is highly contested debate.
Sky is blue really depends on the weather. Skys are grey here in Cleveland today.....and most days.
Pope is Catholic......yeah ok. That one is probably true.
Bears shit in the woods. Look man, I will admit I don't know that much about the gay community. However I always assumed they shit in toilets with bidets.
Water is wet is highly contested debate.
On the "isn't wet" side personally. My rationale: If a thing can be wet, it also can be dry. Your pants get wet, you dry them out. Can't dry out water.
I will memeify this reponse for you
My thoughts exactly, what's next "cigarettes are bad for your health, fossil fuels may have something to do with climate change"
Well, to be fair, I'm sure ciggerettes being bad for your health isn't obvious to some boomers. When they were kids, cigerettes were marketed as a healthy alternative to breakfast. So they watched their parents, who served in WWII, smoke em all day.
And honestly? I don't blame them. They were 18, and sent off to fight hitler in the biggest global conflict the world has ever seen. Whats a lousy cigerette going to do when you've survived Normandy, ya know? They say the sea had turned from a beautiful majestic blue, into a horror red, because the OCEAN was more blood than water at that point. Surely a marlborro ain't got shit on that.
So the boomers grew up with commercials with cartoon camels convincing them that cigerettes were cool.
So I bet there's still a few boomers who refuse to believe cigerettes will give you cancer.
And before you laugh, just know that most kids these days don't believe that vapes will give THEM cancer.
It's all the same. The form factor changes. The world and it's problems stay the same. We're still dealing with a world full of nazis, idiots, and wealthy assholes contributing to climate change.
Tbf, I’m a zoomer who knows a lot of people who vape, and the overwhelming sentiment among people I know isn’t the denial of “this won’t give me cancer”, but rather the nihilism of “I cannot be bothered to give a shit if this will give me cancer, because I probably won’t live long enough for it to matter.”
That’s not to say there isn’t a denial crowd, but the prevailing view in my experience seems to be that if, in the end, it’s the cancer that does us in, then we have already survived past all expectations, and in the present we’re just trying to get through the day.
Really needs to be a “DUUUUHHHH” community for stories like this.
One of the few subreddits I miss is /r/noshitsherlock.
Yes, and the sky is blue.
You don’t need a study to figure this out objectively
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