Ruben Anderson

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@kent2hodges @the_transit_guy Yes, Swedes are clamouring to come to the USA, where their lifespan can be reduced by five years.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@Gabriel01731047 @volcaholic1 What is your conspiracy theory?

You are alleging a lie. Why? Who benefits and how?

Why would this falsehood be televised?

(And I can easily imagine there is a substantial difference between a few feet at a bar and a building hundreds of feet high)

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@KurtGibbonsX @middle_class_us Yawn. Source please.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@PenniesTrader @BRICSinfo And not the known serial liar?

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@alea_area @CovidSolidarit1 5.
We have furthermore made up some comforting myths about ourselves, like free will.

These myths make it quite hard to adopt new strategies that could respond appropriately.

Humans are a marvellously successful weed species that is nearing the end of our invasive flourishing

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@alea_area @CovidSolidarit1 4.
Issues like climate change, or a global pandemic are a billion times more dangerous than a tiger in the grass, but they do not capture our attention in the same way.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@alea_area @CovidSolidarit1 3.
A couple of other important strategies are that we do what has worked in the past, and we do what people around us are doing.

This is a massive help in reducing our cognitive load.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@alea_area @CovidSolidarit1 2.
In order to cope with this massive limitation to our cognitive capacity We have evolved a bunch of filters, rules of thumb, and cultural strategies.

A main adaptation is we simply ignore stuff. If it does not seem novel, like a tiger in the grass, we simply ignore it.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@alea_area @CovidSolidarit1 Sadly it is an evolutionary mechanism.

1. Our senses take in a flood of about 40 million bits of information at any one time, but we can only consciously process something like 60 bits.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@Avabelly__ Your walkway is in the wrong place. You can spend your years being mad at the world, or you can put your walkway where it belongs and be happy. Your choice.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@SamuelLearns @noampomsky Can you read? It clearly said Evil witch, Devoted henchman—not whatever Oedipal thing you have going on.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@jessica38353238 @outbreakupdates Cool fantasy. Are there dragons?

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@FYkeyf @CogitoEdu Does that mean you are sure people dying is a good thing?

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@DPR19821 @HormuzLetter @Coachjv_ Bless your heart, sweetie.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@GlobalRootsNews @allenanalysis The fact you can’t understand the conversation has already confirmed yours.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@GlobalRootsNews @allenanalysis Why would you think they would get better care in the US? Are they rich?

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@JohnnyLateSlate @TheAccretian618 Why would anybody accept your dogshit logic, with your arbitrary cat vomit choices?

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@Dragontail110 @MarcoFoster_ Cool fantasy bro. Sorry you live in terror, hiding under your bed like a kitten.

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@Bumperpunk @aakashgupta Yes, we are harnessed in a world with autocorrect but no power to edit. But surely someone who knows sentence construction can discern the correct word from context, with a moment’s thoughtfulness?

[Ruben Anderson @SandDyLife]

@myangelfangs @Ollie_Vargas_ These apparently peaceful protestors are doing all that. Is this your first day as a teenager? Stay in school, kid.