Ok guys, it’s time for me to tell you about something very enlightening that I read in a book recently:
75% of people would rather being knowingly wrong and blend in, than be right and stand out. And there’s a well known psychology experiment that proved it. 🧵
My 16th birthday is coming up FAST.
I don't want a sweet 16 party, or even a car.
My wish is to see my filter fund finally hit $1M after working towards that goal for over 4 years.
Help make my wish come true.
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@FareezyCheesy Tbh I feel that that is most dystopias after a few layers of beaurocrayic obfuscation.
As for uprising we have the bread a circuses. As long as we have the internet and food delivery the majority of people won't do anything.
@FareezyCheesy Occasionally I feel like we should graph which fictional dystopias are ahead in becoming reality.
Like Gattaca is really showing up lately but handmaid's tail is just such a fash trash favorite
And 1984 is making a very strong showing
Agriculture accounts for almost 80 percent of the water consumed in the Colorado River Basin each year, and alfalfa is responsible for more than a third of that drain, Samuel Shaw reports for High Country News. https://t.co/4T96uBxg5l
“The future of our planet depends on Indigenous solutions to climate change is reflected in the decision to protect the Greater Chaco region.” – Jaque Fragua, Creative Resistance Coordinator
https://t.co/lQ6krtDJZ1
Have a read. Especially if you're left wing & find yourself saying Just Stop Oil are 'a nuisance'.
How the outlawing of protest in England and Wales was dreamed up by a secretive right-wing think tank funded by ExxonMobil.
https://t.co/09Pjyzm0bO
The Southern Poverty Law Center designated Moms for Liberty as a hate group, because that’s exactly what they are.
They attack public education, they ban books, and they have made it their mission to remove any curriculum that contains discussions of race, discrimination, and LGBTQ+ identities.
They ARE 100% a hate group.
And they deserve to be designated as such.