I can't believe what people can be made to believe. And that means my model of people is wrong. Partly because I've led a sheltered life, but partly due to denial: I don't want to believe people could be this stupid.
THREAD 1/7 Intel from a Ukrainian officer about a meeting in Putin’s lair in Urals. Oligarchs convened there so no one would flee. Putin is furious, he thought that the whole war would be easy and everything would be done in 1-4 days. @EPPGroup@general_ben@edwardlucas@politico
The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught. 🧠
Hot take: @drjasonfung is a scumbag for selling a cancer book to make money from desperate people. Also: anyone defending him is a scumbag 🙂. It would be like me writing a book called the ‘Covid Code’ because I read some Covid studies but had no background in virology. Fuck him
PM just announced restrictions affecting Xmas, eg (ambiguous) “You can only meet one person from another household in an outdoor public space.”
Seemed OK until “Communal worship can continue to take place.” WHAT? Why? Can you imagine any activity less deserving of priority?