@EveKeneinan A great example is how everyone was shocked/annoyed when Coyote started talking, even though many Looney Tunes characters are talking animals.
“Socialism defies logic. You see, it is an emotional impulse, a kind of worldly religion, and nobody has the slightest need to study or even to read the teachings of its early prophets. Their books are judged by hearsay; their conclusions are accepted ready-made.”
Eu sei que a resposta vai bugar a mente de muita gente, mas: integração racial.
Aqui não existe "sotaque de preto", "esporte de preto", "roupa de preto". etc.
De olho fechado, ouvindo alguém falar, você pode identificar se ela é carioca, ou baiana ou gaúcha, mas não pode indentificar se a pessoa é preta ou branca.
Casamento "interracial" não é um tabu ou assunto aqui - tanto que nem se usa a palavra, e basicamente todo mundo é meio pardo.
As maiores diferenças e preconceitos aqui são de situação econômica. Você poderia até alegar que as diferenças socioeconômicas têm um viés racial histórico e talz, mas isso é muito diferente do que acontece por exemplo nos EUA.
Aqui tanto um negro quanto um branco comem arroz com feijão, vão à igreja, jogam futebol, vestem as mesmas bermudas e calças jeans, etc. Até as estereotipadas "religiões de matriz africana" são mais praticadas por brancos que por pretos.
Infelizmente os movimentos raciais brasileiros estão lutando com todas as forças pra acabar com isso e importar o modelo americano, separando a sociedade em "coisas de branco" e "coisas de preto."
This might be the most difficult cultural adaptations yanks have to make to truly join the global football family: we don't care about celebrities in the stands. The cameraman's job is to locate and then zoom into international baddies whenever play is stopped.
Asmongold drops a brutal take on who is actually causing all of society's problems
"Our schools are created to cater to and make the bottom 10% of the population succeed. This person shouldn't even know what electricity is. They should have a rake or a plow or a shovel and just be digging holes all day."
"The top 10% of Americans are very intelligent people. The problem is you're not being oppressed by the top 2% of society. You're being oppressed by the bottom 2%."
"The bottom 2% of society have caused all of the manifest problems in your lives. That's it."
It's because they're Normies, and therefore prioritize Socializing over anything else. It couldn't have been abandoned after 2020, because COVID forced all normies to curb their IRL socializing, driving them into subcultural hobby burrows to do it instead, like an infestation.
The year is 1949.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.
The year is 1956.
Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.
The year is 1966.
A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.
The year is 1979.
Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.
The year is 1985.
Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.
The year is 1992.
There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.
So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.
Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.
It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.
Daily reminder that Redditors "debunked" Starlink as "impossible" 8 years ago.
Just in case you start thinking a phone scratcher has a better mental model of thermodynamics than SpaceX engineers.