11a ground trky shakshuka
4 chx nuggets + bbq sauce
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A couple days ago I happened across a r/climatechange post, which boiled down to -
"I can't wrap my head around climate change science - so y'all explain why I should believe"
And I got to thinking about the disparity between things people don't understand but just accept without controversy - I mean, how many users of office computers and smartphones don't understand electronic logic-switch circuits and volatile memory chips - yet entrust their social media presence, bank account logins and credit card credentials, etc.? Aside from knowing if you have a life-threatening allergy to a specific antibiotic, nobody questions a doctor's prescription of penicillin (or ampicillin, amoxicillin, et al). Nobody with diabetes has to double-check with their partisan political figurehead or QAnon to "prove insulin is real". Yet there's this huge, weird misplaced skepticism of geoscience/meteorology expertise. There's a whole distinct subculture of vaccine phobia. Just about everybody knows somebody with an upside-down paranoid fear of respectable news and uncritical acceptance of select disinformation channels.