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At least this time there'll be evidence when future folk call this the dark ages.

well yeah but to be fair, medieval peasants only had Small Hadron Colliders to worry about; the tech was pretty new.

Back in school I did a study on how medieval peoples responded to plagues and stuff - the aftermaths were very different if the conclusion was “god is punishing us for being wicked” (which arguably led to labor and law reforms) vs “the Other has caused evil” (which led to persecution)

I'm sure the "jews control time and women's periods with CERN" is floating out there right now

medieval peasants would either love or hate cern. depending on if they think. the scientists trying to recreate the primordial chaos. is laudable or blasphemous

Those plus the Internet Archive fill out any normal person's needs.

American palates who want the name of the dish to be the ingredient list would be immediately destroyed upon exposure to Spain

Did he ever look at what is in the burnable part of a cigarette besides shredded tobacco leaves?

I think it should have more ingredients

He found a McDonald's with a working shake machine?

Is it mint? Well, I smoked menthols. Check and mate.

I do not, but I highly doubt it

Better the devil you know

This is truly a sign of the times. MAHA adjacent types smoking and vaping and drinking alcohol and snorting coke

is your neighbor Dale Gribble

For a second I misread this as saying A.I. Ronald McDonald was smoking a cigarette

Yeah that’s like over twice as delicious as a Dr Pepper

You should only trust the real Ronald McDonald. Don’t take advice from AI.

ok well that's a very scary number of ingredients ryan

LMAO

My wife was complaining about “E numbers in food”. She wanted to avoid eating something that had E330, “E numbers can be carcinogenic” she tells me. I looked up E330: citric acid. She watches too many Instagram reels.

Talked to a guy who refused to register a Philly SEPTA card for using the train because “they” could track him. He has a smart phone of course. Many such cases

he also didn't get the Covid vax because "you don't know what's in that"

no! no!!

It is Dialectic-of-Enlightenment Brain

the word “stupid” has ceased to have any meaning whatsoever

At least medieval peasants have the excuse of being the n-th generation of an unbroken chain of subsistence farmers, what's these peoples' excuse?

It's medieval lord brain, if anything. Waking up and looking out of your window and seeing the sunrise looks a little pink and deciding that's why your bowel movements are bad. And the servants all go, "exactlyyyyyy, my leige"

OMG TikTok again. People gotta stop with that. It's like a concentration of crazy and I don't even use that app!

Wandering Wombs but quantum-ly

@earational.bsky.social Personally, if I were going to blame my period irregularities on something insane, I would go with "moon's haunted".

"My boyfriend says birth control is a sin and he promised he would always pull out, so the CERN supercollider is the only possible explanation for why I missed my period"

100%.

I agree. Medieval peasants had an excuse for their ignorance, because not even the best minds of their era had much understanding of science or the human body. Today’s credulous ignoramuses have access to education but instead absorb a steady diet of anti-science garbage and urban myths.

yeah I suspect medieval peasants were too busy working themselves to the bone every day to get worked up as often as we seem to about nonsense, and their nonsensical explanations for things were usually for actual stuff that was really happening rather than imaginary things

Would you accept "magical thinking" or "conspiracy-brained?"