• Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com
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    8 hours ago

    Exercise doesn’t cure poison. Using individual tools like critical thinking can help you avoid internalizing the misinformation and propaganda, but it sure doesn’t inoculate you from it. We need to cut it out at its source and find ways to ensure it doesn’t get replatformed. Otherwise the toxin is there, just waiting for a day when you’re not on alert, slowly poisoning your mind.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      5 hours ago

      There are always going to be people whose honest assessment is just wrong, or very probably wrong. Or its one of those black swan moments and the crazy person is right.

      There’s no getting rid of uncertainty. Science helps us quantify that and work with it.