Most media stories are exactly this, and nothing more.

France and the US have laws. The French company has a contract. They either comply with this new instruction, or don’t, depending on what laws they are subject to, and they either get paid or don’t depending on what the contract says. The French finance ministers say, well, nothing really, and loads of people looking at feddit.uk get anxious about it.

What fun!

What makes something ‘scientific’, rather than ‘faith-based’ is that it can be proven wrong. Think of it as our best guess so far, rather than some incontrovertible truth. Edit - being provable wrong is not a weakness.

I am sure a basic search will return plenty of well researched and evidenced books on evolution.

As an aside I will say that I heard an interview with a data scientist whose recent work had found that genetic mutations weren’t random (in some way). Which could potentially throw an interesting wrinkle into the theory of evolution, lol. The bloke I heard interviewed stressed his paper had not yet been peer reviewed, and, iIrc, really just pointed towards the possible need for more research. I am just mentioning this as a bit of an aside.

As for the question of whether we are flesh robots made by bug aliens? Maybe that is a philosophical question? I can say that I personally have chosen to trust our scientists, rather than someone on youtube, or ‘X’(, or lemmy)!

When learning about climate change I found multiple news stories with opposing headlines, that cited the same research.

My point is be careful of your sources: try and get as close to reading the research as possible. Reading an abstract, then a conclusion, and going from there is a skill that more people can develop than perhaps they think.

You can learn about a sound research methodology online if you really want, and can’t or won’t be in formal education!

Neoliberalism has taught, for decades, that ‘the hidden hand of the market’ meant that ‘enlightened self interest’ lead to the bet outcomes for everybody. So, yeah, they were told literally this.

Reform are the only alternative presented by the bbc and mainstream media to the red and blue tories. The Labour party smearing Corbyn, causing him to lose is precisely what I am talking about.

Please don’t waste my time.

One person’s ‘almost’ is another person’s ‘no chance’. But seeing as how you are referring to something that didn’t happen, it is completely irrelevant. Meanwhile neoliberalism continues regardless.

Humans’ inability to deal with reality is almost endless.

It is because when presented with a fact that doesn’t conform to the reality that somebody has (co-)constructed, they have to reject the fact, because they can’t reject reality. Reality changes slowly.

Deal with reality, as quickly as possible, because otherwise it is going to deal with us.

What are you going on about? Go and take your anger out smoewhere else. I am not your punchbag.

Well of course, I mean the thread is about UK politics, but please enjoy your useless alternative party suggested by neoliberals.

It has been Red Tory v Blue Tory for decades. The only difference between the two being the more or less thin veneer of socially liberal policy covering the hard fist of economic liberalism.

The only alternative presented to the public for years and years, in spite of the fact they had no MP’s, was and is the pro Trump pro Russian Reform Party.

Sound familiar?

No.

Elon’s mother stopped him having that cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg because of his bad back. That wasn’t his fault.

It’s a meme stock, not an ‘investment’.

And now Musk has parlayed it, and his various pyramid scheme-like companies into replacing as much of the US government as he can get away with with his junk.

The US will suffer.

I think the implication is that they come from the plastic bottle.

The US has always got the dollar-as-global-reserve-currency out of its military spending, which is a large part of how post second world war America accrued a huge portion of unearned global wealth. Trump, those that voted for him, and those that spent decades creating this situation for personal enrichment are rapidly hastening the end of this situation.