For me, "no one masks any more" is a all the more a reason to #maskUp. I don't fully understand people who tend to think this is a reason noit to mask¹...
¹ I've learned that this is about #peerPressure and #cognitiveDissonance. As a queer/ND/disabled veganarchist, I might be less susceptible to these effects, partly because I'm just used to stand out & don't give a fuck about social norms. Nevertheless, the power of these effects and the regular clashes of cognitive realities I experience daily are quite frightening.
I was 13 yrs old & being taught how to target shoot pop cans with a pellet rifle. Jake Masselink - one of our family's sponsors who funded our family to come to Canada & helped us apply for asylum & then Canadian citizenship - was teaching me. It was on #PenderIsland at their family homestead, in Hope Bay. My 2 brothers are waiting their turn.
I'm no fan of organized #religion & have PTSD from church related childhood abuses. I can't personally support organized religions. I have respect for folks who do practice organized religions. Religious folks whom I hold respect for, refrain from judging others, respect my cultural spiritual beliefs & don't try to indoctrinate me into their chosen religion.
"EVs are jumping the gun. Maybe they'll be ready in ten years," says man who wonders why his house in Florida is no longer insurable.
"Banning plastic bags is a waste of time!" says woman with measurable levels of microplastics in her blood.
"It's too expensive to build all-electric houses with solar," says the construction company owner who's lobbying against building code changes during the hottest year in 100,000 years.
Special counsel Robert Hur's report on the investigation into the mishandling of Obama-era #ClassifiedDocuments at 2 locations
connected to President Joe #Biden has been delivered to #Congress.
The report is expected to go into significant detail about what the special counsel's office found in its investigation.
Hur's team is not planning to bring criminal charges, but the report could provide fodder for Biden's #political opponents.
This report is bizarre. Not only does it say over & over again there’s no evidence to support #POTUS#Biden willfully retained the #ClassifiedDocuments & then magically finds that he did. It also says “jurors will conclude that Mr. Biden—a powerful, sophisticated person with access to the best advice in the world…” then claims he is elderly w/memory issues. Which is it #RobertHur? It can’t be both.
This morning’s #news headlines are utterly irrational. While the European economy is still suffering, the U.S. economy is doing incredibly well because of Biden’s economic policies. Yet #Trump now leads #Biden by 6 points. Complete #CognitiveDissonance!
And if you don't like Al Jazeera source - there's over 100 vids from other sources showing exact same #brainwashed#idolatry over a freaking COLD BLOODED #RACIST#MURDERER.
I'm no fool, & I'm Vaxxed to the Max! @Monolecte
My last extra booster & Influenza shots were booked at a Pharmacy. There were 20-30 people crammed in, shoulder to shoulder, in seats.
I was the only one in a mask?
Someone believes they need that extra level of protection. They know it's real: #CovidIsNotOver YET not one, wore a mask?
I wonder if they washed their hands?
What they do for a job, food services? Cashier for Walmart Christmas sales? The very definition of #CognitiveDissonance .
So, if you're just waking up, or catching up, I had my latest Covid shot yesterday. They weren't set to give a proper Influenza vax, so I have another appt today, to add that Salsa to the mix.
I arrived 20 minutes before my appt: the waiting area was shoulder to shoulder in 3 rows!
NO one was wearing a mask?
Just think about that? You realize, that we have a dangerous Covid virus still; you want to protect yourself, and you don't wear a mask before you get the vax? #CognitiveDissonance
"In other words, the more vegans hold non-vegans accountable; the more vegans are hated.
What’s fascinating is that in a follow-up study, they found that vegetarians and vegans do look down on omnivores somewhat, but nowhere to the extent that is perceived. Therefore vegan derogation is a preemptive strike against a vastly exaggerated threat."
People can get terribly upset with breaking the #taboo about describing authoritarian, would-be totalitarian organisations as authoritarian/would-be totalitarian. It's not surprising that this can happen even in open online communities, since authoritarian organisations are still legal in every(?) democracy. Accepting the compromise of co-existing with authoritarian organisations is distinct from the #CognitiveDissonance of denying that they are authoritarian.
"Standing offer for journalists: I'll help you get set up on Mastodon and will help you bring your Twitter audience along (and find new followers and rich engagement there). All I ask is that you migrate -- over time, not instantly -- your social media activity there."
My #glowup I was raised #Pentecostal & eventually #Mennonite. #fundamentalism ruled my life with an iron fist - until a series of calamities broke through my #cognitivedissonance. Eventually I divorced religion & set myself free. Now I’m a professional counsellor devoted to helping others on their journey from sacred to secular life. I founded CORT (the conference on religious trauma) & host the Divorcing Religion Podcast.
Our paper “No Research on a Dead Planet” is out today! Aaron Thierry is very much the lead author, but it’s been great working on this together with AT, Laura Horn and Charlie Gardner. Why do #Universities, #ClimateEmergency declarations and all, still largely continue with #BusinessAsUsual? For us it’s about #CognitiveDissonance as well as the structures of neoliberal #HE. HE needs to change & lead on true #ClimateAction. Open access @ScientistRebellion
This first part of a podcast about contradictions is really interesting and then becomes quite moving as they discuss applying theories around self-esteem and cognitive dissonance in education. https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/how-we-live-with-contradictions/
#ClimateDiary deeply moving personal account by Sue Slatford of how her home in #Norfolk was demolished, very suddenly, due to #CoastalErosion. As Sue says, with #ClimateCrisis and #SealevelRise this will affect more and more of us - we have so much coastline in the UK and it won’t all be protected. This sentence reallt got me:
@Judeet98 yes, i know, i too couldn’t help but think that. But people do do this. Somone told me recently that people also keep buying houses in wildfire prone areas - somehow many make decisions thinking they will be fine. #CognitiveDissonance etc
Still, i do feel for her, very much - it must make her feel even worse