Category: Culture (Page 4 of 22)
Mental Illness, Political Ideology, and Holding False Beliefs
Our recent Skeptic Research Center survey of over 3,000 Americans found that 67% of GenZ men and 72% of GenZ women (i.e., those born between 1997-2006) believe “mental health challenges are an important part of my identity.”
That doesn’t sound healthy.
Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, addressed the generals and admirals yesterday.
I have not been in the military, but get what Hegseth is going for. Good people are drawn to quality. Forty years ago, the Navy had the motto, “It’s not just a job, it’s an adventure.” Hegseth wants to appeal to people who want a challenge and are ready to work for it.
And it sounds so bleak.
Lying in bed this morning, I turned on the radio and got Canadian NPR instead of the regular kind. Here is what’s in the news up North.
New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered all military top brass to show up for a meeting at Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday. The generals and admirals aren’t used to traveling on short notice for a reason they don’t understand. They don’t mind issuing orders like that to the people under their command, but probably don’t like taking orders.
Building an audience on Youtube must be harder than it looks. The U.S. Secret Service only has 36k subscribers. Their videos are short, usually a minute or two, but interesting.
An Asian girl eating a bowl of soup can get 4 million subscribers on Youtube.
Federal Charges Filed Against Suspect in KXTV/ABC 10 Shooting
A guy shoots up a TV station in front of several witnesses, gets arrested, and is out on bail the next day. Nobody thinks that gun control is going to help.
Disney stars Mark Ruffalo, Pedro Pascal speak out to support Jimmy Kimmel
Celebrities boycott Disney in response to ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel. Perhaps we aren’t so different.
I’ve been watching Shoe0nHead videos for five or six years. She only puts out a video every month or so, but she is smart, interesting and has a completely different perspective. She’s got to be good to post a video that infrequently, and still have 2 million subscribers.
I am disengaged from popular culture, so there is no way that I’ve got the time or patience to participate in internet culture. She is a good way to learn what the cool kids on social media are talking about. It’s almost like listening to a good story teller from another country. And she’s cute.