Critical thinking has to be taught in order for a person have it. And when you either restrict/limit education (for example, making it so that one needs a lot of money for proper schooling, thus barring lower classes from getting the education they need) or alter the education to become indoctrination. (These methods are most efficient combined!) It’s why authoritarian people and parties want to control and/or destroy education systems so bad.

Being a history nerd, I’ve been convinced that the vast majority of people can be tricked into believing nearly anything. No one is immune to propaganda, it’s just a matter of circumistances and the education you receive.

If you had grew up in a society where everyone told you that, say, pigs are a type of lizard, and your school taught you that pigs are lizards, all biologists were bribed or forced into saying pigs are lizards, and all the books you read and all the movies or shows you watched said pigs are lizards, chances are that you would believe pigs are lizards.

I’d also like to note that the above scenario would work especially well if you had never actually spent time with pigs. For example, it’s a lot easier to convince someone that gay people are evil if they don’t personally know any gay people.

I also think that often people know that, for example, elections are fraudulent, but they are too scared to say anything and thus act like they aren’t.

It’s a matter of perspective. When you study ancient history, the French Revolution is basically yesterday. When you don’t, a few of decades ago is nearly primordial times.

I’m the former, and to me the 50s are very, very recent times.

WHAT

I’ve been in a similar situation. As another user already said, you should be direct about it. Pick a good time (when they are not doing it) and simply explain that they are loud and ask them to be more quiet.

If you still want to be subtle, maybe try knocking/hitting the wall between your rooms, this will probably be noticed if it’s night, and they could realise that they’re bothering you.

Seems to me that it’s a rectangular cloth draped around the body and kept together by a pin.

Okay. Name an authoritarian ruler who was deposed with absolutely no violence.

TRANSfats?!??!!!?? The wokes are trying to force us to be trans by putting ‘transfats’ in our food!!

I beg your pardon?

I think it means using an enema made for donkeys for yourself.

and ugly and wasteful and horrible for biodiversity

Sheep won’t do that voluntarily either I think, grazing animals need a variety of plants to be healthy.

No one. It started out as a status symbol, to show off that you can afford have a bunch of empty space in your yard as opposed to using it (for buildings or growing food) and the time to/the ability to have a servant maintain it, and unfortunately now you’re excepted to waste time and water in order to do ecological damage.

Congratulations. You have invented the jacket.

Sounds alot like you could be some flavor of aro.

Have you considered that you may be on the aromantic spectrum? To me it sounds like despite experiencing sexual attraction, you feel little to no romantic attraction.

Are there spiders that eat mammals??

I’ve now written the scene with death cap mushrooms, but I’ll keep this in mind if I decide to change it later. Ty!

Those are some great tits.

Finn here, anyone who sexualises sauna nudity is a complete idiot. YOU DON’T FUCKING WEAR ANYTHING IN THE SAUNA, PERIOD.