u/Dangerous-Green-5663

“Science-slop” is a term I came up with to describe movies that people watch to feel smart and scientific. They’re incredibly boring sci fi movies that pretend to be profound and realistic but are really no different than a fantasy movie. They use big words that the average person can’t understand to seem like they adhere to the laws of science, but then take huge fantastical liberties that completely undermine the whole hard sci fi genre they try so desperately to fit into. Like in interstellar where cooper literally messes with his bookshelf in the past, or in PHM where the rock alien (wow! So realistic! A moving rock!) has some magical super strong epoxy that’s literally solid xenon (so realistic!). It just makes anyone with an ounce of scientific knowledge roll their eyes so much that they might as well become wheels.

It’s why I find it so cringy when someone tells me that one of these movies is there favorite movie. You can just tell that they don’t understand a lick of science, and just want to seem smart and intelligent. Like wow, you saw a dude in a ship powered by black goopy cells that also happen to be the entire problem of the movie meet a moving talking rock and thought “wow science! I wanna be just like him!” Like tbh they’re so far off the mark I don’t even know where to begin with them. If you put these people in a physics class, which they claim to love (Wow cooper saves the universe with relativity!), they’d be asleep in seconds.

If you wanna get into actual hard sci fi there are so many good shows/movies you could get into. Don’t buy into science slop and watch an actual realistic movie if that’s what you’re looking for.

Disclaimer: I’m not saying every movie has to be realistic. There’s nothing wrong with unrealistic fantasy movies, but trying to pass off fantasy as hard sci fi is where I have a problem.

Went to RTC for my little brothers graduation a week ago and while I was there I saw the weirdest thing ever. A group of Navy recruits integrated with marine recruits learning drill, being led by a USMC drill instructor. Since when do marine recruits train here, and why are they integrated with Navy recruits? I’ve been out 3 years so maybe there’s a new program I haven’t heard about, but I was so lost when I saw that lmao. Anyone know?

The idea that (some) incels are virgins because they’re hateful people with unpopular/violent viewpoints is true for many incels, but some are truly what the name implies: involuntarily celibate. It’s stupid to claim that there’s “someone out there for everyone” or some bs like that, because it’s just not true for the bottom 5% of men AND women. Some people are just so undesirable that not even people on their own level of attractiveness will find them attractive. It’s pretty horrible, but that’s the way life has been since life evolved.

However, this does not mean that these people, or anyone for that matter, is entitled to sex/love/human connection. I think it’s common knowledge that people aren’t entitled to anything that requires another human’s effort/voluntary interaction. I am truly sorry, but if no one finds you attractive, then it’s just the way things turned out. It’s not fair but it’s the way things are and will always be. Acknowledging that people like this exist and that not all incels are self inflicted is the first step towards solving the incel problem.