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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Good for hubby.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

In a normal society, there would be high pressure against this kind of behavior, and people would need to be tested at least once a year to stay educated. You don't really have free will if you can't make rational choices.

[–] [email protected] 160 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Sorry, but this is a bit too much of #thathappened for me.

[–] [email protected] 133 points 2 days ago (8 children)

ThatHappened is a flat circle. Sometimes things are so conveniently contrived looking that they did really happen. Truth is stranger than fiction.

The most believable part is that is what a Rogen fan would say.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

"And then everyone around us stood up and clapped at my husband's response."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Trust me, we don't.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (8 children)

doctors can have really shit opinions too

the real message is: every opinion must be scrutinized heavily, if it stands scrutiny maybe there's something there

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (15 children)

It depends on what they're talking about. I'll listen to and generally heed a doctors medical opinion, for example. Their political opinion? Eh..

Joe Rogan, who has doesn't have expertise in anything comparable to a doctors expertise in medicine, no way I'm talking anything he says at face value.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In my experience doctors can have some of the absolute worst opinions. Especially highly educated speciality doctors who have spent 1/3 of their life doing nothing but studying their very specific field. Lawyers too.

I work in IT and they can be some of the worst users to work with.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Specialists are experts in their field. Much like many of the IT people they fall into the trap of “Im smart because my job requires it so therefore every opinion I have is intelligent” and that simply isn’t how it really works.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Honestly this is true of many smart people in specialized professions

Infamously software developers are fucking knuckle dragging morons about anything that has nothing to do with what they're good at, but they think they're god kings and think the world works like a computer

The only hallmark of intelligence I subscribe to is when someone just acknowledges they don't know everything and listen. Everyone else is doom spiraling into thought terminating patterns while thinking they're right

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Doctors and PhD's are not necessarily intellectuals.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 2 days ago (6 children)

"Did you just invoke 'intellect' and 'Joe Rogan' in the same breath?"

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I honestly don’t know. It would be completely justified if women flipped out more often.

I like her husband’s response, though.

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