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To clarify here, I don't feel like I'm significantly smarter than most people, but I feel like people have a hard time doing any sort of thinking about stuff. Especially when it comes to verifying "facts."

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

More like 99.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's be honest, it's because the yanks dominate Lemmy and Reddit and I've had custard that's less thick than most of them πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The last time someone said they felt this way they later removed all doubt they were a secret asshole, and had no empathy one major presidential election later. Take a close look at the person you are and what you want to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Snark mode activated: After reading through the "Threads Federation" comments, and seeing what opinions/comments are currently most popular, I'm going to go with YES.

But jokes aside, my actual personal opinion is no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

can't say about rest of the population but when I read about some great people, I feel there's too much to learn and too little time.
and it happens every single day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It definitely seems like 90 percent of people will twist themselves into knots to find a way to defend their beliefs regardless of how wrong those beliefs might be, morally and factually.

Admitting that you are wrong is hard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

That's because you don't realize the stupid things you're doing or thinking.

The scientific method is the only way we know to reliably discover actual facts, and even with it it can take decades to see through some bullshit we consider as facts.

If you add manipulation, dΓ©ception and lies, you can't blame people for being mistaken or stupid. You can blame them for being assholes though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

op, it's not just you, i promise. πŸ™‚

i encourage you to watch this in it's entirety. while it covers a different life story, it explores some avenues of what you are possibly feeling when you ask this question.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmI_VBp9QU0

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