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[–] [email protected] 0 points 23 hours ago

The fact that a "charitable" organisation has $880M to pay out should be ringing a few bells too I think!

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

"Nasty-Ass Sex" or "Nasty Ass-Sex" ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Are they in charge of securing government contracts for their clients?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can I just add that "fucking Buck rogers" is an excellent phrase and all three words can mean sex and when combined they don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Knowing Westeros he probably got paid in wheat and barley 🙄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

I agree.

I have all these images in my head and zero artistic skills to create them.

Thanks AI, if indeed that is your real name, for helping me with Visual aids for my teaching work!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Statistically, it's both

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Yup.

They were geographically limited and not as dark as reported

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (14 children)

There's fewer people in poverty now than at any point in history.

The world has always been getting better in global measures of health, food and education if you consider all of humanity.

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

Yeah, but what is it really?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thankfully it doesn't say it all.

Media doesn't report it all, just the parts that keep people scared.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I don't have that contradiction personally. I love animals but only when they're alive so I only eat the dead ones.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

He wants to be a meme so much, it'll be in the manifesto

 
 
 

The internet has made a lot of people armchair experts happy to offer their perspective with a degree of certainty, without doing the work to identify gaps in their knowledge. Often the mark of genuine expertise is knowing the limitations of your knowledge.

This isn't a social media thing exclusively of course, I've met it in the real world too.

When I worked as a repair technician, members of the public would ask me for my diagnosis of faults and then debate them with me.

I've dedicated the second half of my life to understanding people and how they work, in this field it's even worse because everyone has opinions on that topic!

And yet my friend who has a physics PhD doesn't endure people explaining why his theories about battery tech are incorrect because of an article they read or an anecdote from someone's past.

So I'm curious, do some fields experience this more than others?

If you have a field of expertise do you find people love to debate you without taking into account the gulf of awareness, skills and knowledge?

 
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