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[–] Lucky13@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Try being a woman and talking to a mechanic or anybody working at an auto parts store.

[–] snapoff@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or try being a woman working at an autoparts store

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

Owch. Yeah, that's hard mode.

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[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

While hilarious...that's what's breeding the rise of the shit show of anti-science. We can't just call morons morons anymore. They go back to truth social, find all the other morons and pretend like they know better.

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[–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 61 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Joe Rogan, Shapiro, and j Peterson is what you called pseudo-intellectuals

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The problem with this world is that a lot of people enjoy EVERYTHING on a surface level.

I keep getting reminded of my "gamer" years when I played league of legends. When I started, I was clueless and bad. And I found a YouTube channel which made fun educational videos.

Initially I learned a lot but over time, I realized how bad the advice was at times, which changed my consumption of the content. At the end, the content didn't teach me anything and the suggestions of the creator seemed to be focused on messing with bad players and not actually playing good.

I started to watch better players and learned more from them.

To me, fans of these guys stopped at the first step. They want educational content but they don't actually want to learn and so don't actually think about the content and can't outgrow it.

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[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 156 points 3 days ago (10 children)

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

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 127 points 3 days ago (7 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.

[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

maybe it's less of a flat circle and more of a downward spiral.. or maybe things are just getting more and more stupid every day.. or maybe it's a cyclical decline.. or maybe THE PRESIDENT IS SELLING CARS AT THE WHITE HOUSE

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe the first part. I dont believe the quick and clean comeback.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I do. Because it's not the first time that someone talked down to his doctor wife, and it won't be the last.

I'm sure the first time he said nothing, but by the fifteenth time, you get good at it.

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hate to say this, but this is one of the most Reddit flavoured “thathappened” posts I’ve seen on lemmy

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

One of the wisest things I've ever heard is "White people should be lucky that black people only want equality, revenge would be perfectly understandable at this point."

The more I learn about black history, as in the history of what white people have been doing to black people since the latter was dragged kicking and screaming to America, the more I appreciate the phrase. It's honestly some of the most horrific shit I've ever had the displeasure of learning.

And just to clarify. I'm not black, I'm a pale transchick from the 90's who's whiter than sour cream, I've seen Wayne's World 69,420 times and it keeps getting funnier every time I see it.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you really want to be disgusted read A People's History by Zinn

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Still doing it, even the Liberals who think they're anti-Racist, because huge levels of discrimination on the basis of wealth and very low social mobility are core to preserving the oppression of the descendants of people such as freed slaves and inflicting on them the constante suffering which is a live of poverty in a Capitalist system:

  • When released, the slaves were poor compared to the rest and, because of being poor they and their children had to live in worse places, were not part of the landowner class and did not have access to the same opportinities as the rest (all the while the active discrimination on the color of their skin continued, making things worse). Fast forward to the modern days and whilst direct discrimination on the color of their skin is a lot less than a mere 50 years ago, you still have lots of Afro-Americans living in ghettos, oppressed via their poverty and with their children having far fewer opportunities to improve their lot in life than the rest.

This is why the fight against Inequality must include fighting Wealth Inequality and Discrimination on the basis of Wealth: even if other kinds of inequality of treatment were magically eliminated tomorrow, Wealth Discrimination is by far the main mechanism of hurting those victims and their descendants (poor people live much more painful lives, from the quality of their dwellings and even the bed they sleep in, to that of their food and their personal safety, to the point that their Life Expectancy is a at least a decade less than rich people) and Wealth Inequality bakes in the past injustices (by denying the same opportunities to the descendants of those who are past victims of other kinds of discrimination, for example because poor neighbourhoods have worse schools and poored people don't have the same access to universities when those institutions are private and have high attendance fees and non-meritocratic components to their selection process).

In summary, people pushed down the Wealth scale (or never allowed to move up) by other kinds of Discrimination are inflicted pain and suffering via the mechanisms of Wealth Discrimination and their descendants are denied the same opportunities that others have to improve their lot in life by the very same mechanisms.

In practice American Liberals are a mix of hypocrites and useful idiots because, whilst claiming to be against discrimination, they refuse to address the biggest one, which is the main pathway for inflicting life-long suffering to the victims of other kinds of widespread discrimination and for transmitting that status of victim down the generations long after the original kind of discrimination has lessened or even dissapeared.

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[–] T156@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Some people believe that they are taking just that, hence all the terror around Great Replacement theory, or the moral downfall of society because people aren't partaking of mass in purest Latin.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 21 points 3 days ago

When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Joe Rogan is a caveman, but I hate this mentality.

I've had a ton of horrible experiences with doctors. Misdiagnosis, given bad medication, bad medical advice, etc. A common trait all of them had extreme arrogance. They all thought they had all the answers, and that modern medicine was infallible.

If you had an issue they couldn't put a clear label on fairly quick or weren't responding to treatment in a textbook way, then that was somehow your fault. Either you were lying, or exaggerating, or it was all just in your head.

I'm not alone in this experience. Basically every American with any sort of complex health issues has had a bad experience at the hands of someone who claims to be an expert. That's on top of the medical establishment letting bad medicine go on for years, because they are extremely reluctant to admit they don't have all the answers.

Obviously, none of that makes Joe Rogan any sort of intellectual or trusted authority on anything except bro science. How you can't expect people to have unflinching trust in doctors when doctors let people down so often.

[–] owl@infosec.pub 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Doctors sadly are drilled to produce results in an industrial manner. Strange edge cases are relegated to research, but if a doctor has to work off many patients, a patient who needs thought or patience is just irritating.

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[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

I think on this particular example, the focus was less on the medical doctor aspect and more on the PhD. The woman has achieved the pinnacle of institutional knowledge in her field by fostering her intellect while dog breath across the table talks down to her about muscly podcast man who told everyone to take horse dewormer for COVID.

I agree using "doctor" as an indicator of intellect can fall short, I think that is tangential to the point her husband was making. Also, good husband stepping up to bat when the coworker starts mansplaining to his wife...

[–] TheGoddessAnoia@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Um... if you look at the post again, you will find that the doctor in question is a PhD, admittedly in neuroscience, which does produce results used by medical doctors. But there is no indication the woman in question has ever, or will ever, practise medicine in a clinical setting. For that matter, there is only the inference from the mention of a US podcast that she is even American, mmm?

But, then, I infer from your userrname that you are male, and from your post that you are American. So I am not, at this point in history, terribly surprised if you have jumped to a wrong conclusion about the actual content of a woman's doctorate.

Signed, another woman with a doctorate that has nothing whatsoever to do with practising medicine in the USA, although you'd never know it from the number of Americans who immediately tell me their symptoms upon introduction. (Ah, yes! I think Napoleon died of something similar on Ste. Helena. Or possibly he was poisoned. But then French history is not my field, either.)

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[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (9 children)

I'll take things that never happened for 500 Alex

This reads like a shower argument I have when alone

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[–] abobla@lemm.ee 47 points 3 days ago
[–] _____@lemm.ee 71 points 3 days 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

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 31 points 3 days ago (14 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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[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days 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.

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 100 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Joe Rogan is fairly intelligent compared to some of his guests

[–] goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 3 days ago

but then again, so is a bottle of lukewarm seltzer water.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pride of Ignorance. Its something we should bully out of people. Nobody should be so proud to be so dumb. Its fine to be dumb, but nobody should revel in it.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 81 points 3 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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I schooled another man about my wife's competence. A doctor's a doctor! - title of this as a moderately upvoted repost on reddit with mostly positive, supportive comments

Thank you to all the good men who defend their wives like DH did for me! We love you! - title of a less upvoted and commented on reddit repost the next day

OP: My husband's nazi coworker was blatantly sexist to me at a company dinner - "where do you live dumb cunt imma swat your house," "men are people too, not everything is nazis, feminist bitch" brigade, "why are you dividing the movement for equality" Civilized Discussion and Debate, redditcares messages in her inbox

There is nothing admirable about letting a fascist rant about hate and nonsense, while the ape of a host goes “never thought of it that way, interesting” while legitimizing the nonsense

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I’m sorry but I have a neuroscience degree and I think this is a fart sniffing post. The broader point is real though

[–] Blankgeorge@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

Good for hubby.

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