Comment on Anon is worried about men

• rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I would honestly say your friend misunderstood the message as well if that was her takeaway.

  Unlikely - she was and still is a professor teaching women’s studies at the local university. Published, too. She’s hardly a nobody.

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I had a physics professor tell me about free energy. Having a degree is not 100% effective in curing stupid.

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    • zibwel@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Free energy is literally a thing in thermodynamics though?

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      • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, I mean the quack bullshit about creating energy from nothing. And not just some theoretical framework, as in technically, this could yield a net positive somehow, no. My guy was convinced he could build it himself from tinfoil and strings, if “the establishment” didn’t oppress him (meaning his coworkers and bosses told him it’s stupid).

        Fucking wild. Imagine it being that easy, and everybody in the world is either too dumb to come to the same conclusion or in the pocket of Big Oil. Not even, like, a North Korean mad scientist trying to one-up the capitalist pigs? Yeah, sure.

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    • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I had a physics professor tell me about free energy. Having a degree is not 100% effective in curing stupid.

      There are physicists that don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that is to be expected because that subject isn’t in their wheelhouse; it isn’t their bread-and-butter. So they are lacking a lot of the data that would allow them to make correct decisions regarding factuality.

      But when most of an academic field is saying the exact same thing about a core subject that is at the foundation of their discipline, imma not gonna be arrogant enough to presume that they’re wrong. I’m going to take them exactly at their word.

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      • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Out of curiosity, have some sources for “most of the academic field”? It sounds like some sociology/psychology thing.

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  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s actually even worse 😬

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