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• UncleBadTouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  personally, i only downvote loaded questions where the OP really has no interest in the answer example of a stupid question posted here “Why is science better than the alternative? (And what is that alternative, exactly?)”

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or that guy who was on about being stalked by feebs because he was an incel.

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    • justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      … or the guy who wanted to know how actors deal with turning evil IRL after having played evil characters.

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  • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s actually a very interesting question. The scientific method isn’t foolproof, but it’s the best we’ve got. Science is applying fundamental philosophy onto learning about reality.

    There are plenty of alternative ways of learning about the universe, and I’m sure you employ many of them as you go about your daily life, because it works in the most basic of cases.

    The scientific method is a very specific way of learning about the falsifiable universe, but if there’s no way to disprove an assertion, then you can’t “science” it.

    Of course, this is assuming the question is asked in good faith, because most of the time people are talking about science vs … they’re either pushing religion, or some sort of pseudo-scientific religion lite.

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• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Many people come here to ask bad faith questions. And they think people can’t tell.

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• RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Look I know it says NO stupid questions but there is a limit to everything right?*

  *this was a stupid question.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    it was also prompted by getting downvoted by a bad-faith question about politics

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    • dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Posts like this are almost always bad faith. A week or so ago, someone posted in asklemmy asking which sub was the worst community and said they had been banned from the hexbear urbanism community for disagreeing about trains but if you actually checked they got banned for calling all homeless people drug addicts.

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• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No idea. My instance ignores downvotes, so I never see them

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  • Trail@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here’s a downvote for you then. Maybe. Maybe not. Guess you’ll never know.

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    • ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the wonderful thing is, it makes no difference either way whether you downvoted or not. Well, unless you secretly upvoted me, which would make a difference.

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• kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People have a tendency to automatically hate on things. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Downvotes are meaningless. I’m more concerned with the discussions. Downvote me all you want. I don’t mind as long as you accurately address my comments/posts.

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