Intellectual

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• KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Honestly, it’s exhausting on the ego, though, because I constantly question myself and I’m aware of how much I don’t know. From the outside, that does make me seem deficient.

  I think that’s partly why the debate bro energy caught on, you don’t actually need to know anything. You just need to project strength.

  The irony is that real knowledge feeds more doubt, not less. The more you learn, the more you see the edges of your own ignorance.

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• idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I changed my mind on something a month ago that I would get lynched for on here if I shared it.

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  • musubibreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Please share so we can lynch you. Was it linux related?

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    So you finally admit it? I fucking knew you were lying.

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• FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m tired of people who are clever with regard to one thing thinking that they’re right about everything

  You’re not a genius, you’re autistic, and your one nice subject of interest isn’t actually making the world a better place

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• Jimbo@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I freaking love being wrong, mostly because most of the things I predict are bad/stupid things and heyyy look at that, everything is going to shit just like I thought it would. I would LOVE for something to surprise me.

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

    Being a pessimist is great because you’re either right or pleasantly surprised.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been told for years I’m overreacting about international politics, Fascism spreading in USA, Climate change, and lately, Fascism spreading in Europe.

    I am so fucking sick of being right all the time, but I just can’t stop. Everything keeps getting worse. It’s like we’ve all adopted Russia’s political roadmap: “Everything fucking sucked, and then it got worse”.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      you would call it Cassandra syndrome, but some Cunt stole that term already

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have predicted pretty everything that has happened since 9/11

    I hate being right about things that are so fucked

    I’ve been right about the good things too, but unfortunately they’re less frequent than the shitty stuff at the moment

    And by “moment”, I mean last 25 bloody years…

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  • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was surprised three times about a political thing in the last months:

    1. The Trump administration hasn’t cracked down on leftists (yet).
    2. AfD is starting to lose more in eastern Germany
    3. My city (Munich) elected a young Green promising to lower rent instead of some older social Democrat literally promising nothing new.

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• belunos@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL: Taking mushrooms and experiencing ego death makes you a superior intellectual. Well I have those qualities, and I assure you, I’m not an intellectual

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you’re more of an intellectual than a “140iq superior intellect” person who is blinded by their own ability to solve puzzles and thinks they’re better than everyone else and never wrong about anything

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The Ben Shapiro types. Okay, yeah yeah, you’re smart on paper, but you’re dumb as shit.

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Who wants ORAL SEX?

  Who wants TO GO SECOND?

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    oh no, someone put yummy sauce on this yummy snack, what will I do???

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  • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yeah sure, that’s the preferred order. I need go get turned on as well and giving one is better than receiving one anyway.

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  • Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll take seconds!

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    • testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok, who wants to go third?

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don't let this man know the power of the 69

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This meme kind of sums up a lot of my Reddit experience and why I left.

  Not because people shouldn’t question themselves or accept they might be wrong. That is healthy. The problem is how often that idea gets turned into a performance.

  A lot of Reddit now feels less like people having a conversation and more like people trying to prove they are the only enlightened person in the room. Every joke gets dissected. Every casual comment becomes a debate. Every disagreement gets reframed as “you just didn’t understand,” “you’re emotional,” or “you need to question your beliefs.”

  It stops being curiosity and becomes status-seeking and ultimatly boring as fuck. Been so nice to have actual convosations where if I have my view challenged and changed it’s not a huge reaction.

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    That’s what’s refreshing on Lemmy people will contradict you or call you out for ranting, but almost always in a respectful way. Unless you mention libidos, some people get really upset about that, lol.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not Reddit. I know quite a few people who seem to think anyone will agree with them if they just explain it properly.

    Because it is entirely impossible for someone to disagree with them, so if you don’t hold the same opinion, it’s because you don’t understand things well enough.

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I stopped thinking this way when I realized why the tortoise wins the race and not the hare. People often just… don’t do things they should do, even when they’re aware of their responsibilities, and understand how easy it would be. Like reassessing your beliefs when confronted with a fact you can’t argue with - it’s easy to do, but people just… don’t. This just didn’t click for me. For decades I thought everyone would naturally have the motivation to do something simple, maybe not right away, but eventually.

      Slow and steady wins the race not because it’s better than being quick and nimble, but because the person who can do it effortlessly knows how easy it would be, and puts it off to the point where it never gets done. So the person who gets off their ass and gets things done will win even if they’re slow. The motivation to do things is more important than the skill to do them easily.

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is intrinsic to idealist thinking. Liberals literally think history is a struggle of ideas and the most correct ones will win if everyone just sits down and thinks about it.

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  • TheYojimbo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re emotional

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    • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rheeeeeee🤣

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• Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah sure, i like it. Opens up new possibilities and thinking patterns. That has been kinda useful over the years.

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• Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  is that bugs bunny on the podium?

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