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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Girl With Not Tits Comes Up To You And Says, "I've Got 5 bucks on my EBT card how do you wanna spend it?" What Do You Say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Je ne pas parle englais

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Users On Other Instances Still Considered 'People'? Or Are We The Only Ones Who Have Souls?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guy Literally Told Me He'd Get Murdered If He Joined Drama Class In His High School⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, acting like he’s acting will get him bullied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of Britons 'struggling' under worst cost of living crisis in a generation, poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  shutting down the productive world economy

  World record money printing

  Government debt at all time highs in every country

  Government spending still not under control

  “Why would greedy corporations do this?”

  We shoot ourselves in the head then blame the ant next to us for the pain in our head. “You must’ve bit me! Why would you do that?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government ignored its own experts over wildlife protection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. Elected officials aren’t just there to spin a roulette wheel of experts and then slavishly implement whatever those experts propose.

  Being around experts at times, I know full well that most experts end up with tunnel vision. They see the one thing that they care about, to the exclusion of all the other things.

  In such a situation, you can end up with an absurdity such as spending massive resources on something that doesn’t really matter when something that matters a whole lot ends up getting completely ignored because you don’t have any experts that care about that thing. I know an engineer who would take virtually any job, and start planning to tear out everything that’s already there and completely redo it because it’s usually not installed to his standard. Well that’s great, but when the job is to do something like setting up a new button, a job that would take an hour and it’s going to take 6 months. The expert opinion of what’s best and the holistic opinion of finding a balance between what’s best and what’s practical are at odds.

  In the 1800s, a Hungarian doctor practicing in Switzerland proposed washing your hands thoroughly in between handling and giving birth to children. At that time, the difference between giving birth using a midwife and giving birth using an expert doctor was a massive difference in mortality rate, having a child with a doctor was a death sentence for the child and potentially for the mother. The experts of the day scoffed at him and he was widely maligned, and he died in an asylum.

  Experts created the field of eugenics, And without considering anything else the theory of evolution suggests that the field of eugenics is factually grounded in reality if you are an expert with blinders on. It’s only when you draw your view out that you realize the societal implications of policies based on eugenics and the fact that they are evil. (There was some debate a couple years ago as to whether eugenics was practically effective, which is an absurd argument. We know that it works, because we do it all the time on domesticated species. If you select for plants that grow bigger fruit, then you’re going to get bigger fruit.)

  In the past, the entrenched opinion of experts was that racism is factually correct. There were swaths of experts who would tell you what ethnicity people were based on the measurements of their skull, and they could tell you how superior ones bloodline was based on that. In that case the experts were wrong and evil. While its true they were quacks, they were credentialed and esteemed quacks.

  Experts in Archaeology believed for a long time that myths were just made up stories, but some people decided to check out the locations mentioned in the stories and were surprised to find archeological evidence of some parts of those myths. The Minoan civilization was completely lost to history until relatively recently, buried in the myth of Theseus. This shows that folk wisdom (which obviously isn’t always correct or fully correct as the myth is twisted by thousands of years of retelling) is sometimes more instructive than the experts.

  In 2007, the experts all agreed that the economy was stronger than ever before and there couldn’t possibly be a financial crash. Once the crash occurred, there was a huge amount of tax money (and debt) spent bailing out banks and putting the gas on “the economy”, and many expert economists believed it recovered. In reality, their aggregate view missed that some regions were becoming incredibly rich and some regions were dying based in part on the consequences of expert interventions, so not only did they cause harm, but they didn’t (and in many cases still don’t) realize they were doing so and in fact believed they had succeeded.

  In 2021, the experts all agreed that inflation was transitory and no action needed to be taken because it would disappear on its own. Outsiders were yelling from the rooftops about inflation as early as mid-2020 but were told they were wrong and stupid and ignorant and not an expert.

  Experts helped develop a climate change policy that provided carbon credits if a company disposed of the hydrofluorocarbon HFC-23, which was a chemical mostly used to produce HFC-22. Factories started to produce HFC-22 with the express intent of creating and destroying HFC-23 because the carbon credits were worth more than the HFC-22 produced at the end. When this scam was exposed (in fact the scheme ended up incentivizing the use of now inexpensive HFC-22 instead of more environmentally friendly options), China then threatened to release the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, in what many called “Climate Blackmail”.

  So the job of a representative isn’t to try to be an expert themselves, but to be well-rounded and aggregate many different sources of information including experts from a number of different fields who may have conflicting opinions on a subject, as well as personal experience and wisdom, in a way that a specialist in one field cannot. That means that often you do what the expert suggests, but other times you don’t because the world is more complicated than just asking one question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government ignored its own experts over wildlife protection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather neither and they do what they think is best based on a broad set of sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government ignored its own experts over wildlife protection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  to be fair, the point of parliamentary democracy within a constitutional monarchy is that the government made up of MPs elected by the people makes the final decision, not the experts.

  If we are going to blindly do whatever experts tell us to do instead of letting elected governments make the final decision, then we might as well save everyone the trouble – just have the King hire experts and give the experts absolute power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Will Win Fam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These people work in the next fiscal quarter, we need to be thinking and acting in the next 100, 200, 500, 1000 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hi and Lo directions on my range’s knobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  (What the hail?)[www.youtube.com/shorts/zGe8AnSi8sI]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use RSS for lemmy or kbin communities. I’ve got nextcloud news for RSS feeds, and lemmy for communities I can interact with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yall sleeping O_O ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did. Now the cycle starts again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rail electrification plans fall far short of UK net zero targets, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all just an accounting trick anyway. “Good news, we’re net zero!” oh, so we don’t use fossil fuels? “Nope! China uses them all and builds all our stuff in giant coal pollution factories, but WE’RE net zero!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Holding The Ten Commandments Hostage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as you didn’t steal them it’s halal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yall sleeping O_O ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  First day this week I got a good night sleep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man I Use To Drink A Lot When I Was A Teenager⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I started drinking that crystal light caffeinated stuff, and I’ve massively increased the amount I drink in a day since I’m almost always drinking at least two full 1l jugs of the stuff over the course of a day in addition to whatever else I drink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the hell cuts their pizza into fifths?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like that time I only had two drinks – a bottle of wine and a bottle of vodka. (oh my god I died for the next two days don’t do what I did)

  Can’t get mad at me for having only two drinks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Increase in Miscarriages, Stillbirths Directly Linked to COVID Shots, Data Show — Health Officials ‘Should Have Known’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife was pressured to get the shot early on in her pregnancy, and she refused. Of course we took all the measures to make sure she didn’t get sick during pregnancy, but in the end I’m so thankful she went that way. Our son has transformed our lives, we didn’t want to take a risk on an untested experimental drug.

  Expecting mothers can’t use hardly any routinely prescribed drugs. Most of them aren’t approved for use on pregnant women and cannot be approved for use on pregnant women because testing drugs that might harm a fetus isn’t ethical.

  Anyone saying they knew it was safe and had tested it thoroughly in this instance is clearly wrong. It takes 9 months to make a baby, and it takes a long term to complete long term testing. Put it together, and corners were definitely cut.

  America doesn’t have a universal healthcare system for people, but it has a long-standing public healthcare system for corporations, and I’m certain that the corners that were cut (that I should remind everyone they aren’t liable for in the least thanks to the laws around it) helped the quarterly reports of the drug companies greatly, thank goodness! Could you imagine if the multinational drug companies had some trouble because of the global pandemic? What would our society even look like!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a horse and pony show. Nobody really goes to jail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The plural of anecdote is not data. One outlier doesn’t change a decades long trend. (They say that a lot with climate change, where one cool summer doesn’t mean it isn’t happening, and one cool day definitely doesn’t mean it isn’t happening)

  Hunter was actually about to get away scot-free, and it was only because his counsel did something so unimaginably egregious as directly defraud the court by sending a fraudulent email purporting to be from the state prosecutor to get an inconvenient piece of data removed from the record.

  Every other data point until now says that any time this crime family is caught doing something bad the entire global establishment is there to bail them out including dropping charges that would stick for anyone else, hundreds of intelligence officials signing a letter claiming a true piece of evidence was faked by Russia, impeaching a sitting president for just mentioning it to another president, and overall the media and the police and the courts giving them sweetheart deals to keep any consequences from happening.

  It’s crazy how a political party that sees privilege in Appalachian trailer parks magically goes three monkeys when it’s a former vice president’s son.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra Says Offer To SAG-AFTRA Was “Best Ever Made” — AVP Summit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s all it was, then they’d be able to pop out a pay increase and end things. There’s a lot of other stuff on the table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra Says Offer To SAG-AFTRA Was “Best Ever Made” — AVP Summit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect this is occurring because everyone knows establishment media is dying and people are trying to get the nicest deck chair on the titanic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samuel L. Jackson Claims Strange Film Editing May Have Cost Him Academy Award Consideration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I AM MOTHERFUCKING ACCEPTING THIS MOTHERFUCKING OSCAR!