It doesn’t matter. They were dead to me a long time ago.

Blood for the Blood God Red Cross

McDs also had an excellent salad wrap for a couple of years.

Taco Bell Choco-Taco. Yeah, the reanimated corpse of it lives on in some gas station frozen sections, but it’s a shitty product. The original one sold at Taco Bell in the 90s was god tier.

The vast majority of people believe whatever the fuck they’re told to believe.

As a large language model, I cannot endorse any one religion

You can absolutely present a complicated topic to someone who isn’t educated in that field, or even has low education at all, if you are being humble about how you explain it and try to meet them at eye-level.

I vehemently disagree. Some people (maybe most people) are too stupid to understand nuance. They need to be told what to think.

Perhaps this is just a failing of our educational system and not a fact of human psychology, but it’s still the condition of the world today.

It sounds to me like they should be at the “stfu and listen to science” little kids’ table if they’re in danger of falling victim to superstitious bullshit.

Are these people really “otherwise intelligent” though?

Depends on your audience.

If your audience is stupid, tell them to stfu and listen to the science. They’re too dumb to think about why they believe anything, they just need to be told what to believe. So as a bulwark against religious superstition, you tell them to stfu and listen to science.

If your audience is intelligent, then there’s no risk of them being suckered in by religious superstition, then you can have a discussion about the merits and processes of current scientific methods and theories, differing viewpoints, and degrees of confidence in the scientific community.

This applies to a lot of topics.

Talking to a stupid independent voter? “Vote for Biden or Trump will destroy democracy.” Talking to a smart independent voter? “Biden is definitely wrong on several issues, we should try to push him in a better direction.”

Talking to a stupid computer user? “Don’t try to change any of these files.” Talking to a smart computer user? “Here’s what happens when you change these files.”

To a stupid person, about the economy: “listen to the data!”

To a smart person, about the economy: “The metrics which the CPI uses are flawed.”

Etc etc. There’s always a complex, nuanced, correct answer, and a simple, straightforward, wrong answer. Because reality is complicated. So for stupid people you give them a simple, straightforward, mostly true answer to combat the simple, straightforward false one vying for their pair of brain cells.

Ha!

Q: what is a vector? A: it is a vector

Understanding context is a skill that has atrophied in younger generations. Reading comprehension is not really being taught in school anymore.

It’s infectuous

Both replies, but not the downvotes

Not trolling per se, more like an experiment.

I agree with OP that I’m sick of brain dead people picking some random bullshit to engage in. But clearly lemmy as a community has lost the ability to “don’t feed the troll”. Or in other words, lemmings get just as angry against the random bullshit as the random bullshitter is angry for his random bullshit.

The correct response to my post should have been “that’s probably satire”. Instead lemmy went 😡😡😡

I didn’t forget, I left it off to see what would happen. Went about as I expected.

I left reddit because I fucking hate the company.

But I’m not happy here because I fucking hate the users.

That’s some fucking ableist bullshit, not everyone is neurotypical you know. Fucking bigot.