• Lord Wiggle
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    07 months ago

    I rather have a source to support a claim instead of “but it’s how I feel so it’s real! Scientists don’t know anything, stop debunk my feelings with facts because I know I’m right! I read it on Facebook!”

    We need more reliable and supported sources and less fake news.

  • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    07 months ago

    F’real I think my kids have had maybe one snow day so far, and my oldest is in second grade. We live in southeast Mass.

    I thought about buying a new snowblower, but the fact is that I think we had maybe one storm in the past 5 or 6 years where I actually would’ve used my old one. The little dustings we had were easily cared for by a shovel.

    I also have a part of my driveway that has a lot of tree overhang and never really gets much snow on it. It also happens that the winter morning sun has a direct path to this patch of asphalt, so if we get only an inch or two, it’ll all melt away as soon as the sun comes up. Assuming it’s not too overcast.

    • @IMongoose@lemmy.world
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      07 months ago

      Covid killed snow days around here, they are now e-learning days. They figure if teachers could handle an entire year of e-learning one day is nothing.

    • WIZARD POPE💫
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      07 months ago

      Same here in Slovenia. 15 years ago we had at least 30cm ofsnow each winter that would stuck around. Now if we even get any snowfall and not just rain it either rains the same day and the snow is gone, or the rain comes a day later and the snow is once again gone.

      • @CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee
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        07 months ago

        There must be a way to have winter back. We have to do it for future generations at any cost. I refuse to live in a tropical hell just because some CEOs couldn’t fuck off.

      • @pfm@scribe.disroot.org
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        07 months ago

        Obviously, that’s what the “arms race” refers to. Birds used to have very strong arms which they used while racing in their super-fast arm bikes.

    • Lord Wiggle
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      07 months ago

      Source? Because that’s so not true. Birds are an invention by the government, they are robots to spy on us. The government wants us to believe they always existed. It’s all fabricated lies created by the government. Source

      I fucking hate newsletter emails but this is the only site I registered for one. I’m launching my ass off every single time. 😂 I love satire haha

  • @Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
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    07 months ago

    People who make memes mocking the expectation of a source are the ones responsible for the downfall of society

    • ComradeSharkfuckerOP
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      Not everything needs a source. There is such thing as “common knowledge” . Things get very out of hand and very messy if you try to source EVERY claim. Obviously there are limits to this and I put common knowledge in quotes for a reason but seriously I mean it when I say not everything needs a source.

  • @root_beer@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    Hidden panel: guy on left saying “google it yourself, don’t expect me to have to teach you anything”

    Why should anyone ever have to substantiate their claims???

    • NutWrench
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      07 months ago

      I would just assume that anyone who needed a cite for really obvious stuff is just trolling.

      • @root_beer@midwest.social
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        07 months ago

        Yeah, I suppose the obvious stuff, sure

        Guess I’m just rankled by seeing so many people making baseless claims and then telling everyone to figure it out themselves when they get called out on it, and it’s not the same as this.

  • @zeppo@lemmy.world
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    07 months ago

    I’ve definitely noticed people who challenge anything you say by asking for a source, but make tons of unsourced claims themselves.

  • Corgana
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    07 months ago

    I think it’s totally reasonable to ask for a source about a historical claim if something hasn’t been true for over a decade?

  • @Nyanix@lemmy.ca
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    07 months ago

    ngl, I don’t comment nearly as often anymore out of concern for anything I say to be misconstrued, argued, or wanting verification like this meme. Ya’ll, I’ve got a job and a life, I can’t/don’t want to sit here and fight people. The worst gets assumed of anything and it gets difficult to have productive, much less positive discourse online.

    • @Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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      07 months ago

      What, feeling too good for an unproductive Internet fight with strangers who probably would agree with you if they could read?

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      This is also due to a distinct drop in reader comprehension. One of the largest parts of reading comprehension is being able to infer the intended audience for a particular piece of work. You should be able to read a news article, see a commercial, read a comment, etc and infer who it is aimed at. And the answer is usually not “me”.

      People have become accustomed to having an algorithm that is laser focused to their specific preferences. So when they see something that’s not aimed at them it is jarring, and they tend to get upset. Instead of going “oh this clearly isn’t aimed at me, but I can infer who the intended audience is. I’ll move on.” Now they tend to jump on the creator with whataboutisms and imagined offense.

      Maybe you make a post about the proper way to throw a football. You’ll inevitably get a few “bUT wHaT abOUt WhEElcHaiR uSerS, I hAvE a baD ShoUlDer aNd cAn’T thROW SO wHaT abOUt me, I haTE FoOtbAll wHY aRe yOU SHowiNG tHIs to Me, etc” types of comments. It’s because those users have lost the ability to infer an intended audience. They automatically assume everything they see is aimed at them, and get offended when it isn’t.

      I have even noticed this started to affect the way media is written. Creators tend to make it a point to outright state their intended audience, just to avoid the negative comments.

      • @ilhamagh@lemmy.world
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        Hmm good point. Never realized there could be connection with hyper curated algorithm and main character syndrome.

        Now I kinda understand why “just look away” makes no sense to these kinda people.

      • @usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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        07 months ago

        This is my first exposure to this idea and it’s quite compelling. Couple that with the perceived tone being argumentative instead of inquisitive or ignorant and that’s a recipe for disaster.

        The fact the algorithms only care about engagement, positive or negative, means rage bait takes over too so that doesn’t help the perception that a question is actually an attack.

      • @Aqarius@lemmy.world
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        07 months ago

        This is a very interesting idea. It would certainly explain why people seem to constantly “infill” everything everone says with whatever gets them the most angry - the algo feeds them ragebait, so that’s what they see.

      • @limelight79@lemm.ee
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        07 months ago

        I’m wondering how many people skipped your comment because it was too long.

        I’ve had people go “I don’t have time to read 3 paragraphs!”, as though that’s some kind of argument against the point I’m trying to make. Attention spans are down.

        • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          I tend to front-load my comments as much as possible, to try and avoid just that. Make the main point ASAP. But even then, there’s only so much you can do without sounding messy.

          For instance, I front-loaded the part about reader comprehension. All of the “why” is in later paragraphs. But even if they only read the first few sentences, they’ll at least get my overall point.

          It does make nuanced discussion impossible though. I work in a pretty specialized field (professional audio) with lots of snake oil myths about what will or won’t make your system sound better. There have been several times that I have seen people parroting this snake oil type stuff as if it is genuine advice. And often, this advice happens because the person only has a surface-level understanding of how audio works. Something sounds plausible, (and they don’t understand the underlying principles that would disprove it,) so they end up perpetuating the myth. So a lot of discussions boil down to “well kind of but not really” and people won’t bother reading anything past the “well kind of” part.

  • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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    07 months ago

    I’ve already had people demand “source?” for the most mundane facts. Why yes steroids do enhance physical ability.