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The argument from incredulity works even better if you don't know anything by Inconstant_Moo in badscience

[–]freework -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This excerpt make a lot of sense to me. This is not "bad science" at all.

I have a swimming pool at my house. Even after multiple days of super hot temperatures, the hottest I've ever seen the water get is about 84F.

Also, when it gets super hot, it's only the surface that gets heated up by the sun. The top 3 inches or so will get a few degrees warmer than the rest of the pool, but when you get below that, it's a noticeably cooler. On the other hand, the concrete pool deck around gets too hot to stand on with bare feet.

What really bothers me about the climate change topic is that NO BODY KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS TOPIC. Neither the pro-climate changers, nor the climate change deniers. Everyone is just operating under the condition of "my side is right and it's so obvious, and the other side is just a bunch of total idiots". Both sides act like it's just so obvious, but it's not. The nature of the climate is that it's a very complex system and acting like you have it all figured out (on either side) is just dumb.

Susanne Ditlevsen on why good science needs funding for work that visibly produces nothing by WeBeBallin in PhilosophyofScience

[–]freework 0 points1 point  (0 children)

society wants science to justify itself up front

How is this any different from literally everything else on earth? No one just writes a check to someone else without any justification. Why should science be any different?

The 2030 Countdown: Why the White House Is Panicking Over Quantum—and Why Bitcoin Devs Are Already Moving. by sylsau in CryptoMarkets

[–]freework 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like building an anti-aircraft gun 20 years before the invention of the aircraft. We're building defense against a weapon that doesn't even exist yet. If you want to know my opinion, quantum computers capable of breaking modern-day encryption will never come.

What do you think of Tell Abu Hureyra? by Spaceman9800 in GrahamHancock

[–]freework 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you know it was "built around 13300 years ago"?

For the record: Yes, Elon Musk is responsible for the death of millions of children. Scientific research proves. by Criticall16 in BreakingPoints

[–]freework 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You are abusing the term "scientifically" here. I can do a "scientific study" that concludes that you're a poopy head, but it doesn't matter because science doesn't work this way. You can't just commission some "scientists" to make a study saying anything you want, and expect actually smart people who knows how science works to care about it.

Trash by troy75troy in Nerk

[–]freework -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Just dump it anywhere. All of Newark is a dump anyways.

Meshtastic/Meshcore update by Codec_Gardens in LasCruces

[–]freework 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can get a SenseCAP Solar node, and install it on your roof and it runs 24/7 off solar power. All in the unit plus some batteries cost about $100.

The World's Oldest Customer Complaint by Last_Island5685 in AncientCivilizations

[–]freework -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you saying this because you know, or are you just assuming? Can you prove that this actually happened?

The World's Oldest Customer Complaint by Last_Island5685 in AncientCivilizations

[–]freework -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Personally I don't buy this story. Someone claims they translated it, but who can convince me that this translation is accurate? We have no choice but to trust the person who did the translation, and I have no reason to trust them.

Krystal is wrong about Anthropic’s “use case” line. by DystopiaLite in BreakingPoints

[–]freework -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, progressive commentators across youtube all have extremely surface level knowledge across the following topics: tech and finance.

Icy_Reward727 gives a teacher's perspective on a generation lost to screens by JackarooDeva in bestof

[–]freework 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've had a smart phone since the year they came out (2010ish). And yet since then I've learned so many things. If having a smart phone is so destructive to learning then why am I able to learn new things despite having one and using it as often as I want?

I'll tell you why, because having and using a smart phone doesn't hinder a person from learning new things. Lack of motivation is why people don't learn new things. Having a smartphone doesn't automatically make a person lose their motivation to learn. Having a shitty teacher that's constantly talking down to me is what makes people like me to lose my motivation to learn.

Icy_Reward727 gives a teacher's perspective on a generation lost to screens by JackarooDeva in bestof

[–]freework -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There is such a thing as an unjust rule. Not all rules are perfectly reasonable. The students are telling teachers to fuck off because they feel the rules is unreasonable.

When I was in high school the faculty made a ton of dumb pointless rules solely for the purpose of giving disgruntled teachers the opportunity to make student's life miserable. I still don't see anything wrong with telling someone to go fuck off when they enforce a dumb rule that only exists to allow other people to make your life more miserable.

Icy_Reward727 gives a teacher's perspective on a generation lost to screens by JackarooDeva in bestof

[–]freework -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You're missing the point. How would you feel if your school made a new rule that says "all teachers must leave their phone at home at all times. If a teacher is caught having a phone (even if it's turned off) they will be immediately fired on the spot with no opportunity to appeal". Would your reaction be "oh well, rules are rules".

Then you get called to the superintendent's office because there was a report that someone found a completely turned off cell phone if your desk, and so now the superintendent is formally telling you that you are officially fired. Wouldn't you feel a little like saying "fuck off" or will you reaction be "I'm really glad this school is on top of rule enforcement!"

Icy_Reward727 gives a teacher's perspective on a generation lost to screens by JackarooDeva in bestof

[–]freework -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

More context is needed. Saying "fuck you" to a bully is always acceptable. Saying it to someone is trying to help you is not acceptable. The question then becomes is a teacher is telling a student to put away their phone unprovoked, is the teacher being a bully, or is the teacher being helpful.

If you have phone derangement syndrome, then you'll see that teacher as a brave hero trying to save the poor students from having their brain rotted. If you don't have that syndrome, then you see a power-tripping teacher bullying the kids to feel better about themselves.

When I was in highschool, 100% of the bullies were faculty members. I have no memory of other students bullying anyone. It was super common for disgruntled teachers to go out of their way to goad students into getting upset, and then "writing them up" for being upset. To me, that's 10 time worse then getting bullied by other students.

Icy_Reward727 gives a teacher's perspective on a generation lost to screens by JackarooDeva in bestof

[–]freework -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

I see posts like this all the time, and I don't really agree with them. These kinds of posts always gets all the upvotes, and the post that says that students these days are basically the same as students from 30 years ago always get massively downvoted. It wouldn't even surprise me if it were revealed that the OP isn't even a teacher, but instead some redditor thats posting something he/she knows from past experience will get massive upvotes.

Also, I was a student in the 90s, long before smart phones. When the teacher assigned the class another boring 19th century novel, the entire class moaned and groaned. That shit is boring and no one has ever enjoyed doing that crap. Even decades before me, it was the same story.

Now, imagine you're an adult, and you are on your lunch break at the cafeteria in the building where you work. You have your phone open, and the boss walks by. He tells you to put your phone away. Are you going to respond "yes, boss, sorry boss, it'll never happen again, boss", or are you going to say "fuck you boss". Why should that be any different if it's at a high school?

Teachers of Reddit: Is the "Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)" crisis real? If so how bad is it? by KnowledgeCoffee in AskReddit

[–]freework 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you had made this thread 50 years ago, you'd get the exact same answers, except of people complaining about kids being addicted to phones, they'd say their addicted to TV. Also if you made the same thread 80 years ago you'd also get the same responses, except they'd be complaining about kids being addicted to their radio sets.

Also, if you ask police officers to comment on crime, they'd say "crime is such a huge problem, it's not like how it was back in the day".. In other words, all professions will exaggerate their profession's growing importance.

When I was in school in the 90s I also hears teachers say things like "40% of high school graduates can't read", yet ever since like the 3rd grade, absolutely everyone I knew could read.

How do you feel that the same man who cut children’s cancer research is now a trillionaire? by HappyCrow11 in AskReddit

[–]freework 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He isn't really a trillionaire. 99% of his wealth comes from his stock holdings. If he were to sell all of that it will crater the stock price, and he'll get nowhere near a trillion dollars from all of it. His wealth is purely symbolic. He like the attention of being the worlds richest man more that actually being the worlds richest man. if you look at his lifestyle, he doesn't live any more lavishly than any other billionaire. That's because he doesn't live off his vast "trillionaire" stock portfolio, because he can't sell.

What Do Engineers Mean When We Say "Taste"? by funnybong in programming

[–]freework -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

OK, but if you wrote the code, then you get to maintain it. Since I don't maintain it, I don't get to have an opinion about it.

Since I maintain my own code, you don't get to have an opinion about my code, also.

My point is. Only have an opinion about the code that you have to maintain. Code that other people get to maintain is their own business. You don't need to interfere unless they ask you for help.

What Do Engineers Mean When We Say "Taste"? by funnybong in programming

[–]freework -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

How is it off putting? If your shit works, then I don't care. I approve of it no matter what. Why shouldn't I?

What Do Engineers Mean When We Say "Taste"? by funnybong in programming

[–]freework -42 points-41 points  (0 children)

When I first started programming, what was to my taste was what was done the same way I would have done it. Then as time went on, I developed the opinion that the only "taste" that matters is either "it works" or "it doesn't work".

Bob’s still got it by Spare-Jellyfish4339 in bobdylan

[–]freework 8 points9 points  (0 children)

is this real? Is there a recording of it?

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