That’s by design

Sometimes my friends laugh at me for how little I know about pop culture. I laugh back though. I wouldn’t say I’m proud of it but it’s just funny.

Being proudly ignorant of everything is bad. I will respect people who know they don’t know things though, you can’t know everything about everything. It’s why people generally specialize in a field in an industry.

Coping mechanism for the poor, they can’t admit they’re at the bottom and so it feels good to put other people down for nonsense reasons

Some people can be very well educated but choose not to follow reason. For example polititions appealing to a voting base. Point is these things certainly say “what a twat” but doesn’t necessarily reflect poor education.

People judging people’s level of intelligence based on how they lean politically, for me.

The irony.

On the flipside, the belief that someone with a formal education is somehow beneath you or brainwashed for it.

Everyone is below someone else somehow, since you use that word. I’m beneath my friend in film knowledge. I’m above my friend in gardening skill. In this sense, one can clearly be beneath someone else in education. Or height. Or travel experience.

You meant that regardless of education, we all have the same human worth. That’s true. But yeah you can absolutely be beneath me somehow

Not sure if you understood the assignment.

I think it’s more narcissism than education. People who are educated can still not care about the environment and preserving public spaces.

Being a conservative and accusing every progressive person of being a pedophile.

Could’ve stopped it there, the rest is implied.

I see you’ve met my neighbors.

The fuck?! Oh boy…

In my personal experience conservatives are more likely to be pedos, it’s just they are all hypocrites.

I don’t know if that’s necessarily wrong of them. There isn’t any precedent for hourly workers to be paid when they’re not working. The “four day workweek” as described simply means that any time over 32 hours a week is overtime. Hourly workers in general don’t really have a “workweek” anyway because they will often have multiple jobs or will work whatever shift they can pick up that works with their schedule.

They understood how the 4-day workweek works based on how the 5-day workweek works. I think maybe you need to listen more to them and try to understand your own proposition better.

When companies voluntarily implement 4-day workweeks, they are literally either cutting 8 hours or doing 10-hour shifts. They do not pay for hours not worked.

I think it’s good to note that while some of this is a failure to develop critical thinking, failure to entertain hypotheticals is OFTEN a trait for people with differing cognition. So don’t assume they’re poorly educated just from this, take it as a sign that the person thinks differently.

I’ve met and am friends with people who struggle with hypotheticals and education isn’t the problem, just how their brain works.

Because he’s an hourly worker he’s in the hourly mindset. You’d have to say your hourly rate would go up but only if you worked 32 hr/wk.

I like the idea of the 4 day workweek and would absolutely advocate for it, but I’m not sure how I personally would be affected by it. I do rotating 12 hour shift work to operate a power plant. I flip between 36 and 48 scheduled hours, 5 to 5 flipping between days and nights with a few days off between to flip my sleep schedule.

Would my OT start after 32 hours instead of 40? Would my company hire more people to schedule me between 24 and 36 hour weeks as a result? Because I’m not sure they’d be down with paying 4 hours OT on the cheapest weeks of my labor, and 16 hours OT every other week. So they probably have me work less, but does this result in a one time 25% raise and then fall off over time as no further raises come?

Idk, I would be fine either way because of how I budget, but I think these are valid questions that most hourly workers should be concerned about. I don’t think it’s such a simple concept, and companies will almost certainly find loopholes to exploit to fuck us like they did for the ACA.

That’s unironically the point. Science should not be blindly trusted.

What do you mean by “trusting in science”? Science isn’t meant to be trusted, it’s meant to be verified.

Given the reproducibility crisis occurring right now, nobody should be “trusting” in science as a matter of course- we should be verifying the decades of unverified research and dismissing the unverifiable research.

We fucked up the entire field of Alzheimer’s research for nearly a quarter century by “trusting in science”. We still bias towards publishing new research in academia over reproducing existing research. Science has a big problem with credibility right now and saying “oh just trust in science” isn’t the solution.

Trust in the process of Science, not its insitutions.

unfortunately my dad who has a diploma in engineering and is working in that field for probably 30y now is still prone to it.

Whoever spread those conspiracies should die a slow and painful death to experience a fraction of what they brought on to a lot of families and friends.

The irony!

Trust what? Many scientists will quite justifiably have completely opposing views (do vaccines cause autism for example).

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Maybe it’s a sticker war? Unions vs Trump?

I have literally never met a more uneducated cohort. Absolutely shameful.

Mb it’s that period from your past life when you still deleting files to have space for you new one.

They just don’t have the communicative havility to tell us, then ya forget.

My new religion is this(it has some inspiration from previous ones but hey, tell me one that didn’t)

Smoking in general. An expensive habit of self-harm for short term “feels good.”

Do you see this often?

I see so many educated people not realising this. The maths involved is something we learnt in ~ 5th grade, and I distinctly remember doing exercises on marginal rates in primary school in maths class. It’s even simpler than compound interest - which is a staple of maths class later on.

Yet so many people say there’s a problem with the education system that it doesn’t teach practical skills like these. It clearly does, kids just don’t remember it. Maybe it’s because they don’t need to use this knowledge until almost a decade later.

Not using smooth functions for tax calculations.

Or being confident about disliking reading in general, whether be it fiction or scientific literature.

Hey, if you’re not proud of not owning a copy of mein kempf that’s on you buddy.

What about if they frequent the library instead? :)

One thing that few people seem to accept when saying that they believe in Ayn Rand’s philosophy is that you are supposed to pay people what they are worth, not what you can negotiate with them.

For instance, in Atlas Shrugged, it is made explicit that Rearden pays his mill workers far above typical salaries because it is worth it to him to have the best staff working in his mills. Rearden is also the kind of person who isn’t going to make racist or sexist jokes because he wants the best person regardless of sex or color.

What Objectivist is that moral?