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3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yeah, this goes back to what I was saying.  One of the fundamental tools of engineering analysis is to make assumptions and ignore factors ("noise") that you know exist but hope don't affect the outcome.  Ordinarily, those assumptions and ignored factors are based on sound reasoning, that is something that you believe to be of such small relative magnitude that it can be successfully ignored, or that you have great difficulty analyzing/calculating so you hope you can ignore.  But you won't know until you see the outcome, then you go back and "adjust."  So, to an extent, "move fast and break things."

But when you're talking socio-economic-philosophical-political things, it's not as easy to do that and the assumptions and ignored factors often swallow correct answers whole and destroy good outcomes.  Plus, there's not as much reasoned basis for making assumptions and ignoring noise:  it winds up being dictated by personal biases, ie "feels."  Thus, extremism masquerading as logical thought.

This is not a completely binary thing, though.  What I'll call "left-brain thinking" (scientists, engineers) has value in the "right-brain" sphere, and vice-versa.  But these are the initial tendencies.

 

Maybe people should shut the fuck up and listen to each other.

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1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Maybe people should shut the fuck up and listen to each other.

That's pussy communist talk.  It won't fly in the current era of "nobody knows more about [subject X] than me" and "I don't trust experts, I do my own research."

I'm dead serious.  We live in an era where we worship the silo of the individual, and denigrate/hate the idea of deferring to/listening to actual experts.  Which blows me away, because I hire, listen to, and recommend that other people hire and listen to EXPERTS all the time.  There are people who have devoted tens of thousands of hours to studying, understanding, and practicing the very thing you are wondering about.  Smart people surround themselves with other smart people, and listen to them.  That doesn't mean you do what they recommend 100% of the time; sometimes, you need someone to do some creative thinking, unbound by prior conceptions....but then you STILL need to run that creative idea through the experts.  When you do, and they work it out, and say "sonofabitch, that really may work," then you have something.  Other times, they'll say "yeah, we thought of that too, back in 1998, and ran the numbers -- here's why it doesn't work," or "that sounds good, but it fails to account for factor Z, which makes it fall apart," and they're right.

But not today.  Nope, today, every person is an expert in everything, and every other person is an idiot who you should ignore and hate.

It only gets worse.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Mr Free Speech wants the WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE engineer Marko Elez's racist tweets fired.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-demands-firing-of-disgusting-and-cruel-wsj-reporter-who-uncovered-doge-employees-racist-tweets/

FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST!  END CENSORSHIP!

These chucklefucks are just another authoritarian fascist regime.  They aren't even fucking original.

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5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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Obviously trying to drive a wedge there between Elon and Trump. Normally I think it would have a good chance of success, but I think it's very useful to Trump to have people up in arms about Elon. It's distracting from him and the other stuff he's trying to get done.

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1 minute ago, SBR said:

Obviously trying to drive a wedge there between Elon and Trump. Normally I think it would have a good chance of success, but I think it's very useful to Trump to have people up in arms about Elon. It's distracting from him and the other stuff he's trying to get done.

That's implying he knows what he's doing. I don't think he does. They let him concentrate on the real issues -- plastic straws, trans-people in women's sports, renaming the Gulf and Denali -- while the real deviants are pushing the important shit down our throats. One thing to count on with Trump is an emotional reaction if it starts to be perceived that he's not the one calling the shots or getting the credit that's due. That drives him insane.

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Posted (edited)
31 minutes ago, C-Man said:

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"Triggered" is a bit over the top, but come on.  The same Time magazine that put him on the cover as "Man of the Year" a month ago, and he doesn't know if they're still in business...

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"Triggered" is a bit over the top, but come on.  The same Time magazine that put him on the cover as "Man of the Year" a month ago, and he doesn't know if they're still in business...
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He certainly looks annoyed.

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