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Also, doctors used to say smoking doesn’t cause cancer.

Doctors paid by cigarette companies said that, and they were in a tiny minority of doctors.

There are scientists now who say global warming is a hoax because they have a monetary interest.

Sounds like bullshit.

It varies widely depending on a combination of whether it impacts me directly, whether it contradicts or is inconsistent with information I have already accepted as fact, and the source. The source includes being reliable and if the fact could be something that serves the source’s self interest as that would require corroboration.

Until recently, if NASA tells me their current data shows that black holes exist at the center of a galaxy I take their word for it. They have been consistently reliable for decades and their entire mission is about increasing knowledge and sharing it with the entire world. With recent administrative changes I am more skeptical and wouldn’t trust something that contradicts prior scientific discoveries without corroboration from an external agency like the European Space Agency. I would take the ESA at their word currently.

If a for profit company says anything I want corroboration from a neutral 3rd party. They have too much incentive to lie or mislead to be trusted on their own.

Something from a stranger that fits into prior knowledge might be accepted at face value or I might double check some other source. Depends on how important it is to me and whether believing that would lead to any obvious negative outcome. I will probably also double check if it is interesting enough to want to check, and I’ll use skepticism as an excuse.

That covers actual factual stuff that could possibly be corroborated by a third party. Facts like the Earth orbits the sun or Puerto Rico is a US territory type stuff.

Then there are other things that can be factual but difficult to determine and that is a combination of experience and current knowledge, plus whether believing it would be a benefit or negative. If someone tells me the ice isn’t thick enough based on their judgement I will treat it as a fact and not go out on it unless I had some reason not to believe them. If they told me apples were found to be unhealthy I would check other sources.

A wise man once said:

“A joke it was. Obvious to everyone it was not.”

-Yoda

“A joke it was. Obvious to everyone it was not.”

-Yoda

There is no single point of failure.

If one instance goes down they don’t take the whole thing with it. If one instance gets taken over by corporate interests, it does not take all the other instances with it.

If a community on sweatyballs.social is dogshit, someone can create the same named community on poopfed.io as a replacement. The site administrator of sweatyballs.social can’t do anything about that.

This can also be a negative to some degree, but being able to block and defederate allow for mitigating those risks.

[X] Doubt

You can’t force anyone to learn anything. They have to be receptive.

Literally practicing self awareness.

Probably.

I wouldn’t take most ban reasons at face value. He could be a pedo, or could have pointed out a law for clarification and the worst possible motivation was assumed.

Especially when there isn’t a removed comment or anything for context.

Yeah, most people tend to approach things from a positive or negative default and time seems to reinforce that unless a very major life experience shakes that up.

Don’t invite clutter, as in stop buying so many things. If you can’t break that habit then it will just get back to where it was.

If you are keeping something, is the total possible savings by keeping it around worth the lost space that could be used for something else? If it was gone would it be easier to clean? Is wasting time managing it existing in your space worth it?

Keep some keepsakes around, just keep it manageable. One or two tubs is plenty if you only go through them once a decade or less. Yeah, you might save some money by keeping an old toy around for grandkids, but there will also be newer toys and odds are they won’t want old stuff enough to keep boxes of them around. Maybe keep a few of your favorites so you can share stories.

Unless you really enjoy changing decorations constantly only a couple backups of regular things are needed at most. You don’t need a dozen sets of bedding. You don’t need a full backup set of silverware.

I don’t need the inner workings of the last three generations of PC builds, but I keep telling myself that I will use them for playing around with Linux and they only take up a small tub so I am OK it since I got rid of three tubs of the kiddos childhood toys she never really played with. Kept a tub of the ones she liked in case she has kids and wants to pass them on. One tub of a thing is fine if there aren’t too many total tubs.

Note:tub is my unit of measurement since having these discussions with family are hard to have without something to represent volume.

Guess I’m not brushing my teeth anymore.

Stares uncomfortably at wooden cutting board.

Poor Phish, constantly slandered on the internet.

I’m interested in the non-commission pay. I stupidly went all in on commission at the hot springs, but maybe I should switch professions.

r/superbowl was the inspiration for the lemmy version…

It is people, so basically the same.

Of course not. Voted against him in 2016 an 2020 too.

Oh wait, did I fail a loyalty test?

Holds up better, won’t crack or leak.