I use one.

That’s all true.

I learned about Lemmy from reddit.

Soooo…

Where is the trap? There have been tons of women in my life that if celircumstances were (totally) different I would be down for sex, but they aren’t. I’m married, they are in committed relationships, and we don’t bring it up beyond maybe some silly flirting.

I am happy they are my friends. A couple of them turned me down when circumstances WERE different, but I still value the relationship, as friends. I value their company, and that’s enough. I am better off knowing them and I hope they feel the same.

This is a no true scottsman on critical thinking.

I’m going to copy my reply to Barney above.

We have all sorts of evidence for conflicting conclusions. Most of us do not have the time or resources get a lock on which evidence is truly trustworthy.

If you talk to a flat earther, or a dedicated follower of the oppossing political team, you will see they understand faulty sources, chains of logic, and deductive reasoning, they just only apply them in support of their position.

You can teach a person about bias in research or media and they will use that knowledge to discredit positions they don’t agree with.

You can say “that’s not critical thinking” and on one hand I agree, but teaching more thourough critical thinking skills won’t have the result we want: for people to make evidence based decisions about their life and society.

In my experience, Getting people to change their minds requires engaging their emotions. Decisions are made on the basis or shame, fear, anger, and more rarely, love, hope, and empathy.

The evidence needs to be there to support the emotion, but nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.

We have all sorts of evidence for conflicting conclusions. Most of us do not have the time or resources get a lock on which evidence is truly trustworthy.

If you talk to a flat earther, or a dedicated follower of the oppossing political team, you will see they understand faulty sources, chains of logic, and deductive reasoning, they just only apply them in support of their position.

You can teach a person about bias in research or media and they will use that knowledge to discredit positions they don’t agree with.

You can say “that’s not critical thinking” and on one hand I agree, but teaching more thourough critical thinking skills won’t have the result we want: for people to make evidence based decisions about their life and society.

In my experience, Getting people to change their minds requires engaging their emotions. Decisions are made on the basis or shame, fear, anger, and more rarely, love, hope, and empathy.

The evidence needs to be there to support the emotion, but nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.

All of that can be done, badly. Which is how people do it. See the discourse around any popular drama, people have the skills, they just use them in service of their own pre conceived notions.

It’s bleak, but if you want to persuade a large number of people to think differently, you don’t challenge their worldview, you create new biases that they will then defend in their own.

See: trump’s constant repetition of blatant lies.

The average person has lots of critical thinking.

It’s just not a life hack to truth. You can critical think yourself into any conclusion. The average person uses critical thinking to reinforce their biased instead of challenge them.

I remember learning about Twitter from penny arcade. It sounded moronic then and it remains moronic now.

They lost touch with reality a long time ago. They will blame Democrats, or Canada, or Aliens.

Not in stem but the same thing happened to me. I used to be able to speak to a room and be heard. Now I need to raise my voice, sound a little whiney or bitchy or nobody hears me. Only my closest friend still asks me for advice or to share my knowledge. Used to happen all the time.

At least I pass. I got that going for me.

My supervisors will try to fix it for 3 minutes and post a question in the chat.

If that doesn’t’t make it work, it’s an it problem.

Ok, so, telling lenders they cannot vet lenders is not reasonable.

Our critiques of credit scores does not automatically mean we want them abolished in favor the previous wink and a handshake.

But American credit scores don’t measure your likelihood to pay back debts, they measure the likelihood of a lender to make money off of you. Those are nearly, but not quite, the same thing, and our current system, as the previous poster said, leads to a lifetime of debt obligations.

What we want is for life to not be dependant on debt.

His term launched with the Muslim ban. He tried to repeal Obamacare until John McCain stopped him and he had to settle for tax cuts to the rich like every fucking Republican.

He tried to bully Zelenski into providing him dirt on Joe Biden and launched the Biden laptop scandal on no evidence. But that was after telling people to inject bleach for COVID.

The first three years he was largely restrained by a combination of his own incompetence and establishment Republicans. He relied on them to figure out how to govern. The 2025 people saw that andwent to work to see it won’t happen again in their quest for Gilead.

Bernie might have helped but even if he got into office Congress would have stopped nearly everything he campaigned on.

The administrative state would not have been torn up but that’s just tinkering around the edges. Things like IRS free file expansion or banking at the post office.

The supreme Court would belong to Democrats but…tinkering around the edges.

If Bernie got re-elected (no guarantee, his first term would have ended in COVID and broken promises, probably impeachment by a Republican house). 2024 would 100% have gone to a Republican.

We don’t need Bernie now. His plans are mostly just a harder crank on the ratchet. Good, but insufficient. We need Allende. Someone that wants to build non-mariet solutions to make our lives better, and a movement behind them in Congress.

I’m aware of the condition. It’s the primary adults get circumcised.

Damn I’m sorry.

Singing is 10% talent and 90% practice.

You do you, of course, you don’t, 't have to sing. But if you do it you will get better at it.

To me that sounds like “I just walk around without taking any steps.”