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    That they need to understand others in order for people to understand them. That the “tragic prince” is just a fallacy and I would really really want other people around me to appreciate art-forms more. Most of the time they find a movie good and just list the content as the reason for it’s goodness, not paying attention to any of the craft and it baffles me that more people are not attached to or interested in how art-forms do the things they do.

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      Because it’s subjective?

      EDIT: example - abortion is evil for conservatives, but it is practically good for others

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        “Evil” does not mean “something I don’t like.” Conservatives are evil by their own standards too.

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    Drive slower, you’re not in a rush, it’s all in your head, your home’s not gonna permanently locked away if you’re late, your office won’t explode if you’re late and if you’re already late to work you’re already late.

    Drive. Slower.

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    Probabilities and basic stats. People do not think in “what are the chances” but in black and white. I think one reason is we don’t teach probabilities in American schools. It drastically impacts a citizens ability to understand the news, and especially science.

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          Layman statistics is not the hill I would die on. Otherwise (being guilty of the fallacy myself) I now think that making a subject mandatory school lesson will only make people more confidently incorrect about it, so this is another hill I won’t die on for probability and statistics. See for instance the widespread erroneous layman use of “statistical significance” (like “your sample of partners is not statistical significant”) you see it is a lost cause. They misinterpret it because they were taught it. Also professionals have been taught it and mess it up more than regularly to the point we can’t trust studies or sth any more. So the solution you suggest is teach more of it? Sounds a bit like the war on drugs.

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        • Commands with subcommands are always big-endian
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        • Commands with subcommands are always big-endian
        • Commands with subcommands are always big-endian
        • Commands with subcommands are always big-endian
        • Commands with subcommands are always big-endian
    • Ark-5@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      ASL has made a shocking difference in my life, both opening me up as a more accessible person, but also finding a lot of use for it in my own file!!

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    Digital privacy matters as much as physical privacy & we need to keep the governments & corporations out since they can constantly surveil. Method for doing so need to legal, cheap, & accessible. If decentralization is a requirement, you system that requires Amazon S3 buckets & a beefy VPS are not sufficient when these sorts of things rarely have a technical reason why they couldn’t be democraticized to run from an apartment (why some ISPs don’t let you have an IP (v6 or not) or symetric connections as bits are bits is a different matter).

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    Sense of the, so called, common variety, ironic wording considering how uncommon it is. But I imagine that educating people would help this, both in school and in the community. One seemingly obvious thing would be how people litter in green spaces, was that wrapper going to kill you when you get home?

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    Responsibility, way too many people do things without any thinking and making everything into shitshow because of not thinking

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    “Critical Thinking” was already taken, so I’ll go with my similar-but-different answer of critical evaluation of sources/information. When I was a kid, we were never to let anyone in when home alone, even to just use the phone. We were told never to believe anyone on the other side of that door that wasn’t family or emergency services (and even then to call the neighbors in the latter case). Today, so many of the same people who told me this are fooled by dis- and mis-information online or believe very poor sources. Sometimes, it does fall into the trap of “my sister/brother/pet albatros shared it so it must be true!” of thinking the source is already verifies. We all should get better at this.

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      The combination of critical thinking and critical evaluation leads, inexorably, to critical theory. This is where critical race theory, critical psychology, critical sociology, and critical pedagogy arise.

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      I’ve experienced this phenomenon as well and I’m always wondering if people become more naïve as they age or if this is, in fact, too much information for people from another era to process.

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        I think it also has to do with how previous generations established what they considered trustworthy or not.

        Most of the time, the only way to confirm information would be to go to the library and look it up. Most people weren’t taking the time to do that for every little factoid, especially ones that had no direct effect on their lives.

        So if Jim who has a cousin who works in construction said that Mexicans were undercutting the expected pay for construction laborers, picking up all the jobs they could, and out performing their peers… well that’s first hand information from someone who would know (by way of the game of telephone).

        And that doesn’t effect them directly in any way, so it’s not being blasted to the whole world. You may never know they have this belief.

        Now they see Jim on Facebook sharing some article. Well, Jim wouldn’t share it unless he was sure it was true. I mean, his cousin works in construction. Combine that with sensational headlines to maximize clicks and now you go from racist belief that immigrants are industrious to “illegal immigrants are stealing our jobs”!

        Plus, spreading the word can be done in a single click, regardless of relevance to any conversation.

        So you combine the idea of “that person knows what they’re talking about” with sensationalism mills and how damn easy it is to blast your stupid ideas out to the world with the idea that you’e just letting people know, and I think you very easily end up here.