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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Fake, there is no way anyone would be that stupid and openly prejudiced . . .

hmm, lol

[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Sorry, but this is a bit too much of #thathappened for me.

[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 week ago (7 children)

ThatHappened is a flat circle. Sometimes things are so conveniently contrived looking that they did really happen. Truth is stranger than fiction.

The most believable part is that is what a Rogen fan would say.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

maybe it's less of a flat circle and more of a downward spiral.. or maybe things are just getting more and more stupid every day.. or maybe it's a cyclical decline.. or maybe THE PRESIDENT IS SELLING CARS AT THE WHITE HOUSE

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe the first part. I dont believe the quick and clean comeback.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I do. Because it's not the first time that someone talked down to his doctor wife, and it won't be the last.

I'm sure the first time he said nothing, but by the fifteenth time, you get good at it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hate to say this, but this is one of the most Reddit flavoured “thathappened” posts I’ve seen on lemmy

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"Did you just invoke 'intellect' and 'Joe Rogan' in the same breath?"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Joe Rogan is fairly intelligent compared to some of his guests

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago

but then again, so is a bottle of lukewarm seltzer water.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I honestly don’t know. It would be completely justified if women flipped out more often.

I like her husband’s response, though.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 week ago (8 children)

doctors can have really shit opinions too

the real message is: every opinion must be scrutinized heavily, if it stands scrutiny maybe there's something there

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (15 children)

It depends on what they're talking about. I'll listen to and generally heed a doctors medical opinion, for example. Their political opinion? Eh..

Joe Rogan, who has doesn't have expertise in anything comparable to a doctors expertise in medicine, no way I'm talking anything he says at face value.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In my experience doctors can have some of the absolute worst opinions. Especially highly educated speciality doctors who have spent 1/3 of their life doing nothing but studying their very specific field. Lawyers too.

I work in IT and they can be some of the worst users to work with.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Honestly this is true of many smart people in specialized professions

Infamously software developers are fucking knuckle dragging morons about anything that has nothing to do with what they're good at, but they think they're god kings and think the world works like a computer

The only hallmark of intelligence I subscribe to is when someone just acknowledges they don't know everything and listen. Everyone else is doom spiraling into thought terminating patterns while thinking they're right

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Joe Rogan, Shapiro, and j Peterson is what you called pseudo-intellectuals

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The problem with this world is that a lot of people enjoy EVERYTHING on a surface level.

I keep getting reminded of my "gamer" years when I played league of legends. When I started, I was clueless and bad. And I found a YouTube channel which made fun educational videos.

Initially I learned a lot but over time, I realized how bad the advice was at times, which changed my consumption of the content. At the end, the content didn't teach me anything and the suggestions of the creator seemed to be focused on messing with bad players and not actually playing good.

I started to watch better players and learned more from them.

To me, fans of these guys stopped at the first step. They want educational content but they don't actually want to learn and so don't actually think about the content and can't outgrow it.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Try being a woman and talking to a mechanic or anybody working at an auto parts store.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or try being a woman working at an autoparts store

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

While hilarious...that's what's breeding the rise of the shit show of anti-science. We can't just call morons morons anymore. They go back to truth social, find all the other morons and pretend like they know better.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I'll take things that never happened for 500 Alex

This reads like a shower argument I have when alone

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (22 children)

Joe Rogan is a caveman, but I hate this mentality.

I've had a ton of horrible experiences with doctors. Misdiagnosis, given bad medication, bad medical advice, etc. A common trait all of them had extreme arrogance. They all thought they had all the answers, and that modern medicine was infallible.

If you had an issue they couldn't put a clear label on fairly quick or weren't responding to treatment in a textbook way, then that was somehow your fault. Either you were lying, or exaggerating, or it was all just in your head.

I'm not alone in this experience. Basically every American with any sort of complex health issues has had a bad experience at the hands of someone who claims to be an expert. That's on top of the medical establishment letting bad medicine go on for years, because they are extremely reluctant to admit they don't have all the answers.

Obviously, none of that makes Joe Rogan any sort of intellectual or trusted authority on anything except bro science. How you can't expect people to have unflinching trust in doctors when doctors let people down so often.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pride of Ignorance. Its something we should bully out of people. Nobody should be so proud to be so dumb. Its fine to be dumb, but nobody should revel in it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

There is nothing admirable about letting a fascist rant about hate and nonsense, while the ape of a host goes “never thought of it that way, interesting” while legitimizing the nonsense

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I’m sorry but I have a neuroscience degree and I think this is a fart sniffing post. The broader point is real though

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