All businessmen are service tops, since they will do anything for the bottom line.

I dislike those strategies mainly because I think it’s annoying and insulting that someone would expect me to be inconsistent

some internet argument strategies are what I’d call “consistency-based”, which are of the form “repeat my own words back at me” or “try to deduce things from my words and ask whether I agree w/those” they don’t work on me because I’m very consistent, I agree with everything I say to its full extent

but what made me post this was someone claiming that Catholics believe that everyone who died before Jesus was born is in hell it’s kinda easy to find out that this is false, but I think it was believed because you wouldn’t expect someone to have such a wrong idea about something like this

this is the main factor in how the famous Scots Wikipedia vandalism was able to happen

some things have a vibe of being “easily verifiable” such that someone wouldn’t lie about them, while also being kinda annoying to go and verify, so it’s very easy to spread lies about those things – mostly details about geography and cultures and languages and religions

I decided to check if “at the drop of a dime” was attested or if it was a mixup between “at the drop of a hat” and “on a dime”. the answer is that it’s both, it was such a common mixup that it’s almost as common as the originals and has made it into dictionaries

concept: utilitarian who defends bullying because it’s usually many kids picking on one kid

Your default attitude toward any academic field should be irreverence and scepticism, because science is funded with your tax money, and your respect is what makes this seem legitimate. Wait until you’ve understood a field really thoroughly before you respect it, ask questions and think, don’t rush.