yetiftw

joined 1 year ago
[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

solidarity means solidarity. other working class people are not your enemy (re: 1984). the all or nothing mindset accomplishes nothing besides closing your mind off to the plights and perspectives of others.

-also trans and disabled

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

it's been long enough that minimum wage should be $25/hr anyways

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

drop the "today" and it's still a true statement

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I want to get better at deeply understanding people, which probably starts with getting better at listening

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

not within your lifetime though. you just have to have faith in the peer review process. also peer reviewing typically does not involve actually reproducing the results

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

nuance won't hurt you I promise

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

but you can't! are you personally able to verify the results of every scientific investigation ever performed? think about what's currently happening in psychology. loads of old foundational studies have been found to be irreproducible. and yet people had faith that they were conducted honestly and appropriately

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

that's not true. there are things that are not definitions. like my bed for instance, there are aspects that are arbitrary (my personal preferences, design choices, etc) and aspects that are not arbitrary (its physical form that exists beyond definition)

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

yes but you still have to have faith in the ability of another person to do science and not falsify evidence

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

but to people with faith, their faith is evidence-based

[–] yetiftw@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

yes but translation from evidence to what caused the evidence to exist requires assumptions, like the fact that trig works. I'm not saying assumptions are bad, just that they should be acknowledged

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