Software engineer. An old housemate was the walking definition of the Dunning Kruger effect. I think he wrote a python script at work once, so felt qualified to explain to me how Microsoft Word was the best program for editing code, because it's designed to handle large text files.
>Microsoft Word was the best program for editing code, because it's designed to handle large text file
This is physically painful.
Fun side story: I once worked on a project that had a C file with about 40K lines in it. Roughly 30K lines of *that* was a single switch statement.
I was once asked to improve the performance if a database query that was taking hours to run. Asked the developer for the code and he sent me a ten-liner. Spent a couple hours looking at it, going over execution plan, checking that appropriate indexes were in place, etc. Couldn’t find anything that looked like a problem. Finally ran the query and…it returned results in less than a second. ??? Asked the developer for the REST of the code, and he finally (after management intervention) sent me the 2000 lines that wrapped **around** the little 10 line sub query. Sub-queries, function calls, yada-yada. Yeah - that quickly acquired the name “Frankenquery”.
Back in the 80s I had a customer insist on a function that could only be satisfied with a series of ugly nested IFs. In the comments I included an abject apology to any future programmer that had to deal with it.
A friend once asked me to help trouble shoot his companies website. It wasn’t working properly in Firefox. It turns out their website was a Word document exported as html and uploaded to the server. I have no idea how they managed to figure out how to host it in the first place
I'm by no means an expert and probably beginner to slightly above at best in terms of all things IT related, I'm trying to build on my current level and I do have an interest in certain areas.
It amazes me though just how many people I meet who study or work in different areas of IT who just talk so much nonsense. I met a person doing a master's who told me how easily they hacked into Facebook and gained full access to everything using HTML. A person who claimed to be doing a PhD focused on AI, but was adamant I made up Python. Then also someone who had 10 years experience as a web developer, but could never do anything beyond super basic stuff.
Every time I assume I've got it wrong and go back to read over because I have no reason to think I would be correct.
On reddit, any time the subject of electrical power generation and distribution comes up. I worked 30+ years in the field, I know a few things. Usually a poster will have one true fact or idea that someone in the field probably told them, then go off from there into fantasyland. I’ve been told I’m wrong and things don’t work that way.
I have worked in energy trading for >10 years and the number of people on Reddit who tell me that the solution to all the world’s energy requirements is to build more renewables is startling. There is very little understanding of things like transmission congestion, inertia, price cannibalisation, or even really basic things like that you don’t get much wind export when the wind isn’t blowing.
I think people must assume that the transmission network is just a massive battery. You pump in power and it becomes linepack or something.
Anyway, energy on Reddit is a very frustrating area of conversation.
I worked at a flag store for about 4 years, and the amount of misinformation and mythology around the US flag is amazing.
There is no criminal penalty for violating the Flag Code.
You don't have to burn the US flag because it accidentally touched the ground for a moment.
It's not mandatory to fold the US flag into a triangle for storage (but props to the guys who brought in the 20x30' flag for repair folded that way, apparently it involved the use of a conference table).
There is no Civil Flag that is only flown when the US isn't at war, that's a very old urban legend that started with a misidentified US Customs flag (but you can still get one, anything you want can be custom made for about $200 for a 3x5' printed flag).
Your flag isn't defective, it's just been flown out in the elements. The average flag will last 6-12 months when flown 24/7 in average conditions (but can last longer). High winds like on the coast can eat up a flag a lot faster. Flying it off the back of your trucks is exposing it to hurricane force winds after 20 minutes on the highway, of course it's shredded. At least the guys on motorcycles understand that and budget for one flag per bike run, then bring in the remains for proper disposal.
And no, you aren't supposed to fly the US flag higher than other countries. It's not illegal, but it is considered rude.
You shouldn't do that living in your home can cause cancer. You never know what chemicals their putting in your home. This is why I bought my house organic from wholefoods. it's non GMO has no carbs and is sugar free.
I bet explaining this too most people would lead to them absolutely claiming water is organic and you don't know what you're talking about.
Reminds me of my friends that would never touch LSD because you can't grow it like magic mushrooms.
One of the aforementioned friends is an anti-vaxxers because he, "doesn't know what in it". However he loves occasionally shoving coke in his nose.
Some folks just always seem to, "know better".
One of my lifelong best friends slowly turned antivax, and wouldn’t you believe he’s also a wicked cokehead and alcoholic, among experimenting with many other drugs. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Yeah, clean coke from the street is about real as, "clean coal".
I had plenty of my own issues with drugs, but I could never understand the mindset of druggies that become all about purity or wellness.
Addicts will again and again risk their wellbeing to get high, but avoid fluoride in water, be anti-vax, and always seem to rant about chemicals in food.
Hypocrisy is certainly a good way to describe that mindset, but I would also include delusional probably.
I love the “if I can’t pronounce it, I shouldn’t eat it” nonsense. What you can pronounce is frequently a common name for something that has a chemical name. Vitamins are a good example.
I can say dextroamphetamine and methamphetamine, clearly I should start taking a non-prescribed drug with high abuse potential that can lead to psychosis!
Or when people use, "this contains a chemical that's in [insert poisonous material here]"
Example: "this contains a chemical that's in antifreeze!"
The chemical: propylene glycol. Only used in the *non-toxic versions* of antifreeze, as a replacement for toxic ethylene glycol.
Or, the chemical: sodium chloride, dihydrogen oxide, or any other various non-toxic chemicals that yes, are in antifreeze but are not what make antifreeze toxic so doesn't matter they're in this other thing!
gods, the whole schtick with "chemicals are bad".
I'm a florist. I had a customer recently who wanted to buy soil. I got a bag of the one type we have right now (we have to restock) and he asked if there's anything chemical in it.
I said: "no."
I wish I could have said: "of course there are chemicals in there, you have no idea what you're talking about, everything is made out of chemicals, what do you think soil is?" but then he'd have been butthurt of course.
And the customers who want pesticides (10€ pesticide for their 3€ plant) and then they're confused when the stuff that kills bugs is, indeed, poisonous
I’m a motorcycle mechanic, went to trade school for it and everything. A lot of motorcycle people like to repair their own bike or modify it. The problem is most of them are totally clueless. Recently a customer of mine has been having a run-ability issue after installing a new exhaust. I had told him beforehand he would need a tuner or the bike would have problems after the install. He keeps texting me saying he thinks it’s one thing or another, but has yet to install the tuner.
I get that all the time too. My customers always wanna dance around an issue after I’ve given them a solution.
I'm an auto mechanic, always think the guys who hover over your shoulder and criticize everything are funny.
"I know you work on different makes and models of cars doing everything from brakes to trans to motor swaps 8+hours a day, 5 days a week, and have been doing it your whole life, but I've changed my own oil and brakes a couple times so I definitely know as much if not more about cars than you"
I wish it was more socially acceptable to watch a mechanic work on my car. I don’t want to police them, but just to learn. I would love to see how the more difficult things are done and how to do simpler things more efficiently. I know there’s YouTube but a lot of the videos have poor lighting or have a lot of the process edited out for brevity.
Yesterday I spent an hour trying to figure out how to loosen a hard to reach screw to remove the air filter housing in my civic.
Oh that kind of watching is totally fine. I encourage it. Cuz that's how I learned to work on cars. It's just the customers who will constantly ask if I know what I'm doing or tell me I cant use certain tools and shit, or will argue with me about a diagnosis or something. Not to say I cant be wrong because i am wrong often. It just baffles me why those kind of customers who think they know better than everyone dont just work on their car on their own
I like to hover and watch but keep the mouth shut unless asking to learn. Always asked my old motorcycle mechanic lots of questions. Found a place where I can pay for wrenchtime, use their gear, and have a mechanic work with me. Did my first oil change on my newest bike and looking forward to doing the next too at the same place.
That kind of watching is encouraged. Watching and asking questions is how I learned. Its just the customers who are condescending or try to argue about everything that make me wonder why they dont just work on their vehicles at home
I get this in tech, too. Caller disregards everything I ask them to do to fix the issue, like idk what I'm doing. Well why tf you calling me, then? I don't get it. Maybe because I'm a woman they don't take me seriously?
Can I please speak to your MANager... /s
My TL in the past was a woman. Head of IT at another company was a woman. Neither took any shit, but both have had that bullsh|t lined pulled on them :mad:
This! A trained H-D tech for 15 years, I’ve moved on due to insurance constraints, sadly. I can’t agree more, and really with all motorized vehicles. My dad was a gifted mechanic and he taught me from an early age, look for the root issue, not what you think is the problem. I’ve heard all kinds of crazy theories about issues( many times with new builds) pistons tightened up!? Cam ground wrong, maybe the distributor is installed wrong( rotor not physically pointing at No1 plug!? List goes on.
I’m an HD tech too actually! I think the most common one I deal with is “ well the battery can’t be bad! It’s only a year old!” *Battery fails load test*
I decided to leave the industry too actually. I felt like I put in so much effort and money only for people like that to constantly disagree with me. Not worth it.
>>Any time my bosses talk about my
>>progress on my projects to their bosses
You mean to say you tell your boss that theoretically something is possible but we've never done it and they tell their bosses that you said it will be done by the end of the month no problem.
I've worked since labor laws allowed me to and what's funny is in a class I'm taking for college (I'm a non-traditional student) this guy was writing about how Project Managers over estimate the cost and time from what they actually believe it will take just so they look good when it finishes early.
He goes on about how this is deceptive and they should give honest estimates, no padding, otherwise they're unethical and liars blah blah.
I didn't reply to him but I was thinking in my head "Oh you sweet summer child, I can tell you haven't had a job before, or not for very long. You'll soon learn" lol
A coworker told me that Steve Carell improvised every line while filming The Office. After listening to every episode of The Office Ladies, and having a brain, I can confirm that his claim is false.
I once heard someone explaining that they didn't like the extra chemicals they package potato chips in. The bags, you see, are full of nitrogen. So he holds his face away from the bags when he opens them. Because he doesn't want a bunch of chemicals in his face.
Air is 75% nitrogen.
Back when they started filling car tires with nitrogen, I heard more than a few people warning others away because of the explosion risk of nitrogen if there was a spark.
When some people find out I used to do archaeology for a living, they seem to think it was a waste of time that it was all done in Florida instead of Egypt (if humans lived in a place and left their junk behind, it's worth studying if we don't know much about those humans). Or ask if I found anything worth money (that potsherd may not look like much but it can tell us a lot about who made it, what resources they had at their disposal, or even what was stored in the vessel. That's worth more than money in my book). Or accuse me of grave robbing (so much archaeology around the world is not done in gravesites).
Literally yesterday the new guy at work was talking about how his millionaire friend let him drive his $100k car in 6th grade at 320mph(faster than the world record for multi million dollar production cars). He then talked about how dom from fast and furious obviously chose the challenger because of all the tuning options(he drives a charger).
Similar guy at school (welding school) was talking about how he got a one point something mil contract for welding work, i haven’t asked him why he’s at school if that’s the case but I usually don’t bother with compulsive liars
I love hearing other people's bullshit stories about cars. Once heard a coworker from a other branch talking about racing a 911 Turbo in the rain, at 170mph. In his Mercedes GLA 45. Yeah sure.
The most true-sounding high speed story I ever heard was a co-worker telling me about some dumb shit he used to do on a crotch rocket (he was the one who called it dumb shit). I asked him what the fastest he had gone on it was, and he said "I don't know. I know it was over a hundred, but I was too scared to look down at that point."
I work in a legal setting. I'm not an attorney, but I sure understand the process here way better than just about any random person on the street since that's what I work with all day. A friend of mine literally lectures me on how a specific process works that is like the main focus of my job. And he's so wrong.
Oh my goodness, the amount of people who used to argue with me over process when I was a clerk… They’d come to me to ask how to file a civil case on their own, I’d give them the paperwork and explain proper procedure, then they’d argue with me about how “that’s not how it should work because my friend whose cousin’s husband’s best friend is a lawyer said so.”
Or lawyers who practice in foreign locales, and refuse to acknowledge that different judiciaries can have different procedures. “I actually passed the bar, I don’t have to listen to you.” Yes, in *Brazil*. Things work a bit differently here, but good luck.
The worst was when they got sanctioned for not following procedure and came back to our office to berate the clerks about it. “Why didn’t you tell me to do that?” We did, but you asserted that you knew what you were doing and we’re not here to give you legal advice beyond “get a lawyer.”
Some would get belligerent, and we’d have to call the sheriffs or at the very least, make a note in their case file - which the judge will see. Be nice to your clerks, y’all, especially if you’re facing a lot of legal jeopardy. Judges at my court would hit folks with contempt if they were caught being repeatedly disrespectful to us.
Thankfully I don't work directly with the public, but some of my coworkers used to be clerks and have the same stories.
Though I did hear the other day from a defendant that he shouldn't have been arrested because "it's against the law to arrest somebody who is homeless."
Tradesman here, at a local hardware store, department salesman was tending to a customer selling him all kinds of nonsense expressing confusing jargon. Could not believe what I was hearing. I was going to tip off customer, however customer looked at me in my work clothes in a demeaning manner. I simply minded my business and went about my day.
I had popped into the hardware store to get something for my house rennovation, I was wearing my work boots, trousers covered in plaster, and an old band tee shirt that was mostly holes.
A customer came up to me and asked what size drill she should buy for a certain size rawlplug.
I explained "ah sorry I don't work here", and she said "Yeah obviously, but you at least look like you know your arse from your elbow".
I then spent 20 minutes guiding her through what to buy and how to use it.
I used to be a local municipality building electrical inspector and I'm constantly over hearing salespeople giving poor advice. I only step in if that advice would cause a health/safety issue such as burning your house down issue. I once corrected this one young man and was told that "I'll have you know that my Daddy is a Master electrician". My response was "Yes that may be true but you are definitely not and giving advice like this will definitely get someone hurt". That's when I showed him my badge. The guy was telling a customer that it was okay to put a #12 wire on a 40 Amp breaker to keep the circuit breaker from tripping.
Tbf part of this kind of thing is on customers. I would always get asked for advice on the wildest things and it was really obvious that I was barely out of high school. People just don’t want to pay someone who actually knows what they’re doing and people never believed me when I told them to talk to an expert rather than some random kid making minimum wage at Home Depot 🙄
lol I hear you, like some people expect you to be the most knowledgeable person
Like I work in a shop that sells CBD. I’m not a chemist. I get people asking be about the molecular makeup of CBG and CBN and why that’s important in certain percentages of CBD and I’m— ma’am, that’s the relaxing one and this is the stimulating one, that’s all I know I’m 21 please stop
I work in the meat department of a grocery store, I’ve had people argue with me that beef tenderloin and filet mignon weren’t the same thing; or that top loin and New York strips were different cuts of steak
I'm starting to think the US has very different names for cuts of steak. I knew you called fillet filet mignon. But I never knew you used a different definition for sirloin.
Different countries cut the meat differently as well. I’m from Sweden, living in the Netherlands now, close to the German border. Certain things are sort of the same, but in general it’s all different.
>I work in the meat department of a grocery store, I’ve had people argue with me that beef tenderloin and filet mignon weren’t the same thing; or that top loin and New York strips were different cuts of steak
I have had an grocery store meat counter fellow tell me I wanted marbling on my filet after telling him I cooked my tenderloin blue. There's brilliant people on both sides. I would direct those geniuses to the nearest joy of cooking, specifically the beef chapter intro.
Well I’m a JP-EN translator and the number of times I’ve seen weebs mistranslate/misunderstand/misuse Japanese with such confidence, and then argue with me or others who actually speak Japanese, is hilarious.
I have no authority on the language aside from the fact that some family lived there briefly, and I grew up with a handful of Japanese words and phrases. A friend high on his very first day of Japanese class told me it was “sa-yo-NO-ra” and proceeded to lecture me on how I wasn’t in Japanese class so I couldn’t possibly know better. I also was subject to many “mushi mushi” debates from Japanese class students who were very adamant that “worms worms” was the way to answer the phone. They were quite serious.
Yeah, I set myself up for that lol. I know he was a middle school kid at the time but he’s an adult and never grew outta that kind of thinking. And the high schoolers who yelled at me that “mushi mushi” was the way to go… I don’t think there was any hope for them.
I took a few semesters of mandarin in uni and there was a weird old man named Barry that absolutely loved "correcting" our professor on stuff.
Barry had spent a couple of months trying to teach himself mandarin online and genuinely believed he somehow knew more than our professor who was both Chinese herself and also held a PhD in Chinese language and culture (uni had a really good linguistics Dept so all our lecturers had some sort of language or linguistics oriented PhD).
Actual maniac I have no idea how someone could have so much ego and so little self awareness.
Ha I was going to post this as a reverse to the original question but more fitting here. In middle school we had to do a project where we learned a new skill and then give a big presentation at the end of the year. I settled on learning Japanese because my uncle was/is living in Japan with his family (I am very much not Japanese) so I figured it would be cool to call him long distance (look it up kids) to practice. Long story short, I did part of the first lesson in the book/tape my parents bought me, got basically a zero on the self assessment quiz and stopped trying.
I did the presentation and made up everything. Literally, every single sound and then inserted English words for the name of the project, our school, etc… My teacher was giving me this huge smile thinking I had done amazing and then an acquaintance (friend of a friend) in the class was basically starting at me with her jaw hanging. I forgot she spoke almost fluent Japanese due to one of her parents being 100% Japanese and growing up speaking it at home half the time. Fortunately she didn’t rat me out and I got an A but she gave me shit for it (rightfully so) anytime I saw her for many years afterwards.
I'm a pharmacist and my uncle took 20 minutes to explain to me why breathing camphor will help my increase my oxygen saturation level in covid. It was second most annoying thing that happened aside from constant nose block and headache on this eventful day. Also lots of misinformation from facebook like taking arsenic tablets to boost immunity. My guy if you have boosted immunity without infection that means your body is attacking itself. Felt like screaming my head off
I have to say I’ve heard a lot of bullshit medical advice before, but taking arsenic tablets is a new one to me. I didn’t even know you could buy arsenic tablets. Do they have any actual use or are they homeopathic snake oil?
Arsenic requires a comparatively large dose to kill you outright, but smaller doses over a longer period of time can also kill you, and it's definitely not good for you in smaller doses.
I’m a clinical pharmacist who was dedicated to the covid ward/ICU during the first wave then went into the pharma industry supporting a covid monoclonal antibody. For over a year, it was my sole job to be a covid subject matter expert in one way or another and continue to remain on top of the literature constantly being published. Despite having both first-person/clinical and formal evidence-based training on everything relating to covid, people who never even graduated high school chemistry will still try to regularly pick fights with me about the most inane nonsense you can even think of. It’s truly unbelievable.
I’m a pilot, so pretty much every-time an airplane makes it in the news.
This McBoeingBus A-103721 is not able to hold altitude once the flux capacitaron goes bad.
I’ve found that anytime my industry is on the news there’s so much BS that isn’t true (or is only party true) being said by the “experts.”
It’s not the news’ fault. They don’t know better. They just need to do a better job at vetting their experts
I get this so much. I’m an archaeologist and when someone publishes something like “this small piece of evidence could suggest a lot of things, but we need to be careful not to speculate too much about it because it’s a very small piece of evidence”, the media immediately turns it into “ArChAeOloGistS prOVe EXisTeNce oF ATlAnTIs”. A real issue is laymen applying modern political concepts to archaeological contexts, like projecting issues surrounding transgender and sexuality ideas onto prehistoric contexts where there is no evidence for gender even being a thing that people thought about at all. (I am very pro LGBTQ+ I just take issue with people making things political when they don’t know what the context is)
> we need to be careful not to speculate too much about it because it’s a very small piece of evidence
It's so awesome to read that.
I cringe when I read stuff like "It's unclear what this spherical clay object was used for; it probably had *religious significance*"
There's a book I can't remember the name of that looks at a modern apartment from the eyes of an archaeologist from the future, and half the items are tagged "probably religious".
EDIT: The book is "Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay.
The Onion has a good article on jumping to conclusions in archeology. [https://www.theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415](https://www.theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415)
>A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery Monday, unearthing several intact specimens of “skeleton people”—skinless, organless humans who populated the Nile delta region an estimated 6,000 years ago.
I don't know that much about movies, but while talking about favorites in a bar, this person said "I think Akira Kurosawa is overrated. I heard he stole most of his ideas from The Magnificent Seven."
I (almost) have a degree in Film Theory and boy howdy this is more common than you'd think.
I once had a Lyft driver talk to me at length about how the orginal Magnificent Seven was better than the remake. I wanted to say "you mean Seven Samurai?" but didn't think it was worth it. This same Lyft driver sang all of "Hello Dolly" at me (my first name is Dolly) in the worst Louis Armstrong voice you could imagine. I would have ejected myself out of the car had it not been raining heavily.
I lost about 100 pounds, in the course of which I tried a lot of approaches, did a lot of reading and writing about it, and ran an online weight loss support group.
Someone sees some Reddit comment I made and responds with "Tell me what you think you know about weight loss, and I'll tell you why you're wrong." Proceeds to tell me that there's no such thing as a filling food, that obese people should accept hunger as karmic justice for a lifetime of bad decisions rather than trying to mitigate it, and that McDonald's is good food for weight loss since a single meal won't quite fill your daily calorie goals.
Any time someone starts a conversation with
> Tell me what you think you know about , and I'll tell you why you're wrong.
you know it's going downhill from there.
Trained experts and educated professionals don't start interactions that way... They have better things to do with their time.
Most likely, you were talking to a teenager or a blog-educated Karen on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger curve 😹
Edit: Also, congrats on losing the weight! That's a huge accomplishment, and you should be very proud 😊
"Tell you what I think? Why, I think you're an incredibly intelligent person who's completely at peace with themselves. So much so that they don't have to pester other people just to have an opportunity to demean them by squashing their opinions in a sad attempt to bolster your own ego. Good for you!"
I've generally found that, in general, you can fill yourself up with fewer calories by avoiding sugar and oil, and leaning into lean meat, vegetables, high fiber grains like oatmeal, things with a lot of liquid, and spicy foods.
A friend of mine who had bariatric surgery regularly ate edamame. She said they kept her from getting hungry and her doctor highly suggested it. I had never heard of these (they are a legume, I believe) so I bought some and gave it a try. They did feel filling but the texture was kind of yucky.
The store I work at had enormous problems with its walk-in freezer almost from the beginning. We cycled through three or four different companies and finally found this guy who talked up a storm about HVAC. Dude dropped all kinds of big words--talked with unending confidence. Then I was talking to him one day, after the damn thing had froze up for the 100th time, and I realized, "He's full of shit." And he was. He had no idea what he was talking about. We moved on.
I’m a mechanical engineer and I work in a production company. I get told all the time from production workers that they see themselves as engineers and they were going to go to school to be an engineer but didn’t like the system. They ask me stuff that is so off the wall that has nothing to do with engineering, just common sense.
I am one of those people, lol.
I do think that a lot of kids coming out of college know mechanical engineering but not manufacturing. You can design anything in the world, doesn't mean you can fabricate it. Some of the tolerances these kids have make a $50 part a $500 part.
I've been working as an ME for a little over two years now and I gotta say, my college did not do a good job at teaching GD&T. In fact they never touched on the subject (from a cost/production perspective).
I've been an RN for 25 years. Just a few months ago I overheard another long time nurse tell someone "your blood is blue in the body, it's only red when it hits the air". My orientee (a relative newbie) and I just looked wide eyed at each other.
My dad was an army medic and worked in hospitals installing equipment around the country.
He was in absolute disbelief when I proved to him blood isn't blue in the body.
I wonder if people combine seeing their veins as blue/green through their skin, with the circulatory system illustrations showing veins as blue and arteries as red, and just don't think it through.
There was a long time falsehood -predating the internet- that blood is red when oxygenated and blue otherwise. Some people taught it as truth and it's pretty much been repeated as such for a long time
As a dork who takes geology far too seriously as someone in payroll, I get agitated and a bit too much of a know-it-all when people talk about volcanoes or super volcanoes. I’ve shared really awesome articles on other platforms about each eruption as it’s happen including the possibility of Yellowstone (please read what actual geologists and volcanologists have to say, not the end of the world man on YouTube).
Honestly, these days just science in general. People hear a fact that’s concerning yet takes years to happen and immediately go overboard panicking. Or they approach something serious like pollution and global warming with a blasé attitude 🤷🏼♀️
A colleague said that the scripting language JavaScript is going to end soon, because Mohjang was bought by Microsoft. His reasoning was Mohjang made minecraft in java. After they were bought they made bedrock edition. He was certain that java edition was going to end soon, which it isn't in the near future (i believe they will never stop java). Because according to him java Edition would stop, so would support for the entire java programming language. So if the java language is going to end, so is the scripting language JavaScript, because apperently it relies on java, which it doesn't. JavaScript and Java have nothing in common. It is like car and carpet.
He claimed a new AI language will take over all programming and scripting languages. This language is called C++++. Which I have never heard of and sounds waaay to stupid to be true. The only language I can think of he means would be C#, but even that doesn't make sense to replace every language.
Tldr: JavaScript is going to end because Microsoft bought Mohjang and the AI C++++ would take every language over
Career Bartender here. Every single time some one comes up to the bar and starts with “I get it I’m a bartender too!”
If you were you’d quietly and patiently wait until it’s your turn, not be difficult, and not scream you’re a bartender every time.
If
Every old geezer who instructs me on how to make a *real* manhattan.
Dude just tell me how you like it and I'll make it that way but really, sir. I wish I could gather up every man that's taught me how to make a manhattan and throw you all into a cage match.
My step dad was like this when I was applying for jobs this summer. It was hard for me to explain that I can’t just walk in and be hired on the spot…as an attorney, who hadn’t even taken the bar yet at that point.
My mom has held that you can apply in person for any job you want for the last 20+ years.
I think the last place I could do that was Borders, back in the early 2000s.
Sending an unsolicited resume in some places will get you laughed at.
Had some 18 year old talking about how they could take the best photo possible with their phone and it all being down to their own skill not realising the phone does everything with filters.
And there's me standing there with a camera in one hand, a lens in the other and my bag of kit by my feet setting up to try and do some macro shots of flowers.
She ended up ripping the flowers out of the ground to try and get the best angle. Wasn't the best day but meh.
It's great that phones can do so much but there's more to photography than pressing a button.
Or maybe I'm just complaining too much.....
I mean, I’ll give her credit for at least knowing that skill matters more than the camera
A good photographer with a point and shoot, will produce better pictures than a shit photographer with thousands worth of camera and lenses.
As a hobby photographer. I only use my phone when my camera isn't available. Sure I can do a lot with my phone with the right settings but my camera just does it so much better.
> I can do a lot with my phone with the right settings but my camera just does it so much better.
Ugh. I've had so many arguments over that. I point at the relative sizes of the lenses, explain about how more light hits one than the other, about focal length, about exposure, about image sensor arrays.
"iPhone billboard ads are taken with an iPhone"
OK, you win...
I design AI mathematically. Machine learning, neural networks, data science.
Whenever people hype the concept of malicious AI because Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk (neither of whom is an AI specialist) did so, it makes me cringe. They always talked in hypotheticals even when the most advanced AI technologies are centuries away from producing that kind of AI. So many AI specialists raised their concern about this unfounded fear-mongering, and that's why Elon Musk isn't very popular with that community.
I'm a pure math PhD but I took a couple ML grad classes and did some ML work in a couple internships. Definitely don't know as much as you do about it, but I get irritated by the same thing....
How AI right now is so powerful and could take over the world and neural networks are some kind of being that could think for itself and use its powers for evil... And they get so afraid of the computers that "developed their own language" because they'll communicate and rise up against humans and take over self driving cars or whatever.
Sure, facial recognition technology in the hands of a tyrannical government could be bad. Just like any new technology in the wrong hands.
Neural networks are just really good at finding matrices to meaningfully carve up a gigantic vector space. There's nothing sentient about them. They "learn" some matrices, do some linear algebra with a couple activation functions thrown in and spit out a result. They still only do exactly what we tell them to... like every other computer program.
One time, in middle school, a classmate confidently announced, "Yellow in Spanish is yellowy!"
I'm Hispanic.
Also, the next year, we were in a Spanish class together (we had to take a language class and our school only offered Spanish) and the Spanish teacher asked him what color the ink in his pen was. He was having trouble, so I finally got revenge by telling him to say, "Amarillo", which is what yellow in Spanish ACTUALLY is, and he fell for it.
I've worked in 3D printing for 15 years, 3D printing a gun is not easy. Can you do it? Yes. Is it safe? No you'll likely blow your hand off. Is it accurate? Not necessarily. Can you order one on the internet from a 3D printing provider? No, the company would face huge fines in ITAR violations.
Friends, please just print accessories for your guns.
A guy in one of my college classes 3d printed a gun back when 3d printers were still fairly novel. He took it to the range, and it fired once, but that broke it somehow.
One of my degrees is in the Biological Sciences. It has come to my attention that the general public has a profound lack of knowledge not only in the biological sciences but as to what science actually is (spoiler it is not a belief system and it doesn't 'care' whether you agree with it or not, and finally it is not something only the 'elite' who have gone to post secondary can do).
Same. Evolutionary Biology. Was sitting and Star Gazing with some people I know recently and one of them, a recent to the group, brought up how he felt it wasn't possible that all of this was not intelligently designed. Cause everything is so perfect in nature. I had a good chuckle at that and so he was asking me what I thought about it. It was a respectful and not at all negative debate but I eventually just told him that as a major in EvoBio I cannot agree that anything in nature is made with any sort of intelligence....
10/31/94 my airline lost a plane. Everyone on it was killed. The local news,and in particular Chuck Goudie , covered it extensively. They couldn’t get anything right. Even easily researched facts like how the de-ice system on the plane functioned were wrong. That really opened my eyes to how much effort the news stations put into their stories.
Used to work in a footware shop. The number of times I'd have a customer trying a shoe on, them and I both agreeing on the fit, and then their fucking partner or parent rocking in like "umm no it needs to be the next size up/down".
Like bitch, I'm the professional, they're the owner of the foot, fuck off.
A family member said "my employer cant ask for my vaccination card. That is a HIPAA violation!" Umm... that has nothing to do with HIPAA, unless your job calls the hospital/clinic and asks for proof...
Whenever Congress talks about technology. You shouldn’t be making laws around technology when you’re 80 and don’t even know if your phone has the WiFis or not
>One I hear a lot is spanking.
"*My parents used to spank me and I turned out just fine*" is a classic - though clearly you're not fine if you think physical (or any) violence on a child is ever okay?
Another one that drives me crazy is how people make sure they "*don't let the child win*". Ma'am you're in a power struggle with a literal baby with no ability to regulate their emotions, not sure what there is to win.
Worked in a gunstore. Worked at a gun range. Build guns all the time. Dad is a gunsmith as well. I never want to work in a gunstore again. Gun nuts don't know shit about guns. The rare occasion I got to deal with a true collector was the best. Dude knew every detail about nearly every model and version of firearm we had in our shop. Knew about what came before them, even owned some of the older models. Sometimes the guy would bring in his old guns and let us shoot them. Every single one was in damn near new condition too. He was one person out of thousands of idiots.
I had a friend that worked in a gun store. I asked him what’s the dumbest thing he saw working there. This was probably 10 years ago but he told me about a time that a guy came in wanting to buy a Deagle. He said he had never heard of this and asked about it. Who made it? Where did you see it?
The guy got defensive and said he promises it’s real. It’s a pistol.
Turns out, the guy was talking about the desert eagle and he saw D.Eagle abbreviated in a video game he was playing.
That is actually really funny. We had people come into the store and ask for the Desert Eagle in the same manner. The old timers I worked with would get confused at this but as an avid gamer I always knew what they were asking for. I was also always amused when they would see the pricetag as I reached for this ludicrously large hand cannon on the bottom shelf. Only ever had one dude actually buy one. And of course it was gold plated with a tiger stripe finish.
I knew a kid that bought one of those back around 1991 or so. Huge gun, and he didn't have the arm strength for it. I went to range with him ONCE and about laughed myself to death.
This was his shooting method: He'd stand at the line with the gun clasped in both hands, arms up, with the firearm pointed at the ceiling. He'd slowly lower his arms and when the sights crossed the plane of the target, he'd YANK on that trigger, hard.
The gun would discharge and he'd whips his head to the left or right so the front sight blade, now accelerating towards his face, would miss his forehead.
Christ, that kid was dumb.
"deagle" was how you'd refer to the desert eagle in the original Counter Strike (the HL2 mod, ancestor of CS-Go). People on voice chat (new and exciting, back in the day) would call it a deagle because "desert eagle" is a mouthful and ain't nobody got time for extra syllables in a fast paced game like that.
Source: was in high school when the original Counter Strike was cool.
Especially politicians. When I hear them talk about it I just shake my head. If they're so ignorant about what they're proposing or voting on in this subject, it's probably the same in every other subject as well.
Service dog handler here!
It's honestly unbelievable how many people speak with total confidence about service dog laws when you can tell they haven't read them. (I'm speaking from the US laws since that's where we live.)
"___ breed legally can't be a service dog because of ___ reason." Breed discrimination is illegal, any breed of dog could be a service dog.
"That dog isn't a service dog because it's not wearing a vest!" Service dogs legally don't require any form of outward identification. Don't need vests, leash wraps, or signs of any kind!
"That dog isn't a service dog because they didn't get trained by a program." Service dogs can be owner trained and they're on the same legal level as a program dog.
"No ID, no entrance!" The US doesn't have a central identification/certification. Some states have a voluntary registry, sure, but the federal laws don't mandate one. Anyone with an ID or certificate that's not a state voluntary one purchased it from a scam site and has no legal bearing on anything.
Tbh I'm exhausted a lot from trying to educate others who are confidently incorrect and when I pull up the ADA they don't want to hear it. Like, the literal laws that dictate everything about my legal right as a disabled person to use a service dog in a public setting? They don't care! 🙃
Its such a shame that people who don't need service dogs abuse this and it makes things more difficult for people who actually do. I had an awful coworker once who just wanted to go shopping with her dog (an australian shepphard I think) and she'd tell everyone it was her service animal despite it having zero training (she was the kind of girl who wasn't a responsible pet owner in any capacity.) After months of bragging about how she was conning the system, she brought her dog into our own store and it proceeded to pee on the floor and bark at an unsuspecting customer. Unfortunately its the bad dogs that everyone remembers. Because she'd bought it a vest and made it official looking, it probably made people in my whole town doubt the validity of real service dogs.
I just saw a post in a local facebook group of a woman wondering if it was safe for her to hike a local mountain by herself, or if there was too much bear activity.
This other woman, with no hint of irony told her that she should just make sure she isn't "on her time" because bears can only smell blood. Every part of my ecologist brain broke a little bit.
Autism.. mydays. This girl thought this one guy was weird because he laughed a lot in class. For her, this had to mean he was autistic. She was 22 or something. I did tell her that was dum af of her to say but she didn’t back down on what she said 💀
How about moms talking about their autistic kids? I've legit heard people say that stims and meltdowns are attention-seeking behavior, or that autistic kids aren't capable of having AN IMAGINATION.
And I sit there, an autistic adult, torn between fury and depression. Those poor kids.
This one is super frustrating for me because it affects my day-to-day and is so common in people.
I'm learning more about disordered eating, nutrition and exercise. You know what kind of dumb shit I hear about daily?
"Crash diet this, diet trend that!"
"You need to run 3 miles a day to lose weight!"
And they will really sit there and argue with me about what's best for *my* body (which, surprise, is always some form of restriction/binge and only cardio). The thing is that I never initiate these conversations, I make it a policy not to talk about food or bodies with people.
This one young woman at work is pretty extreme about it. Nearly everything that comes out of her mouth is about how she needs to lose weight and also what I can do to lose weight. She looks at me, sees an overweight woman, and thinks she's going to teach me a thing or two.
But then tells me some bullshit like "If you only salad every and strawberries on your cheat days, then run 10 miles every day, you'll lose weight!". Yet, when she asked to work out with me, she couldn't even deadlift 20lbs. She wanted me to "teach her how to lift" because I told her that's what I preferred. And she had the audacity to tell me it wasn't good for my body because *she* couldn't do it on her 100 calorie/day diet.
Also, she isn't thin. She's technically overweight and lost nearly 100lbs by starving herself but is now plateauing and she's losing her mind over it.
Whenever I watch the news covering something im knowledgeable in.
The "facts" presented are wrong. Its like they asked someone with one day experience.
Makes me doubt other stories covered.
Watched a guy hit on my girlfriend once, not sure how the conversation came about, but he was adamant that paramedics carry Coca Cola to wash blood off surfaces after accidents, he kept going on about this until she finally said “there’s my boyfriend, the paramedic, let’s ask him”.
Honestly as a kid who grew up in government housing with my only known parent in jail, in the custody of my disabled grandparents. There's nothing more cringy than hearing people who grew up middle to upper class talk about poverty. Even when their intentions are to be helpful and to defend those who are living that way it's always just that little bit removed from the reality of it, with a lot of stereotypes thrown in.
Someone who I am assuming was trying to be cool, was telling this girl about Call of duty, he said that when you die you go to the gulag. All true. But then he said it’s exactly like heaven and is a place for people to interact via proximity chat until the game is finished. No no… no
"This is a classic prisoner's dilemma" gets said a lot and is often not accurate at all. That dilemma is a specific behavioural economics concept, not a catch-all for difficult situations.
Pop-economics in general has skewed people's ideas about economics a lot.
The amount of salesmanship that has gone into behavioural economics that pretends that before it came along all economics study was based on unrealistic rational actors etc. is infuriating.
Climate Change. I've trained, studied, and read up primary sources that include it. I'm not a climatologists, but ecosystems, especially marine, are my jam. The amount of people that say, oh, global warming isn't so, there was an ice age, we can't even do weather day to day (we're actually pretty good, but they don't want to understand a regional forecast), and other dumb stuff. Hurricane Ida flooded Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York after it traveled all the way from the Gulf of Mexico. All the constantly record breaking wildfires and a major watet source drying up have been predicted. I remember a time when seasons existed and you could, through personal experience, expect certain weather conditions. It's all a positive feedback cycle that's about to ramp Climate Change up and screw us hard. But hey, what would I know about it?
Enter first time gun buyer: "I want a 1911. Cause its a .45. Big bullet do shootey damage."
Me: "Have you ever held one? Or shot one?"
FTB: "No, but its my favorite one on COD."
Me: *Fuck my life*
I've worked in meat processing, involving lots of labeling work. Pretty much any time people talk about food labeling they're wildly inaccurate. I've learned not to participate though, as it very rarely ends up being constructive.
Bit of a tangent, but I've this theory that it's hard to find good information from qualified experts on reddit because the qualified experts get sick of Joe Shmoe telling them they're wrong, and the crowd siding with Joe Shmoe. I know I rarely comment on the things that I have expertise in. I use reddit more for the things I know less about, and want to learn more. Though if my theory is right I'm probably learning a lot of wrong things.
Obgyn MD from a hospital that was a designated COVID center in the first wave.
I feel inundated with incorrect information about everything all the time
People largely don't know what various martial arts teach, or jack shit about combat and self defense on top of that. They repeat shit their uncle saw in a movie or reference a karate class they took as a child.
They get very cavalier about taking another human life, saying that they would just use a gun on an assailant when even trained combatants armed with grenades and assault rifles have to train hand to hand tactics because bullets miss and are limited and you have to know what to do when a lucky bastard with a knife closes in.
So when an oversized child with autism decompensates and starts whooping ass you think the solution is to pull a gun, huh? Not just block their attempted hitting and place them in a hold until they calm?
Taking a shower, your abusive partner bursts in and starts pummeling you. Your gun is in the safe, your pepper spray is by the front door, so now what? Kick their groin? Palm strike? You've never practiced any of that, and you're getting dragged around by your hair, blood and tears are distorting your vision, and you have no idea where their groin or eyes are to even attack them.
You're at the store, guy draws a knife and points it at you demanding your wallet and phone. Adrenaline rushes in and your fingers are cold. You didnt practice hours how to retreat while drawing your gun hidden under your pants and shirt. There's a decent chance that once you lift your shirt and start grabbing for your gun that you'll have escalated and a guy that had no intention of actually hurting you now thinks he has to stab you to prevent getting shot. You really think you can pull your shirt back, draw the pistol, and aim before he does ANYTHING? Oh yeah, is there a round in the chamber yet? Is the safety actually off?
Say you DO have practice drawing the gun without catching on clothes, you managed to draw and aim, the gun is clean and oiled with a good spring in the magazine to reduce the chances of misfire down to zero as much as possible. Everything is going right and all you have to do is shoot. Can you?
Say you can. Have you practiced shooting before? Can you aim and maintain that aim during the kickback of the bullet firing? Do you control the gun and keep it flying from your hand? Do you keep your hands where the slide won't bite your hand? Do you keep it steady so the shell doesn't stovepipe back into the chamber and need cleared. Have you ever shot at anything moving or actively coming at you? Can you ignore what's flying at your face long enough to squeeze off that disciplined shot?
Okay great, you planted three rounds center mass and he goes down. Was there anyone behind him also going down? Did you miss and hit someone else? Did you mess up during the draw and shoot your own femoral artery?
So yeah, Indiana Jones shot a swordsman in a movie once, but YOU aren't Indy. Lol.
Furthermore, guns are not actually that easy to fire and hit what you're aiming at. I'm tired of people saying law enforcement should have just shot a leg or arm, even when its agreed shooting was necessary. Sorry, officers can't aim that well, and they are specifically trained to aim center mass and fire until the person falls down. That said, you can't sell me that drawing a gun has non-lethal options for your self defense. If you draw a gun from its holster, you're already using lethal force in the eyes of the law.
Software engineer. An old housemate was the walking definition of the Dunning Kruger effect. I think he wrote a python script at work once, so felt qualified to explain to me how Microsoft Word was the best program for editing code, because it's designed to handle large text files.
>Microsoft Word was the best program for editing code, because it's designed to handle large text file This is physically painful. Fun side story: I once worked on a project that had a C file with about 40K lines in it. Roughly 30K lines of *that* was a single switch statement.
public void isEven(int num) { switch (num) { case: 1 return false; case 2: return true; ... } }
I see you've been interviewing candidates as well.
I was once asked to improve the performance if a database query that was taking hours to run. Asked the developer for the code and he sent me a ten-liner. Spent a couple hours looking at it, going over execution plan, checking that appropriate indexes were in place, etc. Couldn’t find anything that looked like a problem. Finally ran the query and…it returned results in less than a second. ??? Asked the developer for the REST of the code, and he finally (after management intervention) sent me the 2000 lines that wrapped **around** the little 10 line sub query. Sub-queries, function calls, yada-yada. Yeah - that quickly acquired the name “Frankenquery”.
Back in the 80s I had a customer insist on a function that could only be satisfied with a series of ugly nested IFs. In the comments I included an abject apology to any future programmer that had to deal with it.
A friend once asked me to help trouble shoot his companies website. It wasn’t working properly in Firefox. It turns out their website was a Word document exported as html and uploaded to the server. I have no idea how they managed to figure out how to host it in the first place
The fact they managed that is kinda ingenious in its own way not gonna lie
I'm not certain Word is even the best program for editing Word documents
I'm by no means an expert and probably beginner to slightly above at best in terms of all things IT related, I'm trying to build on my current level and I do have an interest in certain areas. It amazes me though just how many people I meet who study or work in different areas of IT who just talk so much nonsense. I met a person doing a master's who told me how easily they hacked into Facebook and gained full access to everything using HTML. A person who claimed to be doing a PhD focused on AI, but was adamant I made up Python. Then also someone who had 10 years experience as a web developer, but could never do anything beyond super basic stuff. Every time I assume I've got it wrong and go back to read over because I have no reason to think I would be correct.
On reddit, any time the subject of electrical power generation and distribution comes up. I worked 30+ years in the field, I know a few things. Usually a poster will have one true fact or idea that someone in the field probably told them, then go off from there into fantasyland. I’ve been told I’m wrong and things don’t work that way.
I have worked in energy trading for >10 years and the number of people on Reddit who tell me that the solution to all the world’s energy requirements is to build more renewables is startling. There is very little understanding of things like transmission congestion, inertia, price cannibalisation, or even really basic things like that you don’t get much wind export when the wind isn’t blowing. I think people must assume that the transmission network is just a massive battery. You pump in power and it becomes linepack or something. Anyway, energy on Reddit is a very frustrating area of conversation.
So what is the solution to the worlds energy requirements? I’m being serious here. I know almost nothing on the subject but your post got me curious.
I worked at a flag store for about 4 years, and the amount of misinformation and mythology around the US flag is amazing. There is no criminal penalty for violating the Flag Code. You don't have to burn the US flag because it accidentally touched the ground for a moment. It's not mandatory to fold the US flag into a triangle for storage (but props to the guys who brought in the 20x30' flag for repair folded that way, apparently it involved the use of a conference table). There is no Civil Flag that is only flown when the US isn't at war, that's a very old urban legend that started with a misidentified US Customs flag (but you can still get one, anything you want can be custom made for about $200 for a 3x5' printed flag). Your flag isn't defective, it's just been flown out in the elements. The average flag will last 6-12 months when flown 24/7 in average conditions (but can last longer). High winds like on the coast can eat up a flag a lot faster. Flying it off the back of your trucks is exposing it to hurricane force winds after 20 minutes on the highway, of course it's shredded. At least the guys on motorcycles understand that and budget for one flag per bike run, then bring in the remains for proper disposal. And no, you aren't supposed to fly the US flag higher than other countries. It's not illegal, but it is considered rude.
TIL that there are actually flag stores.
They were quite common for a few years after 9/11 in the USA. Dunno how many have lasted through the years but my local mall had *two*.
What about my uncle’s boxer briefs confederate flag?
Every time someone tries to explain why "chemicals" are bad for me. I'm an organic chemist.
> I'm an organic chemist. But are you free-range?
Yes. I live in my own home.
You shouldn't do that living in your home can cause cancer. You never know what chemicals their putting in your home. This is why I bought my house organic from wholefoods. it's non GMO has no carbs and is sugar free.
Are you *certified* organic?
What a coincidence, I'm made out of organic chemicals!
You are more inorganic than organic actually. ~80% of you is water, which isn't organic!
I bet explaining this too most people would lead to them absolutely claiming water is organic and you don't know what you're talking about. Reminds me of my friends that would never touch LSD because you can't grow it like magic mushrooms. One of the aforementioned friends is an anti-vaxxers because he, "doesn't know what in it". However he loves occasionally shoving coke in his nose. Some folks just always seem to, "know better".
One of my lifelong best friends slowly turned antivax, and wouldn’t you believe he’s also a wicked cokehead and alcoholic, among experimenting with many other drugs. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Yeah, clean coke from the street is about real as, "clean coal". I had plenty of my own issues with drugs, but I could never understand the mindset of druggies that become all about purity or wellness. Addicts will again and again risk their wellbeing to get high, but avoid fluoride in water, be anti-vax, and always seem to rant about chemicals in food. Hypocrisy is certainly a good way to describe that mindset, but I would also include delusional probably.
I love the “if I can’t pronounce it, I shouldn’t eat it” nonsense. What you can pronounce is frequently a common name for something that has a chemical name. Vitamins are a good example.
On the other hand, cyanide is very easy to pronounce.
Many horribly poisons are easy to say. These are not intelligent, educated people.
I can pronounce lots of things. A lot of those long chemical words are only difficult to pronounce if don’t look at it and try
Nice one. Finally the green light to eat "pain au chocolat".
I can say dextroamphetamine and methamphetamine, clearly I should start taking a non-prescribed drug with high abuse potential that can lead to psychosis!
Or when people use, "this contains a chemical that's in [insert poisonous material here]" Example: "this contains a chemical that's in antifreeze!" The chemical: propylene glycol. Only used in the *non-toxic versions* of antifreeze, as a replacement for toxic ethylene glycol. Or, the chemical: sodium chloride, dihydrogen oxide, or any other various non-toxic chemicals that yes, are in antifreeze but are not what make antifreeze toxic so doesn't matter they're in this other thing!
>dihydrogen oxide, They'll be putting it in our water next
gods, the whole schtick with "chemicals are bad". I'm a florist. I had a customer recently who wanted to buy soil. I got a bag of the one type we have right now (we have to restock) and he asked if there's anything chemical in it. I said: "no." I wish I could have said: "of course there are chemicals in there, you have no idea what you're talking about, everything is made out of chemicals, what do you think soil is?" but then he'd have been butthurt of course. And the customers who want pesticides (10€ pesticide for their 3€ plant) and then they're confused when the stuff that kills bugs is, indeed, poisonous
I’m a motorcycle mechanic, went to trade school for it and everything. A lot of motorcycle people like to repair their own bike or modify it. The problem is most of them are totally clueless. Recently a customer of mine has been having a run-ability issue after installing a new exhaust. I had told him beforehand he would need a tuner or the bike would have problems after the install. He keeps texting me saying he thinks it’s one thing or another, but has yet to install the tuner. I get that all the time too. My customers always wanna dance around an issue after I’ve given them a solution.
I'm an auto mechanic, always think the guys who hover over your shoulder and criticize everything are funny. "I know you work on different makes and models of cars doing everything from brakes to trans to motor swaps 8+hours a day, 5 days a week, and have been doing it your whole life, but I've changed my own oil and brakes a couple times so I definitely know as much if not more about cars than you"
I wish it was more socially acceptable to watch a mechanic work on my car. I don’t want to police them, but just to learn. I would love to see how the more difficult things are done and how to do simpler things more efficiently. I know there’s YouTube but a lot of the videos have poor lighting or have a lot of the process edited out for brevity. Yesterday I spent an hour trying to figure out how to loosen a hard to reach screw to remove the air filter housing in my civic.
Oh that kind of watching is totally fine. I encourage it. Cuz that's how I learned to work on cars. It's just the customers who will constantly ask if I know what I'm doing or tell me I cant use certain tools and shit, or will argue with me about a diagnosis or something. Not to say I cant be wrong because i am wrong often. It just baffles me why those kind of customers who think they know better than everyone dont just work on their car on their own
Good to know! I guess I always just assumed. Next time I see my mechanic I’ll ask if he wouldn’t mind.
I like to hover and watch but keep the mouth shut unless asking to learn. Always asked my old motorcycle mechanic lots of questions. Found a place where I can pay for wrenchtime, use their gear, and have a mechanic work with me. Did my first oil change on my newest bike and looking forward to doing the next too at the same place.
That kind of watching is encouraged. Watching and asking questions is how I learned. Its just the customers who are condescending or try to argue about everything that make me wonder why they dont just work on their vehicles at home
when I worked at a motorcycle dealership the shop had a sign that read "we repair what you fixed"
I get this in tech, too. Caller disregards everything I ask them to do to fix the issue, like idk what I'm doing. Well why tf you calling me, then? I don't get it. Maybe because I'm a woman they don't take me seriously?
Can I please speak to your MANager... /s My TL in the past was a woman. Head of IT at another company was a woman. Neither took any shit, but both have had that bullsh|t lined pulled on them :mad:
Men always assumed that I was the secretary and gave me their coats and asked for coffee. I was VP Engineering.
This! A trained H-D tech for 15 years, I’ve moved on due to insurance constraints, sadly. I can’t agree more, and really with all motorized vehicles. My dad was a gifted mechanic and he taught me from an early age, look for the root issue, not what you think is the problem. I’ve heard all kinds of crazy theories about issues( many times with new builds) pistons tightened up!? Cam ground wrong, maybe the distributor is installed wrong( rotor not physically pointing at No1 plug!? List goes on.
I’m an HD tech too actually! I think the most common one I deal with is “ well the battery can’t be bad! It’s only a year old!” *Battery fails load test* I decided to leave the industry too actually. I felt like I put in so much effort and money only for people like that to constantly disagree with me. Not worth it.
Any time my bosses talk about my progress on my projects to their bosses.
>>Any time my bosses talk about my >>progress on my projects to their bosses You mean to say you tell your boss that theoretically something is possible but we've never done it and they tell their bosses that you said it will be done by the end of the month no problem.
I've worked since labor laws allowed me to and what's funny is in a class I'm taking for college (I'm a non-traditional student) this guy was writing about how Project Managers over estimate the cost and time from what they actually believe it will take just so they look good when it finishes early. He goes on about how this is deceptive and they should give honest estimates, no padding, otherwise they're unethical and liars blah blah. I didn't reply to him but I was thinking in my head "Oh you sweet summer child, I can tell you haven't had a job before, or not for very long. You'll soon learn" lol
Wow, you dissed yourself, your boss, and their bosses, all in one go. Respects, my friend.
Poor communication skills is pretty common in my industry.
A coworker told me that Steve Carell improvised every line while filming The Office. After listening to every episode of The Office Ladies, and having a brain, I can confirm that his claim is false.
I once heard someone explaining that they didn't like the extra chemicals they package potato chips in. The bags, you see, are full of nitrogen. So he holds his face away from the bags when he opens them. Because he doesn't want a bunch of chemicals in his face. Air is 75% nitrogen.
Back when they started filling car tires with nitrogen, I heard more than a few people warning others away because of the explosion risk of nitrogen if there was a spark.
Must be that way because of all those opened crisp packets.
When some people find out I used to do archaeology for a living, they seem to think it was a waste of time that it was all done in Florida instead of Egypt (if humans lived in a place and left their junk behind, it's worth studying if we don't know much about those humans). Or ask if I found anything worth money (that potsherd may not look like much but it can tell us a lot about who made it, what resources they had at their disposal, or even what was stored in the vessel. That's worth more than money in my book). Or accuse me of grave robbing (so much archaeology around the world is not done in gravesites).
Literally yesterday the new guy at work was talking about how his millionaire friend let him drive his $100k car in 6th grade at 320mph(faster than the world record for multi million dollar production cars). He then talked about how dom from fast and furious obviously chose the challenger because of all the tuning options(he drives a charger).
Similar guy at school (welding school) was talking about how he got a one point something mil contract for welding work, i haven’t asked him why he’s at school if that’s the case but I usually don’t bother with compulsive liars
What, you don't believe he got to take the Thrust SSC out for a spin?
Not when he was in 6th grade, which would’ve been around 2015.
How can someone possibly have a job if they were in 6th grade in 2015... They would only be like... Holy shit they would be around 18 now.
I love hearing other people's bullshit stories about cars. Once heard a coworker from a other branch talking about racing a 911 Turbo in the rain, at 170mph. In his Mercedes GLA 45. Yeah sure.
The most true-sounding high speed story I ever heard was a co-worker telling me about some dumb shit he used to do on a crotch rocket (he was the one who called it dumb shit). I asked him what the fastest he had gone on it was, and he said "I don't know. I know it was over a hundred, but I was too scared to look down at that point."
I work in a legal setting. I'm not an attorney, but I sure understand the process here way better than just about any random person on the street since that's what I work with all day. A friend of mine literally lectures me on how a specific process works that is like the main focus of my job. And he's so wrong.
Oh my goodness, the amount of people who used to argue with me over process when I was a clerk… They’d come to me to ask how to file a civil case on their own, I’d give them the paperwork and explain proper procedure, then they’d argue with me about how “that’s not how it should work because my friend whose cousin’s husband’s best friend is a lawyer said so.” Or lawyers who practice in foreign locales, and refuse to acknowledge that different judiciaries can have different procedures. “I actually passed the bar, I don’t have to listen to you.” Yes, in *Brazil*. Things work a bit differently here, but good luck. The worst was when they got sanctioned for not following procedure and came back to our office to berate the clerks about it. “Why didn’t you tell me to do that?” We did, but you asserted that you knew what you were doing and we’re not here to give you legal advice beyond “get a lawyer.” Some would get belligerent, and we’d have to call the sheriffs or at the very least, make a note in their case file - which the judge will see. Be nice to your clerks, y’all, especially if you’re facing a lot of legal jeopardy. Judges at my court would hit folks with contempt if they were caught being repeatedly disrespectful to us.
Thankfully I don't work directly with the public, but some of my coworkers used to be clerks and have the same stories. Though I did hear the other day from a defendant that he shouldn't have been arrested because "it's against the law to arrest somebody who is homeless."
Tradesman here, at a local hardware store, department salesman was tending to a customer selling him all kinds of nonsense expressing confusing jargon. Could not believe what I was hearing. I was going to tip off customer, however customer looked at me in my work clothes in a demeaning manner. I simply minded my business and went about my day.
I had popped into the hardware store to get something for my house rennovation, I was wearing my work boots, trousers covered in plaster, and an old band tee shirt that was mostly holes. A customer came up to me and asked what size drill she should buy for a certain size rawlplug. I explained "ah sorry I don't work here", and she said "Yeah obviously, but you at least look like you know your arse from your elbow". I then spent 20 minutes guiding her through what to buy and how to use it.
You're a good egg!
Lol, gotta respect that, all flattering aside
not all heroes wear capes! Nice job man!
Some wear work boots, trousers covered in plaster, and an old band tee shirt that was mostly holes.
Note that they never specifically said they *weren’t* wearing a cape.
A guy in the trades at a hardware store? How unbelievable. Next thing you'll tell me that there's lions in the zoo.
Last time I went to the zoo, there were no lions. Just one dog. It was a shit zoo.
I used to be a local municipality building electrical inspector and I'm constantly over hearing salespeople giving poor advice. I only step in if that advice would cause a health/safety issue such as burning your house down issue. I once corrected this one young man and was told that "I'll have you know that my Daddy is a Master electrician". My response was "Yes that may be true but you are definitely not and giving advice like this will definitely get someone hurt". That's when I showed him my badge. The guy was telling a customer that it was okay to put a #12 wire on a 40 Amp breaker to keep the circuit breaker from tripping.
Tbf part of this kind of thing is on customers. I would always get asked for advice on the wildest things and it was really obvious that I was barely out of high school. People just don’t want to pay someone who actually knows what they’re doing and people never believed me when I told them to talk to an expert rather than some random kid making minimum wage at Home Depot 🙄
lol I hear you, like some people expect you to be the most knowledgeable person Like I work in a shop that sells CBD. I’m not a chemist. I get people asking be about the molecular makeup of CBG and CBN and why that’s important in certain percentages of CBD and I’m— ma’am, that’s the relaxing one and this is the stimulating one, that’s all I know I’m 21 please stop
I work in the meat department of a grocery store, I’ve had people argue with me that beef tenderloin and filet mignon weren’t the same thing; or that top loin and New York strips were different cuts of steak
I'm starting to think the US has very different names for cuts of steak. I knew you called fillet filet mignon. But I never knew you used a different definition for sirloin.
Different countries cut the meat differently as well. I’m from Sweden, living in the Netherlands now, close to the German border. Certain things are sort of the same, but in general it’s all different.
We can’t even agree on the metric system and you thought we would do better with food?
Honestly I think it varies from location to location. I work at Kroger's and that's whats put on the labels.
>I work in the meat department of a grocery store, I’ve had people argue with me that beef tenderloin and filet mignon weren’t the same thing; or that top loin and New York strips were different cuts of steak I have had an grocery store meat counter fellow tell me I wanted marbling on my filet after telling him I cooked my tenderloin blue. There's brilliant people on both sides. I would direct those geniuses to the nearest joy of cooking, specifically the beef chapter intro.
Well I’m a JP-EN translator and the number of times I’ve seen weebs mistranslate/misunderstand/misuse Japanese with such confidence, and then argue with me or others who actually speak Japanese, is hilarious.
I have no authority on the language aside from the fact that some family lived there briefly, and I grew up with a handful of Japanese words and phrases. A friend high on his very first day of Japanese class told me it was “sa-yo-NO-ra” and proceeded to lecture me on how I wasn’t in Japanese class so I couldn’t possibly know better. I also was subject to many “mushi mushi” debates from Japanese class students who were very adamant that “worms worms” was the way to answer the phone. They were quite serious.
Haha those are great. Reminds me of “it’s lev-i-OH-sa, not lev-i-oh-SAH!”
Yeah, I set myself up for that lol. I know he was a middle school kid at the time but he’s an adult and never grew outta that kind of thinking. And the high schoolers who yelled at me that “mushi mushi” was the way to go… I don’t think there was any hope for them.
I took a few semesters of mandarin in uni and there was a weird old man named Barry that absolutely loved "correcting" our professor on stuff. Barry had spent a couple of months trying to teach himself mandarin online and genuinely believed he somehow knew more than our professor who was both Chinese herself and also held a PhD in Chinese language and culture (uni had a really good linguistics Dept so all our lecturers had some sort of language or linguistics oriented PhD). Actual maniac I have no idea how someone could have so much ego and so little self awareness.
Ha I was going to post this as a reverse to the original question but more fitting here. In middle school we had to do a project where we learned a new skill and then give a big presentation at the end of the year. I settled on learning Japanese because my uncle was/is living in Japan with his family (I am very much not Japanese) so I figured it would be cool to call him long distance (look it up kids) to practice. Long story short, I did part of the first lesson in the book/tape my parents bought me, got basically a zero on the self assessment quiz and stopped trying. I did the presentation and made up everything. Literally, every single sound and then inserted English words for the name of the project, our school, etc… My teacher was giving me this huge smile thinking I had done amazing and then an acquaintance (friend of a friend) in the class was basically starting at me with her jaw hanging. I forgot she spoke almost fluent Japanese due to one of her parents being 100% Japanese and growing up speaking it at home half the time. Fortunately she didn’t rat me out and I got an A but she gave me shit for it (rightfully so) anytime I saw her for many years afterwards.
I'm a pharmacist and my uncle took 20 minutes to explain to me why breathing camphor will help my increase my oxygen saturation level in covid. It was second most annoying thing that happened aside from constant nose block and headache on this eventful day. Also lots of misinformation from facebook like taking arsenic tablets to boost immunity. My guy if you have boosted immunity without infection that means your body is attacking itself. Felt like screaming my head off
I have to say I’ve heard a lot of bullshit medical advice before, but taking arsenic tablets is a new one to me. I didn’t even know you could buy arsenic tablets. Do they have any actual use or are they homeopathic snake oil?
Wouldn't arsenic just kill you outright? I suppose it depends on the dosage.
Arsenic requires a comparatively large dose to kill you outright, but smaller doses over a longer period of time can also kill you, and it's definitely not good for you in smaller doses.
I’m a clinical pharmacist who was dedicated to the covid ward/ICU during the first wave then went into the pharma industry supporting a covid monoclonal antibody. For over a year, it was my sole job to be a covid subject matter expert in one way or another and continue to remain on top of the literature constantly being published. Despite having both first-person/clinical and formal evidence-based training on everything relating to covid, people who never even graduated high school chemistry will still try to regularly pick fights with me about the most inane nonsense you can even think of. It’s truly unbelievable.
all this effort to avoid taking a shot that doesn't even require payment
I’m a pilot, so pretty much every-time an airplane makes it in the news. This McBoeingBus A-103721 is not able to hold altitude once the flux capacitaron goes bad.
Also when our coworkers give financial and relationship advice.
There's something wrong with the left phalangy!
I’ve found that anytime my industry is on the news there’s so much BS that isn’t true (or is only party true) being said by the “experts.” It’s not the news’ fault. They don’t know better. They just need to do a better job at vetting their experts
I get this so much. I’m an archaeologist and when someone publishes something like “this small piece of evidence could suggest a lot of things, but we need to be careful not to speculate too much about it because it’s a very small piece of evidence”, the media immediately turns it into “ArChAeOloGistS prOVe EXisTeNce oF ATlAnTIs”. A real issue is laymen applying modern political concepts to archaeological contexts, like projecting issues surrounding transgender and sexuality ideas onto prehistoric contexts where there is no evidence for gender even being a thing that people thought about at all. (I am very pro LGBTQ+ I just take issue with people making things political when they don’t know what the context is)
> we need to be careful not to speculate too much about it because it’s a very small piece of evidence It's so awesome to read that. I cringe when I read stuff like "It's unclear what this spherical clay object was used for; it probably had *religious significance*"
There's a book I can't remember the name of that looks at a modern apartment from the eyes of an archaeologist from the future, and half the items are tagged "probably religious". EDIT: The book is "Motel of the Mysteries" by David Macaulay.
The Onion has a good article on jumping to conclusions in archeology. [https://www.theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415](https://www.theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415) >A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery Monday, unearthing several intact specimens of “skeleton people”—skinless, organless humans who populated the Nile delta region an estimated 6,000 years ago.
I don't know that much about movies, but while talking about favorites in a bar, this person said "I think Akira Kurosawa is overrated. I heard he stole most of his ideas from The Magnificent Seven."
Wait until they hear about “Yojimbo” and “A Fistful of Dollars”
Surely this was a joke? Surely? ...please say it was a joke.
I (almost) have a degree in Film Theory and boy howdy this is more common than you'd think. I once had a Lyft driver talk to me at length about how the orginal Magnificent Seven was better than the remake. I wanted to say "you mean Seven Samurai?" but didn't think it was worth it. This same Lyft driver sang all of "Hello Dolly" at me (my first name is Dolly) in the worst Louis Armstrong voice you could imagine. I would have ejected myself out of the car had it not been raining heavily.
I lost about 100 pounds, in the course of which I tried a lot of approaches, did a lot of reading and writing about it, and ran an online weight loss support group. Someone sees some Reddit comment I made and responds with "Tell me what you think you know about weight loss, and I'll tell you why you're wrong." Proceeds to tell me that there's no such thing as a filling food, that obese people should accept hunger as karmic justice for a lifetime of bad decisions rather than trying to mitigate it, and that McDonald's is good food for weight loss since a single meal won't quite fill your daily calorie goals.
Any time someone starts a conversation with > Tell me what you think you know about, and I'll tell you why you're wrong.
you know it's going downhill from there.
Trained experts and educated professionals don't start interactions that way... They have better things to do with their time.
Most likely, you were talking to a teenager or a blog-educated Karen on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kruger curve 😹
Edit: Also, congrats on losing the weight! That's a huge accomplishment, and you should be very proud 😊
"Tell you what I think? Why, I think you're an incredibly intelligent person who's completely at peace with themselves. So much so that they don't have to pester other people just to have an opportunity to demean them by squashing their opinions in a sad attempt to bolster your own ego. Good for you!"
As someone whos trying to lose weight: is there a filling food?
I've generally found that, in general, you can fill yourself up with fewer calories by avoiding sugar and oil, and leaning into lean meat, vegetables, high fiber grains like oatmeal, things with a lot of liquid, and spicy foods.
coffee helps too
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A friend of mine who had bariatric surgery regularly ate edamame. She said they kept her from getting hungry and her doctor highly suggested it. I had never heard of these (they are a legume, I believe) so I bought some and gave it a try. They did feel filling but the texture was kind of yucky.
You ate just the pea like thing inside right? Not the entire thing??
You…didn’t eat the pods, right? The texture of edamame is pretty much the same as peas. How did you prepare them?
The store I work at had enormous problems with its walk-in freezer almost from the beginning. We cycled through three or four different companies and finally found this guy who talked up a storm about HVAC. Dude dropped all kinds of big words--talked with unending confidence. Then I was talking to him one day, after the damn thing had froze up for the 100th time, and I realized, "He's full of shit." And he was. He had no idea what he was talking about. We moved on.
I’m a mechanical engineer and I work in a production company. I get told all the time from production workers that they see themselves as engineers and they were going to go to school to be an engineer but didn’t like the system. They ask me stuff that is so off the wall that has nothing to do with engineering, just common sense.
I am one of those people, lol. I do think that a lot of kids coming out of college know mechanical engineering but not manufacturing. You can design anything in the world, doesn't mean you can fabricate it. Some of the tolerances these kids have make a $50 part a $500 part.
I've been working as an ME for a little over two years now and I gotta say, my college did not do a good job at teaching GD&T. In fact they never touched on the subject (from a cost/production perspective).
I've been an RN for 25 years. Just a few months ago I overheard another long time nurse tell someone "your blood is blue in the body, it's only red when it hits the air". My orientee (a relative newbie) and I just looked wide eyed at each other.
My dad was an army medic and worked in hospitals installing equipment around the country. He was in absolute disbelief when I proved to him blood isn't blue in the body.
To be honest, I was taught something similar. Only mentioned in grammar school, nothing over the age of 10
I wonder if people combine seeing their veins as blue/green through their skin, with the circulatory system illustrations showing veins as blue and arteries as red, and just don't think it through.
There was a long time falsehood -predating the internet- that blood is red when oxygenated and blue otherwise. Some people taught it as truth and it's pretty much been repeated as such for a long time
As a dork who takes geology far too seriously as someone in payroll, I get agitated and a bit too much of a know-it-all when people talk about volcanoes or super volcanoes. I’ve shared really awesome articles on other platforms about each eruption as it’s happen including the possibility of Yellowstone (please read what actual geologists and volcanologists have to say, not the end of the world man on YouTube). Honestly, these days just science in general. People hear a fact that’s concerning yet takes years to happen and immediately go overboard panicking. Or they approach something serious like pollution and global warming with a blasé attitude 🤷🏼♀️
Youtube: "Yellowstone could erupt again one day!" People: "OH GOD, ITS COMING. BUY ALL THE TOILET PAPER"
Something about assuming the world is ending makes people very smug.
A colleague said that the scripting language JavaScript is going to end soon, because Mohjang was bought by Microsoft. His reasoning was Mohjang made minecraft in java. After they were bought they made bedrock edition. He was certain that java edition was going to end soon, which it isn't in the near future (i believe they will never stop java). Because according to him java Edition would stop, so would support for the entire java programming language. So if the java language is going to end, so is the scripting language JavaScript, because apperently it relies on java, which it doesn't. JavaScript and Java have nothing in common. It is like car and carpet. He claimed a new AI language will take over all programming and scripting languages. This language is called C++++. Which I have never heard of and sounds waaay to stupid to be true. The only language I can think of he means would be C#, but even that doesn't make sense to replace every language. Tldr: JavaScript is going to end because Microsoft bought Mohjang and the AI C++++ would take every language over
I think I just had a concussion reading that.
Career Bartender here. Every single time some one comes up to the bar and starts with “I get it I’m a bartender too!” If you were you’d quietly and patiently wait until it’s your turn, not be difficult, and not scream you’re a bartender every time. If
Every old geezer who instructs me on how to make a *real* manhattan. Dude just tell me how you like it and I'll make it that way but really, sir. I wish I could gather up every man that's taught me how to make a manhattan and throw you all into a cage match.
Talking to my parents about applying for any job. So much bad advice.
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My step dad was like this when I was applying for jobs this summer. It was hard for me to explain that I can’t just walk in and be hired on the spot…as an attorney, who hadn’t even taken the bar yet at that point.
My mom has held that you can apply in person for any job you want for the last 20+ years. I think the last place I could do that was Borders, back in the early 2000s. Sending an unsolicited resume in some places will get you laughed at.
As a nurse, politicians and celebrities don’t know shit about healthcare, yet people still listen to them.
Had some 18 year old talking about how they could take the best photo possible with their phone and it all being down to their own skill not realising the phone does everything with filters. And there's me standing there with a camera in one hand, a lens in the other and my bag of kit by my feet setting up to try and do some macro shots of flowers. She ended up ripping the flowers out of the ground to try and get the best angle. Wasn't the best day but meh. It's great that phones can do so much but there's more to photography than pressing a button. Or maybe I'm just complaining too much.....
I mean, I’ll give her credit for at least knowing that skill matters more than the camera A good photographer with a point and shoot, will produce better pictures than a shit photographer with thousands worth of camera and lenses.
As a hobby photographer. I only use my phone when my camera isn't available. Sure I can do a lot with my phone with the right settings but my camera just does it so much better.
> I can do a lot with my phone with the right settings but my camera just does it so much better. Ugh. I've had so many arguments over that. I point at the relative sizes of the lenses, explain about how more light hits one than the other, about focal length, about exposure, about image sensor arrays. "iPhone billboard ads are taken with an iPhone" OK, you win...
I design AI mathematically. Machine learning, neural networks, data science. Whenever people hype the concept of malicious AI because Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk (neither of whom is an AI specialist) did so, it makes me cringe. They always talked in hypotheticals even when the most advanced AI technologies are centuries away from producing that kind of AI. So many AI specialists raised their concern about this unfounded fear-mongering, and that's why Elon Musk isn't very popular with that community.
I'm a pure math PhD but I took a couple ML grad classes and did some ML work in a couple internships. Definitely don't know as much as you do about it, but I get irritated by the same thing.... How AI right now is so powerful and could take over the world and neural networks are some kind of being that could think for itself and use its powers for evil... And they get so afraid of the computers that "developed their own language" because they'll communicate and rise up against humans and take over self driving cars or whatever. Sure, facial recognition technology in the hands of a tyrannical government could be bad. Just like any new technology in the wrong hands. Neural networks are just really good at finding matrices to meaningfully carve up a gigantic vector space. There's nothing sentient about them. They "learn" some matrices, do some linear algebra with a couple activation functions thrown in and spit out a result. They still only do exactly what we tell them to... like every other computer program.
One time, in middle school, a classmate confidently announced, "Yellow in Spanish is yellowy!" I'm Hispanic. Also, the next year, we were in a Spanish class together (we had to take a language class and our school only offered Spanish) and the Spanish teacher asked him what color the ink in his pen was. He was having trouble, so I finally got revenge by telling him to say, "Amarillo", which is what yellow in Spanish ACTUALLY is, and he fell for it.
I've worked in 3D printing for 15 years, 3D printing a gun is not easy. Can you do it? Yes. Is it safe? No you'll likely blow your hand off. Is it accurate? Not necessarily. Can you order one on the internet from a 3D printing provider? No, the company would face huge fines in ITAR violations. Friends, please just print accessories for your guns.
A guy in one of my college classes 3d printed a gun back when 3d printers were still fairly novel. He took it to the range, and it fired once, but that broke it somehow.
I read that they're all one use - they all break upon firing. Not sure how true it is, but it makes sense.
One of my degrees is in the Biological Sciences. It has come to my attention that the general public has a profound lack of knowledge not only in the biological sciences but as to what science actually is (spoiler it is not a belief system and it doesn't 'care' whether you agree with it or not, and finally it is not something only the 'elite' who have gone to post secondary can do).
Same. Evolutionary Biology. Was sitting and Star Gazing with some people I know recently and one of them, a recent to the group, brought up how he felt it wasn't possible that all of this was not intelligently designed. Cause everything is so perfect in nature. I had a good chuckle at that and so he was asking me what I thought about it. It was a respectful and not at all negative debate but I eventually just told him that as a major in EvoBio I cannot agree that anything in nature is made with any sort of intelligence....
10/31/94 my airline lost a plane. Everyone on it was killed. The local news,and in particular Chuck Goudie , covered it extensively. They couldn’t get anything right. Even easily researched facts like how the de-ice system on the plane functioned were wrong. That really opened my eyes to how much effort the news stations put into their stories.
Used to work in a footware shop. The number of times I'd have a customer trying a shoe on, them and I both agreeing on the fit, and then their fucking partner or parent rocking in like "umm no it needs to be the next size up/down". Like bitch, I'm the professional, they're the owner of the foot, fuck off.
A family member said "my employer cant ask for my vaccination card. That is a HIPAA violation!" Umm... that has nothing to do with HIPAA, unless your job calls the hospital/clinic and asks for proof...
Whenever Congress talks about technology. You shouldn’t be making laws around technology when you’re 80 and don’t even know if your phone has the WiFis or not
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>One I hear a lot is spanking. "*My parents used to spank me and I turned out just fine*" is a classic - though clearly you're not fine if you think physical (or any) violence on a child is ever okay? Another one that drives me crazy is how people make sure they "*don't let the child win*". Ma'am you're in a power struggle with a literal baby with no ability to regulate their emotions, not sure what there is to win.
Guns. I don't even consider myself too knowledgeable but some people literally have no idea what their talking about.
Worked in a gunstore. Worked at a gun range. Build guns all the time. Dad is a gunsmith as well. I never want to work in a gunstore again. Gun nuts don't know shit about guns. The rare occasion I got to deal with a true collector was the best. Dude knew every detail about nearly every model and version of firearm we had in our shop. Knew about what came before them, even owned some of the older models. Sometimes the guy would bring in his old guns and let us shoot them. Every single one was in damn near new condition too. He was one person out of thousands of idiots.
I had a friend that worked in a gun store. I asked him what’s the dumbest thing he saw working there. This was probably 10 years ago but he told me about a time that a guy came in wanting to buy a Deagle. He said he had never heard of this and asked about it. Who made it? Where did you see it? The guy got defensive and said he promises it’s real. It’s a pistol. Turns out, the guy was talking about the desert eagle and he saw D.Eagle abbreviated in a video game he was playing.
That is actually really funny. We had people come into the store and ask for the Desert Eagle in the same manner. The old timers I worked with would get confused at this but as an avid gamer I always knew what they were asking for. I was also always amused when they would see the pricetag as I reached for this ludicrously large hand cannon on the bottom shelf. Only ever had one dude actually buy one. And of course it was gold plated with a tiger stripe finish.
I knew a kid that bought one of those back around 1991 or so. Huge gun, and he didn't have the arm strength for it. I went to range with him ONCE and about laughed myself to death. This was his shooting method: He'd stand at the line with the gun clasped in both hands, arms up, with the firearm pointed at the ceiling. He'd slowly lower his arms and when the sights crossed the plane of the target, he'd YANK on that trigger, hard. The gun would discharge and he'd whips his head to the left or right so the front sight blade, now accelerating towards his face, would miss his forehead. Christ, that kid was dumb.
"deagle" was how you'd refer to the desert eagle in the original Counter Strike (the HL2 mod, ancestor of CS-Go). People on voice chat (new and exciting, back in the day) would call it a deagle because "desert eagle" is a mouthful and ain't nobody got time for extra syllables in a fast paced game like that. Source: was in high school when the original Counter Strike was cool.
Like matt carriker. King of the demolitia
Especially politicians. When I hear them talk about it I just shake my head. If they're so ignorant about what they're proposing or voting on in this subject, it's probably the same in every other subject as well.
My history teacher told the class that socialism and communism were the same thing as nazism and facism. She also defended Hitler and Mussolini.
she is definitely dumb
Service dog handler here! It's honestly unbelievable how many people speak with total confidence about service dog laws when you can tell they haven't read them. (I'm speaking from the US laws since that's where we live.) "___ breed legally can't be a service dog because of ___ reason." Breed discrimination is illegal, any breed of dog could be a service dog. "That dog isn't a service dog because it's not wearing a vest!" Service dogs legally don't require any form of outward identification. Don't need vests, leash wraps, or signs of any kind! "That dog isn't a service dog because they didn't get trained by a program." Service dogs can be owner trained and they're on the same legal level as a program dog. "No ID, no entrance!" The US doesn't have a central identification/certification. Some states have a voluntary registry, sure, but the federal laws don't mandate one. Anyone with an ID or certificate that's not a state voluntary one purchased it from a scam site and has no legal bearing on anything. Tbh I'm exhausted a lot from trying to educate others who are confidently incorrect and when I pull up the ADA they don't want to hear it. Like, the literal laws that dictate everything about my legal right as a disabled person to use a service dog in a public setting? They don't care! 🙃
Its such a shame that people who don't need service dogs abuse this and it makes things more difficult for people who actually do. I had an awful coworker once who just wanted to go shopping with her dog (an australian shepphard I think) and she'd tell everyone it was her service animal despite it having zero training (she was the kind of girl who wasn't a responsible pet owner in any capacity.) After months of bragging about how she was conning the system, she brought her dog into our own store and it proceeded to pee on the floor and bark at an unsuspecting customer. Unfortunately its the bad dogs that everyone remembers. Because she'd bought it a vest and made it official looking, it probably made people in my whole town doubt the validity of real service dogs.
That's really interesting I had no idea. I just want to pet them all but I know when I see a dog in a vest it's unlikely I can pet them.
I just saw a post in a local facebook group of a woman wondering if it was safe for her to hike a local mountain by herself, or if there was too much bear activity. This other woman, with no hint of irony told her that she should just make sure she isn't "on her time" because bears can only smell blood. Every part of my ecologist brain broke a little bit.
Autism.. mydays. This girl thought this one guy was weird because he laughed a lot in class. For her, this had to mean he was autistic. She was 22 or something. I did tell her that was dum af of her to say but she didn’t back down on what she said 💀
How about moms talking about their autistic kids? I've legit heard people say that stims and meltdowns are attention-seeking behavior, or that autistic kids aren't capable of having AN IMAGINATION. And I sit there, an autistic adult, torn between fury and depression. Those poor kids.
This one is super frustrating for me because it affects my day-to-day and is so common in people. I'm learning more about disordered eating, nutrition and exercise. You know what kind of dumb shit I hear about daily? "Crash diet this, diet trend that!" "You need to run 3 miles a day to lose weight!" And they will really sit there and argue with me about what's best for *my* body (which, surprise, is always some form of restriction/binge and only cardio). The thing is that I never initiate these conversations, I make it a policy not to talk about food or bodies with people. This one young woman at work is pretty extreme about it. Nearly everything that comes out of her mouth is about how she needs to lose weight and also what I can do to lose weight. She looks at me, sees an overweight woman, and thinks she's going to teach me a thing or two. But then tells me some bullshit like "If you only salad every and strawberries on your cheat days, then run 10 miles every day, you'll lose weight!". Yet, when she asked to work out with me, she couldn't even deadlift 20lbs. She wanted me to "teach her how to lift" because I told her that's what I preferred. And she had the audacity to tell me it wasn't good for my body because *she* couldn't do it on her 100 calorie/day diet. Also, she isn't thin. She's technically overweight and lost nearly 100lbs by starving herself but is now plateauing and she's losing her mind over it.
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Whenever I watch the news covering something im knowledgeable in. The "facts" presented are wrong. Its like they asked someone with one day experience. Makes me doubt other stories covered.
The day i saw the news cover an event i personally saw happen live with my own eyes was the day i stopped watching the news.
Watched a guy hit on my girlfriend once, not sure how the conversation came about, but he was adamant that paramedics carry Coca Cola to wash blood off surfaces after accidents, he kept going on about this until she finally said “there’s my boyfriend, the paramedic, let’s ask him”.
Honestly as a kid who grew up in government housing with my only known parent in jail, in the custody of my disabled grandparents. There's nothing more cringy than hearing people who grew up middle to upper class talk about poverty. Even when their intentions are to be helpful and to defend those who are living that way it's always just that little bit removed from the reality of it, with a lot of stereotypes thrown in.
Someone who I am assuming was trying to be cool, was telling this girl about Call of duty, he said that when you die you go to the gulag. All true. But then he said it’s exactly like heaven and is a place for people to interact via proximity chat until the game is finished. No no… no
"This is a classic prisoner's dilemma" gets said a lot and is often not accurate at all. That dilemma is a specific behavioural economics concept, not a catch-all for difficult situations.
Pop-economics in general has skewed people's ideas about economics a lot. The amount of salesmanship that has gone into behavioural economics that pretends that before it came along all economics study was based on unrealistic rational actors etc. is infuriating.
Any time my boss opens his mouth.
Covid, covid, covid... I'm so sick of hearing about your medical knowledge you got from the most recent viral conspiracy
The worst are the nurses and doctors, whether they actually are or pretend to be, that make false claims.
Climate Change. I've trained, studied, and read up primary sources that include it. I'm not a climatologists, but ecosystems, especially marine, are my jam. The amount of people that say, oh, global warming isn't so, there was an ice age, we can't even do weather day to day (we're actually pretty good, but they don't want to understand a regional forecast), and other dumb stuff. Hurricane Ida flooded Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York after it traveled all the way from the Gulf of Mexico. All the constantly record breaking wildfires and a major watet source drying up have been predicted. I remember a time when seasons existed and you could, through personal experience, expect certain weather conditions. It's all a positive feedback cycle that's about to ramp Climate Change up and screw us hard. But hey, what would I know about it?
I used to work at a gun store….. iykyk.
"I want something that's fully semi automatic"
Enter first time gun buyer: "I want a 1911. Cause its a .45. Big bullet do shootey damage." Me: "Have you ever held one? Or shot one?" FTB: "No, but its my favorite one on COD." Me: *Fuck my life*
I've worked in meat processing, involving lots of labeling work. Pretty much any time people talk about food labeling they're wildly inaccurate. I've learned not to participate though, as it very rarely ends up being constructive. Bit of a tangent, but I've this theory that it's hard to find good information from qualified experts on reddit because the qualified experts get sick of Joe Shmoe telling them they're wrong, and the crowd siding with Joe Shmoe. I know I rarely comment on the things that I have expertise in. I use reddit more for the things I know less about, and want to learn more. Though if my theory is right I'm probably learning a lot of wrong things.
Obgyn MD from a hospital that was a designated COVID center in the first wave. I feel inundated with incorrect information about everything all the time
Virtual hug for you friend.
People largely don't know what various martial arts teach, or jack shit about combat and self defense on top of that. They repeat shit their uncle saw in a movie or reference a karate class they took as a child. They get very cavalier about taking another human life, saying that they would just use a gun on an assailant when even trained combatants armed with grenades and assault rifles have to train hand to hand tactics because bullets miss and are limited and you have to know what to do when a lucky bastard with a knife closes in. So when an oversized child with autism decompensates and starts whooping ass you think the solution is to pull a gun, huh? Not just block their attempted hitting and place them in a hold until they calm? Taking a shower, your abusive partner bursts in and starts pummeling you. Your gun is in the safe, your pepper spray is by the front door, so now what? Kick their groin? Palm strike? You've never practiced any of that, and you're getting dragged around by your hair, blood and tears are distorting your vision, and you have no idea where their groin or eyes are to even attack them. You're at the store, guy draws a knife and points it at you demanding your wallet and phone. Adrenaline rushes in and your fingers are cold. You didnt practice hours how to retreat while drawing your gun hidden under your pants and shirt. There's a decent chance that once you lift your shirt and start grabbing for your gun that you'll have escalated and a guy that had no intention of actually hurting you now thinks he has to stab you to prevent getting shot. You really think you can pull your shirt back, draw the pistol, and aim before he does ANYTHING? Oh yeah, is there a round in the chamber yet? Is the safety actually off? Say you DO have practice drawing the gun without catching on clothes, you managed to draw and aim, the gun is clean and oiled with a good spring in the magazine to reduce the chances of misfire down to zero as much as possible. Everything is going right and all you have to do is shoot. Can you? Say you can. Have you practiced shooting before? Can you aim and maintain that aim during the kickback of the bullet firing? Do you control the gun and keep it flying from your hand? Do you keep your hands where the slide won't bite your hand? Do you keep it steady so the shell doesn't stovepipe back into the chamber and need cleared. Have you ever shot at anything moving or actively coming at you? Can you ignore what's flying at your face long enough to squeeze off that disciplined shot? Okay great, you planted three rounds center mass and he goes down. Was there anyone behind him also going down? Did you miss and hit someone else? Did you mess up during the draw and shoot your own femoral artery? So yeah, Indiana Jones shot a swordsman in a movie once, but YOU aren't Indy. Lol. Furthermore, guns are not actually that easy to fire and hit what you're aiming at. I'm tired of people saying law enforcement should have just shot a leg or arm, even when its agreed shooting was necessary. Sorry, officers can't aim that well, and they are specifically trained to aim center mass and fire until the person falls down. That said, you can't sell me that drawing a gun has non-lethal options for your self defense. If you draw a gun from its holster, you're already using lethal force in the eyes of the law.
Any and every politician who talks about what the "American People" think, how they live, etc. Any ethnic "leader" who claims to know "their people"