Twitter User Explains 40 Concepts Everyone Should Know To Understand The World Better

And that's how social media works!

Braingame ( a tv show) 2 people just stood outside a door. Soon, people start to line up. No one even asked why or what those 2 were waiting for.

If you are starting to read, this is a great thread, but if you really want to enjoy it the most, from this point going forward, just avoid reading the comments

Not sure if it's the same in other industries but in my company (fintech) we have a dedicated team that helps with technology adoption, also known as business adoption, where users are supported and encouraged to use new tools and technology when things are implemented. You can spend a ridiculous amount on bringing in a new application or reporting system but if everyone wants to keep using the old one it's a waste of everyone's time and money.

The original "influencers" being paid to hock a product. Now it's all about the bed-in-a-box.

Like the spinach error? http://super-myths.blogspot.com/2010/12/spinach-iron-decimal-point-error-myth.html?m=1

Like that saying that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Do note that not everything that is noteworthy is wrong, it's just more unlikely to be wrong. Interesting discoveries are still happening and it's mostly a different point of view that, when taken, all of a sudden opens a lot of doors and connects a lot of dots. Making it in itself boring again. So if great data doesnt become boring in it's newly discoverd context, well then the chance of it being wrong is infinite.

Read up on lack of research replicability in both the hard and soft sciences...

I use this to my advantage for April Fools Day.

I know for a fact this is true:)) found it comforting actually. Though maybe it's not very social.

Be comforted in the fact that your cringe moments that keep you up an night, have none of the emotional weight (therefore staying-power) in the minds of others. Most people will have a rapidly fading memory of it over time as well.

I feel like I'm on stage when I'm in my backyard because we're surrounded by apartment buildings. It makes me walk weird.

this is something I tell my socially anxious missus when she's recalling her day and how she felt everyone was looking at her when she stuttered a response to the checkout person at the supermarket or such...... they likely don't remember or care cause they're just trying to get through their own day, not going home laughing to their partner at her because she said yes twice in a row.

Also called whataboutism?

Similar to how people talk about how in some places Hijabs are forced whenever people bring up the fact that people should be allowed to wear them. Both are examples of unnecessary policing of clothing and in my mind, part of the same overarching issue.

Constantly used in politics and it f*****g drives me nuts....

This reminds me of the 'all lives matter' response to the Black Lives Matter movement. It's like when someone is doing a 5K for breast cancer and people are like, 'but there's also cervical cancer!' Some folks miss the point of things because they're too busy policing the worda of others.

Also know as "the strategy that misoginistic people use to attack womens rights". When a feminist states a problem derived of sexism (lets say sexual harassment at work) suddenly all of them care about "much bigger problems", like the militar draft or circumcision. Which are never supported by feminists anyway.

Dunny

Rabbird

I literally see both 🙈

I saw both, one after the other

That is very interesting!

Few years back, had been promoted to low lvl manager and was going nuts, trying to fix every problem so as to be well evaluated. One long time high lvl manager saw me once and said: "if we solve every problem we will not be needed to come to work tomorrow".

The fossil fuels industry. Enough said.

It frustrates me that we would not then move on to other problems that can be solved. And surely maintenance is an issue that can be addressed?

like how the tax preparation service companies are keeping the government/IRS lobbied so that we don't switch to automatic tax returns (which would be feasible for like 60-70% of the population of tax payers), just so we can keep giving them money to do redundant paperwork every year

Like the Pepsi bottling company wanting to control ocean plastics. Talapia doesn't taste the same without them good ol plastic flakes

I should send this to my brother, the PhD.

The downside of this one is it allows uneducated people to maintain that their (less informed) opinion is just as valid as one from someone with considerably more education. No, PhD's aren't always right, but in their field their opinion is probably better informed than yours.