doctors can have really shit opinions too
the real message is: every opinion must be scrutinized heavily, if it stands scrutiny maybe there's something there
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It depends on what they're talking about. I'll listen to and generally heed a doctors medical opinion, for example. Their political opinion? Eh..
Joe Rogan, who has doesn't have expertise in anything comparable to a doctors expertise in medicine, no way I'm talking anything he says at face value.
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In my experience doctors can have some of the absolute worst opinions. Especially highly educated speciality doctors who have spent 1/3 of their life doing nothing but studying their very specific field. Lawyers too.
I work in IT and they can be some of the worst users to work with.
Honestly this is true of many smart people in specialized professions
Infamously software developers are fucking knuckle dragging morons about anything that has nothing to do with what they're good at, but they think they're god kings and think the world works like a computer
The only hallmark of intelligence I subscribe to is when someone just acknowledges they don't know everything and listen. Everyone else is doom spiraling into thought terminating patterns while thinking they're right
I like to make the distinction between competence and intelligence. There are some overlaps, but they are mostly distinct.
Life is just a big design pattern. ☕︎☕︎
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Sorry, but this is a bit too much of #thathappened for me.
ThatHappened is a flat circle. Sometimes things are so conveniently contrived looking that they did really happen. Truth is stranger than fiction.
The most believable part is that is what a Rogen fan would say.
Maybe. But i've never actually met or talked to anyone that says shit like that. Do you guys discuss podcasts like this with friends, or even worse, randoms? It's like taking about some reality show or something, who cares what an idiot has to say about a subject. It boggles my mind.
This kind of wordvomit has to be related to close to 2 decades of 140 character limit "discussions" online. I never understood why anyone would want twitter, and i get a greater feeling of justification in my belief for every day that passes.
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maybe it's less of a flat circle and more of a downward spiral.. or maybe things are just getting more and more stupid every day.. or maybe it's a cyclical decline.. or maybe THE PRESIDENT IS SELLING CARS AT THE WHITE HOUSE
Dunno. I presume something close to the second part happened, too. A Neuroscience PhD would not likely marry an imbecile.
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I hate to say this, but this is one of the most Reddit flavoured “thathappened” posts I’ve seen on lemmy
One negative thing about Reddit's slow downfall is that all the same shitty actors will start to come over here and employ their same old boring karma farming tactics. Hopefully the way lemmy is federated keeps things from getting too shitty. Reddit's corporate overlords are getting more and more controlling. On lemmy, at least for now, you can just hop instances if you start getting cranky.
I believe the first part. I dont believe the quick and clean comeback.
I do. Because it's not the first time that someone talked down to his doctor wife, and it won't be the last.
I'm sure the first time he said nothing, but by the fifteenth time, you get good at it.
Yeah, my wife has a higher level of education than me, and I get it.
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My best friend's uncle's ex girlfriend was there and she said everyone clapped as well.
The husband? Albert Einstein.
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Pharmaceuticals, generally.
"Did you just invoke 'intellect' and 'Joe Rogan' in the same breath?"
Joe Rogan is fairly intelligent compared to some of his guests
but then again, so is a bottle of lukewarm seltzer water.
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I honestly don’t know. It would be completely justified if women flipped out more often.
I like her husband’s response, though.
Wait before you want "hysterical" women again please. Lots of doctors got their jollies off on "hysterical" women..
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I personally resist the urge to kill by playing PvP games