• @merc@sh.itjust.works
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    287 months ago

    I just love how the conspiracies reinforce each-other in the most convenient ways.

    “Anyone who doesn’t get vaxed is going to be put in a FIMA concentration camp!”

    “What? That’s crazy, where’s the evidence of that?!”

    “You can’t find it because they’re censoring everything on the Internet.”

    So now, not finding evidence of conspiracy 1 is evidence for conspiracy 2!

    • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      And this a very common mindset, because most societies (some more than others) take children’s* innate curiosity and pound it flat for the sake of efficiency by way of standardisation. It really is a shame, since we waste a lot of potential as a species this way.

      e: a word

      • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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        37 months ago

        Not a native speaker but “guy” is gender neutral for a while now, at least on the variety used online. At least from what I know

        • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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          57 months ago

          Litmus test is the “Would you have sex with a group of guys?”

          If you’re picturing a orgy with hairy people holding shlongs, then it’s not gender neutral.

          • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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            47 months ago

            “Guy” is used differently in different contexts, just like “girl”.

            If someone says “the girls had a sleepover” you know they’re probably talking about female children. If someone’s talking about a girls’ night out, you know they’re almost certainly talking about women.

            "Would you have sex with a group of guys?” is using guy as a stand-in for man. But, if someone said “Guys, can we all just quiet down for a second so Stan can speak?” it’s a synonym for “folks” or “people” or something gender-neutral.

  • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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    37 months ago

    Throwing a line from Hitman in the mix to make it more confusing:

    “If it looks like a conspiracy, it probably isn’t.”

  • masterofn001
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    07 months ago

    Conversely, everything is a conspiracy when you do understand how things work.

    • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      17 months ago

      It’s important to understand the prevalence of coincidence and incompetence. Humans are exceptional at pattern-finding – too good, really. In order to think critically, we need to recognise our own tendency to find patterns where none exist.