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Qualified experts of Lemmy, do people believe you when you answer questions in your field?
  • What you’re describing feels like the Dunning–Kruger effect. When you don’t know you know very little, you have more confidence than you’re likely to have after spending decades on a subject.

    When you start asking questions in response you’re likely to pull someone further into realizing what they actually don’t know, killing their confidence. Of course this doesn’t work when they’re being zealots (or otherwise protecting their own sanity)..

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    I found this bug in my couch
  • Aren’t they in practically every moving box, or in other words everywhere? At least in cities that is..

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    A cruel irony
  • Reading the comments here makes me overly conscious about choosing my word carefully. Say “cure” instead of “medication” and there goes the point you wanted to make!

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  • Gentle reminder that generally nothing happens when cutting specific people out of your life. If you want to make people change, having a connection helps more than anything else.

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  • I think they meant the stuff applied to animal skins to make it leather. Can be done cheap and extremely dirty..

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