Think of it more like a holiday

I used to feel really sad about having to wear pants all the time. Some might have even called it dysphoric.

One of my acquaintances started a fairly large group text thread recently. Somewhere along the way someone said, “Who’s the android user in here ruining everything?” I never said anything in the thread, so I felt like I was in the corner of a crowded room wearing a disguise about to be exposed.

I was also pretty annoyed. Like, what’s it matter? Texts are for text. Text works fine.

Sometimes I get a glimpse of what experiencing the Internet without an ad blocker looks like today and it kinda blows me away.

Don’t some companies sell “popcorn oil”? What is that made of?

I don’t think it’s an objective metric. Based on my experience, they talk amongst each other at research institutions, conferences, and through journal articles. If someone claims “most experts think x” when in reality most experts do not, then most experts hearing it will probably speak up about how wrong it is, shoot it down during peer review, or publish scathing critiques in response to it.

A “most experts” proclamation that aligns with reality will also cite several prior publications that have also been read and cited widely, which shows the idea has kinda stood the test of time.

Source: I been in the game a while, despite several attempts to escape. I do wonder if other fields have more objective approaches.

Does that also mean your first word on Lemmy is “fuck”?