Randomgal

You lower your head and do your work. You're all adults and what they do is their biz.

puts on tinfoil hat I honestly think it's because most of the hateful stuff you see online is posted by bots.

• Yes. I think there has been a move away from teaching and learning "soft" skills, towards focusing on employable, money-making skills. Oratory and philosophy used to be part of school curriculum; they still are in some of Latin America. If you:re expected to be an employee, you don't need to learn how to present and analyze ideas, you just need to learn how te repest the company's (or political party's) motto.

• I'd say it happens everywhere, but it is made worse in Lemmy by an incredibly widespread and entrenched Dunnin-Kruger bias. See the many 100% authoritative and confident responses to this post, that completely fail to address any of your questions.

• I'd say it matters now more than ever. Learning is the wind that pushes the sails of change, and there can be no learning without discussion, that is called indoctrination. I personally think discussion could be made more common and attractive by bringing back debate and oratory as forms of entertainment. A good debate can be engaging and thought provoking, great speakers present ideas not just technically well, but also try to make them appealing and easy to understand. I wonder how fun it would be to see two religious representatives debate each other in good faith. Maybe it is worth asking how many angels can dance on the tip of a needle.

• It is our differences that make us strong. When we bubble up, we all lose. I think echo chambers are a defense mechanism, if the world was a bit less shit, and people had the mental space and physical comfort to just admire life, think and wonder, the walls of those echo chambers would slowly erode as well. Curiosity is the enemy of hate.

TL & DR: Monkeys strong together. Alone weak.

An anecdotal experience I had with Final Fantasy 14 is that, while the main quests seem boringly easy to me, they were the right amount of challenge for my partner at the time who had never played an MMO before.

Yeah. The more you do something, the better you get a it.

Fr wtf, the shamelessness adds insult to injury.

I don't think he thinks much about anything really. He just puts on a show.

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He can be the president dude. If you're a Transphobe little bitch, you deserve what's coming to you.

Because being in a relationship means there's a higher probability of the person "having rizz", making it easier for them to move onto a new relationship, while being single for a while biases the sample towards people that are ~~toxic~~ single for a good reason.