@clhubes@taylorsschumann I used to sit some kiddos just like that. When her little bro came home from the hospital, 3yo leaned down to kiss him… and bit him on the nose!
A month later she tried to drop a book on his head.
Judas Priest are a good example of why debating the willfully ignorant is a fool's errand. It's expensive and exhausting to have to disabuse people of patent bullshit they are attached to. You have to educate people who do not wish to learn and do not trust you.
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I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.
My father-in-law is a builder It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today I will never forget his answer We can’t we don’t know how to do it
@MarkusDeserno@kimdayers A friend of mine was a witness in a trial. Not an expert witness, just an “I was there” witness. The attorney addressed her as Mrs. & she promptly corrected them :D
@kimdayers But military folks get weirded out if you don’t have a rank, so they like to put Dr. before your name (where your rank would go)
But then they don’t put anything before your name if you have a master’s or a bachelor’s.
It drives me nuts.
@cokes311 Yeah my school used to have an end-of-year concert on the main green. Until it became a giant mud slide one year. Took all summer to fix it. Lol never again
Dangit. Came down from the hinterlands to see @lcdsoundsystem
But I’m still in CIVILIZATION so now I get to take the T & window shop & eat good food & people-watch! Without being struck by lightning. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯