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that I actually give a fuck.

I don't.

many people still ignore, or dont believe white privilege is still pervasive in western countries. aside from the racists, some people of those groups do not want to discuss it ever because they still benefited fom all that abuse, strip mining of resources centuries ago.

That the world is a zero sum game. That in order to have something, someone else has to go without. That in order to be great you have to drag others down.

People tend to assume if someone is smart in one thing, they're smart with everything else too.

That's not usually the case.

Money is real.

Tax Brackets. "I got a pay raise and will now be taxed more and make less money than before the raise"

If <=30k was taxed at 25% and 30+k taxed at 30% and you go from 30k to 31k a year, only the 1k is taxed at the higher rate.

High price = high quality.

The luxury pricing model has totally enveloped markets at this point and the correlation rarely applies now.

Conservatism.

Just...all of it lol.

Being hesitant to change and wanting to temper out things and make sure things are implemented effectively is one thing. And ensuring we respect tradition and culture is another (though progressives are more in line with that lol.)

Today's conservatism is just hate and bigotry. And they don't even recognize it as such.

That science is rational and objective.

In reality, the way that science works is much muddier than most realise. It's full of subjectivity, and this isn't a bug, but a feature. Intuition and tacit knowledge play a big role in basically any research (and this is why I am confident that AI can't replace scientists). Politics are also present at every stage of the process. Science is at its least objective when scientists convince themselves that they're being objective. We can't escape our biases, so we need to actively acknowledge them and embrace the subjectivity of our situated perspectives.

The problem is that talking about this is a great way to piss off other scientists. I've been accused before of "betraying the side", by a scientist who was aware that science has a disproportionately large epistemic platform (epistemic means pertaining to knowledge — basically just that as a result of the huge benefits of scientific advancements in the last century or so, science has been on a bit of a pedestal in terms of trusted expert knowledge in society. Criticising this is seen by a betrayal by some because of the concerning rise in psuedoscience and anti-scientific rhetoric.

However, I'm of the belief that some of what has driven the rise of psuedoscience is that the average person doesn't like to be told "shut up and do what the smart people say". They feel a lot of mistrust towards society (which, in many cases, is entirely reasonable, especially in the case of marginalised groups who have been heavily exploited by science and scientists),

The problem goes far beyond just science, but I think this is certainly an aspect of it. I sympathise with scientists who want to continue to have the privileged position they hold, but I don't think that's helpful in the long term.

That they need to buy cases and cases of water in plastic bottles which they throw in the landfill instead of just drinking their perfectly good tap water.

That their neurodiversity absolves them of any responsibility and the rest of the world should cater to it.

That understanding someone or something means agreeing with them.

That because a problem is real, any proposed solution to it is a good idea, and anyone arguing against a proposed solution doesn't want to solve the problem.

Yes, grease fires are bad. No, you should not use water to put it out. No, that does not mean I am pro-grease-fire??

So many things when it comes to police stops. There is absolutely a problem with policing in America but there is a list of things you ARE required to do when stopped by the police, whether you agree with them or not, and refusing doesn't help you and only helps them. Yes you are required to have your license on you when driving, and yes you must display and/or hand it over to police when asked. Yes they can ask you to step out of the car. Yes they can search your car if they tow it. Hell watch a few videos on YouTube of traffic stops and you'll quickly figure out what you do and do not have to comply with. And you will never, ever win an argument with the police on the side of the road, save it for court.

Math is memorizing and performing algorithms. So many adults looked at the common core math curriculum and said teachers aren't teaching math anymore because they didn't see their favorite long division algorithm taught, but memorizing and performing any particular algorithm is not what is important about learning math. Math is about taking axioms and seeing what you can build with them.

One of the big ones: motivation.

Most people when talking/thinking about "motivation" are referring to extrinsic motivation.

Even if they make a distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic, they basically assume these add together to create "more" motivation.

However, they don't sum together. One crowds out the other, like in a neverending battle.

Either a strong religious belief or the belief that success is the result of hard work.

Photography is so much more than pointing a camera and pushing the button, even though cell phones have reduced it to that for a lot of people.

Good photography requires intention, planning, luck, skill in knowing how to compose a scene, knowledge of light and color temperature, sensor exposure, how to direct people about if people are involved, and then, in editing in post-production, skillful edits, adjusting tone, doing masking, color grading and calibration, and any other steps to perfect an image.

For me to produce one work here on this site, it can take me two or three hours, not including travel time!