• Rooskie91@discuss.online
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    30 days ago

    You mean to tell me that someone conducted independent research to verify what they saw on TV, and then choose not to believe what they saw on TV based on a real life experience?

    I don’t believe it.

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      And her anger actually sounds like it was directed at the satan-preachers, like she was storming off to give them a piece of her mind: “These kids are choosing to play a game that reinforces their math and higher-level thinking skills better than their homework and you want me to stop them!?”

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
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      Can you imagine how much better our world would be if people who formed radical opinions about things actually investigated the things they’re terrified of? I’m reminded of a recent story about a community forming a reading group to actually read the books that local conservative community leaders were trying to bad from the schools, and something like 99% of the books were reinstated because the citizens group found nothing offensive about them.

      But a lot of our “internet culture” has formed this “double down forever” mentality in people where we’ve adapted and socialized ourselves to not even READ the things that run against our current stances and opinions, to not even address arguments, to not listen to the person debating us, and so on. These kinds of stories are just going to get more and more rare, particularly as we all start growing up with AI that kisses our asses and praises our every fart.

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    It’s math but with enough consulting of books and argumentation about rule mechanics that I swear lawyers would probably make better dnd players than mathematicians

    so far all the sessions I’ve been to have at least one american chopper energy moment over rule disagreements and I love it