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Anon is worried about men (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had a physics professor tell me about free energy. Having a degree is not 100% effective in curing stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I had a physics professor tell me about free energy. Having a degree is not 100% effective in curing stupid.

    There are physicists that don’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, and that is to be expected because that subject isn’t in their wheelhouse; it isn’t their bread-and-butter, and that isn’t their day job that they work on for 2,000+hrs a year for decades on end. So they are lacking a lot of the data that would allow them to make correct decisions regarding factuality.

    But when most of an academic field is saying the exact same thing about a core subject that is at the foundation of their discipline, imma not gonna be arrogant enough to presume that they’re wrong. I’m going to take them exactly at their word.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Out of curiosity, have some sources for "most of the academic field"? It sounds like some sociology/psychology thing.

    Besides, my guy had a PhD in physics. Either it was an elaborate prank, or a complete nutcase. And I've met more than one of that kind, sadly. Degrees are not a guarantee for intelligence or sanity, just a proof that at some point they wrote a thesis.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Free energy is literally a thing in thermodynamics though?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    No, I mean the quack bullshit about creating energy from nothing. And not just some theoretical framework, as in technically, this could yield a net positive somehow, no. My guy was convinced he could build it himself from tinfoil and strings, if "the establishment" didn't oppress him (meaning his coworkers and bosses told him it's stupid).

    Fucking wild. Imagine it being that easy, and everybody in the world is either too dumb to come to the same conclusion or in the pocket of Big Oil. Not even, like, a North Korean mad scientist trying to one-up the capitalist pigs? Yeah, sure.

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