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[–] 197 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Damn, this meme has some weight to it

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    [+] 142 points 3 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 96 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Perfect use of this format. "I don't know" is the foundation of wisdom. See: reddit where too many think they know.

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    [–] 62 points 3 years ago (21 children)

    It's not difficult. Gravity is like magnetism for things that aren't magnetic.

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    [–] 53 points 3 years ago (51 children)

    Working in neuroscience of consciousness field I feel him deeply. Although 57k sounds amazing to a Europoor

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    57k sounds nice until you realize that 1200 go to your health plan and you still need to copay hundreds every time something comes up.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    American salaries are also always presented as gross income before taxes instead if net income after taxes like in Europe.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    we also do gross before taxes in Germany. 57k before taxes is still a solid salary in many areas of Germany. Some MINT and Financelords might want to disagree with that, but it is in the top 15% of salaries. At that Level you pay about 5,1k taxes, 5,3k pension and 4,6k for health, 1,3k eldercare and 750 unemployment insurance. (all mandatory)

    That seems quite a lot at first, but for instance unemployment pays 60% of your net income up to a year qfter loosing a job, health insurance also covers all children until they are 25 or earn more than 500€/month.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    It only sounds like a lot of taxes to us Americans that don't actually do the math... I'm making almost 60kUSD so it's a very real comparison for me. Like your 4.6k healthcare tax is my 14.4k pay cut (mandatory healthcare coverage for full time employees paid for by the owner @1,200/month for me) Your 5k general tax is higher than my 3.6k income tax, but everything else offsets that by such a large margin that arguing against it is laughable.

    Thing is we also pay a ton of of pocket when we go to the doctor too.

    I wish we had a number to use like your 4.6k but for America so in our arguments for universal healthcare we could show just how much more we really pay...

    Sorry for all the edits, I remember as I reread lol

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    [–] 51 points 3 years ago

    Yeah I think I'll be subscribing to this community. Thank you for the meme.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    No silly, gravity is caused by the fundamental fear of loneliness so pervasive and unrelenting in the universe that it causes the formation of stars and planets.

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    "The nature of this elementary particle is best expressed through these thirty equations."

    "Ok, ok, but what do those actually mean in reality?"

    "Reality?"

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    I still want to know what it is tho

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    [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (6 children)

    The squishy humanities version of this, in America at least, goes as follows:

    In grade school you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

    In high school you learn that the Civil War was about a lot of complicated things.

    In college you learn that the Civil War was about slavery.

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    [+] 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)
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    [–] 30 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Genuinely we can't tell what it is. We once thought it was just a normal pull due to mass until Einstein proved us wrong during a solar eclipse where we could see stars that shouldn't be visible from our current position in orbit. Then we get into how it works, WHICH THERE IS NO TELLING AS THERE ARE TO MANY GOD DAMNED VARIABLES INVOLVED.

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    [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Gravity is just the world trying to put all the stuff in the same area of space to waste less RAM

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    There's a reason they call a hypothetical model that unites the standard model (quantum mechanics) and gravity (relativity) the Theory of Everything.

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    This is why I laugh at anyone who thinks we "Already know anything" or ever will

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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Show us on the PhD where they hurt you.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Timey wimey wibbly wobbly.

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    [–] 17 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    lemme give you a quick demonstration

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    [–] 15 points 3 years ago (21 children)

    one unresolved corner of physics

    Hardly! People board airplanes every single day and we still don't fundamentally understand the mechanisms of how lift works.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    When I thought there was higher pressure under the wing that pushed the plane up, I was happy. When I started thinking, instead, about little vacuum vortices above the wings pulling them up instead, I was suddenly much less comfortable with the whole proposition. Given the options and the limited effect on my daily life, I'm gotta go with Newton over Bernoulli on this one.

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