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"At this point I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth."

It's that dumbass at your work who thinks that solely because he landed a job that pays him more than their parents ever made combined in his early 20s he can school everyone on every topic imaginable, from nutrition to religion.

Him and Elon makes way more than that dumbass so ego get inflated even more.

I don't especially like Tucker Carlson, but I think the more screen time we'll give to this people with an open mic it's better for everyone to have a first hand experience of how detached from reality these people are.

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt

Thanks for the example.

The pleasure was all mine.

>I don't especially like Tucker Carlson, but I think the more screen time we'll give to this people with an open mic it's better for everyone to have a first hand experience of how detached from reality these people are.

Idk, seems like we’re in a pretty shit situation politically right now because many delusional men were given an open microphone access.

As much as it would be nice to believe we lived in a world where people can discern truth from illusion, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

And, given that, it seems like the wisest course of action would be to come up with some means of forcing mass media to adhere to fact and remove from public discourse anyone who refuses to acknowledge or espouse it, lest they bend reality in their interest, but instead we decided to invent machines for manufacturing the most sophisticated lies ever seen and disseminate them to everyone.

It’s not going to end well.

> As much as it would be nice to believe we lived in a world where people can discern truth from illusion, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

> And, given that, it seems like the wisest course of action would be to come up with some means of forcing mass media to adhere to fact and remove from public discourse anyone who refuses to acknowledge or espouse it...

How is it a wise course of action for people to force people to adhere to fact if we don't live in a world where people can discern truth? Don't you see the contradiction?

I read the parent as very subtle satire. They are following the logical conclusion of the desire to suppress disagreeable speech.

Absolutely right, and it's ubiquitous across organizations too.

I've never met an executive I respect. They're all absolute experts at appearing competent.

I mean, they're selected for it so that's not surprising

I guess the surprising part is that appearing competent is more important to shareholders than being competent

Actually checking if someone is competent requires actual work, though. Work is for lesser people. Shareholders just know if a person is or is not competent, that's why they have so much money, right?

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