It wasn’t always this way, though — general education standards have been severely eroded. There was a point in time where you could trust that a civil engineer would have the general knowledge required to understand what they don’t know — thus leaving the decision to better educated minds.

There are so many things wrong about how we teach each other in the U.S., and wrong with how we perceive being taught. So many people believe that unwarranted advice is the worst fucking crime imaginable, or that correcting someone’s spelling/grammar is a shitty thing to do. So many people are so innately positioned against learning that it’s no fucking wonder why your anesthesiologist has 0 fucking clue what the nation should do regarding immigration. Totally ignorant of the fact that they should absolutely be intelligent enough to come to the correct answers; at the very least they should be able to listen to those who come backed with facts and verify their veracity at a later point.

I have no idea what should I can do about it beyond being a grammar nazi. /endrant

6 is too many.

Got it, let me know when your head is out of your ass.

Imagine thinking this is a gotcha.

‘Hehe, this guy admitted he was wrong about something - fucking owned.’

You’re a child, go sit in the corner.

Holy, you need to stop responding to my messages.

Hold on, what?

If a beard hair getting in your mouth isn’t a strong enough reason for you to shave your beard, then it’s not a deal breaker/ you don’t hate it.

This is a ridiculous statement. Disliking an aspect of something and putting up with it for other reasons is such a natural thing it makes me wonder if you’ve ever styled yourself in any other capacity than troglodyte.

For example my girlfriend likes my beard. So I keep it. Because she likes it. You see how that works, cave person?

Yeah that context is important, the title is enough to make me write the whole thing off.

I understand why clickbait strategies are common, I am just not the common denominator that they’re aimed at. Am I judging a book by its cover? Yes… but I’d also judge ‘Notes on How to Skin a Baby’ by its cover so… idk.

Edit: that wasn’t fair of me. Let me rethink this response.

Edit2: I recognize the paradox here, I think I was using deceit incorrectly. I accept your responses, thanks for being cordial.

When did I say that?

I hate pubes because I don’t like hair near my mouth in general. I don’t ask my girlfriend to shave, she does it because she sees my own reaction when a beard hair gets in my mouth.

Like I said, blanket generalizations are inherently deceitful.

I don’t care what you think your qualifications are. These three things are true: I love my girlfriend, I am sexually attracted to my girlfriend, I hate pubes. Whatever you think is irrelevant.

You don’t need to intend to be deceitful to be deceitful, just like you don’t need to intend to kill someone to kill them.

The world is not sweeping absolutes. Painting it as such always obscures some truth, this post is no different.

I’m not sure that I have, actually — blanket generalizations are inherently deceitful.

I think anyone that makes blanket generalizations is deceitful, what a coincidence.

I was waiting for the pseudoscience bullshit to start pouring into this post.

the whole story around that is scary as fuck.

I think you need to define scary here, the story is an example of good parenting from the mother.

autistic

TV autistic, where autism is a super power

I can hold my own hands covered in peanut butter and jelly?

I get what you’re trying to say, but no we don’t need to be teaching our kids to be afraid of topics like death or god forbid cursing.

Sometimes brain need help

Can you imagine stepping on a rock when every bone in your foot/ankle is fused?

Seems like a recipe for broken bones and never being able to run anywhere, ever.

Edit: I shouldn’t need to explain why the bones in your hands aren’t fused, assuming this initial comment isn’t a joke in the first place.