science hell

Forget Science hell, this is everyones hell.

I might not have a degree but Ive been in my industry for 12 years and frequently get told how wrong I am about it.

Oh man. I seem to get this a lot more on lemmy than I did on reddit.
My theory is that coders & tech enthusiasts think they're smarter than everyone else, so the dunning Kruger effect is just run rampant on lemmy with an over representation of that demographic.
I do talk about a lot of shit that I really don't know much about and I like to engage in unsupported supposition, but I'm very quick to admit my limitations. Occasionally though, I do talk about fields related to my work and do know more than a lay person.
- Lemmy comments do come off as incredibly pedantic sometimes, especially when you point out an observation about something and people feel the need to reply in paragraphs about the topic, as if you never actually understood it to begin with.
- We don't know what we don't know. Maybe 5 minutes is all it takes to understand the essence of a problem. Maybe several lifetimes. There are examples of people who have studied something for a long time yet have come to more incorrect conclusions than someone who reads a single paper on the subject might. (There are physicists who believe consciousness is "real" but "unphysical", biologists who think life must has been created and nurtured by a god, and healthcare specialists who think vaccines are bad.)
  That doesn't justify being arrogant and naive or dismissive of people more knowledgeable in a subject matter, but it enables someone to decide that a person they're arguing with is one such example because "the truth is bloody obvious".
  It's painful to read people's takes on things you know something about. At the same time, most of us do the exact same thing whenever we share our take on something we don't know as much about because we think we don't need to.
- Lemmings also seem to love moving the goalposts and then arguing that whatever I said doesnt fit their goals. I posted about how we could possibly use machine learning to optimise traffic (adjusting speed limits and light timings) with the goal of getting everyone to their destinations just a little bit faster and reducing the time each individual car is running.
  Some Lemming just hooked in that it wouldnt work because we need better public transport, more trains, cycleways, people need to drive less... blah blah fucking blah. Treating me like I'm a fucking idiot because it didnt solve a problem he decided it should.
FFS I once even had someone on Reddit confidently and condescendingly lecture me on how a completely fictional world works and why my explanation of it is totally wrong. Note: This was on /r/worldbuilding and they were lecturing me on a fictional world that I created.
People just like to feel superior by claiming to know more than other people. Tale as old as time. Not claiming I'm not guilty of it either because I think everyone is.
- Okay but that does sound really funny...
tbf there are people in my field who have been wrong for fifty years, and counting. Science progresses one funeral at a time and all that.

Plottwist: it's Tony's heaven

Great, even hell is all about work.

"No I don't need to prove my insane assertions, it's all there on Google, do your own research"

This is me talking to my fucking brother. It gets exhausting.

- Nah, hes the one that gives unsolicited lectures and loses his shit when you tell him he's wrong. Always at the worst possible time too.

So. Today I learned that penguins have projectile poo, and that there’s a pterosaurs that could have eaten people whole.

I’ll let you pick.

The penguins were extra traumatizing… not only can they apparently shoot their shit to avoid crapping on their eggs and young, but they also live and breed in tight colonies, making them dump on each other 🤧 one of my favorite animals I can never see the same again
- The penguins will be something my nephew will find interesting.
  SiL … let’s just say her favorite movies is Happy Feet.
  I’m torn between sharing facts he’ll find interesting, and ruining penguins cuz he won’t shut up about it.
nah the projectile poo is 100% I even accidentally recorded it when I was at a zoo once
- “Accidentally”….lol.

To make it extra worse for you Professor. We made sure to pick a man to do this job.

Also you have to publish a paper every month or you get extra punishment, and Tony never stops talking, demanding your time. Punishment for not publishing is you have to teach a freshman course on a trivial subject where all the students are barely smart enough to keep breathing on their own.

Yea but was that thing on the Internet published under an expert's name? /s