Sharing your own personal How-to guide is just part of convincing yourself you’ve got shit figured out, when really, it’s a learning process from birth canal to coffin.
Honestly? NFTs. Every time someone tries to explain them to me, I just nod along and pretend I get it. My brother spent 20 minutes explaining why his digital monkey picture was worth thousands, and I’m still lost. At this point, I’m too afraid to ask for another explanation.
A lot of people think that as soon as a politician gets elected, they get to enact upon their promises they made during an election immediatly. However, political opposition behind closed doors or lack of cooperation between different parties can drag out the process, which certain individuals seem to not understand.
science. if i had a dime for every time someone confidently confused a loose metaphor or analogy used to help visualize a scientific theory with the actual theory itself, i would have a shitload of dimes.
Everyone pretends to understand the economy, privacy policies, wine tasting, crypto, and quantum physics but most of us are just nodding along and hoping no one asks follow-up questions.
I’d say emotions, especially love. The amount of people that confuse love and affection is astounding. Also, how many times do I have to say that love can used not only for romantic relationships!!!
It was explained to me like this: When my friend got his bachelor’s, he felt pretty confident about his skills and future. During his master’s, he started to worry people would realize he didn’t actually know what he was doing. By the time he finished his PhD, he was convinced that no one in his field truly knew what they were doing.
Politics and conflicts in countries that aren’t our own.
If I get lectured by one more person on Gaza because they watch some internet footage or listen to the words of some other clueless opinionated person. Ugh.
Also interwar Germany and the Nazis in general. Nobody who understands that period would ever compare it to this current one.
My job, fake it till you make it. I didn’t know over half of my job when I got hired. I researched most of it the weekend before and ask a lot of questions.
The Postal Service, you would be surprised about how many customers tell me that they pay my salary. Ummm, no you don’t, buy some stamps then we will talk.
PSA: hashing is a form of encryption, and is completely different from what we normalise as encryption (which is actually the — very reversible — key-based encryption).
Google has announced and repeatedly delayed manifest v3. This will change how Chrome parses ads. Relevant to this change, I have heard all of the following stated with absolute certainty:
Adblockers will break and stay broken forever.
Adblockers will lose the ability to block some ads, but future workarounds may or may not restore full functionality.
The adblocker built into Brave Browser will be unchanged, but one of the above two will describe extension-based ad blockers.
Running a country. People assume you can run it like a household budget and it doesn’t really work that way.
You can’t just cut back on everything without thinking about country maintenance and investment in both people and infrastructure which longterm might reduce costs and enhance growth, but in the short term cost a bit more.
Marketing. I’m a professional marketer and it’s very data driven and complex when it’s done right. Unfortunately everyone has an Instagram account and has been on Canva and organised a party so they all think they can do it. The barrier to entry is also very low and it’s full of chancers.
Game Engines. The amount of people who think a game is performing bad because of the chosen engine is staggering. The Devs have full control over what they do with their tools. If its badly optimized it just means the devs had to publish it that way for any number of reasons (most often cost and money reasons). Some engines are better at some things than others and have weaknesses too. Doesn’t mean your lukewarm take on „games in UE5/unity/cryengine are bad“ has any leg to stand on, you dense motherfucker.
Pi. Sure people know it’s 3.14 but do they know it’s the amount of times the diameter goes into the circumference? They don’t, so they don’t know how or why to use it.
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Life.
Life in general.
Sharing your own personal How-to guide is just part of convincing yourself you’ve got shit figured out, when really, it’s a learning process from birth canal to coffin.
Honestly? NFTs. Every time someone tries to explain them to me, I just nod along and pretend I get it. My brother spent 20 minutes explaining why his digital monkey picture was worth thousands, and I’m still lost. At this point, I’m too afraid to ask for another explanation.
Politics.
A lot of people think that as soon as a politician gets elected, they get to enact upon their promises they made during an election immediatly. However, political opposition behind closed doors or lack of cooperation between different parties can drag out the process, which certain individuals seem to not understand.
The economy.
An offside
Quantum physics…
science. if i had a dime for every time someone confidently confused a loose metaphor or analogy used to help visualize a scientific theory with the actual theory itself, i would have a shitload of dimes.
The concept of time
Life.
No one knows wtf they’re doing 100%.
None of us know all or can do all.
We’re only human. Every one of us expendable.
Just all trying to get through life until our demise.
It sounds morbid when I say it like that but it’s the truth 😅
International law, the United Nations, the European Union
Parenting
Everyone pretends to understand the economy, privacy policies, wine tasting, crypto, and quantum physics but most of us are just nodding along and hoping no one asks follow-up questions.
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Politics, activism, and the economy.
I’d say emotions, especially love. The amount of people that confuse love and affection is astounding. Also, how many times do I have to say that love can used not only for romantic relationships!!!
String theory.
It was explained to me like this: When my friend got his bachelor’s, he felt pretty confident about his skills and future. During his master’s, he started to worry people would realize he didn’t actually know what he was doing. By the time he finished his PhD, he was convinced that no one in his field truly knew what they were doing.
Our own bodies.
General population doesn’t know jack about their bodies and what organs do what and what injuries impact which things and how medications work etc.
Women.
Nuclear weapons and power, radioactivity in general, is prone to the proliferation of outdated information and deliberate misinformation.
Politics and conflicts in countries that aren’t our own.
If I get lectured by one more person on Gaza because they watch some internet footage or listen to the words of some other clueless opinionated person. Ugh.
Also interwar Germany and the Nazis in general. Nobody who understands that period would ever compare it to this current one.
Some Mainstream movies
Death and the afterlife
My job, fake it till you make it. I didn’t know over half of my job when I got hired. I researched most of it the weekend before and ask a lot of questions.
How cars really work, mechanics
The Postal Service, you would be surprised about how many customers tell me that they pay my salary. Ummm, no you don’t, buy some stamps then we will talk.
Cryptocurrency. People have made careers out of saying nothing about it.
Black holes
Security. Cyber/information security.
PSA: hashing is a form of encryption, and is completely different from what we normalise as encryption (which is actually the — very reversible — key-based encryption).
Adulthood or Parenting
Women
Bitcoin. I know two people who really understand it. One works in the industry and the other is just a certifiable genius.
Israel/Palestine
How much sleep they actually need and what happens when lack of sleep catches up to you
Mental illness, unless they go through the same.
Electricity
Buying a house or a car – I just nod my head and think wow this is kinda complicated but I trust my bank and financial advisors so must be good 🙃
Their identity.
Genetics/heredity.
Adulting. We’re all out here faking it
Crypto and blockchain
Politics.
Google has announced and repeatedly delayed manifest v3. This will change how Chrome parses ads. Relevant to this change, I have heard all of the following stated with absolute certainty:
Adblockers will break and stay broken forever.
Adblockers will lose the ability to block some ads, but future workarounds may or may not restore full functionality.
The adblocker built into Brave Browser will be unchanged, but one of the above two will describe extension-based ad blockers.
Adblockers will be completely unaffected.
Fucken magnets, how do they work?
Death.
Euchre
The economy
Politics
Psychology. Just spend a few minutes on r/aitah.
So many people throwing around half knowledge and no one bothering reading up on the basics.
Everything. I realized as an adult that my parents gave me a ton of bad advice, and now I’m lost.
NFL talent and draft prediction
Crypto and other non fungible tokens.
Quantum physics.
Running a country. People assume you can run it like a household budget and it doesn’t really work that way.
You can’t just cut back on everything without thinking about country maintenance and investment in both people and infrastructure which longterm might reduce costs and enhance growth, but in the short term cost a bit more.
I feel like the UK is seeing this now.
Other people.
Taxes. We all nod when someone mentions deductions, but deep down we’re just praying TurboTax knows what it’s doing.
Whatever “blockchain” is
Why we sleep.
Cryptocurrence – Mysterious goth coins
Marketing. I’m a professional marketer and it’s very data driven and complex when it’s done right. Unfortunately everyone has an Instagram account and has been on Canva and organised a party so they all think they can do it. The barrier to entry is also very low and it’s full of chancers.
Aviation whenever something plane related hits the news
Tarifs
Tariffs, apparently.
Consciousness
Consciousness.
When there’s (bad) news about something suddenly everyone is expert on that field
my job, fuck em
The importance of taxes
Game Engines. The amount of people who think a game is performing bad because of the chosen engine is staggering. The Devs have full control over what they do with their tools. If its badly optimized it just means the devs had to publish it that way for any number of reasons (most often cost and money reasons). Some engines are better at some things than others and have weaknesses too. Doesn’t mean your lukewarm take on „games in UE5/unity/cryengine are bad“ has any leg to stand on, you dense motherfucker.
Pi. Sure people know it’s 3.14 but do they know it’s the amount of times the diameter goes into the circumference? They don’t, so they don’t know how or why to use it.
Space. Specifically how big it is and the concept of time.
Christianity.
Vaccines