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healthcare bureaucrat in philly, v adhd, orthodox jew, ect ect, im love my wife



numberonebug
@numberonebug

you ever meet someone who is like, super responsible with citing sources and mentioning the provenance of the facts they're telling you? My dad is the polar opposite of that. He just. Says things. Half remembered or completely out of his ass (this morning he told me about how plants use quantum entanglement so maybe other life can and that's why prophecy is real)

Anyways. It is my masochistic mission while he's staying here to fact check as much as I can. Just keeping a list whenever we talk and then coming back an hour later with actual information lol I'm a terrible host


numberonebug
@numberonebug

my dad excitedly told me about a lost book of the tanakh, the book of Abraham, that his coworker told him about and 0.5 seconds of googling later I'm just oh hey you're being missionized this is a morman myth omg


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Reminds me of a conversation I had with my dad about current events, politics, etc. He just threw shit at the wall and I was burning the battery on my phone fact checking him with reputable sources. He finally got exasperated and told me to put the phone down and "think for myself." Told him I was thinking for myself, I was just making sure we had the most accurate facts possible.

It amazes me how some folks think that having information equates to being, in their mind, unintelligent. As if desiring knowledge with which to inform your world view makes you some sort of intellectual zombie. But it's truly the way they think. If you can't or refuse to summon an explanation from thin air, no matter how wrong, they think you're just not smart enough. It's baffling.

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