• akwd169@sh.itjust.works
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    7 hours ago

    Bro literally asks for “data to support this”

    So I guess they wanted someone to say

    yeah theres data to support this, trustmebro™

    And thats it

    Because usually people looking for DATA would use the internet search function, NOT expect verbal responses which DO NOT constitute data

    I dont understand all the idiots downvoting you because I wouldve done the same thing

    You want data, search the web

    You want anectdotes, talk on a forum

    Its annoying when people expect to be spoonfed credible data on a forum rather than taking 5 seconds to find it themselves (and sharing it, imagine that, fucking utopic) instead of someone else spending double that time finding it and writing a comment with sources in reply (thats called spoonfeeding)

    But hey here comes the airplane I guess

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      3 hours ago

      It blows my mind that people will take safety advice from a random comment, question it, and expect another random comment to clarify for them, especially in a platform as small as Lemmy. It’s so alien a thought process to me that I can’t understand it, but it makes it easier to see how misinformation spreads so easily.

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      7 hours ago

      “Hey, you seem to know something about this, is there anything specific I can look for to learn more instead of starting from zero?”

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            2 hours ago

            Is there data to support this? I imagine if a fire breaks out in an apartment and I don’t wake up in time, I’m fucked anyway. Hopefully smoke detectors in all rooms will do their job.

            I don’t see a request for feedback. I see someone asking for data from a commenter, saying they were probably fucked either way, and hoping smoke detectors would help. The only request was for supporting data, and why would you trust “data” from a random commenter?