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I have a bridge to sell you.

I picked up a whole other set of terms during my phd times but none of them would be appropriate here. We didn’t have much call for the words you used in vaccine research.

I don't think the problem is idiocy. The assumption is that if you're pro-Trump, then you are pro-Brexit, anti-mask, anti-pandemic, anti-abortion, anti-homosexual, anti-woke.

Whereas if you're against Trump, then you are the opposite of all these things.

You can start at any point.

The beliefs are lumped together. Idiots immediately jump to hating their ideological opponents.

Which is why the Pie video I posted has some good points - first and foremost that the truth is nuanced, as are people's beliefs. For example, I'm anti-woke, but not anti-mask.

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Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

Long time lurker here...

Dunno about the philosophical stuff but as a lifelong superhero geek I'd say nowadays lots of "suoerhero" stuff is more interested in the shades of grey inbetween the good and evil: The Boys, Umbrella Academy, Doom Patrol etc. The excellent Chronicle from awhile back. I think there is less polarization if anything.

Ahhh, so sorry, can´t keep up here, but then I only have a couple of MA´s and such

Except Thor; lots of polarity with his superpower.

That depends. Could be a fun project to establish the R2 between immune responses to vaccines and IQ levels. An interesting discussion is which is the dependent and which is the independent variable

Ah. Thor. I'm a Hulk boy myself, particularly when Ruffalo.

Someone - something music - mentioned liking Shakespeare being a trope. Meaning please?

Ah... you guys are serious or joking about the PhD? I'm not so good at sarcasm if it is.

Nic

Happy to have other SME proficiency then.

Well, there are very few real story variants and very little innovation over and above them.

Essentially all films use one or more of these story archetypes. Shakespeare is a well known author who also used them, so I suspect that's the link MusicC is making, although of course plenty of other authors did it earlier and many might say better than Bill S.

Agree. My son lectures me all the time about how chaotic neutral characters are so much more interesting than lawful good.

Some people did suggest he's on drugs. On a different thread (about masks or smth.). He/she might have been traumatised by those wild accusations and decided to explain himself...

This is probably how Trump feels in the company of intelligent, decent foreigners. Irrelevant of how good the interpreters are, he's always misunderstood

Thank you, HartMoss, this had me chuckling out loud!

Boasting about PhDs or other achievements? Yuck, just yuck. Indeed, bragging contributes towards polarisation.

Just ain't no in between.

No i know what a trope is. Confused why liking Shakespeare would be one? Maybe I missed something.

Hugely dude. Hugely.

Great first post! You have a great future here on EF! Please share your thoughts on the Trump thread, can't wait for your PhD level analysis!

In my experience, people who actually have PhDs don't brag about it. Maybe a celebration when the hard work is finished but that's about it. Accomplishments and intelligence speak for themselves.

The ones who brag about PhDs are usually the ones who started but never finished.

It´s simple, people are pack animals; it boils down to a bunch of monkeys in a tree hating the monkeys in the next tree, or, my tribe Yeah! Your tribe BOOOOO!
The rest is cosmetics.

Unless they got it from a second-rate school.

Same with MS.

Tom