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   George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 (georgetakei@universeodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 06:00:32 JST George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

   D'oh!

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     Nazani (nazani@universeodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:37:41 JST Nazani

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     @georgetakei Reminds me of a convo I had about dollhouses. Person could not grasp that a 1/12 scale meant that a figure representing a 6-foot tall man would be 6 inches high.

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     Winjay (winjay@universeodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:44:03 JST Winjay

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     @georgetakei 🤦♀️

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     Paul Chambers (paul@oldfriends.live)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 10:23:57 JST Paul Chambers

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     @georgetakei I actually had the quarter pounder vs 1/3 pounder hamburger debate in real life with someone once. You can't convince them, and they shut down when you try to show them the math. It's like their brain short circuits.

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     Angle (angle@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 10:28:19 JST Angle

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     • Paul Chambers

     @paul @georgetakei This raises an interesting question, actually. If you're dealing with an illogical person, is it your responsibility to figure out how to explain things to them?

     Like, lets suppose it becomes clear that they don't actually care about logic or sense or facts and they want you to jump through the appropriate hoops to make them feel good, and that only then will they deign to consider whether they might be full of nonsense. Is it your responsibility to do so?