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   David Smith (catfish_man@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:19:58 JST David Smith

   • SQU∄▲KY P▲Nᐊ▲K∄S
   • Paul Cantrell

   @squeakypancakes @inthehands things got SO MUCH clearer for me when I realized they weren’t contrasting rational with irrational, they were contrasting it with empirical.

   “What if we try to derive the nature of reality from assumptions without ever touching grass”

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Apr-2025 04:20:41 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • SQU∄▲KY P▲Nᐊ▲K∄S

     @Catfish_Man @squeakypancakes
     Well said, and utterly endemic among Golden Hammer belief systems (religious, economic, academic, all stripes)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 00:35:22 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Dan Wineman

     @dwineman @Catfish_Man @squeakypancakes
     Last time we did science that way, we got the Chicago School of economics

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     Dan Wineman (dwineman@xoxo.zone)'s status on Friday, 18-Apr-2025 00:35:24 JST Dan Wineman

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @catfish_man @squeakypancakes @inthehands Last time we did science that way, the western world ended up believing that heavier objects fall faster for a couple thousand years.