What are some examples of 'common sense' which are nonsense?

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

Bulls seem like they are capable of herd defense, they are kept isolated for a reason. Same with roosters and chickens.

[revan343@lemmy.ca]

Cows are not a natural species

[whotookkarl@lemmy.world]

Is common sense just an earlier, naive label for confirmation bias?

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

What they settle on isn't too important other than it won't be the dollar.

[pip@slrpnk.net]

Lol a better example would be "bitch, explain humans" we're the biggest anomaly to this statement. In ecology we refer to our evolutionary perseverance as "survival of the collaborative"

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

Fittest for the purpose of being chosen by farmers to participate in breeding.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

I view it as a thought terminating cliché people use when they're too lazy ti fully explain themselves. It can be useful for things that are truly obvious, like if you try touching something fresh out of the stove without protection you'll get burned, it doesn't really add anything to bother explaining it.

[tko@tkohhh.social]

Interesting... if that's true, then you can know what temperature each setting on the knob is.

I wonder if this is true for all electric ranges?

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

A key aspect is that it doesn't even require confirmation.

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

but they never seem to consider that it’s them that keeps electing those people.

How so?

If one doesn't vote, a slimy politician still gets elected.

If one does vote, in most elections they can only choose from a small group of people who probably fail to represent them, and even if there is a reasonable option, they probably won't win the vote anyway.

The system is rigged, when it comes to voting there usually* isn't a correct option. Our political voice must exist outside of elections.

(I say usually, because a few elections are better than other, but generally speaking at a federal level, it's slime no matter how you vote)

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

Huh, these are all common sense statements I would have assumed true. Four our of four, good work!

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

Good call, I'll start looking out for these!

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

I don't have evidence, but I have heard there are also times of day when it's automated and when it's manual. So you might need to press it at midnight but not during rush hour. Interesting if true.

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

Serious question, why? Stress relief of button-pushing? Thinking it might work and that it can't be slower than doing nothing?

I just don't feel any urge to push the button.

[sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works]

There's no rationality to it. I don't get out my calculator and graph paper to plot out the best possible course of action. I just push the button a few times. And sometimes I push it a few more times.

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

Surely there's some reward or motivation, whether it's rational or not. Would you feel any different if you didn't do it?

[sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works]

If I didn't do it then I'd be thinking about doing it.

I'll interrogate my inner experience next time I'm standing at the lights, and I'll report back if I discover anything interesting (unless it's really damning information).

[comfy@lemmy.ml]

haha thanks, I appreciate it.

[howrar@lemmy.ca]

that the moon's apparent size is due to how close it is to earth (same for seasons and the sun)

Explain?

Also, what's the size/proximity of seasons?

[fourpacketsofpeanuts@lemmy.world]

The visual difference of the minimoon and supermoon is not that great, see the first image here. This is the maximum difference (taken 6 months apart) that the moon ever is relative to itself. In practice, from one night to the next or one month to the next the difference is barely noticeable.

When people say "the moon was huge tonight" what they are generally seeing is [the moon illusion] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion)