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

[grumpyduckling@sh.itjust.works]

I switched keyboards on android, new one doesn't have autocorrect or swipe, but it doesn't connect to the internet. I don't always proofread posts.

[callouscomic@lemm.ee]

Hurr durr but the national debt is like a credit card and all debt is bad. China can just say pay up and we're fucked.

And other stupid shit my parents used to say.

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

Common sense itself.

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

They are more similar than they are different though. The numbers are bigger and the limits aren't known, but they do exist. Many countries have felt the pain of excessive debt, the arguments that it can't happen to the US are essentially that the US is a unicorn country.

[serenissi@lemmy.world]

The buttons are intended to be placebo except in some places.

[helixdab2@lemm.ee]

The US is a unicorn country because the US dollar is the primary currency in the world. If the Euro supplanted the US dollar for that position, then the problems with excessive debt could absolutely happen in the US.

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

Pot committed is more a math reality with a small amount of sunk cost fallacy. There's always a non zero chance someone is bluffing. A 99% chance to lose $11 is better than a 100% chance to lose $10 if you can win $100 on that 1%.

[patatahooligan@lemmy.world]

EDIT: Basically the immunity system doesn’t work like a muscle.

I think the immune system can be likened to a muscle if someone really wants to go with that metaphor, but only if you consider vaccines to be the gym and getting sick is uncontrollable and dangerous physical exertion. So, wanting to develop natural immunity is like wanting to get into street fights to build arm strength. It might kinda work, but you'll also be in a lot of unnecessary danger.

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

In a traditional long bow yes. In a modern compound bow, not necessarily.

[helixdab2@lemm.ee]

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that also change the way that the arrow is accelerated by the bow? Like, it starts a little slower, and then has increased acceleration until the string returns the the starting position? Whereas a long or recurve bow is going to have the hardest acceleration at the very start, since that's where the most energy is stored?

And if that's true, how does that affect the flight of the arrow? I know that with stick bows, the arrow bows as it's being accelerated, and then wobbles slightly before stabilizing a few feet in front of the bow. Some of that is likely because the arrow has to bend around the bow stave. But do you see less of that with a compound bow?

[dungrad@feddit.org]

If everything is equal, the arrow gets out of tune. If you tune the arrow it becomes heavier.

[dungrad@feddit.org]

Same goes for most "close door" buttons in elevators btw.

[dungrad@feddit.org]

The birthday problem is super easy to understand with puzzles! For example, how does laying out the edges increase the likelihood of a random piece to fit.

[mentaledge@sopuli.xyz]

A modern compound bow will fire the arrow in a straight line, directly forwards, as the bow will have a section that allows the arrow to be shot through the space that would be occupied by the stave on a traditional bow. While the bow must obviously be gripped in line with the tension, the rest of the center section is offset to allow the archer to both shoot and sight directly along the line the arrow will travel.

How much firing then causes the arrow to bend would depend entirely on the stiffness of the arrow, but the resulting total energy being imparted is not going to be different just because the acceleration curve is different. If the arrow bends, then yes, you'd lose some energy to that.

But if anything, starting off slow and then accelerating harder as you go is the gentler and more efficient acceleration curve when accounting for that.

[callouscomic@lemm.ee]

Some people put way too much stock in "common sense" as some blanket assumption and insult to lob at anything and everything they don't like.

They internally define what they believe to be "common" and everything that deviates is outside of that. They use it to fuel their own sense of self satisfaction and smugness, while additionally fueling negativity and hatred for others.

It fuels their toxicity and comes to define their view of everything, which is typically grossly oversimplified for their own needs.

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

Precisely.

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

That's becoming less true year over year though. Excessive debt can make it less attractive as a standard in addition to the growth of both the Euro zone and BRICS.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Don’t rely on your immune system to figure things out

... in time to keep you alive. I mean, given enough time, the body will figure things out. Vaccines are cheat-sheets to cut that time so it's accomplished before the host dies.

[culpritus@hexbear.net]

'Building more lanes will reduce traffic' is a classic.

[tomi000@lemmy.world]

• that sugary sweets make kids act "hyper"

Do you happen to have a source for that? Coz I have witnessed kids act like a horde of wild monkeys on crack right after eating dessert on multiple occasions.