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`Da Elf

@grumpygamer "Common Sense" in this context is "People Who Don't Do The Scientific Method".

Example:
* "Do not pick up a baby bird and put them in a tree because they smell like humans and their mom will reject them". ~= Common Sense ***

* Birds have no olfactory nerves and can't smell a damned thing. == Fact.

*** So the whole, "We just made it up and you should play along" gambit exacerbated by Dunning Kreuger exponentially fueling stupidity.

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crazyeddie

@elfin @grumpygamer Hamsters do, I'll tell you that. I bought a hamster that was pregnant and didn't know it. The babies crawled out and I put them back in. She just though they were the yummiest little things... Just like grandma.

Ike

@elfin @grumpygamer

Further, the phrase "common sense" is a stupendously disingenuous phrase that is a proxy for "whatever I happen to think is right based on my own lived experience tight-knit social circle".

There is no universal "common sense" and its a hollow term thats used to let people think it means whatever they want to think it means.

Ever notice how businesses sell products that are "robust" but hardly ever define the traits that make it robust? Same idea.

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