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In #solidarity with poor, #dimwitted Alina Habba, I have decided to hereby #resign from my positions as U.S. Secretary of State, Vice President of the #USA, senator for the great State of Vermont, Congressman for the district of Idiot, TX, dogcatcher in Boise, Idaho, and designated shit sweeper for the unincorporated shithole of Mar-a-lago, FL.

I thank you for the opportunity to #serve in these roles.

#AlinaHabba #HowDoILawyer #HowDoILaw #HowDoesILawyer #HowDoesILaw #NotHowItWorks #USPol #CabinetSecretary #senator #congressman #dogcatcher

#NotHowItWorks
#Trump
#DoJ
#USpol

Shared on FB (of course) by a well-meaning and very young (under 30) friend. They don't need to feel shamed so I'll dump on it here.

This list is bananadonks.

The placebo effect is explicitly a denial of the existence of whatever other explanation is offered (e.g., spells, prayers, or manifestation)
Spiritualists might not like being lumped in with the "law of effect" victim-blaming nutjobs
I suspect only a person who knows literally nothing about quantum theory or research could casually suggest that spiritual phenomena and the placebo effect are the same thing as "quantum physics" (maybe they mean entanglement? Or maybe the meme creator just thinks "quantum physics" is a big, mysterious thing so obviously it's the same as everything else they don't understand)
No, everyone's not arguing over its name. We disagree on whether the phenomena exist in the first place, and this heterogeneous list doesn't change that.
If you don't try to cram at least 3 qualitatively very different kinds of things together, then yes, plenty of people (maybe a majority of humans) deny the existence of one or more of these items.

#memes #badThinking #epistemology #science #quantum #BothSides #NotHowItWorks

Meme image. Background seems lifted from a 1970s sci fi paperback cover: dark humanoid figure against a dark background, with two or three echo images larger than the figure, in powdery blue. Pink rings surround the figure like hula hoops.

Image text: Witches call it spells. Christian's [sic] call it prayer. Spiritualists call it manifestation. Scientists call it quantum physics. Everyone's arguing over it's [sic] name. No one is denying its existence.

My edits, in scrawled yellow:
Placebo effect --> "this literally denies their [arrows to "spells," "prayer," "manifestation") existence.
Quantum physics --> "Hoo boy. I'll let the physicists tackle this one."

@Lawofdarkness_ [presumably the meme maker] --> "read a book, my good citizen."

This argument may be even worse than I first realized. I think it's an argument that the President is effectively ORDERING THE GOVERNOR to do its bidding. #NotHowItWorks

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/post/3lrdzjolebc2l

Missed out on Business class by two rows, damn #nothowitworks

Went to get a puncture fixed on the car. Tyre fitter fixed the nail hole, buzzes on the wheel nuts, then says “I’ll just torque these on correctly for you”. Goes and checks a chart on the wall, adjusts the torque wrench, then proceeds to tighten the nuts about 180 degrees past the click. 🙄 #nothowitworks

If you've ever handed a camera to someone and asked them to take a selfie of you, I hate you with the white hot passion of a million suns.
#NotHowItWorks

Lots of buzz over this WaPo thing that's suggesting that the US peaked whenever you were 11, and... I kinda think we were doing pretty well in the '90s, which would make me... in my 30s now? Yeah, I'll sign on to this...

#NotHowItWorks