• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    There is a distinct type of person, very good at one thing, that is unable to understand that doesn’t translate to the rest of their life. Easiest to describe them as a high int, low wis character.

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      1 year ago

      I used to work as a court clerk and judges are like this. You cannot tell them anything because if they get it into their heads that they know better than you then they will completely ignore reality in favor of their own, largely arbitrary, fictional universe.

      The best incentive ever not to commit a crime is to find out how utterly dysfunctional the legal system is.

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      1 year ago

      Doctors failed to communicate the situation in a way he would grasp that his choices were death or chemo. Maybe a, "that’s your choice? OK, before you go, how world you like us to handle your corpse? So you want a full autopsy to confirm the cancer diagnosis, or would you prefer we didn’t? Is there a particular burial home you have plans with? "

      But in all likelihood there’s nothing anyone could have said to him to make him see reason.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        But in all likelihood there’s nothing anyone could have said to him to make him see reason.

        “The CEO after you will mess up the design of apple products”