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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

why do so many people care that some big rock had its category of big rock changed…

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Because it broke our mnemonics.

My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas.

Pizzas. Nine of them.

Not nachos.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago*

It honestly irks the fuck out of me that people care so much (or pretend to care as some form of cultural pantomime?).

Turning science into a team sport. What could possibly go wrong.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 5 months ago

some people just have an unbreakable need to be on "the right team", it seems

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[–] NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 1 point 5 months ago

People care about things not because of some intrinsic value, but because of our relationship to them.

We love our pets, and don't really care about food animals. We are upset when a friend is in an accident, but not about people who died 500 years ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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