[+] -19 points 2 months ago* (13 children)

Oh boy, the list is long. We are teaching physics and chemistry like it's a dogmatic religion, raising people who will believe everything as long as authority says it's true.

Languages are taught as word and rules memorization, not use. You can spend ten years learning a language at school and you will not be able to hold a conversation with a stranger in country that speaks it.

Depending on how big of a fan of liberalism your history teacher is either every gay pair in history is just good friends or every two men who entered the same room in history are gays. No in-between.

Whole literary interpretation is just forced indoctrination. "Write your opinion so teacher can punish you if your opinion does not match the one written in government-approved book".

Biology as another religious dogma lookalike. Medicine is literally just statistical guesses. The drug you are given was most likely tested on rats and then tested on poorest students who needed cash to survive. It proved 90% successful on them, doesn't mean it's guaranteed to work on you. There were failures like drugs tested on white students that happened to have terrible effects of black people, and hose drugs were just sent to africa because "they passed tests on volunteers". Your doctor isn't prescribing you shit because he knows it works, he guesses what will help you because most of your symptoms fit hundreds of diseases. Most of the time your doctor will prescribe you specific thing because it worked when he had similar patient recently. Gods I could go for ages on this, my wife is in medical profession and I was constantly bombarded by her analyzing all scientific studies during COVID and talking about how shitty the panic was. The only thing I learned from that is that I can trust local doctor in nearly all cases and government/media propaganda in almost none.

I'm not gonna touch on history. I already know that americans might as well read superman and batman comic books instead of their history books and the knowledge would be the same. My own country has serious victim-hood kink in it's history books that I'm severely sick of.

Home economics I think are the worst. According to what government wants youth to know about economy: food is a luxury, work is an obligation and trying to check what politicians do with your money is a crime.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Bottom left. I was curious. Also I thought maybe, just maybe europe.pub would not be 90% posts about USA and Trump. How naive I was! Turns out I just found a second reddit, and it's occasionally good!

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (22 children)

    Do you have any idea how much you have to abuse a living being for it to consciously not want to have kids?

    And we achieved this level of abuse on humans! And we did it very well, in reproducible way, with reproducible results across multiple countries! We should make a research paper about it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't need to know any CEO to find a person who thinks they are smarter or better than everyone else. Why americans gave so much power to those idiots is beyond me though.

    Also - post title is disingenuous. Current wave of AI is an engineering marvel, marketed dishonestly and used haphazardly.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    'Whataboutism" becoming a well-known term completely destroyed internet discourse. Every time someone compares the topic to something that also happens in another place - whataboutism!

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