Scott Adams
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I was like, that's pretty bad.
He literally just did that.
I go and I read the story, which is a rare phenomenon these days.
I go and I read the story as kind of as a little bit of a litty at that time.
And the story is effectively 16 and 17 year olds are now permitted to, while in high school, participate in trade apprenticeship programs in the United States and receive college credit and payment for their work.
And I thought that's just about the greatest thing I've ever heard of on the subject.
I didn't even know we weren't doing that.
That sounds like a really good thing.
And then go back.
He literally rolled back child labor laws 200 years.
Nothing like that actually happened.
And it was that one particular story that first made me notice literally.
And then I began to do additional noticing.
It was essentially, it was basically, it was very, it was totally, it was completely adverbs that left-wing journalists were using to put words in Trump's mouth or in his tweets that he wasn't actually saying.
And then I noticed that cultural commentators, not just politically, we're also doing this for example, and to communicate this one idea, I created the portmanteau of bad verbs.
So anytime you're trying to communicate a sophisticated idea, like with loser think it's our tendency to resort to cognitive biases in place of logic and reason.
and yet not be aware of those patterns, and as a result, stumbling into unproductive ways of being and doing in the world.
That or Luther Think.
So you take this complex, multivariate, multisyllabic, multi-sentence, multi-paragraph arguments that you're trying to teach.
Purply?