r/AskReddit • u/Khanqueror1738 • 4h ago
What’s something everyone pretends to understand but almost nobody actually does?
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u/ApathysLastKiss_ 4h ago
I'd say addiction for anyone who has personally, first person, experienced it
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u/drayvondoruu 4h ago
So true, people love giving advice on it until they are the ones actually living through it
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u/ApathysLastKiss_ 4h ago
Even with my therapist, it's also hard to put into words. And I don't think he really gets it.
It's why the recovery industry/complex is full of former addicts. Because no one else can relate in a helpful way
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u/deadbeataunt 3h ago
non-addicts shouldn’t be able to be addiction counselors, it’s ridiculous
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u/ApathysLastKiss_ 3h ago
And yet they are.
Especially in government funded positions that exclude people for a history of addiction and criminality 😂
It's so fucking backwards
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u/AffectionateBig1898 4h ago
Israel/Palestine conflict
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u/Makenshine 3h ago
It's actually pretty simple. You know when you are driving and someone cuts you off. Then you get mad and now you are driving angry. Then you inadvertently cut someone else off and now they are mad? Well, all that stress and angry ends up in the Middle East.
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u/cellardoor-petrichor 4h ago
Came here to say this, I google it regularly and I’m not ashamed to admit it
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u/tejedor28 3h ago
It’s simple.
- Muslims hate Jews.
- Jews hate Muslims.
- Muslims say the land is theirs.
- Jews say the land is theirs.
1+2+3+4 = an intractable conflict which will continue forever.
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u/GigglingEvil 3h ago
So, its been 3 years since the live streaming of genocide started and around 50 since its become an undeniable reality that one side is massively misrepresenting matters of reality.
So, unless you trollin, you're about to summon a book you ain't ready to read. Catch up.
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u/Empanatacion 3h ago
I don't know the history well enough... What are you referring to from 50 years ago? The hostages in Iran?
Not arguing, just wondering what you're referring to.
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u/ClamatoDiver 3h ago
What's stupid is that the 3 Abrahamic religions all start off in the same place, worship the same God, but can't get over divergences.
Heck, Jews and Muslims have more in common with each other than Christians, when it comes to fundamentals.
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u/Jedi_Lazlo 4h ago
How to fold a fitted sheet
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u/noideareally1 4h ago
Put all four corners inside each other, lay flat, fold weird end under and fold like a regular sheet?
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u/Far_Description4583 4h ago
Based on the random Facebook math question posts, I’m going to say PEMDAS
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u/Stillwater215 4h ago
Ironically, the Dunning-Kruger experiment. The Actual data from the experiment actually showed that while people who were less competent tended to overestimate their actual competence in a subject, it didn’t show that they believed themselves to be more competent than the experts. Most people think that the experiment showed that less competent people were more confident than experts, but that simply wasn’t in the data.
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u/jk013x 3h ago
No, but that's the real world result, given the number of idiots who think they understand biology better than doctors, who understand law better than lawyers, etc...
The dumbest people I've ever met are absolutely convinced that they're experts on things they vaguely "studied" in highschool...
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u/Soulful-Sorrow 4h ago
Cryptocurrency. I spent a week learning how it worked so I could explain it to others, and what I'm gathering is that cryptocurrency is essentially a fiat currency for tech bros. Bitcoin's appeal is that it's super secure and Ethereum is an industry plant so rich people can get richer.
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u/GigglingEvil 4h ago
Your relationship
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u/Khanqueror1738 4h ago
I said something everyone pretends to understand, not something nobody understands
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u/Maverickewu 3h ago
How public schools are funded
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u/Khanqueror1738 3h ago
The same way we fund the military. Nobody knows, but somehow the money disappears
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u/megakungfu 4h ago
who/whom
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u/Richard_Wharfinger 1h ago
This is pretty simple: who is nominative, and whom is used in any sense in which you'd use the accusative case. The problem is that English isn't an inflected language with different endings for different cases except in this instance. The general rule of thumb is that if you can replace the subject with the personal pronouns he, she, or they, you use "who", and if you would replace it with him, her, or them, you use "whom".
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u/megakungfu 1h ago
when it takes one second to say 'who' in every instance rather than 1 minute sorting through all those rules, im saying who everytime.
i appreciate your input though
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u/inside12volts 4h ago
Shakespeare
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u/Richard_Wharfinger 2h ago
I doubt most people pretend to understand Shakespeare because they don't have to. Those who understand him continue to read and see the plays, and those who don't understand resent it when his works are assigned and then never read or see them again. The latter might pretend to understand Shakespeare if they whine about being assigned his works in school and it's pointed out to them that their lack of comprehension is what made it unpalatable, but barring that specific case I think Shakespeare's fans are those who have made the effort and Shakespeare's detractors are the ones who haven't, but to their credit they mostly never pretend otherwise.
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u/inside12volts 4h ago
Opera
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u/Richard_Wharfinger 2h ago
What's not to understand? There's often instrumental music first as the overture, then some singing, maybe punctuated by sung recitative or spoken dialogue (as in the original version of Carmen by Georges Bizet, which is hardly ever performed today—the revised version with recitatives made by Ernest Guiraud is the version most often performed—or a Singspiel like Der Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] by W. A. Mozart, which is performed with dialogue most of the time). And unless there's an instrumental interlude like an intermezzo, march, ballet section, etc., the singing continues up until the act ends. And when the entire cast, chorus, and chorus master is bowing along with the orchestra and conductor to the sound of applause, then the opera is over.
You might not immediately know what they're singing if you're just listening to it as an audio recording or on the radio when the Metropolitan Opera is broadcast (it's usually broadcast on terrestrial broadcast stations from December to June), but you can do so if you want to by following along with the libretto. In opera houses, they have surtitles projected above the stage (or at the Met in the back of the seat in front of you) of the libretto in translation in the local language; and on DVDs, in the videos at sites like OperaVision, and in the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts (which I just got home from—I watched Macbetto by Giuseppe Verdi) they're available in the local language as subtitles on the cinema screen. They also have detailed synopses in the programs, there are synopses of the operas available online at Wikipedia, and they even hand out single sheets with the synopsis at the cinema. I just came home with one.
Really, opera companies bend over backwards to make it possible to follow the plot and the libretto and they always have done. Even in the days before supertitles and subtitles, they had physical libretti that were double-columned with the original language in one column and the translation in the other. They would leave the house lights up so that people could follow along in these printed books.
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u/oozinator1 4h ago
What is and isn't AI.
Let's face it. We are quickly approaching that point where the only way to tell something is AI or not is to use another AI, which is a highly suspicious method of fact-checking.
Saying "You can tell because X is not Y-ing like it would be IRL" is made up BS half the time.
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u/Wales147 4h ago
The work team chat when the manager is throwing out corporate phrases to us mere shop floor workers. Work bud asked me what layman's terms are and I said fk if I know let's Google it on break
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u/Squideatingdoh 4h ago
Luddites - they didn’t resist technology, they were reacting against job displacement and worker exploitation. In the modern day it’s the loss of privacy, and the rapid pace of digital creep.
To the same end, AI could be placed here. It’s too big to fail and could destroy human lives. The latter is seen as a ‘Risk to be mitigated’, but humans record on such is sketchy…
Edit: sp & tense
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u/Khanqueror1738 4h ago
For me, it’s the economy. Everyone just nods when someone says “macroeconomic conditions” and hopes their bank account survives the conversation.