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André Alessi

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Philosophy doctoral student at the University of Waikato (working on how regular people figure out when to trust experts) but I mainly joke about tech and cats. Former telco product manager, data guy and financial crime analyst.

  1. [writing the constitution]

    Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

    Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

    Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

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  2. One thing I know for sure is that if I called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

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  3. I think this is the thing the public most widely misunderstands about then vs. now. There have always been sincere skeptics, and there have always been misinformation peddlers. These guys are neither. They really don't care about science; it just happens to be where they're waging their culture war.

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