Speaker 1: On flex and Firms Flex and Fromes. This is the
Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms catch Up podcast. I was on Reddit
Speaker 1: the other day and I came across a thread. I
Speaker 1: just can spend hours on that site, and I really
Speaker 1: am making leaps and bounds and strides with my own
Speaker 1: personal understanding of the world. I also go there when
Speaker 1: I need help, so you know it's a place fraught
Speaker 1: with emotions. I came across this thread called ah slash
Speaker 1: change my View. So it's a Reddit thread called change
Speaker 1: my View. And what it is is people come with
Speaker 1: an opinion and they ask people to change their view.
Speaker 1: It's not a debate. This person isn't coming to say
Speaker 1: and I'm going to like rebut you as to why.
Speaker 1: It's more like, Okay, I have this idea of how
Speaker 1: the world works. Can you try and change my opinion
Speaker 1: the blurb of this thread, So what they've written is
Speaker 1: a place to post an opinion you accept, maybe flawed,
Speaker 1: in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue.
Speaker 1: Enter with a mindset for conversation, not debate. And the
Speaker 1: difference with this threat as opposed to the others that
Speaker 1: champion debate, is that it is a community system. Using
Speaker 1: points every time someone successfully changes your view. This is
Speaker 1: different to up votes. Have you heard of this thread? FLEXI? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Is this like a common thing?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: How did you find it?
Speaker 2: I'm on Reddit?
Speaker 1: Is it a big thing? On readit?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it had like a million How did you
Speaker 1: find it?
Speaker 2: Probably found it the same way you found it. I
Speaker 2: was on Reddit and then I saw a subreddit and
Speaker 2: I clicked on it.
Speaker 1: True well. I saw a few ones that piqued my interest,
Speaker 1: including why does everybody think America is so bad? That
Speaker 1: was from someone who hadn't immigrated to America but wanted to.
Speaker 1: The Other one was weddings are pointless, which obviously piqued
Speaker 1: my interest because we both have been reading Clement Unford's
Speaker 1: latest book, I Don't And then a final one, which
Speaker 1: is a man's creepiness directly related to how hot he is?
Speaker 2: What do they want their mind changed about that it
Speaker 2: isn't or it.
Speaker 1: Is that it isn't that because you know how, there's
Speaker 1: like common rhetoric that what makes the guy's behavior creepy
Speaker 1: is just proportionate to how good looking.
Speaker 2: They are, well, how attractive you find them?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, which I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree or disagree, but this
Speaker 1: did change my view. Soone said Psycho with Christian Balers,
Speaker 1: and this is an example of a really like conventionally
Speaker 1: attractive man where it's not working, the challenged mister Ripley
Speaker 1: with heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio. Hot dudes can be creepy as
Speaker 1: f because creep has nothing to do with your hotness
Speaker 1: and literally everything to do with how you're acting, behaving, moving,
Speaker 1: literally everything that is roughly within your wheelhouse or control. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this one has changed my view. Baby on board
Speaker 1: stickers should be removed when the baby is not on board. Okay,
Speaker 1: they say the original use for these were for first
Speaker 1: responders to know how to look for a baby. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Do you know that, Micky, I had
Speaker 1: no idea about that. WHOA, But then people never remove
Speaker 1: them when their baby is not on board or when
Speaker 1: their kids grow up. I know EMT and firefighters will
Speaker 1: look in the back seat for signs of a child,
Speaker 1: but it's a waste of their time if there could
Speaker 1: be no baby, if the adults are unconscious, they could
Speaker 1: spend time looking for an injured child. I don't think
Speaker 1: people are actually more careful around those cars, and half
Speaker 1: the time they don't even have car seats. I think
Speaker 1: the details that have families or dog or whatever is better.
Speaker 1: This says, this is my family who might be in
Speaker 1: the car, not these people are on board right now,
Speaker 1: so cared care for them in an accident. And then
Speaker 1: they've got answers and the edit is read some great answers.
Speaker 1: The origin of the signer was likely just to ask
Speaker 1: people to drive carefully, but can have the opposite effect.
Speaker 1: Some people with the stickers to practice unsafe driving themselves,
Speaker 1: and the stickers can help families who have children with
Speaker 1: special needs and or a signal that they're dealing with
Speaker 1: an issue. I never knew that it was for emergency services.
Speaker 1: I literally just thought it was someone being like, don't
Speaker 1: be mean to me because I have a kid on board,
Speaker 1: which I always thought was not very democratic.
Speaker 2: It's your favorite word today?
Speaker 1: Have I said them on the ones? Yeah, me, having
Speaker 1: no understanding of what a democceities now and someone did
Speaker 1: a point which I think is quite interesting, which is
Speaker 1: that encouraged drivers to use caution when approaching cars with
Speaker 1: younger passengers as opposed to what driving without caution when
Speaker 1: approached by everyone else? Am I to pick and choose
Speaker 1: who gets my caution who doesn't? Am I allowed to
Speaker 1: use less? And people as opposed to others? Interesting? And
Speaker 1: then they also brought up I respect the student driver
Speaker 1: signs by passing quickly or giving an abnormally large following distance,
Speaker 1: which I get it. You might have a kid in
Speaker 1: the back, like hitting the back of the parents seat,
Speaker 1: in which case it's good to know, you know, give
Speaker 1: them a bit of a wide berth. Damn. I think
Speaker 1: this is a good Creddit to go on, Like I really,
Speaker 1: I know I've said democratic about five times today. I
Speaker 1: don't remember doing it, but you know, we are in
Speaker 1: a system where opinions are allowed. I feel like this
Speaker 1: is a good place to witness how discussions can be
Speaker 1: had in a way that's respectful.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think it's a good place to see other ideas, right,
Speaker 2: But I think in this instance a discussion like there's
Speaker 2: no onus on anyone there to fact check it for
Speaker 2: you or to be like I read on Reddit, like
Speaker 2: this guy told me the reason why you don't have
Speaker 2: baby on boards because it's like that's you don't come
Speaker 2: here to discuss. You're just getting ideas and then go
Speaker 2: and use them elsewhere.
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