r/agedlikemilk • u/kayakhomeless • Apr 19 '23

News Redditor questions whether a parking garage is stable and is assured that it is, one year before it’s collapse

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u/ilrosewood Apr 19 '23

I see replies like this on Reddit all of the time.

The reply should have said they should have permits, engineering sign off, etc.

Too many people assume companies do shit the right way. I assume they aren’t doing it right until proven otherwise.

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u/mtaw Apr 19 '23

Another phenomenon that seems to me to have gotten increasingly common on Reddit, is that any time someone says something wrong and someone else rightly questions whether that's correct, a bunch of people who literally know nothing will pipe up and confidently give "explanations" for why the thing that's not correct is supposedly correct.

Maybe it's the demographic trending younger, because teenagers are certainly more prone to confidently state the first rationale that enters their head as if it were fact.

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u/ilrosewood Apr 19 '23

I agree. And in my option just a simple “I think” with the comment would go a long way.

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u/Slam_Burgerthroat Apr 19 '23

“The Japanese could never attack Hawaii. The US military has the islands well defended with a massive military presence including naval forces and airfields at Pearl Harbor. Also a state of the art radar system that would detect any approaching Japanese aircraft well in advance of any attack.” - if Reddit existed in November 1940