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by lokar 29 days ago
IME “common sense” is code for “we don’t need to listen to experts about this”
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Well, that is literally it's definition: sense of the commons. In other words -- what masses feel.

I know it changed its meaning over time, but that was the original meaning.

to paraphrase a common meme: physics and chemicals don't care about your common sense