Yeah, OP might just be a dumbass.

Characters in Jurassic Park are portrayed as flawed, imperfect people who make mistakes. None of the plot relies on them being idiots or anything, but people screw up, panic on occasion, and don’t know things from time to time.

Dr. Grant using a stick to test the fence is a mistake, albeit a small one without real consequences. While it doesn’t distract from his character arc of how he feels about kids, it is his character simply messing up.

I also disagree with the person you replied to. While their assessment is correct, Dr. Grant is a character with a lot of time working in the field and therefore has a lot of practical skills. He does way, way better than a doctorate in mathematics working in academia would. Writing off all people with a doctorate (or experts in general) as being hyper specialized is a mistake.

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

It is, but teenagers and the emotionally stunted fall into it so they can feel superior.

It’s basically a diet conspiracy theory. It lets adherents think they’re special and have figured something out that regular people didn’t. That’s a lot more comforting than realizing they’re just regular people because they aren’t mature enough to see obscurity as a good thing.

Bill Stickers is an innocent man!

Have you considered that America bad?

“Approved name list”? What the actual fuck?

What’s all the fuss about? Who hasn’t butt-chugged a pitcher of margaritas at a Mexican restaurant?

Nobody else? Just me and the lady in the article?

If it’s any consolation, you’re just hearing from terminally online partisans, actual lunatics, and foreign intelligence agents trying to destabilize us.

The on-the-ground experience here is not accurately reflected on Lemmy.

That is a shockingly accurate assessment.

Just because a lot of people use a phrase incorrectly doesn’t mean that it should be the accepted meaning.

A good example is “have your cake and eat it, too”. As the Unabomber famously fixated on, the phrase was originally “you can’t eat your cake and have it, too”. That saying actually makes sense and has meaning.

After a while people began to jokingly say it backwards, as “you can’t have your cake and eat it, too”. That was dandy, until people forgot that it was a joke. Now, years later, we’re all left with a saying that is fucking ridiculous sounding and but we keep saying it because we need the original phrase in our language.

Sure, language evolves and changes. Sometimes though, it’s a good idea to be sticklers about the rules.

Sure.

It’s just that some people see a dictionary entry and take it as gospel truth.

Just a quick reminder that dictionaries are descriptive, they document existing language use rather than set down rules.

If enough people break an existing rule often enough, it makes it into dictionaries. Just ask anyone who doesn’t think that “ironic” should mean “coincidental”.

Hell yeah, they do!

Holy bald-faced foreign propaganda, Batman!

I don’t know, there are a lot of nut jobs around here …

You ever think of switching to decaf?

Congratulations on being the first user I block on Lemmy.

Fuck me for trying to answer your question, I guess.

There’s no uniform definition, but groups with an agenda will count any discharge of a firearm on property owned by a school as a school shooting regardless of circumstances.

One notorious case was a person who committed suicide in the parking lot of a closed down school. It happened in the middle of the night and classes hadn’t been held in that building for years. Advocacy groups still counted it.

NPR did a whole investigation into over reporting in 2018. Here’s a link:

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent

And anywhere that wants an indoor performance of the 1812 Overture.