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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Something similar: knew a girl that was wrote her bio master and she was like "you're all below me", one day she asked me to read her work for spelling mistakes, took a week intensively researching the topic and made several remarks on wrong sources/ better sources, found data assignment mistakes and content errors and wrote a comprehensive critic to the work. I'm feeling kinda sorry for what I did, she never handed the work in & is now a single mom. I'm far from the only reason for it, but I think that it pushed her over the edge with the decision to give up her academic career for good. Ooopsie.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey so you said :”she was like” but you didn’t really offer explicit acts about her behaviour confirming that’s really what she thought. It’s predictive text.

So did she really say you were below her or was that a feeling you get when you meet a confident person and determine this on your own because of feeling self conscious around that?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Her "bio master" as in her Master's thesis? Why would she not have someone in her cohort read it? What happened with her PI? Were they just not checking in on her work at all? How could they get so far into a Master's that she's in the process of writing her thesis that you could find better sources in a week?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like the above person was cohort. They didn’t really specify they weren’t just that she asked them. So there was probably a reason and she trusted them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured they weren't since they described her as acting like she was better than them for her degree. It made it sound like that put her apart from them but idk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Or Insecurity and crippling low self esteem with a boundless assumption that everyone is comparing themselves as better or less than can eat people alive.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Considering that is sounds like she was a pretty unlikable person so I'm surprised she got enough into a relationship to have a kid

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

The above op said “she was like” which is predictive text but no real story about how they got to that conclusion so I’m getting the feeling they themselves are an unreliable narrator. I’d take a beat before jumping in and entirely vilifying someone you don’t even know described by another person you don’t even know. It is the internet after all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Why do people act like assholes don't get into relationships? Have you taken a look at real life? They get into abusive relationships based on constant resentment that often break fairly soon, but they do get into relationships.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's my take this story sounds fake af

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really don't understand what drives people to make these type of comments.

Bro whether it happened or not doesn't really matter. They're not trying to sell you a scientific study. It's an anecdote. Even if it is fake it's not going to destroy your life or financially bankrupt someone. Do you yell at Comedians saying that they're lying about a funny story? Do you question everyone in your life and call them all out too if you don't believe them?

The absolute worst that could come from lying about a random funny story is causing someone to let out a disappointed sigh if they find out it is fake. Compare that to the disruption of someone always showing up and saying "It didn't happen." I know which I prefer...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

seeing as you’ve climbed all that way to die on a hill defending a shitty story about ruining someone’s life as being ‘funny’, you deserve the added salt of pearl-clutching disapproval that someone didn’t laugh about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh cause it sounds, and and almost gaurenteed, to be bullshit. I dont understand why you have such a problem with someone calling out someone else's bullshit, but thats your right.