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Originally Posted by ruff
People in this forum don't let facts or knowledge get in the way of expressing their opinions. Most are very successful and wealthy porn webmasters that have a lot of time on their hands so they are on GFY 24/7 for lack of anything else to do.
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I just don't really get it. I mean I get it in a political context where things are a little more "opiniony" or two sides have their own take on the "facts" but I don't know why people wade into more technical areas and argue til they're blue in the face whilst being demonstrably wrong.
Don't get me wrong, I love me some arguing on the internet and get just as political or discuss things in less black and white areas as anyone else.. But I found a long time ago that the secret to winning arguments is to mostly STFU if you don't know what you're talking about and pick your battles on your home turf.
I'm sure I have my own subconscious biases and have probably done similar things without knowing it if there isn't heavy opposition to tell me otherwise.. But I wouldn't argue with someone about something I don't actually know a lot about if they really seemed to have a handle on it and knew the jargon any more I'd argue string theory with a pure mathematics PHD student.
It's basically this:
Anyways.. I didn't want to start a big thing.. I just wanted to do a quick "Ha, I was right" to Robbie even though there is almost no way he remembers talking shit about it because it's not really something he's particularly interested in or across in comparison and because being right on the internet is more important than anything else
I just heard the news and this is basically the only place I've ever talked about that particular drill, and I talk about oil exploration all the time, so I remembered. *shrugs* I know neither he, nor 99.99% of everyone else cares. I also don't give a fuck that they don't
