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[–] Diplomjodler3 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My life got so much better when I started assuming the former.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yep.

When I was in high school, I was upset that I didn't know enough.

When I was in my 30s, I worked hard to fully understand everything.

Now I'm in my 40s and I just assume I'm stupid. I got nothing to prove. If I'm convincing a group that's paying me to explain some tech architecture, sure. But a group of bros who want me to weigh in on why the sky is green, bruh IDGAF sure the sky is green.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I feel like that's good advice for reasonably intelligent people. But it's kind of a slippery slope, especially for people that are dumb as shit. For example, my neighbor became a hard antivaxxer during COVID.

She mistrusted everything that was actually science, assuming that she since she didn't understand what qualified professionals were saying, they must be wrong. But if someone could make a simple (even if incredibly wrong) argument on YouTube, she'd eat that shit up.