[SpeedilyDamage]

Consider for a moment how nobody here really has done any amount of evidence providing or really arguing; we’re simply stating things at one another.

I posit this is okay, as I wouldn’t trust your citation selection anyway!

Most of the internet makes a lot more sense if you stop thinking of it as a place to argue, and start thinking of it as a place to exchange ideas.

You give me an idea, and I’ll mull it over myself, research it myself, and confirm/adopt it or refute it myself.

None of this requires an argument or evidence, just the idea, and that’s how most people use the Internet.

[andirk]

> You have no obligation to explain yourself to anyone, I have no earthly idea why you think you do.

> explaining things is often a great way to lose credibility

> I wouldn’t trust your citation selection anyway!

One popular earth reason is people like teaching and learning. We call it knowledge. I'm sure you're fun at parties.

[SpeedilyDamage]

You know who treats Internet discourse as a good way to teach and learn? QAnon.

If your systems can’t prevent you from falling for QAnon, flat eartherism, or the time cube, you are exploitable and are likely already actively exploited.

Believing what you read in an HN comment is a terrible idea.