Fuck

All day every day. My dad was a construction worker and would only have a use for books if he needed to start a fire. I won't try to bend the three braincells that somehow survived a lifetime of alcoholism into shape.

On his tombstone it shall say "he died as he lived, an idiot."

But also, don't think you have to do all the work yourself. I think we very often underestimate the importance of being the one that simply plants the seed. Of course the difficulty is that usually we can't tell if said seed has actually been planted, so it feels like a waste of energy.

Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.

The best way I've found is to just ask questions like you don't understand the topic but are interested in learning more. Their logic is going to have holes, and you want to guide them into stumbling into one.

The hard part is asking probing questions without sounding like you're trying to pull a "gotcha".

Live and let dumb.

"We didn't have 'neurodivergent' people when i was young" he said, cradling his beer bottle.

Knowing how to plant the seed is crucial too.

I heard you just put your thingie in her woo-hoo bag and then you plip plap until you both yeehaw.

Thank you for using proper medical terms!

Of course. I am, after all, Jesus; I know the best medical terms – tremendous terms.

Gotta know to choose your battles

Its ok to just laugh in someone's face and call them an uneducated idiot, who has no idea what they're talking about.

You know how just can ban/block morons on social media, so you don't have to hear from them any more?

You do can that in real life too.

I’ve tried planting the seed a few times with people who voluntarily wiretap their own house with an Alexa. Each time they’ve picked it up and ran further with it, like “Oh I know! If I mention seat belt covers, suddenly amazon is recommending a bunch of seat belt covers in my home page!” No thoughts at all of doing anything with this conclusion.

I’ve also witnessed planting the seed working in plenty of other scenarios, just thought this particular fumble was common and particularly funny.

Yup.

And then someone infers something about your character because you prefer not to waste your time having a fruitless discussion.

Oh, is that how you look at it? That's... interesting.

walks away

Must be a pain

I would strongly prefer if you specifically never interacted with any of my posts.

It's a good sleep indeed

I would strongly prefer if you specifically never interacted with any of my posts.

I remember David Mitchell trying to convince Rhod Gilbert that stopped escalators don't fling you off the top, and he finally said:

I'm not going to discuss it anymore. I've told you the information. At some point, you will accept it.

Somewhat ironically, though, Rhod was probably talking about how, when escalators are stopped, the distance between steps gets smaller near the ends, so if you're not aware of that, you may try to step up too high and put too much energy in. So he's not exactly wrong, but I'm not sure he realizes what is causing it.

...I don't like that comma