Normalize not having an opinion on things you don’t understand.
You're allowed to say, “I don't know enough about this to have an opinion on it.”
@FluentInFinance a lot of times, when you tell someone something new, they'll loudly say "But I thought (random assumption)." As a kind of opposing proposition. They ACT like it's a question, but if you don't bite, they just start arguing.
My god is that annoying. Why spout off your uneducated assumptions like that. I don't want to argue with you. Why ask me? Why am I even talking to someone with so high and opinion of themselves and so low an opinion of me.
That's not how you ask questions.
@cykonot
> ... high opinion of themselves and low opinion of me
I don't get why you'd feel negative about a counter-statement.
• people think others are like themselves, so they may have thought you were just building on different assumptions than them
• how much "research" (Googling) can beat common-sense assumptions
@tetrislife@qoto.org @FluentInFinance because a counter statement isn't even an argument. And I said I don't get why they'd ask me, implying I was referring to instances they'd asked me a question.
If you can't understand how inefficient of a way to interact that is, while defending "common sense" and implying I lack all expertise (again, I was thinking of times people asked me a question), you're saying a lot about yourself. You could just ask a question, but clearly you prefer combative jackassery