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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Don't thank him he has no idea what he's talking about. You're just agreeing because he's on your side. You still don't know what competition means or why your statement is not only wrong but makes no sense.
You're going to argue with that guy about what he meant by what he wrote?
And you think somehow you know better than he does, about what he wrote?
And somehow we're all assholes for noticing that you actually CAN'T read fucking minds, and apparently can't read English off a website?
ok you can go back to disappointing your parents now. I've had more than enough of being incorrectly mansplained at by an illiterate narcissist.
At this point in the conversation, I generally consider this sort of response to be a concession, particularly when you can't actually factually address anything I've said and instead resort to "nu-uhh" and "you're stupid."
I have to say, being called illiterate by someone who writes this kind of contrived drivel is the sweetest irony. Not only do you fundamentally misunderstand the concept of competition in the economic sense, but you also apparently don't understand what the words literate, narcissist, and mansplain mean.
We're definitely done here.
I wish we were done, but I feel like you're just going to go to post after post and pretend you can read those people's minds, too.
So grats, you're LemmyHerpes now.
I have no idea where you got this idea that I'm trying to read someone's mind. Your statement about people being competition as the reason RAM prices went up is factually and objectively incorrect. In fact, we know exactly why prices went up. I corrected you and explained why you were wrong. You simply don't understand what competition means in the economic sense.
Apparently, this is offensive to you, and I've somehow become a mind reader in the process. I don't know, man... It all seems pretty straightforward to me. At this point, all that's left is for you to concede and move on.
Look at the downvotes, dude.
The only person who agrees with you is you.
Lol. You think I care about downvotes? One of the most unreliable metrics to judge the factual basis of a statement.
If you actually looked my original comment it's upvoted. So there are others that think I'm right. Which also doesn't matter to me. Because I'm right.
No...you're just an asshole.
And there we have it. Yes, I can come across that way. It's actually a rather interesting phenomenon on the internet.
Take someone like Professor Dave on YouTube. He can be absolutely vicious toward people he debunks, and audiences applaud him for it, often because the people he's criticizing are demonstrably spreading misinformation or making objectively terrible arguments.
Yet when I adopt a somewhat abrasive tone while doing essentially the same thing, suddenly I'm the worst person imaginable.
Here's the distinction people seem to struggle with: I have absolutely no obligation to be nice, agreeable, or easygoing when correcting someone who is confidently presenting misinformation. I saw a statement that was factually incorrect, corrected it, and pointed out that the OP didn't understand the subject matter they were attempting to discuss.
People may not appreciate being confronted that way, but their discomfort doesn't make my argument arrogant, incorrect, or mean-spirited. Being nice is a social preference, not an intellectual obligation. And being abrasive doesn't automatically make someone wrong any more than being polite makes someone right.
You seem to be treating niceness as the standard by which an argument should be judged. It isn't. The standard should be whether the argument is factually sound.
Say what you mean and mean what you say. Everything else is window dressing.