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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

As a Maths teacher, almost daily 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Plenty of times. But that's not the same as the other party accepting the fact :o) I've also been proven wrong many times. The way the question is posed implies that this is a rare occurance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that's what happens most times.

But also, I have had the rare person accept the fact and pull a complete 180 due to a fact I've shown. It's very rare, but not impossible.

I believe the three hardest words for most people to be "I was wrong"

Interesting article related to this:

https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/one-crucial-word/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Yes. My company wanted me to get a corporate credit card with Bank of America. I said absolutely not, they have a terrible reputation and I want nothing to do with them. In response, I was told in an email (which was Cc-ed to some VP of Finance) that this wasn't true, and that Bank of America has a great reputation.

Now, if you're gonna claim I'm wrong and start cc-ing people, you better be able to back it up. This pissed me off, so I googled for lists of the worst banks in America. Of the three first surveys on the topic that I found, two of them had Bank of America as the "top spot" as worst bank, and the third one had it in third place. I emailed this back to the person. I never heard back. I happily continued not using their corporate credit card ever after.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

only in the shower, two days later.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I once got in an argument with someone who claimed a fish isn't an animal. And I laughed and said "of course it is. What else would it be a plant?". They said "It's not an animal. It's a fish!" So I said "which is an animal we can look it up if you want"

The reply I got was "I don't need to look it up I know a fish isn't an animal"

I got stunned into silence so I think in their mind they believe they were absolutely objectively proven correct. I don't put much worry in arguments since, easier to let things go and realise people are just stupid and ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I had this exact same argument with someone when he said he was a vegetarian. We were looking for a restaurant to eat with coworkers. Two sentences later he said he could eat fish, so I said "fish is meat, I thought you were vegetarian" expecting something about "it's just easier to say I am, but really I'm a pescatarian". But no. He said "fish is not meat"

I think people get "animals" confused with "mammals". Also there's some weird thing with Catholicism where fish isn't defined as meat for the purposes of Lent. But man it's infuriating to meet someone like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Capybaras are also safe for eating during Lent.

Apparently giant rodents are not meat either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Muskrat is allowed too, not sure I'd try it though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Yes, a few times. Didnt make the slightest difference though, it almost never does. Such is life. Still, at least others viewing the discussion who were on the fence/ unsure will have been presented with the evidence needed to convince them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Essentially all my young life I was treated like a dork because I was finding ways to reuse containers for lunch rather than get disposables. This is going back well before it was common knowledge.

Yes I was that person who had my own cotton mesh bags for veggies. Yes I got a lot of judgy looks especially from the middle aged ladies. I just embraced being seen as a dork. Figured out early I wanted to be on right side of history even if that meant I wasn’t ‘cool’. As far as I cared, this Shit went beyond me and my ego/confidence.

Now those who called me a dork not only pretend like it didn’t happen but often pass on unsolicited information to me about reuse that is now very common knowledge.

Current day I’m like yea… you have to wash it because reuse isn’t just reuse. It’s also wash well to reuse so you don’t get sick. And occasionally you stil have to throw things out that become contaminated. This part still isn’t ‘common knowledge’ yet…smh.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Old one for me, but as a kid walking home with friends from school, I realised there might be a better route that would significantly shorten my walk and make little difference to them. I mentioned it and was fobbed off. So later I pulled up the route online and actually measured it. Not only was my suggestion a better route for me, but it was actually shorter for everyone else too! I triumphantly took my findings to my friends who to my surprise and disappointment really could not care less, and a little part of me died because they were not my friends.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What if they liked walking longer to spend time with each other or possibly some place they wanted to see on the way. Sometimes it’s the journey and not the destination

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thats what I thought too. I have definitly used longer paths before just to spend more time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The shorter paths is not necessarily the best. Maybe they just like that path

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I knew a dude in highschool that you could literally perform a scientific experiment in front of multiple times, reproducing the same outcome every time and he would still deny it and say whatever opposite day inane bullshit he was claiming to be true.

Otherwise almost every other day with my sister. Especially if it comes to video game knowledge. She at least realizes she was wrong once proven wrong though.

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