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Why do you think I should just trust? I can't go more than a few seconds in a day without someone trying to sell me some bullshit. I don't have a trust issue. I have a distrust feature.
You want me to give you my exact source where I learned this information years ago? Why would I bother cataloging that shit? I can't even keep the world from stealing everything I've ever worked for. Do you think I'm just gonna look it up on the spot to appease your little act when my whole point is to figure shit out myself?
Well established sources can hire skill with all their money they make with sensationalized nonsense. I can't just pick that shit up. I gotta spend 8 hours a day making the land owners some money and after that I'm fond of enjoying myself.
I'm not saying you should "just trust" but that you have an issue with trust that's getting in the way of a healthy skepticism and exercising critical thinking. I'm all for distrusting the internet but you can't just raze it all and call everything lies. Especially when you then turn around and spread hearsay.
No, I want you to look it up in less than a minute. That's less than half the time it took you to write your comment. It serves many purposes like:
You're saying you don't want to participate, so why should I trust you at all? Because In less than 30 seconds I found this:
Full story here.
Two highly reliable sources mean they're reasonably trustworthy, and way more trustworthy than you are, random chatter. And it turns out that what you remember from many years ago is quite different from reality.
So if you don't want to participate in "a little act" that's fine, but at least don't spread false claims. After all, we do live in a society.
The only issue you have with my trust is that I do not trust you and what you think are the cheat codes for belief.
Two highly reliable sources mean they probably have aligned goals.
I'm not spreading claims. I'm showing people how they don't have to believe under pressure.
These aren't cheatcodes. Maybe they're shortcuts for like degrees of certainty with low margins of error, sure. But do you think I suspend my own critical thinking immediately when I read them? I'm aware that that specific piece of info could be faulty. Do you really think people are this naive? lol
Two reliable sources that coincide with the source means they're being truthful. It's weird that you dismiss them without good reason at all.
See how your own distrust colors your perception here? Could there be collusion? Sure, but it's highly unlikely but you're almost certain. Why? And besides, you're foregoing so much more, ironically risking the spread of even more misinformation on the internet that you already distrust for the sake of an ideal. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy. lol
Like I said, I'm not denying that there could be collusion--and even drifting ideals or whatever--but I'd be more concerned about whatever you have going on if I were you. There is such a thing as objective reality, after all.
You literally just spread misinformation based on your own faulty memory and I caught you red-handed. How can you even deny this. I won't convince you that what you're doing is questionable or that your reasoning is faulty, but at least stop doing the very thing you're complaining about.