Just a couple of hours ago when I was explaining to my friends [in a Telegram voice chat] the reason why the price of some cryptocurrencies soar when they're first offered in a DEX ( = decentralized exchange). TBH, I know a little about the subject and I need to read some papers to know the details. I don't want to do it again TBH.
I can't remember the last time I knowingly and earnestly fired my uninformed reckons out into the world, as if it's all equally valid. It could have happened more recently than I think, though. I haven't got a lot of faith in myself.
I have a friend who’s trying to lose weight by fasting - he has an app and everything! Last week he was saying he felt faint but he wasn’t going to eat anything because his 27 hour fast wasn’t up yet. I told him that he wasn’t doing himself any good. That fasting was a gimmick. That not eating for a whole day and then eating some out of date frozen peas and a family-sized tub of banana ice cream was ridiculous. And that I know a highly qualified person on the internet (you) who said it was stupid. He did listen and has stopped.
I think that’s how we learn by getting out of our comfort zones to discuss things we don’t know, to look for that knowledge. We live in an opinionated world, where everyone wants to know your opinion unless it doesn’t go with theirs then they’ll want to argue. If it has to be a specific topic, it would have to be IT best practices, clearly there are people who delve way too deep into that world where they make you feel stupid after you realize what you thought was optimal was just above average to them, and their explanation confused me more than anything but I still learned a couple of things from that interaction. That said, of course I will do it again, I learn from these things, it’s the others who can get annoyed by my lack of knowledge or “wrong” opinion, no skin off my bones lol — as they say, ‘ask and you shall receive’
Hm, I guess quantum mechanics and whatnot, it started about Tracer from Overwatch and her ability to jump back in time 3 seconds or whatever, and then veered into Portal and whether you'd accelerate infinitely if you put portals immediately above and below you and 'fell' forever or if terminal velocity still applied, yes I am OK with being dumb and wrong and learning about this particular kind of thing forever
We all know little of everything. And from the vast majority we know almost nothing. So we all talk daily about the unknown basically. When we do that intentionally it usually is for putting things we know and fear behind a foggy screen of dust.
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