@FluentInFinance OK, I won't vote again.

@FluentInFinance I'd rather not normalize that, because my immediate thought is U.S. Republican Senators and Members of Congress saying "I don't know enough about this to have an opinion on it." with respect to mass shootings, and whether or not gun control should be legislated.

If it is your job to have an opinion on it, you can't claim ignorance.

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Heads up! This makes a lot of people very mad. Which is one thing I don't understand, but don't feel bad about having an opinion on.

@FluentInFinance Absurd. Not only environmentalists can talk about global warming for example. You might actually inform yourself if you have a desire of improvement. It's called researching, and it involves reading a lot!

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Also "I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head, but I know how to find it."

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That cliché is old and tired.

@FluentInFinance I’m more in favor of “I haven’t researched that. Have you?”

If someone can’t describe *how* they have informed themselves on a topic, or if it’s from tv or some corporate “social” media site, they can be dismissed as uninformed for purposes of my having any concern what they think on the subject. 🙄

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@FluentInFinance don’t we already have a wilful ignorance problem?

@FluentInFinance Morons never say "I don't know." All of the gop have a "concept" of knowing. Follow a conman imbecile and his concept of project 2025.

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"A giant pizza pie (chart) of "I have no earthly clue!".
https://youtu.be/ooWailmzEoQ?si=_-zVbeFjPNuD-Aus

@FluentInFinance this goes for large language models too

@FluentInFinance I know more about finance than this bot.

@FluentInFinance Request exception: I do not understand Trump but I definitely have opinions on him.

@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.

@FluentInFinance This is good role-modeling to help counteract the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon, of ignorance leading to an inflated sense of confidence. And a good reminder to have some humility.

@FluentInFinance thank you for saying that out loud.

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Good idea for a person with some maturity or perspective but
the people who most need to do it
won't

@FluentInFinance My opinion is that if opinions were reserved for experts, society would get nowhere. Now, if you're talking about loudly arguing for one's opinion in public, against and ignoring opposing evidence, you might have a point.

@FluentInFinance YES!

@FluentInFinance This is one of the most useful things I learned to say, after "I don't know, but I'll find out."

@matt I don't have any opinions about accessibility, I don't understand it. I'm not disabled, I just write Android apps

@FluentInFinance Perhaps it could even read:

You're expected to say, "I don't know enough about this to have an opinion an it", as long as this deems true.

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I remember getting shit for this from a teacher at school.
"I don't have an opinion."
"Well *get* one!"