Post #3310399
2026-06-12 22:49 UTC
It shouldn't irritate me this much when someone says something so confidently and they're just wrong, but it really does.
Not like a lie. Surprisingly, that bothers me less. I mean when someone truly believes something they just cooked up in their mind and you already have *mathematical proof* that they're wrong.
Like, where does that confidence come from? I legitimately don't get how someone can be so confident about something they clearly don't understand.
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@jamie@zomglol.wtf 2026-06-12 22:54
Maybe it's that I've spent so much of my life trying to have correct information about whatever I'm doing. But others have gotten by for a long time by being able to simply say something that sounds smart without a shred of evidence. But whenever someone does this, I need to step away. It's *that* irritating to me.
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@toddsundsted@epiktistes.com 2026-06-13 00:21
@jamie@zomglol.wtf there is often no obvious relationship between some people's confidence and their competence.