It means that your ability to find an exception to the generalization does invalidate the generalization.
To you, and every other moron that attempts faulty logic, there is a simple question. If money did not have any impact why do people spend it? It would be a completely irrational action and everyone doing so would be better off purchasing SuperLotto and Scratch offs. A CEO seeing his finance guy writing a fat check to piss away company money would be fired.
In the real world money does matter, and people do things to get money. People pay money to get those things. It's kind of like bartering. You know, "Can I trade you my sandwich for your Apple"? or "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." like stuff. Okay, you were probably humiliated since yours was tiny, but you get the idea.
Snarky humor aside, generalizations are verifiable and factual.
I get that economics is not simple, but good grief at least try to think. Try, just a little.
1. Eliminating tax loopholes does not generate more money because the tax rate would need to be reduced as it was corrected. Failure to do so drives all business out of the US.
2. Fixing the tax problems is an extremely complex and lengthy process. Try to do it with a gunshot law and you collapse the economy. If you don't believe that to be true, why not look at revenue for companies and employees at Tax Firms, Law firms specializing in tax law, CPAs. How many people are dependent on those people for their jobs? Yeah, it's a huge issue when you kill millions of high paying jobs.
3. We can not pay our bills now. If we are about a trillion dollars in additional debt each year, where does the extra money come from to pay every single person 30K for doing nothing? By claiming you can do things which can't be done, right? I'm sure we can ride our Unicorns around and eat rainbows while we hand out wealth we don't have.
Every country being claimed as a socialist utopia in Europe is having problems because you can't get something for nothing. You can only push out the debt for so long before things start to collapse. The best of the best has Oil, which does not and can not last for much longer. They are already trying to figure out what to do with the Government can no longer sell oil. They already struggle with high suicide rates, and a low birth rate meaning too few young to support the elderly. You really think it's so great, go live in one of your socialist utopias instead of trying to copy their failures here.
If the borders don't get closed and nothing happens to the 11.5million illegal workers you still have zero bargaining power as a worker. I hope you are not stupid enough to believe they are here so that a couple rich people can have maids, when the real damage is a huge section of the population forced to work for low wages. Sadly many people _are_ stupid enough to believe that shit.
Smith also called for strong regulation and admonished that corporate charters should only be granted when absolutely necessary and they should be kept on a short leash. Does that sound like what we have?
Try to read the whole thing again and pay attention to the words I used. I chose my words intentionally, the least you could do is provide the courtesy of reading them instead of guessing content.
Stalin's Russia is Marxism, Mao's China is Marxism, Casto's Cuba is Marxism. You failing to comprehend that means you either neglected to actually read the manifesto or you have the reading comprehension skills of my cat. I guess you could be a shill, but you don't strike me as smart enough to be paid for your idiocy.
Marxist communism has absolutely been tried in numerous countries, you are just too delusional to do the work. Most of Eastern Europe and Asia have been implemented as various Marist governments. Why the fuck do you think Mao killed between 30 and 90 million people (depending on who's stats you like)? Why did Stalin kill about 30 million of his people, most through starvation? Wh did both countries destroy and outlaw Religion, confiscate wealth and gave it to the few in control of the State, etc.. etc..? That is Marxism you moron!
Don't tell me how great it is when you have no fucking clue what it is!
Another completely ignorant tool who has never ever read the Manifesto telling people how Marxism is pro laborer. Here is a hint, when the State has to keep a boot on the worker the workers do not control the labor. When the state has to abolish everything that pleases the worker to make them all the same, it's not the laborer controlling the system. When the state has to confiscate and re-distribute everything of value the laborer does not control the system.
Read the fucking book instead of repeating the summary someone wanted you to have.
I certainly can say what I did, because you are attempting to claim that some form of utopian system is possible. It has been tried over and over and never worked. Why? Well believe it or not you point to it and don't even realize it.
Oh and the Soviets of the 1900s were never given the means to do what they wanted. They were told by the authorities where they would work and what they would do. If you think otherwise you need to read some actual history about how the system worked under their command economy (not communist, that was a joke and a lie they were never communist or socialist in anything more than name).
See that part I put on bold? Where do you think "free" money comes from? Easy, the Government takes workers stuff. I gave you communism as an easy example to see how those systems work. Meaning, they don't work. You end up with a peasant class and a wealthy class, yielding lots of civil unrest. Progress stops. There is no Utopia!
Taxes cover welfare programs? You mean we are 19Trillion dollars in debt because taxes are covering our programs? You can't be talking about the US, where we are not able to pay our bills and have a huge amount of debt, growing by about 1Trillion dollars a year. If we cut all of our welfare programs we would still be extremely lopsided in tax revenue/spending
Here is an idea. Instead of repeating crap that you hear from certain politicians, why not take a look at the real world. Use real facts and develop fact based conclusions. People like you who view the world through some crazy kaleidoscope glass have spent the last 30 years telling everyone how great things are if only they could live in that world. It does not work, because that is not the world we live in!
You are trying to claim that we have this perpetual method of generating income without effort, and that wealth can just appear from nothing. Come down from your high loft and explain to us how we get 30K to give to everyone all the time without making that 30K have no value? Are you going to take all of the Gates, Clinton, Zuckerberg, Koch, Murdoch, etc.. etc.. wealth without them looking? Are you expecting them to just give away wealth for a while until they have no more wealth? Okay, and then what happens when the pool is dry?
Open and close your wallet real fast while repeating "there is no thing like wealth" until new wealth appears?
Giving everyone money means that you are taking it from someone else in some way. Inflation does not generate wealth, and that is what giving everyone a perpetual stream of money does. Why now ask the Weimar Republic how that worked out for them.
It's OUR money they paid, not THEIR money. The FBI gets it's money from tax payers, and exists because of tax payers.
This is the same issue with all of Government really. The Government is always better off when they are not accountable for spending. I just wonder if they will use this as ammo to convince tax payers that we need a bigger GAO to investigate this incident and others just like it.
Before you say it, Anarchy is not the only or even best alternative. There is a whole lot of space between anarchy and our current overly bloated Government.
Why bother? Because maybe it's what you want to do.
I've always had creative interests in storytelling and writing, but do you know how many people can make a living off of 'writing novels'?
Wow, how about some history. Look at innovation world wide over 3,000 years and then in the US over the last century. The amount of people that want to do great things because "altruism" is really really small. They pale in comparison to the people who do things for STUFF.
Perhaps you can show me the troves of Russian artists from the 1900s to today in comparison to Western works. That seems like a good starting point.
While I doubt that it was intended, the Welfare system in the US has become a trap. I believe that the majority who voted "yes" at least did so with good intentions, though there is some interesting theory behind that front.
If a single mom works, she loses benefits. If she has another kid she gets more benefits. If she gets married, she loses benefits. If she claims "he's the daddy" she gets money (child support is not inherently good or bad). So I agree with the concept of a system gone wrong.
Where I disagree is that it's only single moms who are trapped into that system. The disability programs are designed the same way. They are similar traps, but without dependency it's a little easier to move around.
Me personally? I don't have the power to change the system myself. Planet wide trade pacts don't imply nobody is sovereign, just that we need to consider that in how things get cleaned up. Do-over could be just flushing all of the current politicians and spending a couple years deleting corrupt laws instead of creating new ones. Removing current people of "power" from their pedestals and moving some chunks of wealth around. Not that you have rich people become destitute, but rather redistribute a bit of the wealth to break up monopolization.
When your house gets dirty do you say "fuck this" and burn it down? Not the first choice, but sometimes the only choice.
The point is that you are using fallacious logic. You attempted to claim that the FBI was clean because they did not produce material. Production of material is not relevant to Law (currently), only Possession. You further implied that the FBI having the ability to bust this person would prevent further harm to children. Impossible to prove or claim, but also bad logic because this guy was not producing material.
Everything you claim justifies the FBI also justifies the suspect the FBI was forced to release.
Good grief I'm tired of you people attempting to blame the system for human nature. Human nature is why we have corruption, and have had corruption in every system of power since the beginning of civilization. A Capitalist Republic is the best system humanity has ever implemented to reduce and control the impact of human nature. The US was not a half ass Republic like we saw in other countries which still hold/held Monarchies and and Noble classes/families. It was fully implemented from ground up as a Capitalist Republic. The fact that it took well over 200 years for the system to become so noticeably corrupt speaks volumes for how well it works. Name one communist country that has been clean for more than a week. Name a Socialist country that has been clean for more than a year.
To GP, I call complete and utter horse shit. There is no expectation of a stagnant worker in Capitalism, in fact that view defies any writing by Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and countless Economists in between. Economic mobility is one of the keys of Capitalist theory. If workers don't believe they should work for X dollars at Employer-A they try to work for Employer-B at Y dollars. People being stuck means that competition is lacking, not that workers are intentionally stuck. Workers who are "stuck" should be able to start their own businesses to compete. Competition exists at each of the 3 legs of capitalism, or at least it should.
What you may be attempting to claim is that "starter" jobs should pay as much as "professional" jobs, which is horse shit. Who would want to work hard when there is no payoff or benefit? Oh yeah! That doesn't work very well, which is why worldwide innovation is relatively flat. The US innovation bubble is a fluke of Capitalism.
I realize that it's trendy and cool to say the US is bad. I fully admit that corruption is a huge problem that I don't know we can fix without a reset. I am a US Citizen who denounces the corruption and entrenched politicians all the time. That does not make Canada a "better" Government.
In a do-over would you choose another Capitalist Republic or go Communism? If you say Socialist I implore you to determine how you are going to be different than communism to succeed. The Socialist governments in the EU are really not doing as well as many are being led to believe.
The definition of pedophile under the law is NOT restricted to people creating content. The definition of pedophile under the law is that you possess material which can be called child pornography. Law enforcement does not care how the material got into your possession, nor do they care if you were aware of the material. They care that the material exists so that they can prosecute you, and that is the extent of it.
If a guy on the bus slips pictures of naked children into your shopping bag and calls the police, you WILL be arrested. A prosecution may not stick, but your life will be ruined regardless of the outcome.
Look, we all have this vision which comes to mind when we hear the word. We all know what it should be, but that's not what it is. Just like many drug charges today it's a State weapon to attack people as often as it is a valid case of what we think of when we hear the word pedophile. We also know that depending on who you are, you will never face charges for it. (See The Franklin Cover-up).
Yes, I personally know and have known many Police officers who left Public Law because they did not want to be used as political hammers for shifty thugs holding office.
History is great for a whole lot of things, but if you are going to go back into history and claim that people leaving homes younger is a newer anomaly and not also explain that student loans are a similar anomaly (and more recent) you are simply trying to bullshit people.
While I might be interpreting your post incorrectly, I perceive that you are attempting to look intellectually superior. And failed.
A bit of a leap to suggest that VR will be the Largest Enterprise ever. If it was available now I would not buy it, no real use. I don't play games and I want to get away from the virtual world more than get into it.
VR never took off because as you hint at, there are very few practical uses for the technology. I built VR systems which included motion tracking for DOD work. This included motion tracking systems. There were few applications that could handle the motion tracking, and it's nothing special really. There are few applications that can work with either VR and/or motion tracking. In most applications VR works best as a virtual button where when the tracking object hits a specific point an event gets triggered. After the "oooh, thats so cool" wears off you are left with the most inefficient button you can imagine.
People like the author of TFA seemingly have zero knowledge of the technology they get paid to write about.. Outside of DOD Aerospace and heavy machinery, like CAT, have used the same stuff for the same purposes. Meaning, after HFE (human factors engineering) it's for sales.
IMHO this is why we see articles like TFA which intentionally omit the largest section of fraud. Sure, retailers see some credit card fraud but the majority of fraud is wire based fraud, not card in hand at merchants. Smart chips do nothing to prevent wire fraud.
I have not trusted TV since monopolization was allowed and the TV all became the same company with the same owners, stories, and spin. Oh, it took a bit to move that way so that it was not too obvious, but as countless journalists warned it happened. The AP with the same spin is intermixed with slightly different fairy stories to claim "we are different".
Newspapers suffered the same fate, and now primarily have the same owners with the same AP stories and spin. Mixed with some slightly different fairy stories to claim "we are different".
Funny how well this has worked. I had someone argue with me that my facts, with easily searchable backing, is trope and emotionally driven. While their opinion with zero factual basis is better than facts. I wish I was joking.
I have very little faith in humanity today. Maybe I should just start taking the drugs and join Facebook....
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It means that your ability to find an exception to the generalization does invalidate the generalization.
To you, and every other moron that attempts faulty logic, there is a simple question. If money did not have any impact why do people spend it? It would be a completely irrational action and everyone doing so would be better off purchasing SuperLotto and Scratch offs. A CEO seeing his finance guy writing a fat check to piss away company money would be fired.
In the real world money does matter, and people do things to get money. People pay money to get those things. It's kind of like bartering. You know, "Can I trade you my sandwich for your Apple"? or "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." like stuff. Okay, you were probably humiliated since yours was tiny, but you get the idea.
Snarky humor aside, generalizations are verifiable and factual.
I get that economics is not simple, but good grief at least try to think. Try, just a little.
1. Eliminating tax loopholes does not generate more money because the tax rate would need to be reduced as it was corrected. Failure to do so drives all business out of the US.
2. Fixing the tax problems is an extremely complex and lengthy process. Try to do it with a gunshot law and you collapse the economy. If you don't believe that to be true, why not look at revenue for companies and employees at Tax Firms, Law firms specializing in tax law, CPAs. How many people are dependent on those people for their jobs? Yeah, it's a huge issue when you kill millions of high paying jobs.
3. We can not pay our bills now. If we are about a trillion dollars in additional debt each year, where does the extra money come from to pay every single person 30K for doing nothing? By claiming you can do things which can't be done, right? I'm sure we can ride our Unicorns around and eat rainbows while we hand out wealth we don't have.
Every country being claimed as a socialist utopia in Europe is having problems because you can't get something for nothing. You can only push out the debt for so long before things start to collapse. The best of the best has Oil, which does not and can not last for much longer. They are already trying to figure out what to do with the Government can no longer sell oil. They already struggle with high suicide rates, and a low birth rate meaning too few young to support the elderly. You really think it's so great, go live in one of your socialist utopias instead of trying to copy their failures here.
If the borders don't get closed and nothing happens to the 11.5million illegal workers you still have zero bargaining power as a worker. I hope you are not stupid enough to believe they are here so that a couple rich people can have maids, when the real damage is a huge section of the population forced to work for low wages. Sadly many people _are_ stupid enough to believe that shit.
Shake your head and tape a nickel to it, your brain is skipping!
Smith also called for strong regulation and admonished that corporate charters should only be granted when absolutely necessary and they should be kept on a short leash. Does that sound like what we have?
Try to read the whole thing again and pay attention to the words I used. I chose my words intentionally, the least you could do is provide the courtesy of reading them instead of guessing content.
Stalin's Russia is Marxism, Mao's China is Marxism, Casto's Cuba is Marxism. You failing to comprehend that means you either neglected to actually read the manifesto or you have the reading comprehension skills of my cat. I guess you could be a shill, but you don't strike me as smart enough to be paid for your idiocy.
Marxist communism has absolutely been tried in numerous countries, you are just too delusional to do the work. Most of Eastern Europe and Asia have been implemented as various Marist governments. Why the fuck do you think Mao killed between 30 and 90 million people (depending on who's stats you like)? Why did Stalin kill about 30 million of his people, most through starvation? Wh did both countries destroy and outlaw Religion, confiscate wealth and gave it to the few in control of the State, etc.. etc..? That is Marxism you moron!
Don't tell me how great it is when you have no fucking clue what it is!
Another completely ignorant tool who has never ever read the Manifesto telling people how Marxism is pro laborer. Here is a hint, when the State has to keep a boot on the worker the workers do not control the labor. When the state has to abolish everything that pleases the worker to make them all the same, it's not the laborer controlling the system. When the state has to confiscate and re-distribute everything of value the laborer does not control the system.
Read the fucking book instead of repeating the summary someone wanted you to have.
And no, you have not read it.
I certainly can say what I did, because you are attempting to claim that some form of utopian system is possible. It has been tried over and over and never worked. Why? Well believe it or not you point to it and don't even realize it.
Oh and the Soviets of the 1900s were never given the means to do what they wanted. They were told by the authorities where they would work and what they would do. If you think otherwise you need to read some actual history about how the system worked under their command economy (not communist, that was a joke and a lie they were never communist or socialist in anything more than name).
See that part I put on bold? Where do you think "free" money comes from? Easy, the Government takes workers stuff. I gave you communism as an easy example to see how those systems work. Meaning, they don't work. You end up with a peasant class and a wealthy class, yielding lots of civil unrest. Progress stops. There is no Utopia!
Taxes cover welfare programs? You mean we are 19Trillion dollars in debt because taxes are covering our programs? You can't be talking about the US, where we are not able to pay our bills and have a huge amount of debt, growing by about 1Trillion dollars a year. If we cut all of our welfare programs we would still be extremely lopsided in tax revenue/spending
Here is an idea. Instead of repeating crap that you hear from certain politicians, why not take a look at the real world. Use real facts and develop fact based conclusions. People like you who view the world through some crazy kaleidoscope glass have spent the last 30 years telling everyone how great things are if only they could live in that world. It does not work, because that is not the world we live in!
You are trying to claim that we have this perpetual method of generating income without effort, and that wealth can just appear from nothing. Come down from your high loft and explain to us how we get 30K to give to everyone all the time without making that 30K have no value? Are you going to take all of the Gates, Clinton, Zuckerberg, Koch, Murdoch, etc.. etc.. wealth without them looking? Are you expecting them to just give away wealth for a while until they have no more wealth? Okay, and then what happens when the pool is dry?
Open and close your wallet real fast while repeating "there is no thing like wealth" until new wealth appears?
Giving everyone money means that you are taking it from someone else in some way. Inflation does not generate wealth, and that is what giving everyone a perpetual stream of money does. Why now ask the Weimar Republic how that worked out for them.
It's OUR money they paid, not THEIR money. The FBI gets it's money from tax payers, and exists because of tax payers.
This is the same issue with all of Government really. The Government is always better off when they are not accountable for spending. I just wonder if they will use this as ammo to convince tax payers that we need a bigger GAO to investigate this incident and others just like it.
Before you say it, Anarchy is not the only or even best alternative. There is a whole lot of space between anarchy and our current overly bloated Government.
Why bother? Because maybe it's what you want to do.
I've always had creative interests in storytelling and writing, but do you know how many people can make a living off of 'writing novels'?
Wow, how about some history. Look at innovation world wide over 3,000 years and then in the US over the last century. The amount of people that want to do great things because "altruism" is really really small. They pale in comparison to the people who do things for STUFF.
Perhaps you can show me the troves of Russian artists from the 1900s to today in comparison to Western works. That seems like a good starting point.
While I doubt that it was intended, the Welfare system in the US has become a trap. I believe that the majority who voted "yes" at least did so with good intentions, though there is some interesting theory behind that front.
If a single mom works, she loses benefits. If she has another kid she gets more benefits. If she gets married, she loses benefits. If she claims "he's the daddy" she gets money (child support is not inherently good or bad). So I agree with the concept of a system gone wrong.
Where I disagree is that it's only single moms who are trapped into that system. The disability programs are designed the same way. They are similar traps, but without dependency it's a little easier to move around.
Me personally? I don't have the power to change the system myself. Planet wide trade pacts don't imply nobody is sovereign, just that we need to consider that in how things get cleaned up. Do-over could be just flushing all of the current politicians and spending a couple years deleting corrupt laws instead of creating new ones. Removing current people of "power" from their pedestals and moving some chunks of wealth around. Not that you have rich people become destitute, but rather redistribute a bit of the wealth to break up monopolization.
When your house gets dirty do you say "fuck this" and burn it down? Not the first choice, but sometimes the only choice.
I gave you the challenge of showing a _BETTER_ system, and you failed. You are complaining for the sake of complaining, or what we would call whining.
The point is that you are using fallacious logic. You attempted to claim that the FBI was clean because they did not produce material. Production of material is not relevant to Law (currently), only Possession. You further implied that the FBI having the ability to bust this person would prevent further harm to children. Impossible to prove or claim, but also bad logic because this guy was not producing material.
Everything you claim justifies the FBI also justifies the suspect the FBI was forced to release.
Good grief I'm tired of you people attempting to blame the system for human nature. Human nature is why we have corruption, and have had corruption in every system of power since the beginning of civilization. A Capitalist Republic is the best system humanity has ever implemented to reduce and control the impact of human nature. The US was not a half ass Republic like we saw in other countries which still hold/held Monarchies and and Noble classes/families. It was fully implemented from ground up as a Capitalist Republic. The fact that it took well over 200 years for the system to become so noticeably corrupt speaks volumes for how well it works. Name one communist country that has been clean for more than a week. Name a Socialist country that has been clean for more than a year.
To GP, I call complete and utter horse shit. There is no expectation of a stagnant worker in Capitalism, in fact that view defies any writing by Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and countless Economists in between. Economic mobility is one of the keys of Capitalist theory. If workers don't believe they should work for X dollars at Employer-A they try to work for Employer-B at Y dollars. People being stuck means that competition is lacking, not that workers are intentionally stuck. Workers who are "stuck" should be able to start their own businesses to compete. Competition exists at each of the 3 legs of capitalism, or at least it should.
What you may be attempting to claim is that "starter" jobs should pay as much as "professional" jobs, which is horse shit. Who would want to work hard when there is no payoff or benefit? Oh yeah! That doesn't work very well, which is why worldwide innovation is relatively flat. The US innovation bubble is a fluke of Capitalism.
I realize that it's trendy and cool to say the US is bad. I fully admit that corruption is a huge problem that I don't know we can fix without a reset. I am a US Citizen who denounces the corruption and entrenched politicians all the time. That does not make Canada a "better" Government.
In a do-over would you choose another Capitalist Republic or go Communism? If you say Socialist I implore you to determine how you are going to be different than communism to succeed. The Socialist governments in the EU are really not doing as well as many are being led to believe.
Me, I'd do another Capitalist Republic.
The definition of pedophile under the law is NOT restricted to people creating content. The definition of pedophile under the law is that you possess material which can be called child pornography. Law enforcement does not care how the material got into your possession, nor do they care if you were aware of the material. They care that the material exists so that they can prosecute you, and that is the extent of it.
If a guy on the bus slips pictures of naked children into your shopping bag and calls the police, you WILL be arrested. A prosecution may not stick, but your life will be ruined regardless of the outcome.
Look, we all have this vision which comes to mind when we hear the word. We all know what it should be, but that's not what it is. Just like many drug charges today it's a State weapon to attack people as often as it is a valid case of what we think of when we hear the word pedophile. We also know that depending on who you are, you will never face charges for it. (See The Franklin Cover-up).
Yes, I personally know and have known many Police officers who left Public Law because they did not want to be used as political hammers for shifty thugs holding office.
History is great for a whole lot of things, but if you are going to go back into history and claim that people leaving homes younger is a newer anomaly and not also explain that student loans are a similar anomaly (and more recent) you are simply trying to bullshit people.
While I might be interpreting your post incorrectly, I perceive that you are attempting to look intellectually superior. And failed.
A bit of a leap to suggest that VR will be the Largest Enterprise ever. If it was available now I would not buy it, no real use. I don't play games and I want to get away from the virtual world more than get into it.
VR never took off because as you hint at, there are very few practical uses for the technology. I built VR systems which included motion tracking for DOD work. This included motion tracking systems. There were few applications that could handle the motion tracking, and it's nothing special really. There are few applications that can work with either VR and/or motion tracking. In most applications VR works best as a virtual button where when the tracking object hits a specific point an event gets triggered. After the "oooh, thats so cool" wears off you are left with the most inefficient button you can imagine.
People like the author of TFA seemingly have zero knowledge of the technology they get paid to write about.. Outside of DOD Aerospace and heavy machinery, like CAT, have used the same stuff for the same purposes. Meaning, after HFE (human factors engineering) it's for sales.
People are finished long before they could ever get the gear hooked up, synced with software, and overall ready for actual use.
IMHO this is why we see articles like TFA which intentionally omit the largest section of fraud. Sure, retailers see some credit card fraud but the majority of fraud is wire based fraud, not card in hand at merchants. Smart chips do nothing to prevent wire fraud.
I have not trusted TV since monopolization was allowed and the TV all became the same company with the same owners, stories, and spin. Oh, it took a bit to move that way so that it was not too obvious, but as countless journalists warned it happened. The AP with the same spin is intermixed with slightly different fairy stories to claim "we are different".
Newspapers suffered the same fate, and now primarily have the same owners with the same AP stories and spin. Mixed with some slightly different fairy stories to claim "we are different".
Funny how well this has worked. I had someone argue with me that my facts, with easily searchable backing, is trope and emotionally driven. While their opinion with zero factual basis is better than facts. I wish I was joking.
I have very little faith in humanity today. Maybe I should just start taking the drugs and join Facebook....