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My solution was to give up. I was stressing too much over it and it drives me insane people are so stubborn without any data to back their claims. If provided

My solution was to give up. I was stressing too much over it and it drives me insane people are so stubborn without any data to back their claims. If provided data they just wave it aside with a random argument and move immediately on to another topic within the subject criticizing something else, so you have to keep extremely sharp in all topics or they just swing from side to side until they find a topic you have no information about and start making shit up, since you don't want to reach conclusions without data they win there as they just create stuff out of thin air. It's crazy, looks like debate club where the other party never gives up or surrender no matter what happens. They won, I just do my best to educate the my small ones into critical thinking, save as much money as I can to have some fat for the next shit that comes up and hope for the best. Basically If people are so stupid to behave like that, it's not my problem anymore, my plan is to have enough to take care of my family.

yetihehe 7y ago
There are two sayings which sum up this situation rather well. > Arguing with stupid is like wrestling with pig in mud. After some time you see that pig seems to like it. > Arguing with stupid is like playing chess with a pigeon. It will topple figures, shit in board and be proud of winning. The problem is when their stupidity affects your life.
- cfontes 7y ago
  The pig one is very nice, I like this one “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Attributed to Mark Twain
  - igetspam 7y ago
    Unless you know pigs. I can assure you they don't actually like it. They prefer clean water but go with mud because it's usually available. Wrestling with them in anything makes them unhappy (they're prey animals and it's instinctual). The only way to get a pig to do something like that and MAYBE be OK with it is food. I usually fill a kiddie pool with fresh water and Cheerios, to bathe them. The trick it to bathe them faster than they can gobble the Cheerios. And today you learned something. You're welcome. Hopefully that was a good momentary distraction and you didn't have to thing about all the idiots who think covid isn't really all that bad for a couple seconds. :)
    - cfontes 7y ago
      That is cool! Thanks for the info, this is why HN is awesome. COVID topic, and all of a sudden you learn every children book is wrong!
      - yetihehe 7y ago
        Yeah, like with mice loving cheese. They will even eat cardboard and cables, but prefer grain and bread.
- madaxe_again 7y ago
  Also: “when you argue with an idiot, nobody can tell who is the idiot”.

yetihehe 7y ago

There are two sayings which sum up this situation rather well. > Arguing with stupid is like wrestling with pig in mud. After some time you see that pig seems to like it. > Arguing with stupid is like playing chess with a pigeon. It will topple figures, shit in board and be proud of winning. The problem is when their stupidity affects your life.

cfontes 7y ago
The pig one is very nice, I like this one “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” Attributed to Mark Twain
- igetspam 7y ago
  Unless you know pigs. I can assure you they don't actually like it. They prefer clean water but go with mud because it's usually available. Wrestling with them in anything makes them unhappy (they're prey animals and it's instinctual). The only way to get a pig to do something like that and MAYBE be OK with it is food. I usually fill a kiddie pool with fresh water and Cheerios, to bathe them. The trick it to bathe them faster than they can gobble the Cheerios. And today you learned something. You're welcome. Hopefully that was a good momentary distraction and you didn't have to thing about all the idiots who think covid isn't really all that bad for a couple seconds. :)
  - cfontes 7y ago
    That is cool! Thanks for the info, this is why HN is awesome. COVID topic, and all of a sudden you learn every children book is wrong!
    - yetihehe 7y ago
      Yeah, like with mice loving cheese. They will even eat cardboard and cables, but prefer grain and bread.
madaxe_again 7y ago
Also: “when you argue with an idiot, nobody can tell who is the idiot”.