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> crucial Overstatement.

• forgotmypw17 6y ago
  Your comment reminds me of someone who put olive oil in their car's engine because "it's all oil", and the manual saying it's crucial that it's the right kind of oil is an "overstatement".
  • jjoonathan 6y ago
    Nah, I'm the person who sees the owner's manual calls for 5W-30 oil and puts in 5W-30. You're the guy who notes that the new edition of the owner's manual calls for 10W-30 and tries to convince me that if I don't call a tow truck and swap out the oil before I next turn on the car I'm going to ruin it, despite 150,000 miles to the contrary. You're right that there is new information out there, but lived experience puts a pretty modest upper bound on how crucial it can be. I'm not going to yearn for the good old days of ringworms, tapeworms, and god knows what else. I'll wait until either someone figures out how to put the good parts in a vaccine or a replication scandal proves the whole thing to be BS in the first place. Yeah, there's a tiny chance that in the meantime I'll suffer an autoimmune disorder that I otherwise wouldn't have -- but I won't have parasites or the very real consequences that they bring to the table, and in my book, that's not just a small net win, that's a big net win.
    • forgotmypw17 6y ago
      You turned the analogy around on its head, and it makes no sense. You're the one advocating for the new manual, put out very recently, calling for change of long-established norms.