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The problem is that the OP, by "just asking questions", is engaging in an enormous time imbalance. It's a standard tactic of skeptics. Ask a simple question. T
by GlenTheMachine 4y ago
The problem is that the OP, by "just asking questions", is engaging in an enormous time imbalance.
It's a standard tactic of skeptics. Ask a simple question. Takes only a minute or two. But the answer turns out to not be so simple, and requires much time in composing an answer. And of course the answer also invokes concepts, terms, models, research, etc that themselves are not simple, and so the questioner asks another round of "simple questions", which take significant time to answer. After a few rounds of this the answerers are exhausted and the questioner proclaims victory in the sense that he/she still has questions, and the answerers "can't" answer them, typically because they have jobs, kids, significant others, and in general a life outside answering skeptic questions.
There is a tremendous amount of literature on this in both the popular press and scientific journals. You can google those as easily as we can, and if you were serious about finding the honest answers to your questions that's where you would start.
- ncmncm 4y agoRight, "just asking a simple question" where the answer is easily found is called trolling.
- jasec57322 4y ago
- jasec57322 4y agoHave you given consideration to what you have written? You slyly abuse the English language by referring to me as a skeptic, yet then you proceed to brandish me as malicious. If the answers are '[so easily googled]', why haven't you provided any reference, or better still answered the questions posed?; (instead making yourself a considerable effort to publicly slander me as a timewaster, whilst my posts are censored).
- ncmncm 4y agoGoogle "climate change". Google "green energy". Google "decarbonization". Read up on them at Wikipedia. In the time you wasted typing up complaints, you could have become informed. Wasting your own time is foolish. Wasting others' time is an offense.
- jasec57322 4y agoOffense is taken, not given. If you take offense to questioning the problem is yours and yours only. Why is it the replies to my questions do not answer the questions, instead saying 'google it'. How can google answer what is mean in that context, in that article? I have asked here on hackernews, and I have still not gotten an answer - only piffle: nobody has forced you to engage here, so don't spout nonsense such as time-wasting; I have asked you a question, not subject you to an interrogation at quantanamo.
- ncmncm 4y ago> nobody has forced you to engage here Bingo