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It takes being a Marvel superhero to extrapolate from yesterday and today to tomorrow?

• robertlagrant 3y ago
  No, to know what past change would've made today much better.
  • throwanem 3y ago
    I do wish that people who feel the need to dispute what I've said in this thread would more reliably address themselves to things I have said, rather than to claims I've not even approached making.
    • robertlagrant 3y ago
      If you rely on implication to make your point, you should mentally underwrite the risk of being frustrated at people who read what you wrote, rather than read your mind :-)
      • throwanem 3y ago
        Hardly frustrated! Believe it or not, I do change my opinions and perspectives when I find that warranted, but my view of the world is not lazily arrived at, and to see a need to change it requires an argument I find even on reflection I can't answer. HN is one of the most reliable sources of those that I know, and developing a thread in this way is one of the more reliable methods I know to improve my odds of eliciting one. Luckily for me, I have enough of a prickly, disputatious streak in my own nature to appreciate the process quite as much as the result.
        • robertlagrant 3y ago
          Fair enough - same here. To get more explicit then: what did you mean to imply with this? > It's rare I find myself reaching for the adjective "Panglossian".