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Me when anyone has (loud and intractable) opinions:

Marcus Aurelius absolved us of the responsibility of needing to have a take. Show him some respect and zip it sometimes. *nods in agreement*

It’s exhausting

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Is this a reminder to self or just in general to all?

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Good advice. Thank you.

You are wise as well as interesting;)

Reminds me of Craig Ferguson's bit about how he's avoided major rows with his wife over the years by asking himself these questions before saying something during an argument/disagreement: Does this need to be said? Does this need to be said BY ME? Does this need to be said by me RIGHT NOW?

I have no opinion about any of this.

What's even worse is that many of the 'famous' people asked for an opinion may never have even finished HS (baseball players in particular can go directly to minors, and sports stars in HS/College have been known not to learn much of anything - see NFL players who never learned to read in the day)

I remember a controversial end of life case, where the talking heads at FAUX news, said they couldn't even imagine how the doctors knew the patient was brain dead. So FAUX news thought, the doctors should go with the decision that the ignorant agreed with.

Even if you've written a response you can still just delete it Let it go and it won't take any more of your time or energy.

An opinion about opinions (that is spot on)

gosh, i really needed this reminder, thank you

All my heroes have questioned everything, learned about anything, and were passionate about the universe in ways that made me feel small for not caring as much.

But what if I consider myself the World’s Expert on F***ing Everything (WEFE for short)?

Oh we gave the right to remain silent, unfortunately not all of us have the ability.

Ha, this is beyond an evergreen quote: an evergreen daily quote. Or maybe it should appear at random every time you open a social app?

It helps me to stop after I’ve typed up a big long response or post about a subject to ask myself “can I defend this position? Do I know enough to answer follow ups, good or bad faith? Will my lack of depth on this subject hurt the perception of my position? Does this need to be read by everyone?”

Not sure what this is about but I hate your whole list and I don’t care who knows it.

And while taking a break you could do worse than read some John Scalzi 🤪

2 is especially interesting to me because it feels like people really have lost the art of just sitting with their thoughts and feelings and letting them marinate without the need of outside commentary.

Yes, sorry, table of contents. Usually I skip them so fast I don't really register what they call it.

THIS. Yes.

its your kitchen table. all yours.

Social media feels like talking to someone right next to you in a casual conversation, even when you are in fact arguing with a stranger halfway across the world, where everyone can overhear. Maybe it’s just me but I suspect the human brain isn’t wired for this social proximity dissonance.

We're in an argument of attrition.

It's OK to look at a post and realize, "this isn't about me. I have nothing to contribute to this conversation. I'm not the intended audience." Not everything is about you. It's OK to just scroll on. I've had to lock my comments BECAUSE I have too many followers who are incapable of scrolling on.

I have been gifted with these opinions and I want to share my gifts

But… It’s fun to call it the MNBA when people are bitching about pencil neck Kushner buying some sportsball team. I don’t fallow baseball, but…