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      Who said I wasn’t also doing that? It’s not mutually exclusive, just a quick way to get a read on people’s sentiment towards them and to try to figure out why people shut down discussion about them so consistently

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        Because the truth is easier to find in person rather than through many other people’s filters, and the way you wrote it, it seemed like you thought that was a very stupid suggestion… Glad to hear you think it isn’t

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          I thought it was a stupid assumption on their part that I wasn’t also poking around myself

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          Yes that’s why science progresses the fastest when nobody’s collaborating and everybody starts from scratch

          … Wait

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              Sounds like you expect a bar to never kick out annoying people because then the other customers didn’t get a chance to form their own opinion

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                No? Because a bar isn’t a good metaphor and people can be shitty and it’s really easy to see for yourself on the Internet

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                  Why not? It’s easy to see for yourself in the bar too. You can just not listen, right?

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                    ??? Okay so then they are forming their own opinions…? Which is why it’s a shitty metaphor. I don’t get why you’re using a stupid ass metaphor anyway not I’m going to pretend this stupid ass conversation isn’t happening anymore