• parip@lemmy.cif.su
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    2 days ago

    I’ve noticed a lot of people who give advice online can’t think for themselves and therefore cannot tolerate anyone doing anything differently from them.

    Once I recognized that such an idiot exists and is prevalent on online forums, it became very easy to write them off whenever I see them.

    The average internet user is about as smart as the average person these days. We need to dig in order to find intelligence; it’s not the norm.

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      2 days ago

      people who give advice online cannot tolerate anyone doing anything differently from them

      Realising this is the key to understand that if you even try to do things differently, you will face people who need to tell you that you are wrong. But you should keep doing what you are doing exactly because you are doing it differently.