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 “It's not so much that I get annoyed by people not knowing things. There's a million things I don't know. What I do find mildly frustrating is when people are so confidentially sure of a position that they have almost zero knowledge in.”

Aptly said. I sometimes struggle with my own internally held positions and wonder how anyone can be so god damned sure of themselves when it’s clear they haven’t really put in the work to understand the nuances of a concept