Reading through that first thread made me realize that my first admission had to be that my patience and tolerance has sunk.. GREATLY. Partly, its reading and seeing the same arguments over and over. Partly, it does seem that fewer and fewer people, not just here, but in general, even care about or understand evidence (of any type.. not just talking science, here). Partly, it seems that fewer and fewer folks who are not ardent conservatives persist (some, for sure, but fewer than when I first came, fewer now than when the whole BES/Fireside and then Dancing Mustard [et al] bits hit. [almost left then] Mostly, it has to do with stuff utterly irrelevant to CC. But, I cannot change anyone else, I am not in control of anyone else.. only myself.
So, in general, I have become the intolerant, beligerant poster I fought against for a long time. I am not going to change my ideas, but I will try to be less beligerent.
Regarding specifics: I cannot possibly remember, never mind list all my errors, but here are some big, recent ones:
Claiming I paid more than [] in social security a year. I misstated, meant to say I had paid more overall, having paid more years. Explained more fully , apologized, in the pertinent thread.
Woodruff -- I cannot even remember what the issue or reason was, but I wound up accusing him of saying pretty much the opposite of what he said. I admitted and posted a clarification in the pertinent thread (one of the oil spill ones, I believe).
Same thing with several other people. I need to take more time to read, answer fewer threads and think more when I do.
Oh, yes.. and I really do have to pay more attention to quotes
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