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Originally Posted by Webster
Pretentious : characterized by pretension: such as
a : making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value or standing) the pretentious fraud who assumes a love of culture that is alien to him— Richard Watts
b : expressive of affected, unwarranted, or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature
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Your hysterical bleating about how I need to fact check my off topic posts because I'm only 99% correct is the definition of pretentious. Let's apply this standard to you:
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fucking templated tumblr blog that doesn't source ANYTHING
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Slate Star Codex is normally a very academic blog, to the point that I unsubscribed because I got tired of reading it. For example, check out his post on
preschool. Looks like you just talk a big game but don't follow through. Newsflash: no one does. It takes too much time. It's OK to be wrong occasionally, even frequently, as long as you update your world view afterwards.
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What would you say if I presented trumpcolluded.im4everwithher.com and showed you a post about some left group that gained evidence by hacking or something?
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I would point out that you were wrong and leave at at that, rather than desperately status signaling about how I am a paragon of truth.