Dude, you’re the one trying to paint Einstein as some sort of authority on the subject. He’s the same guy who urged the US to begin work on the Nuclear Bomb, which we both know the results of.
He was a smart man and a great scientist, but a great judge of moral character he was not.
I’m not ‘shitting on Einstein’, I’m simply saying he’s not some sort of political or economic expert. If he were, he’d be famous for those as well as for being a pre-eminent physicist.
Giving weight to someone’s opinion on one topic just because they’re an expert on a different topic is highly inadvisable.
Now that’s a classic.
Holy fucking shit, it’s been years since I’ve even heard about ‘pokes’!
So…yeah, a naked appeal to authority. Einstein was nigh-unmatchable in his field, but that doesn’t mean his intelligence was applicable to every other field. In fact, one of the worst things you can do is consider an expert in one field an automatic ‘authority’ in others.
I’ve seen my fair share of tankies on this platform, it’s a very real problem.
If the copyright holder no longer provides a legal way to acquire any piece of media directly from them, making it so that the only way to acquire it legally is in a manner that prevents the copyright holder from seeing any profit, and the legal option is essentially a grift where you’re sometimes paying 100x the sticker value for something where the copyright holder won’t see a single cent…
Even crazier is the belief that women would start craving horses as lovers if they kept riding horesback. Like…wut
This species has presumably mastered FTL interstellar travel. They’d have solved nukes too.
Good to know!
D’you think they’d take this guy back?
The reason I’m not giving examples is because I’m simply here to say that your example was garbage.