Folks.
Feeling we need a bit of positivity, and this topic has come up a few times.
I.e. do you change your mind.
Let’s share the posters or arguments here that have changed your mind in some way.
I’ll start
@Yuv you’ve changed my mind on a few things regarding Israel, even if it probably didn’t seem like it at the time.
In particular around many Israelis coming from middle eastern countries rather than Europe.
@microbet you’ve helped develop my thinking on open borders.
@grue changed my mind about AI taking my job and I’ve been depressed ever since.
I don’t have a specific example but I do think Rugby has been the best poster here for a couple of years now. He’s consistently willing to engage in good faith and explain his thought process on many issues.
I’m so much more bitter and mean and hopeless than when this site started it’s hard to think of anything good that I have learned. I could probably pick someone defeatist and misanthropic and say I’ve learned from them, or I should probably learn to be forgiving, with @WichitaDM as a great example, but I probably won’t.
Oh. This is a good one.
Watching the AI thread evolve over the last 12 months from
I’m now definitely more leaning that AI is going to deliver rather than solely be a huge bubble
Thank. That’s surprising but nice to hear
I’ve changed my mind on lots of things due to posters
My politics have shifted leftward significantly due to many posters, some of whom are no longer posting here and I used to battle with. With this shift there are tons of individual policies I have changed my mind on including borders, policing, capitalism, regulation, the legal system, the US electoral system, taxation, etc.
I’ve changed my mind on some climate change issues due to discussions of technology with a few posters including rugby.
I’ve come to appreciate some horror films due to several posters.
I was recently convinced to hate Star Wars a little less due to people here.
I changed some crypto investment strategies over the years due to discussions here.
I am sure there are several others I am forgetting.
I’ve come around to the sentiments the NMNM people have expressed, although I don’t always agree with how they voice their opinions.
I doubt anyone remembers me from the 2P2 days, but generally that forum and this one pulled me out of my foray into libertarianism after being raise Christian conservative. I can’t really attribute it to one particular poster, though.
great idea for a thread. i’m gonna have to think about it, bc i’ll definitely be able to come up with a few. for now, LFS is the one that comes to mind immediately. over the years, he’s helped me see sobriety in a way that is comforting instead of a challenge.
maybe that’s not the best way to put it, generally speaking, he’s a role model whose words have helped me a lot.
definitely more to come.
Very happy to read that.
I think this happened more on 2+2 than here, but I no longer hate airplane seat recliners with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
This whole group from 2plus2 to now have positively influenced my political evolution. I started out as a spoiled Republican and have become something much different over the last almost twenty years. I recently mentioned it in the About Moderation thread but microbet in particular had an impact on me early on to get me to evolve my way of thinking.
If you go back to 2p2, where I started as much more apolitical, I have to give a shout-out to LedOut (don’t know him, had to look it up) for starting the “Bernie Sanders is a straight up BOSS” thread.
Every time I wander in to a thread with an opinion in the renewable energy space, I usually leave with an education of why I was wrong.
I stole microbets avatar and got a 200$ stake deal
using gigabet strat
You got max value on that.
almost had a diamond on sharkscope
smp ppl and the Cheating Scandal Sleuths
THe fact that Fulltilpoker was a company in norway hiding as a portugeese fishing copany because of some fishy taxation treaty
I was there when graycat dumped 20k when accused of cheatin at AP at the table.
Yeah I was definitely raised in to be super Republican and wouldn’t say I ever fully bought into that but I think being on the politics board at 2+2 during the times of the Iraq war and the global financial crisis, definitely helped my leftward shift in my mid 20s
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usage of groserybags