I Have Pet Peeves

I think one of my biggest is when people conflate being educated and being intelligent. Or more commonly being ignorant and being stupid. It obviously happens pretty much exclusively online.

But when I say "[i]This[/i] is why you use a Hamiltonian operator for the Schrodinger Equation and as a result..." and your response is "Nope. You're wrong. Look at this youtube video on quantum mechanics that PBS made! It's proof you're wrong!" you're only embarrassing yourself.

I'm not saying I'm smarter than you are. You're not wrong because you're stupid. You're wrong because you're ignorant. You can't fix stupid. But you [i]can[/i] fix ignorance. Read a damn book, son.