I think Kermit has it wrong. If your friend made an honest speculation about a possible outcome and you rejected it out of hand, yes an apology or at least acknowledgement that their guess was right is in order.
But I can make guesses until the cows come home, and crow about that one guess I got right: doesn't mean I know Jack about sh*t…
I think Kermit has it wrong. If your friend made an honest speculation about a possible outcome and you rejected it out of hand, yes an apology or at least acknowledgement that their guess was right is in order.
But I can make guesses until the cows come home, and crow about that one guess I got right: doesn't mean I know Jack about sh*t. Only that I finally through sheer quantity lucked out.
Like playing all the numbers on the roulette at the same time and claiming to "have figured out the system" because one of them came up.
Let me make a predicition: there'll be an earthquake in Japan before year's end. There'll be a tornado in the US blamed on climate change. Electricity crisis in Europe will continue to escalate and blame be more and more focused on Putin as a pretext for an armed response to russian interventionism in it's bordering nations.
All of these /will/ happen, beciause they are vague enough about specific details that they can, semantically, be adapted to fit what actually happens.
Of curse, none of the above is a problem. I'm not a CEO of a harm-aceutical company, nor a politician or bureaucrat. I can predict whatever and it only affects me.
Problem is when it's people like US president Harris and her owners and cronies getting it tits up.
I think Kermit has it wrong. If your friend made an honest speculation about a possible outcome and you rejected it out of hand, yes an apology or at least acknowledgement that their guess was right is in order.
But I can make guesses until the cows come home, and crow about that one guess I got right: doesn't mean I know Jack about sh*t. Only that I finally through sheer quantity lucked out.
Like playing all the numbers on the roulette at the same time and claiming to "have figured out the system" because one of them came up.
Let me make a predicition: there'll be an earthquake in Japan before year's end. There'll be a tornado in the US blamed on climate change. Electricity crisis in Europe will continue to escalate and blame be more and more focused on Putin as a pretext for an armed response to russian interventionism in it's bordering nations.
All of these /will/ happen, beciause they are vague enough about specific details that they can, semantically, be adapted to fit what actually happens.
Of curse, none of the above is a problem. I'm not a CEO of a harm-aceutical company, nor a politician or bureaucrat. I can predict whatever and it only affects me.
Problem is when it's people like US president Harris and her owners and cronies getting it tits up.