#I have one particular anon who sends a lot of...weirdly backhanded messages like this

[marzipanandminutiae]

I am also pretty sure it means "credit scores" and I agree, some people are stupid enough to think it means "all forms of credit". You are really preoccupied with misinformation on the internet though. It's... kind of a losing battle. You might be happier if you just let idiots be idiots and stop trying to be Snopes yourself.

I mean, here's the thing:

I work in museum interpretation/education, so this is literally my job offline. And it's the sort of job people get into for reasons like Feeling Strongly About It, since the pay is laughable and the public appreciation minimal.

It may be a losing battle, but I've had multiple people tell me that they appreciate the fact-checking and that it's helped them learn to dig further into historical information they see online before believing it. Which is a massive incentive for me to keep doing it.

I don't think it's stupid to take the tweet at face value. The person said "credit started in 1989," and so many institutions associated with American capitalism ARE relatively recent. It's unfortunately a somewhat plausible statement. I think the Twitter OP was being rather unreasonable to (as I've heard) come back with "HOW could you NOT KNOW I meant CREDIT SCORES?!" or similar.

If they meant "credit scores," they could take five seconds to type the extra word, or not get pissy when they were misconstrued. The fault rests squarely with them, to my mind, not with the people who took them at their word.

#ask #anon #I have one particular anon who sends a lot of...weirdly backhanded messages like this #wonder if it's the same person #and if so why they're still following me