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Originally Posted by ElDiabloJoe
This is very impressive. Amazing how you are also an expert on so many other topics here, and possess a very strong opinion and wide open outlook on so many topics outside this narrow realm of expertise of HP printers. Yes, very impressive, thank you for sharing.
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Not impressive at all. Some people are just - not narrowminded and myopic. Some people don't exist within the confines of their limited understanding of the world. Some people explore other ideas, some people do actual research just because they enjoy the stimulation, rather than simply running a google search and pasting the top results and calling it "facts." Some people have a liberal arts education, which requires them to learn bits and pieces about all kinds of things. Some people have done more than one thing in their lives, rather than finding a career and never venturing beyond it to learn about how other people live their lives. Some people have had a multitude of jobs in different fields and have become knowledgeable about topics pertaining to those fields. Some people had dads who brought their daughters to work with them on Saturdays and taught them how to operate and repair a folding machine so in addition to all the other random stuff they're good at, they also happen to be experts at operating and repairing folding machines.
Some people have more than one hobby and have cultivated their hobbies over the course of 50+ years, and have become experts at those hobbies as a result. Some people grew up with lots of diversity and were exposed to lots of different ideas and information, skills and cultures, even languages.
Perhaps these concepts might be foreign to other people, who would be impressed by all the above because they were never exposed to it all, or who were, but never learned to care about any of it. But in my world, it's pretty common and not particularly impressive at all.