Yup. I’ve done it before myself. When I do, it’s humiliating, and I grovel.
@Sam_Stone, in a thread about Musk a week or so ago, made an egregious error. Defending Musk against snark about his apparent ignorance of electric rockets, Sam cited a “follow-up” Tweet to Musk’s “LOL No [electric rockets]” post in which he explained his thinking.
The problem was the that “follow-up” Tweet was from several years earlier.
Sam did admit that he was wrong–but had the chutzpah to claim that his case was made stronger. And then he doubled down to claim that Musk was strictly accurate.
When I cited NASA to show he was wrong, the silence was predictable.
@Sam_Stone is a profoundly lazy thinker, and blames the disagreements on the laziness of others instead of engaging in some real introspection about why he keeps making so many mistakes.