I totally agree. There are three small words that a lot of people need to use more often:
“I think that…”
Being able to distinguish between opinions and things that you can prove is right is important for debates. The goal is to reach the best conclusion, and you cannot do that if you base the conclusion on falsehoods.
That makes sense. In distortions for music instruments all of it is signal for instance. It’s just that sometimes you don’t want all of it because you want a specific sound to be produced.
I’m most used to working with digital electronics with a crystal supplying the frequency, so for me anything that is above that frequency is noise.