EsteemedRectangle,

This “Do you listen to Weezer?” stuff is getting pretty old

DirigibleProtein,

“This is the way”

son_named_bort,

“This hurts me more than it hurts you”

No, I’m pretty sure being spanked hurts more than doing the spanking.

MimicJar,

Being spanked is physical harm, vs doing the spanking is emotional harm. The argument is that emotional is more harmful than physical.

Of course this ignores that being spanked very likely also inflicts emotional harm. It also ignores that emotional harm isn’t a scale.

SinkingLotus,
@SinkingLotus@lemmy.world avatar

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.

No it doesn’t. At most the world no longer has depth perception.

Obi,
@Obi@sopuli.xyz avatar

Isn’t the idea that you’ll keep taking more eyes until there are none left? No mentions that it’s limited to one eye per person.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”

You do realise that people who are awake during the night are of equal importance, who’s gonna run those power plants and radio stations and petrol service stations and police forces and whatever else? If they shut off during the night, there’d be chaos. At least a chaos that most folks won’t see because they’re asleep or something.

intensely_human,

You realize that “important” is a different word not appearing in the set of “healthy, wealthy, and wise” right?

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I’m probably guessing that SOME night people are healthy, wealthy and wise. Huge emphasis on the word “some”.

glnpf148, (edited )

To be fair: The people messing up their bio rhythms doing night shift after night shift might not necessarily be considered ‘healthy’.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Fair point

ManosTheHandsOfFate,
@ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world avatar

I suspect that this one comes from a time when society was much more agrarian.

Resol,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Oh.

pizzazz,

“Galileo too was ostracized for his beliefs, but he was right”

Yeah but he did science, not that new age bullshit you think are an expert in.

CoggyMcFee,

They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

—Carl Sagan

ForgotAboutDre,

Columbus thought the world was pear shaped. Meaning it was viable to get to India by going west. If the Americas didn’t exist he would have died.

It was well known at the time that the world was round. The ancient Greeks had a very good calculation if the circumference of the earth.

JokeDeity,

No one wants to work anymore.

MaxHardwood,

I sure as fuck don’t

calypsopub,

“Settled science.” Used by people who don’t understand that science at its heart is constantly questioning everything.

Hylactor, (edited )

We’re taught that intelligence is performative. So most people think intelligence is answer driven, clever people know that it’s question driven. But a gameshow where contestants ask the right questions might not do as well as Jeopardy.

Edit: my dumb ass picks the gameshow where you famously have to literally ask the right questions as an example.

9up999,

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  • ManosTheHandsOfFate,
    @ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world avatar

    Ah yes, the famous quote “nazi.”

    skozzii,

    Whenever “woke” is brought up.

    Please give me your definition of woke, because so far it’s been different for everyone I’ve talked to.

    starman2112,
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    I like this Little Joel video about how conservatives use “woke”

    sparky678348,

    Imo woke means aware

    13esq,

    That’s what it should mean, but it usually implies political awareness specifically and has been hijacked by several minority groups and their allies to imply that they are wholly in support of whatever the latest minority issue is.

    You haven’t heard of lgbtbbqx+? I have because I’m woke!

    sparky678348,

    “You haven’t heard of lgbtbbqx+? I have because I’m aware!”

    Duamerthrax,

    It was originally used by African American groups to describe white allies at the beginning of the last century.

    It’s evolved to describe any out group that’s aware of an in group’s problems.

    It’s been contorted be this decade’s scare word that conservative media uses.

    optissima,

    My baby was too woke last night and kept me up.

    No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston,

    Baby is woke AF, just Channel that energy to fight the right fights.

    PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

    “Blood is thicker than water” a misquote of “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” which has the exact opposite meaning.

    thelastknowngod,

    “The cloud is just someone else’s computers.”

    If that’s what you really think the cloud is, still, then you are a dinosaur who is not evolving with the times.

    optissima,

    Wait what do you think the cloud is then? A bunch of computers owned by no one?

    menturi,

    I usually think of it this way, though I use the term server and acknowledge there are often many servers involved. Is this incorrect, or is there a better way to think about it?

    ManosTheHandsOfFate,
    @ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s reductive but not untrue.

    starman2112,
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Do u think it’s actually being stored in water vapor in the sky

    thisbenzingring,

    do or do not, there is no try

    Fuck you. That was meant for a Jedi master not your fucking IT systems admin

    hemko,

    I think you’re misunderstanding it. Do what you do, you’re going to break something anyways just don’t half-ass it. Just like there’s a graveyard behind every doctor, there’s a pile of mistakes behind every sysadmin.

    lucullus,

    Occam’s razor, because it seem it is often used wrong by using it for just shutting down possible explanations. Typically noone mentions, that this is about guessing probabilities without prior knowledge and not a way to completely ignore an explanation.

    Wonder_Wandering,

    People just use it as “this makes sense to me, therefore it’s probably right”

    lucullus,

    In fictional media I’ve mostly seen this the other way round. Like "I don’t want to believe this expanation, so it should not be considered "

    leaky_shower_thought,

    That trickle-down economics quote. There’s studies about it [not working] published but it’s just studies.

    The original quote is “If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows” from Galbraith.

    I imagine people are not yet ready to learn this “promise” ain’t holding water.

    CileTheSane,
    @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

    The original quote is “If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows” from Galbraith.

    If my goal is to feed sparrows that’s a very costly and inefficient method. I also end up with an overweight horse.

    OutlierBlue,

    … and a lot of horse shit.

    trolololol,

    Checks out with economics results

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