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.

JokeDeity,

No one wants to work anymore.

MaxHardwood,

I sure as fuck don’t

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.

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.

baggachipz,
@baggachipz@kbin.social avatar

"Everything happens for a reason"

The cancer disagrees.

dreadgoat,
@dreadgoat@kbin.social avatar

I actually love this one, because it's technically correct but not in the way people who use it mean, so you can turn it around easily.

Yes, you did get cancer for a reason. Because you insisted on maintaining your suntan every winter. Or perhaps merely because you pissed off the wrong banana.

baggachipz,
@baggachipz@kbin.social avatar

In my case, it was through no action of my own and merely bad luck. So the only "reason" would be bad luck or a shitty all-powerful deity.

dreadgoat,
@dreadgoat@kbin.social avatar

That's the malicious banana. Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean it's reasonable

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.

Anticorp,

“I could care less”.

Oh really? How much less?

Noel_Skum,

I thought that was the joke: I could care less… but I can’t even be bothered to care any less because I care so little.

Anticorp,

It’s just people saying it wrong, like “bone apple tea” instead of " bon appetit". It’s supposed to be “I couldn’t care less”. But I mean come on, these are the same people who searched for “Michael Jackson Billy’s Jeans” so often on YouTube that it became a recommended search term. Lol.

MMbhJkpW3a3i,

It can be interpreted as sarcasm, as in “tell me more, I could care even less.”

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.

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.

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.

Fogle,

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. And as far as I can tell Einstein never said it but it’s always attributed to Einstein

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

If I just rolled a 6 I’m not going to expect the same result if I roll the die again.

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,
@MimicJar@lemmy.world avatar

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.

handsatinizer,

“not all heroes wear capes”

HooPhuckenKarez,

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Especially when used by people claiming to have done just that.

Xariphon,

Especially when you consider that it was coined to refer to literally impossible action. It's not meant to be about self-reliance or whatever, it's something that cannot be done.

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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