Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
No it doesn’t. At most the world no longer has depth perception.
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.
do or do not, there is no try
Fuck you. That was meant for a Jedi master not your fucking IT systems admin
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.
“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.
That’s not actually true (according to Wikipedia and a few other sources, at least). The ‘blood is thicker than water’ saying has been around for centuries in various forms with the current meaning, and the covenant/womb variation is relatively recent, and mostly stems from a few books that claim that it’s the ‘real meaning’ without sources or proof.
Thank you so much for saying this! One time there was a Twitter thread that started with someone asking, “What are some things that people believe/accept without having liked into it further.” Someone responded with this “the original phrase is… covenant…womb” and the OP replied with someone like, “yeah people are such sheep”. I wanted to explode.
But to back your point, you can go and read for yourself the very first instance of this phrase in context as the very old book it comes from has been digitally scanned. It’s old enough to be in middle English, but I still thought it was fairly easy to make out the original phrase as we know it today.
“Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
An individual, uneducated observer might not be able to tell them apart, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a distinction.
One of the avengers movies dropped that line, and I feel like it’s spread like wild fire since then, and it’s just objectively not correct.
I understand much of the technology we use today isn’t magic, but it may as well be with how much I understand about how it works.
I don’t think you quite grasp what Arthur C Clarke was going for with this one.
I get what he was going for, I just think it was poorly executed.
“We only use ten percent of our brains.”
People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.
Where did the myth come from?
It came from early on in studying the brain. A scientist said that we only understand what 10 percent of the brain does, and everyone ran with a misunderstanding of that idea.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains here. https://youtube.com/shorts/E4EjYfUBEvw?si=LO3GIURgZesHjo85
Sidenote, why does everyone hate Neil these days?
He thinks he’s so smart about everything and there’s always this condescending tone.
Like no shit Neil?
Oh god I forgot about that one lol.
That and the “Alpha Male” garbage. Even the author of the study on wolves has said repeatedly that his study was totally wrong. And yet some people continue to reference it and apply it to humans when even the original study wasn’t about people.
People love excuses for bad behavior, no need to verify them. Sigh.
Limitless was fun though.
Ooh! Isn’t that the one where the guy becomes limitless?
I liked the part where he said “It’s limitless time” and totally limited those other guys
Deunlimited them since some were also on the limitless vibe
“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.
To be fair: The people messing up their bio rhythms doing night shift after night shift might not necessarily be considered ‘healthy’.
Fair point
You realize that “important” is a different word not appearing in the set of “healthy, wealthy, and wise” right?
“Literally 1984”… unless I’m asking you what year the Macintosh 128k came out I don’t wanna hear it.
Anything described as “just common sense.” No, it’s knowledge/awareness that you picked up from your particular environment. Not everyone has had the same exposure as you.
I’ve found that “common sense” just means “things that I believe, but I can’t explain why”.
“Common sense is just the set of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.”
~Albert Einstein
I find the best retort to be: “Common sense ain’t all that common.”
“They’re just one bad apple” in reference to (more often than not) shitty cops, but also for most malcontents in a position of public trust. This a misappropriation of the aphorism “one bad apple spoils the bunch” which is literally saying that if there’s one bad actor in a group, the entire group is comprised.
I think autocorrect got your “compromised”.
“You must be funny at parties”
Specially if you’re not around, bitch
“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.
Wait what do you think the cloud is then? A bunch of computers owned by no one?
Do u think it’s actually being stored in water vapor in the sky
It’s reductive but not untrue.
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.
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.
… and a lot of horse shit.
Checks out with economics results
“if you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best”.
You’re basically excusing bad behavior. And never taking accountability. People are wrong. Mostly when they are so blindly following some perception of greatness rather than caring for those around you.
“Agree to disagree.” No, dipshit, you’re just wrong.
I do not agree to disagree, because we’re not arguing about opinions. Your belief is simply, objectively incorrect. Or mine is, which is something that I would be willing to accept. If I were wrong, you’d be able to convince me that I’m wrong. We can keep going until one of us accepts that we didn’t have an accurate understanding of reality.
It’s always the dipshits that fall back on “Well, we will have to agree to disagree,” usually right after they’ve been presented with enough evidence to change the mind of a rational person. Fuck that, I do not agree to disagree.
If I were wrong, you’d be able to convince me that I’m wrong. We can keep going until one of us accepts that we didn’t have an accurate understanding of reality.
I had an ex like you.
