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[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This guide is worthless. This guide is funny.

This guide is worthless, but it's funny.

The value in this worthless guide is in its comedy.

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

How wise you must be!

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The value in this comedy is in its' worthlessness.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was in a band during the MySpace days. We got a comment one day: "You sock."

Was it a typo? Did they mean suck, or rock? Only one letter away from both and those letters are pretty close on the keyboard. Schrodinger's Judgement if you will.

I still think about that comment from time to time.

[–] Deregon@jlai.lu 3 points 2 years ago

It's like standing in the middle of a bridge, the Levenshtein distance is the same no matter which way you look

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Well perhaps, but it's more nuanced than that," he said, without elaborating.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How do you effectively call this kind of BS out in professional social situations?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just keep digging, direct questions

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 8 points 2 years ago

This works well. Lazy people will try to make others do the intellectual work of their argument. You just have to turn it around on them and ask questions that force them to open the box of whatever nonsense they started with.

Often times they will get tangled up in their own argument, or it will start to expose the contradictions.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It annoys me that this isn't just a funny comic. I know some 60+ year old folks who pretty much only talk like that, thinking they've eaten wisdom with a spoon, purely based on life experience. Except that they're not actually saying anything.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 12 points 2 years ago

I’m currently reading The Conquest of Bread and it talks about how when a revolution occurs and a government falls, the bourgeois upper and middle class will wax poetic about what will happen next, how the vacuum will get filled, etc; while the working class at the bottom will be the ones to actually carry out the work and face the brunt of the change.

This meme is how I imagine those upper class people talking lol. When I read it, I immediately pictured Jordan Peterson fanboys droning on and on about what they think should happen, while actually saying and doing nothing.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Oh, so like most lemmy users.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy is good until it isn't.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

You deserve the more upvotes sir.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I swear someone could post a dog sneezing and there will always be a, “Capitalism is at fault” comment followed by someone trying to introduce Arch Linux.

[–] kelseybcool@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

In the form of a star trek meme.

And I wouldn't have it any other way. ❤️

[–] shadearg@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Low-hanging fruit called.

They enjoy being fondled, please proceed.

[–] diffcalculus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's amazing and scary how many geopolitical, micro/macro economics, and philosophical experts we have here!

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Or every government contract I have ever been on.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's easier to just keep your mouth shut, really.

[–] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For some people, that's verging on impossible.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’m one of those….

Fools, all of us.

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Romanian we have a saying: Dacă tăceai filozof rămâneai. Translated: If you kept your mouth shut, you would still be a philosopher.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

In English we have "It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.”"

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"That's some act, what do you call it?"

"The Social Sciences!"

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Scott Meyer is a very cool guy. Been enjoying his works for over 15 years now.

[–] dukk@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

This advice is so beautiful, it makes me want to jump off a bridge.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Never be afraid of confrontation but also don’t enjoy it.

[–] choss@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tbh, I think this might actually work. People can take it either way and will usually take it the way they want it to sound.