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@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world • 2 years ago

How To Sound Wise

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How To Sound Wise

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@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world • 2 years ago
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    • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      There are two kinds of apologetics arguments. The direct flawed and the same ones but ambiguous. Peterson is the latter.

  • @choss@lemmy.ml
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    This sounds like antimetabole and chiasmus!

  • @dukk@programming.dev
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    5•2 years ago

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

  • @feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    “That’s some act, what do you call it?”

    “The Social Sciences!”

  • @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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    61•2 years ago

    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
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      It’s so bad it’s good

      • @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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        9•2 years ago

        How wise you must be!

    • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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      6•2 years ago

      The value in this comedy is in its’ worthlessness.

  • Ephera
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    21•2 years ago

    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.

    • @Bigoldmustard@lemmy.zip
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      They’re trolling you.

  • @Mango@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    6•2 years ago

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

  • @Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    Never be afraid of confrontation but also don’t enjoy it.

  • @ashok36@lemmy.world
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    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
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      It’s like standing in the middle of a bridge, the Levenshtein distance is the same no matter which way you look

  • @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    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
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    Oh, so like most lemmy users.

    • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      Or every government contract I have ever been on.

    • @diffcalculus@lemmy.world
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      7•2 years ago

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

    • @CluckN@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐
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      Low-hanging fruit called.

      They enjoy being fondled, please proceed.

    • Something Burger 🍔
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      Lemmy is good until it isn’t.

  • FuglyDuck
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    9•2 years ago

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

    • @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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      For some people, that’s verging on impossible.

      • FuglyDuck
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        I’m one of those….

        Fools, all of us.

    • @space@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      In Romanian we have a saying: Dacă tăceai filozof rămâneai. Translated: If you kept your mouth shut, you would still be a philosopher.

      • trashcan
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        In English we have “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.””

  • @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
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    “Well perhaps, but it’s more nuanced than that,” he said, without elaborating.

    • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      How do you effectively call this kind of BS out in professional social situations?

      • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      • @Evotech@lemmy.world
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        Just keep digging, direct questions

        • @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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          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.

  • @Lightrider@lemmynsfw.com
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    1•2 years ago

    Supporting genocidejoe makes me better than you

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