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.

Limitless was fun though.

I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Where did the myth come from?

That’s only true for Elon musk. He maybe even use less.

Ha ha yeah and we only use 10% of our muscles luckily :-D

I mean, it’s true for the people that use that phrase.

Or worse: “it’s all part of God’s plan!” every time something bad happens. “So… God’s a sadist, or what? Cuz his plan is shit.”

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.

I mean, technically it did happen for a reason. Your body hates you.

Also, my sympathies for your condition.

Children starving to death

I usually answer “if you say so”

At least it makes sense when people say “I couldn’t care less.”

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.

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

I think autocorrect got your “compromised”.

Another version of this which I’m currently fond is the saying (in diverse forms) if 9 people at a table let a Nazi sit down with them, there are 10 Nazis at the table.

I think the original quote was something along the lines of, “the customer is always right, in mattera of taste”. Meaning to accommodate the customers wishes, even if it’s ugly or a bad idea or whatever. Like if they want to paint their house pink with green trim, let them

Anyone who feels the need to say this is usually really, really bad at their worst, and just okay-ish at their best. They just need a reason why it’s everyone else’s fault nobody can put up with them.

Both wrong. Survival of the barely adequate.

Yeah, isn’t it like practicing? You’re not very good at something so you practice over and over and over and hopefully when you’re done you do it better… You know different than when you started.

this quote works very well on computers who run instructions pretty consistent.

any larger/ life-level scope and it falls apart from niche cases.

OH! I forgot about that one. I have hated it since I was a kid.

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.

Agree to disagree is for things like “what ice cream flavor is best”, not for things like “2+2=4”.

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.

You don’t get tired of arguments? I see it as a ‘fine, be stupid if you want’ because I’m not spending more time on the point.

Let’s agree to disagree

No, dipshit, you’re just wrong.

Your belief is simply, objectively incorrect.

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.

Boy if this doesn’t describe most people arguing online lol.

which is something that I would be willing to accept.

I’ve found this is much harder than it seems. People either don’t understand they’re wrong (which might be the reason they’re wrong to begin with) or unwilling to admit to being wrong even to themselves. So you’ll have the first part of my quote lol

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.

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

Imo woke means aware

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

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

A while back I was in an internet argument about a bicycle race in which a parked car caused a massive pileup. People were saying in the comments that it was entirely the cyclists’ fault because they were all grouped up, and you never operate a vehicle if you can’t see some arbitrary distance in front of you, and the car was parked! Common sense applies in common situations. In a long distance bike race, there’s an assumption that the road is clear. It’s common in these races to be shoulder to shoulder with absolutely minimal forward visibility.

A similar argument in that Alec Baldwin thing. “The four rules of firearm safety! Don’t point it at anything you don’t want to kill! Keep your finger off the trigger!” This was a movie set. It’s common on movie sets for the firearms to be checked and rechecked and checked again before they make it on set. If you’re at someone else’s house and they hand you a gun to look at, common sense applies–make sure there isn’t a magazine in, make sure there’s nothing in the chamber, and still don’t point it at your buddies. It’s different on a movie set. The common assumption is that the armorer has checked all the guns on set, and that the crew haven’t brought a bunch of live ammo to play with. Of course Baldwin should have checked the gun. And of course the cyclists shouldn’t have been so close together. But in a million other movies on a million other sets, and a million other races on a million other tracks, this was never a problem.

Yeah, this one annoys me no end. Especially as its used when workplace safety is concerned far too often.

I find the best retort to be: “Common sense ain’t all that common.”

Well to a lot of people democratic rule isn’t their primary goal, that’s why they emphasize it.

Well technically, we’re a constitutional monarchy with the King of Canada as our nominal head of state. Gosh. Though I wouldn’t mind opening that discussion.