Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
“We only use ten percent of our brains.”
People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.
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.
I think that one is finally starting to die off, aside from the last gasps of a man in prison. It takes a while for real science to filter through to common knowledge, and I’m constantly seeing the corrections about wolves and alpha status as flawed thinking.
I think it also got tied into the incel movement and became a toxic phrase. Even if you didn’t know the actual science, would you want to call yourself an “alpha male” if it made people think you were an incel?
I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
A profound twist on a worn out wrong fact.
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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.
Piling on, he totally misses the arguments and ideas being put forward by the interviewer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9Xv7pHG_4
Piling on
Okay well this is just trying to be funny. Did giggle a bit on the first one
The last one is perfection. We have !fuckcars@lemmy.world, maybe we can get a !fuck_sports somewhere?
That’s only true for Elon musk. He maybe even use less.
He uses more than 10%, but not of brain.
I mean, it’s true for the people that use that phrase.
Often times, yes!
Ha ha yeah and we only use 10% of our muscles luckily :-D
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
“I could care less”.
Oh really? How much less?
At least it makes sense when people say “I couldn’t care less.”
“I tried to, I really did. But I just could not care less. I’d hit the bottom of the barrel.”
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’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.
It can be interpreted as sarcasm, as in “tell me more, I could care even less.”
“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’re goddamn right.
One bad spelling spoiled the whole comment
The entire group is comprised of compromised compadres.
“Customer is always right” isn’t a trump card for customers to win disputes with the staff. When it comes to matters of preference, yes, the customer is always right. Ketchup on ice cream? Great. Down jacket and shorts? Sure thing! If it makes you happy and you’re paying for it then you’re always right.
In most other matters though, customers are usually wrong. The idea that random people off the street know more about the products and the way a business should be run than the actual people selling said products and running said business is absolutely ridiculous.
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
I think it’s even broader than that.
If customers want green socks, sell green socks.
It would be have been better said as demand is always right (not supply).
“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.
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.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
That is not the definition of insanity
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.
You know different than when you started.
Try again
Try again
Are you expecting a different result?
this quote works very well on computers who run instructions pretty consistent.
any larger/ life-level scope and it falls apart from niche cases.
Any software engineer you care to ask will tell you about situations in which doing the same thing has led to vastly different results.
*on deterministic computers.
Technically, even then doing the same can lead to different results, if nondeterministic events play a role and the different aspects of the software or system may contain bugs. For example mutlithreaded applications where the scheduler can passively influence the outcome of an operation. In one run it fails, in another it doesn’t. A nightmare to debug.
yes, thanks for the add!
OH! I forgot about that one. I have hated it since I was a kid.
“Survival of the fittest” when used to indicate the stongest should survive. Instead of the one best suited for (fitting) the situation.
Both wrong. Survival of the barely adequate.
We are all minimal viable products on this blessed day
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
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.
No, it’s not about caring or not about the consequences.
The ideea is to do something, anything with full commitment, do it as you know you’re going to be successful. This way you give 100% and you have the best chances to succeed.
If you just try something then from the start your mentally taking in consideration the possibility of failure and you’re preparing for that scenario and searching for the signs of it, which means you’re not 100% invested in the success of the task itself so the chances of success are smaller.
Yep but what about “only sith deals in absolutes”?
I think you’re referring to generalisations in the sense of cognitive distortions, but this is not the case. The saying merely calls for one to be completely dedicated to whatever task he undertakes in order to maximize his chances of success. Having doubts and starting to hatch a plan B actually takes resources (mental or emotional) from realisation of the actual task.
When you say: I’ll try to … you’re actually stating your doubts about you capability to successfully do whatever task from the beginning. So you’ve already defined what failure is and what to do in that case. But you haven’t even begin the task and the journey that comes with the realisation of it. You haven’t even reach the first difficulties, the first hurdles.
I hope you know that The Sith is a fictional construct :)
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.
My baby was too woke last night and kept me up.
Baby is woke AF, just Channel that energy to fight the right fights.
Imo woke means aware
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!
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.
“You haven’t heard of lgbtbbqx+? I have because I’m aware!”
I like this Little Joel video about how conservatives use “woke”
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“actually we’re a republic” when someone defends democracy
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.
…constitutional monarchy with the *rightful heir of Emperor Joshua Norton as our nominal head of state.
Fixed that for you, prepared to go to war over it
“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.
Agree to disagree is for things like “what ice cream flavor is best”, not for things like “2+2=4”.
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that.
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I have found that the issue is often that people tend to not realize they’re arguing that 2+2=6, they think they’re arguing what ice cream flavor is the best
This is exactly the sort of argument that I was thinking of when I wrote the comment. We can agree to disagree on the best ice cream flavor, because everyone has different tastes. We cannot agree to disagree on whether the earth is flat, because it’s not and we have overwhelming proof that it isn’t.
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.
Sara?
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.
Yeah, but if I mean that, I say that.
I don’t want to sound mean. It’s just a nicety.
OK let’s agree to disagree. 😉
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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
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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
If I just rolled a 6 I’m not going to expect the same result if I roll the die again.
I would argue that you didn’t roll the die the exact same way…
Of course there could be other things other than your movements like wind that also affects the outcome.
Right, so even if I’m doing the same thing I’m not doing it in the exact same way, so the result may be different.
“not all heroes wear capes”
Only the dead ones.
NO CAPES!
— Edna Mode
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”.
Yeah, that’s just common sense, really.
“Common sense is just the set of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.”
~Albert Einstein
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.”
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.
