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It’s a majority (or close to) 40yr old tech autists. I’m not trying to be funny, I’m not trying to be offensive, that’s just a statement of fact.

Which is interesting, because the point of the phrase is to imply something is so commonplace that it practically has no value. It’s so commonplace you can get a dozen of them for a dime!

So technically while the relative value of the dime in this phrase decreases, the relative value of the phrase itself increases as the dime’s value ever further approaches negligible, ever better emphasizing the point!

Words are fun.

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I think he’s just expecting the player piano version of a guitar.

At least they can honestly reply with “I promise I will literally never take you for granite”

It’s vastly more that dog owners have a fetish for self-congratulation and constantly have to sniff their own farts over how special and perfect their “fur babies” are.

Dog cult continues being weird and self-congratulatory

You are welcome to challenge my comments, Flying Squid. I lob zero objections.

You’re right, and I don’t intend to either.

Are the contributions of prior peoples rendered moot simply because their ancestral language is no longer being spoken?

Why is a larger or longer empire inherently a better one? I don’t care about conquests and empires, I care about cultures, peoples, and innovations.

And frankly regarding religion, I don’t think which delusion has the biggest fanbase is a valid indicator of anything more than popularity, tbh (especially when a good number of that “popularity” came at the end of a sword).

All that being said, I have to admit I didn’t expect my off-hand quip in response to the memeification of the Roman Empire was going to get me into a debate with the official Roman Tourism Board, so I do have to admit that I feel a bit unequipped in this conflict.

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Only if you decide to rank accomplishment solely based on footprint.

I’d argue there is vastly more to heritage and history than simply “but how much land did they conquer?”

I believe you are being what RPG circles call a “grognard”

I never think about the Roman Empire; why would I waste my time thinking about second-rate Ancient Greece?

Bingo.

I like being helpful and productive too, but I’m not naive enough to confuse helping my company make profits with actually helping society.

I work because otherwise I would starve and die. That is the sole and only reason I work.

Hank Green already debunked this. It’s not Photoshop but it’s also not just a beard, it’s just an automatically beauty filter (the kind extremely common on almost every tiktok video) literally reshaping his face

I fully agree with all of this and will add that he’s also obviously a nazi or at least nazi-sympathizer as well.

I definitely wasn’t speaking about Elon fucking Musk here because he has never been directly responsible for anything of value in the world, far as I can tell.

But still abstractly my point stands, assuming we’re identifying people with actual contributions to society rather than just the money to buy the contributions of others.

Maybe the better approach is that we as audiences should understand that no real person is a saint and that whether or not it leaves a bad taste in our mouths, otherwise morally reprehensible people can still be responsible for profound achievements and progress.

Somebody else brought up Freud already, who many would call a deeply unethical man and whose conclusions are often debunked or thought better of in the modern era… Yet the impact of Freud, despite these shortcomings, remains basically inarguable.

I think the problem is that in the past 20 or so years we’ve started to read acknowledgement in media as endorsement by media, but those are two very separate things.

Umm… guys, I regret to inform you, but this is the Pedants Club