I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years agoWhat are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?message-squaremessage-square225fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1146arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square225fedilinkfile-text
No need to name names or sources. Mine has to be some dude that insisted that advertising is a “30,000 year old technology”
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·2 years agoEven Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons
minus-squaredfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-22 years agoI think you mean Mike Godwin. Poe’s Law is about satire being hard to distinguish actual extremist views. Edit: I really wanted to add a joke about Ward Cunningham but couldn’t find a good way to phrase it.
minus-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoWard Cunningham, creator of Calvin & Hobbes?
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoNo, that’s the creator of Heathcliff
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoOps, good catch, I mixed them up.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years agoHmm. “And there you go. As always, posting the wrong information gets you the real stuff (which, to be clear, is Ward Cunningham’s law)”
Even Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons
I think you mean Mike Godwin. Poe’s Law is about satire being hard to distinguish actual extremist views.
Edit: I really wanted to add a joke about Ward Cunningham but couldn’t find a good way to phrase it.
Ward Cunningham, creator of Calvin & Hobbes?
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No, that’s the creator of Heathcliff
Ops, good catch, I mixed them up.
Hmm.
“And there you go. As always, posting the wrong information gets you the real stuff (which, to be clear, is Ward Cunningham’s law)”