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  • And very much the opposite of how many good things came to be - for example, inventors typically invent things with many failures first. Not 100% sure this is Thomas Edison but a quote attributed to him goes "I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps."

  • The reasoning is solid, sure, but why is it derived from Greek instead of the Roman name Caelus?

  • TRUMP: First of all, you — I know the people in Chicago. I know the police, because I built the building there. I spent a lot of time — the building, it was a — it’s a great building, a really great building.

    How are serious people, seriously voting for this guy again?

  • Tbf, you're pointing out the vowels which make the sounds needed to pronounce the acronym as a word. But I get it, either way, we're pronouncing the word as a standalone word.

  • I bust out laughing when I got to here:

  • Isn't "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow." more relevant? What's all the extra bit anyway, even before the "z" debacle?

  • Many intelligences are saying it! I'm just telling it like it is.

  • That one looks smug

  • If something's rate of hype is too fast for my internal meter, I will become immediately skeptical of the trend/show/etc. and not care about it, solely because everyone is caring about it too much and too fast.

  • Wait are you being literal right now? Like, actually??

  • Out of the two, does one look at caviar and truly think "eggs" first? Before eggs ?

  • I appreciate this alternative interpretation. Many of the responses here are helping to show the many lenses that can be looked through at the same phrases!

  • But why do the numbers you can see on Lemmy matter?

  • Trust until proven untrustworthy is a weird mantra they expect you to live by.

  • You bring an interesting point! So there's a Japanese phrase this reminds me of: Shouganai (しょうがない) which translates to "It can't be helped". For me, this hits differently than "It is what it is". Perhaps it's the context, as I know it's said about natural disasters like tsunamis and therefore has a connotation of the "getting on with fixing it" like you said.

  • Oh this one gets me too.. Why not tell me why to trust you? Then I can decide for myself if I should.

  • An entirely hollow statement, yet somehow ringing with apathy.