I Cast Fist@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhat are some of the stupidest, non-political takes you've seen on the fediverse?message-squaremessage-square222fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1145arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square222fedilinkfile-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-up23·1 year agoEven Nathan Poe would be amazed at the speed that that devolved into nazi comparisons
minus-squaredfyx@lemmy.helios42.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-21 year 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-up9·1 year agoWard Cunningham, creator of Calvin & Hobbes?
minus-squareMayor Poopington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-28 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoNo, that’s the creator of Heathcliff
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoOps, good catch, I mixed them up.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year 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)”