Normalize saying “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on”
@Popehat Being able to say "I don't know" is one of the strongest things a person can say. Right up there with "I was wrong."
@Popehat sigh…you’re right. <closes multiple Wikipedia and Reddit tabs>
@Popehat Honestly saying “nobody knows” doesn’t get you a TV segment as a pundit.
@Popehat I don't think it's hard or confusing.
Not expected but revealing false assumptions.
But that won't stop me from thoroughly enjoying sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong. 🫤
@Popehat Way ahead of you. I have been living in a permanent state of utter befuddlement for decades now.
@Popehat Waht, that's been my normal since puberty
Admitting ignorance is always the best place to start learning.
@Popehat well, i didn't spend most of my day on social media not to have opinions, you know! 😆
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Does anybody really know what time it is...
https://youtu.be/9FzCWLOHUes
But but but won't that shake peoples confidence in Congress?
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"I don't know," scares the shit out of most people.
But I say, "I don't know" when I want people to know I'm a baller. The way our culture is changing, people would rather listen to someone who admits their limits than to a bullshitter.
That seems like a healthy change.
@Popehat But Ken if you don’t pretend you know what’s going on then you won’t be invited on TV and start a career as a pundit with a silly bowtie and then become the most prominent white nationalist on the biggest partisan news network until you get fired and then wind up with a dinky online show on Twitter dot com
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@Popehat A+ to this. The unofficial motto of St. Johns College in Annapolis is "In order to know how little you know, you have to know a lot." I know just enough about some of the things going on to be able to shout "I don't know and you don't either, so sit down and let's see what actually happens."
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You say you want a revolution
Well you know
It isn’t going to happen.
@Popehat The hard part is detecting the bluff when other people say they know what is going on.
@Popehat Normalize saying “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on”
That's the most Zen thing I've heard all day.
"Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā" or "gone, gone, everyone gone to the other shore, awakening, svaha" means only when we can say regularly say "I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on” can we really start to understand "what the fuck is going on.”
Either that or the wifi is down.
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@Popehat Also, normalize: "Maybe I shouldn't die trying, because maybe that'll cause pain for people I really love—and, well, is just stupid."
@Popehat but Popehat it's so much more fun to just be a terminally online random person slash influencer bot who posts "analysis" nonstop from the safety of their Cleveland dining room! You too can flood timelines with the federated text equivalent of CNN daytime talking heads with this one easy step
@Popehat sounds accurate to a whole mess of things at this point in history.
@Popehat I still don't know anything about the war on Ukraine, and as I live in Denmark, I turned blind eyes to the news from my country (BR), I mean, “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on” most of the time for any kind of news or sports or politics.
But I'm always aware of everything in my bubbles of interests (gamedev, games, programming, etc).
People have no idea how poisonous to their mental health (and how useless) it is to keep following the news.
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I spent the nineties doing that. Seriously, what idiot put me in charge lol
@Popehat I’ve been saying that every day since “The End of History” ended.
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Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy is spent
Impassioned lovers wrestle as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is grey and yellow-white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion
@Popehat Including the profanity. Especially the profanity. Even in the most professional of business meetings.
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I said it last night about the now-aborted Wagner thing...
When someone says that, my respect for them instantly increases.
@Popehat i say this at work at least once a week
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My apologies. I thought that was normal...
@Popehat Binge watching Judge Alex Mannig cases and never been more true.
@Popehat As in, "I know what happened but I don't know what the fuck is going on."
@Popehat The only thing I know is Prigozhin should stay away from any windows above the first floor.
@Popehat Been a regular refrain around here since time immemorial
@Popehat why do you want 95% of the internet to go away?
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@Popehat it helps when whatever the fuck is going on doesn't make sense anyway
@Popehat I’m agitatedly proud to say that this line is a staple at my office where we build autonomous mobile robots.
@Popehat Said by Putin to his new Chef. Followed by, "You want a new job?"
@Popehat “Powerful taking advantage of less powerful” gets quite good mileage.
Having a beginner’s mind doesn’t mean you have to be a total fool.
@Popehat one of the reasons why I don't comment on a lot of things when I don't really know much about the issue(s).
@Popehat When I was a teacher I got a lot of respect from the kids because I was willing to say "That's a great question and I have no idea, let's find out" rather than trying to claim that my PhD in physics let me know everything.
my mantra at work for 40 years
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I do this at work a lot, I feel like it's better to be honest than lie. I usually tell someone I'll look more into something, and get back to them in a few. Most of the time they understand!
@Popehat the Filmjoy series has a great quip they insert in their video-essays at appropriate points. 7 seconds: https://youtu.be/oo4H-u3UVhY (also a great t-shirt!)
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Ken has absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on.
(Good night, Gracie.)
