Intellectuals Are Cracking Up At These 50 Memes That Were Created Specially For Them
Interview With ExpertAfter almost 30 years (counting from the viral dancing baby) of people living, thinking, breathing, and speaking in memes, experts and even Internet users themselves are starting to see the effect it has on us. It turns out that meme culture is rotting our brains. At least that’s what kids these days are calling it. ‘Brain rot’ is the result of over-relying on memes and information on the Internet, to the point where we can’t think about anything else than memes or cultural phenomena and constantly reference them in our day-to-day conversations. This makes us less inclined to be creative and solve problems on our own, essentially making our minds decay.
However, there’s no need to panic and give up your daily dose of memes just yet. We might have found a way around it. To keep your last brain cells alive and functioning, we present you with a list of intellectual memes from the Instagram page “not.not.reading” that are guaranteed to make you think beyond the surface. Scroll down to find them, and don’t forget to upvote the ones that made you contemplate the most.
While you’re at it, make sure to check out a conversation with Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future, and media psychologist Dr. Corey Emanuel, who kindly agreed to provide a few tips on how to preserve our brains while consuming social media.
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The thing about AI art is that you can tell it's AI even when it's supposed to be hyper realistic. There's always that feeling that something is off about it and that just gives me the squicks!
That’s only AI for now…its getting better
Load More Replies...You mean a dishwasher and washing machine?? You want AI to push a button for you?
You still have to rinse and load it and empty it and clean it... I'm disabled, housework causes me severe pain. I appreciate as you're a man housework is something you don't understand 🤣
Load More Replies...We've taken care of everything, the words you hear, the songs you sing, the pictures that give pleasure to your eyes ....
And then you learn the world is also full of people doing good thins, putting themselves out for others. But it's the bad things that get report and the good is overlooked.
Load More Replies...This is a Planet of DEATH. Millions of Plants, Animals, and Sea Creatures are dying every second.
People who *romanticize* the past should be forced to binge-watch all the episodes of "Horrible Histories" and "Drunk History" like Alex in "Clockwork Orange" until they're cured of their delusion.
So true. I used to jog to an in-depth history podcast series (not the famous one, the next-to-famous one). What I learned is if you (a ruler) don't like someone, invite their family to a feast, secretly kill one of them and serve it to them without them knowing. Yayup, things were def not better back then.
We are living in the best of times, right now. Embrace it and be less afraid of the future.
Except that if these are the best of times, that implies it's all downhill from now on.
Load More Replies...I'd prefer to romanticize about a future without religions, the cause for more death, destruction, and wars than any other reason.
Would it be too petty to post this picture every time some pedant points this out?
"Frankenstein was not the monster!" "Yes, yes he *was*. The *creature* was his *victim*."
I had an English teacher who didn't let us call the "monster" a "monster" she made us call it a "creature" because a monster implies that it was a naturally horrible, ugly being when in reality the creature had nothing but love for humans... until humans hurt him immeasurably. I always found that really inspiring. Loved that English teacher. She's a politician now.
He should have a name. It's like "Bobby's dog" Or "Jacobs wife" Or "dr.smiths child" What?? They don't have a name and identity of their own?
As jackals, whenever Seth Meyers says Frankenstein instead of Frankenstein's monster, we pile on in the comments section. FYI: Seth calls us jackals. It's a point of pride for us.
i read a book from Elizabeth's POV and the monster named himself Adam, the first man of his kind.
Don’t worry, the previously mentioned ‘bain rot’ isn’t a scientific or medical term. The phrase is used to describe content of low value that has a negative side effect on its viewers, who often doomscroll or are chronically online.
The discussion about this phenomenon was kicked off by one person on TikTok who demonstrated the ‘brain rot’ effect in a video. While browsing through library books, they noticed a cover art, Tom Lea's “The Two Thousand Yard Stare," that they immediately recognized because of an internet meme and not for its historical or artistic importance.
Call me whatever you like. There's a 99.9% chance I'm not listening out of disrespect.
The better part this is that 4 year olds and Backstreet Boys overlap so much
Now that you mention it... I'm a little more concerned about 4 year olds who overlap with philosophy professors. Who's paying them? And is the end result better, or worse?
Load More Replies...Every (darn) Sunday I wonder if you're finally gonna »tell me why I don't like Mondays«...🤔 🎶 🤷🏽
I have a cure for the 4 YO 'whys', use it with my nephew. I just ask, 'why what'? Then I say why to everything he says. He gets frustrated and stops the 'whys', I proceed to explain to him that I get just as frustrated when he 'whys' us. It stopped the 'why' stage
I did that once with white chocolate. It was truly amazing the face my classmates made when they saw me eating my glue stick !
I made a candle out of white chocolate and worded up my dad to eat a bite out of it at the table. Freaked out the niblings!
Load More Replies...Times sure have changed since I was a kid. All we had to eat were our pencils and glue.
The painting portrays a shell-shocked WWII soldier, which is often used online to express being overwhelmed by internet content. Some users were surprised to discover the real origins of this image and feel weird seeing it outside their screens.
One commenter even confessed that the moment they realized they had ‘brain rot’ was when they tried swiping a physical page like on a touch screen, leaving them embarrassed.
Rorschach and Oedipal theories... Man, the junk 'science' that was once given so much credence.
say that to my mum, she believes in that stuff and she is so smart, amazingly sexy and...
Load More Replies...Fun Fact - Someone found a way to make a real, working, Rorschach mask at home! It uses 'thermochromic ink' (changes color with change in temperature). When your breath passes through the mask, the pattern changes. This is the first of many links on YouTube for "Make a working rorschach mask", but there are several videos out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUgD-bnY9ns
Years ago, I had to undergo weeks of neuro-psych evaluations to determine the level of TBI damage. Got to the Rorschach tests, and I looked the examiner in the eye and tsked. I told him I don't do pseudo-science.
I just finished reading Watchmen, so i was excited to see this meme (again).
If you google Rorschach, there is a good chance you'll get the joke;)
Load More Replies...Porch pirates stole an Amazon package off my doorstep. It was cat litter. The next day the open box with cat litter was placed back on my doorstep. Guess my order didn't live up to their expectations.
Now place the used cat litter in a [electronics] box, and let the **** take out itself..
Load More Replies...The book covers are actually second-level security packaging for must-have items. Hey Amazon! There's an idea for you!
You have just spawned a whole new packaging industry. I'm honoured to have witnessed it. *notes date - 27th October 2024*
Load More Replies...I had a locker when I went to uni. One day I came to study for a paper and someone had broken into my locker. They stole some books (not the boring ones, obv), half a pack of tea, a pair of REALLY dirty whoolen socks (I wore these instead of shoes at the uni), and some bisquits. I was only upset about the books they stole that were library books. It was not something I really had put into my budget, to pay for library books.
Get them glitter package bombs with s**t. They'll think twice again tryna steal.
So do demons generally learn more than one language?
Load More Replies...I like Latin. It's advanced stats that I couldn't stand. Was given a C+ (prob out of pity) which allowed me to continue in my program, as it was required to take and pass that course. We called the prof Dr Death, because not only was the subject tough, but he couldn't teach it to save his life. But with that grade he saved my program and I'm grateful to him to this day.
**Summoning a demon on purpose but because of a slight spelling error the demon is now aggressively teaching you the Samba
Loved Latin because I thought the little old man who taught it was hilarious. I knew the US was entering an educational freefall when they removed Latin as a required subject.
I love latin. I'm studying it on Duolingo. The AI that does some of the pronunciations is awful, but at least it's entertaining lol
There should be one more - trying to summon demon to help with your Latin, but did some mistakes and summoned the wrong one.
The viral video started an intense discussion about how internet consumption changes our worldview. And many started worrying that social media overconsumption is really decaying our minds. Media psychologist Dr. Corey Emanuel says to Bored Panda that the speed at which we consume content may hinder our critical thinking.
I got 99 problems and money would solve all 99 of them, including the one about needing therapy
I, on the other hand, have only one problem that would be solved with money, and that is my lack of money...
Load More Replies...Disagree. If I ever win the lottery, it buys me freedom. If I get sick, I can pay for it. I don't have to worry about bills. If my car breaks, I can afford to fix it. Money buys you peace of mind.
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true” - Commander Spock
You all know what's up! I need $15k to help me w my health - pain procedure not covered by health insurance. I'm pretty sure that'd make me happy! Plus not being behind in my taxes, my bills, overdrawn accounts, desperate for home repairs that the town is hassling me about... yeah. Imagine how my health would improve not carrying that stress every minute! Money would definitely make things better!
Wrong. To them, LEGO is, like carbon is to us. If you'd live in a wooden house, would you tolerate being told you live in a house of flesh?
We, carbon beings, live in wood(carbon) houses and wear daimonds(CARBON!!!!!!). These plastic bïtches ain't got nothing on us.
Imagine if we lived in houses built with bones and slabs of man meat as siding? ...would we use hair as insulation on the roof? 🤣
That’s probably what would happen if I ever met someone new (and actually spoke to them)
Hahaha! 🤣🤣 Oh I'm so slipping THAT into further conversations with people. That's gold right there 👍🏻
I wouldn't know. My therapist usually gets the lion's share of mine.
Unpopular opinion. Money does buy happiness. Those who disagree, feel free to wire transfer me your funds.
Has anyone ever heard a poor person say that money can't buy happiness? Of course not.
“While memes can be a source of humor and/or entertainment, the speed in which we consume memes may undermine our critical thinking. Rather than inviting critical examination, memes often present simplified or biased viewpoints, which leaves little room for deeper analysis or reflection on the issues they depict," he says.
Actually it's Purgatory. Wait till you see Hell.
Load More Replies...Since life is suffering, the threat of hell doesn't really carry the weight clerics think it does.
I work in a second hand book shop. A couple came in and the guy was joking about his wife's love of crime novels and how he's slightly scared. I don't think the discussion I got into with her on the merits of pig farms for disposing of bodies helped his anxiety.
Even hospitals uses [the word] doctor, and I wanna ask what they have a PhD in. But don't wanna be written up as a smart-a*s..
The last time there was a crop this bad, 1 million Irish people died.
When I waited on Baba Ram Dass I asked, "Are you who I think you are?" And he answered,"More importantly, are you who you think YOU are?"
“The average social media user spends roughly 2.5 hours on social media each day. During this time, we are bombarded with a constant barrage of stimuli—images, videos, text, and notifications—each requiring different forms of mental engagement,” explains Dr. Emanuel.
“Different regions of the brain are impacted by social media use. For instance, as we process a wide variety of content in a short time, it places a high demand on working memory. Social media encourages a great deal of multitasking, which taxes the brain's ability to sustain attention.”
One day, while I was working on a help desk in the mid 90s, in a huge room of cubicles, the power suddenly went out. Along with the immediate silence from all the computers and the AC system going down, you could hear a collective groan go up from the room. Then, in the silence that followed, a timid voice spoke up and feebly said, "Save your work?" We all busted out laughing! 😆
If I remember correctly: The End Games by T. Michael Martin
Load More Replies...I can only see this working in papers about time travel.
Load More Replies...All my reading is via digital subscriptions, and they come with links within the articles. Talk about going down a rabbit hole. Takes hours to finish one article.
I'm reading a book on Teddy Roosevelt rn and it keeps quoting other books. I'm like...should I NOT be reading this particular book?
When you have to read multiple papers that keep citing each other, it reminds me of the Choose Your Own Adventure books. Turn to page 46, ok now go back to page 17.
“Memes can be entertaining and can create a shared language among friends,” agrees Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future. But for it not to affect us in a negative way, we have to use social media in a limited way instead of overconsuming it, says Twenge.
I recently met and spoke with a philosophy major who was stressed out about wanting to help his parents, who had scraped and saved to help him pay for school. I told him to quickly get another major and make philosophy his minor - or double-major. Get something that he was good at, paid well and he could stand doing. He left the convo looking much relieved.
I worked with a guy who graduated with a major in Latin. He went back to school and is now a web designer.
I guess they are the only person who can translate the Lorem Ipsum in the mockups too
Load More Replies...As long as you're happy go for it. And if you find yourself unhappy, chase another goal. I have a Master's in History but fell in love with psychiatric care and despite my username, I save lives and help people overcast their demons. Choose whatever path you think will work best. Tip: money is great but don't get burned out.
It's one thing to take elective courses in Philosophy. I certainly learned a heck of a lot from those courses. But major in it. Nah. Those student loans aren't gonna pay themselves.
If you did not study History, Philosophy, Literature, Writing, and some Maths or Logic I would argue that you did not attend college, but a trade school. I used to hire computer programmers. The ones that turned out good had a strong background in creative writing and literature.
It's funnier that dad thinks she's going to school so she can work in a factory
I feel like the 90% of my brain activates only in the shower and at like 1am
I feel seen,, finally! Ok second thoughts perhaps a poor choice of words but my initial reaction stays
Load More Replies...Not me. At my age, I can't be distracted in the shower. Must concentrate on not falling.
Every Trumper out there trying to justify their religious commitment to their cult leader.
But she notes that it might be difficult to limit or branch out of our usual social media scrolling as algorithms are designed to deliver personalized content and keep people using them as long as possible. “Consider using an app that can help you limit your social media use, or look at meme posts your friends send you without signing up for a social media account,” she advises. “Or look at memes using a web browser instead of social media.”
Just keep seeing someone my age being extremely talented. Life ruined.
Yesterday I looked at the art portfolio (actually they just showed me photos on their Iphone) of someone who is at most 18. Their work was brilliant. Some reminiscent of Käthe Kollwitz - I said this and they were astonished - said she was their favorite artist... And some reminiscent of Leonora Carrington. A bit of Frida Kahlo in there as well. Unreal. They said they were going to an art college to 'learn'. I told them - 'be inspired, influenced, evolve, express... but don't 'learn' - you don't need others to 'improve' you.' They lost their mother a couple of years before I met them. The artwork with their mother in it (themes of illness, death, change) was beautiful and heartbreaking. No room for jealousy there - I just felt joy for them.
MY day is not ruined when I see someone my age being extremely talented. I have just a bit more self-respect than to put myself down.
Yes! I actively seek out people smarter and more talented than myself as they make life interesting and I always learn something. But I do avoid the arrogant ones.
Load More Replies...That's every single flat surface in my apartment lol
Load More Replies...The intellectuals understand that 1. this is meme, and memes don't have to based on a specific reality, and 2. it's okay to acquire a book that interests you no matter how many other books you already have. I very rarely buy books but I'll happily browse used bookstores to see what they have, and sometimes I'll buy something because it's not nearly as common as something by James Patterson and there's no telling when I might see it again. I'm still waiting to stumble across any of 5 books by Jasper Fforde, for example.
Load More Replies...My favourite Kafka quote: "One idiot is one idiot, two idiots are two idiots, ten thousand idiots are a political party."
He died in 1924, so his prescience of Trump and his supporters is remarkable.
Load More Replies...so, I liked The Metamorphosis, but I tried to read The Trial and like...why did every woman want to sleep with the MC? Like seriously Mary Sue vibes,
A little OCD never hurt anyone. Especially if it gave us 'Metamorphosis'. PS: Insecure nerds are my type, anyway.
An attributed Kafka quote (never looked it up for sure): In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Load More Replies...From a quick Wikipedia read on him, he actually sounds quite likable. The paragraph in the photo no longer exists on his Wikipedia page from what I could find though.
Dr. Emanuel says that it’s all about balance. “Internet users should foster a lifestyle that invites time away from social media and digital devices. Time offline should include moments with family and friends where all parties put their mobile devices away and on silent. Be present.”
Something I've noticed. The bigger the "business ethics" book is, the more unethical the business is. So a business without an "ethics" book is a joy to behold.
They very much taught me to be ethical in business school. In fact they even taught us it's usually more profitable. The problem is not everybody follows their lessons.
You must be about the only one who passed that class. The rest of them had to have either ditched and shown up for the final, or slept in class and barely passed. Business and ethics seem to be further apart these days than ever.
Load More Replies...So true. We need to make doing capitalism while not being a d**k something you can claim on your taxes.
Lol so true 😆 especially businesses that offer unpaid internships
Friendship. Family. Religion. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
Searching "Ethics Professor Arrested for Unethical Behavior" brought up thousands of results like this one: Screen-Sho...66-png.jpg
This is next level but I actually hate sound and would rather read subtitles than listen to movies, I've watched I don't how many shows on mute. Sometimes I start reading comments on posts and can't relate to them only to then realize that the comments relate to something 'said' in the reel that had no subtitles
Do you have any idea why you hate sound? I’m just genuinely curious, I’ve never met someone who’s said this before
Load More Replies...Oh! A devotee of the Lord Havelock Vetinari school of music appreciation!
Besides, Lord Vetinari, the supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, rather liked music. People wondered what sort of music would appeal to such a man. Highly formalized chamber music, possibly, or thunder-and-lightning opera scores.
Load More Replies...I had a school teacher who said he could read musical manuscripts and hear it in his head, and it seemed credible. He was slightly odd.
Load More Replies...Yes, I've done this on the bus on the way to or from choir practice. If you've been rehearsing the piece and can read music, you can hear it in your head when you see the score. It makes it easier to watch the conductor while singing rather than having one's gaze glued to the score. Who wants to go to a choir concert and watch the tops of everybody's heads?
This is actually something my band conductor said we should be doing lol. It trains your brain to get used to sight reading music and also develops relative pitch.
He continues by saying, “Internet users should regularly audit who they’re following and ensure they follow others who challenge their thinking to avoid confirmation bias. Read books and articles offline to curate a diverse group of sources for fact-checking and become diligent in spotting misinformation and disinformation,” he concludes.
However, Twenge notes that these tips should apply to adults only, as kids under 15 should avoid social media, given the mental health situation of teens.
You get a similar thing with people who study quantum mechanics. Richard faynmen was a good example
Load More Replies...The Aussie music quiz show "Spicks and Specks" used to have a segment called "Musician or Serial Killer?" where you had to guess whether the photo was one or the other. I think that can be adapted to cover philosophers too
Because they are poor. Rich people are able to spend money to make themselves look good.
If I contemplate cause and effect long enough, I wonder if I'll think of an explanation.
If that's his notes on what he wants to say then forgive me if the book remains on my bookshelf unread
This is indeed how creativity works. (I was going to start with "literally" but it would be too much as this is about a literary work.)
Well, this is what writing was like before typewriters, typewriters with correcting tape, and word processors. It sucked, but it was good enough to give us an enormous number of masterworks. Look *carefully* at this, everyone who gripes about Microsoft Word.
that looks like my brain feels, maybe i should start writing?
Staring blankly into space can be surprisingly enjoyable if you just let your mind wander
Never having owned a smart phone, I did that most of my life and it is amazing what the imagination can produce.
That is a startlingly accurate summary of the history of philosophy.
You forgot most of political philosophy! Aquinas admins Wikipedia. Mason cites Wikipedia. Hamilton creates FAQ. De Toqueville makes reaction video of Hamilton. Thoreau makes pencils. Freud watches porn. Rand fantacizes about making Rumble without any contributors. Stalin confiscates laptop. Smith refuses to moderate.
"Immanuel Kant was a real p!ss-ant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table. David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed. John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day! Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, And Hobbes was fond of his Dram. And René Descartes was a drunken fart: 'I drink, therefore I am.' Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed."
Ah, Socrates. When presented with the profound 'All we are is dust in the wind dude', he had an epiphany. Moments later, he formulated his immortal quote 'Ah, yes! Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives! All as Rufus knew would happen.
Load More Replies...Bruce here teaches logical positivism and is also in charge of the sheep dip.
Between 4. and 5. should be something along the lines of "Maimonides ships Aristotle and Hillel the Elder." and "Jesus retweets Hillel the Elder." A lot of medieval philosophers wouldn't have learned about Aristotle without Maimonides.
Makes sense... you're familiar with a plethora of options on the music library but no one knows f* all about what jobs will be useful in 10 years.
It seems as if the biggest decisions in life are the ones we have insufficient data about to make a sensible decision
Load More Replies...I chose (some of) my subjects based on which timetable gave me Fridays off.
That's because every book he reads has different thoughts about it.
Load More Replies...Really thin layered pastry filled with Sophie.
Load More Replies...My dad has degrees in philosophy and math. Didn't know until I was 18. Told him I loved him, but he "..should have told us that before you married our mom. Now I have to disown you. Philosophy is stupid and math just sucks. I'm gonna miss you 😔 "
Presumably none of them know since the most recent author would have read the other books first and was still unenlightened
I started to read a book on philosophy, but the first guy convinced me all was an illusion and nothing was real. So I stopped reading that imaginary book.
Baby don't hurt me. Baby don't hurt me, no more.
Load More Replies..."When we do speak, no one understands. When we do explain, still no one understands"
When you wear an obscure logo/saying/whatever, it's great when the rare person gets it. We used to give a tee shirt to students who rotated through our endocrine office: "Cogito, ergocalciferol." And, to early music concerts, I still wear a tee shirt that says "Spem in allium" with a picture of a garlic clove.
All you need is spork, spork -- spork is all you need...
Load More Replies...And spellcheck apparently hates me, so you know, you have to just go with it sometimes.
Load More Replies...Hubby called from work to ask me to spell something. I asked why hadn't used spell check. Apparently, the computer couldn't figure out what he was trying to froze. The word was stupendous. STU-PEN-DOUS. He had a degree and IT certificates galore, yet mangled the word so badly, the computer quit! For years, I'd supply a word for something and then ask him to spell it. He'd "Brenda!" 😆😁😂
Oh I can't leave a spelling error! I don't obsess over it afterward, but I'm not happy I let it slip through.
Unless it's clinical or submitting an article sure I'll be proper but online sites like this or texting. I'm just using my thumb folks.
I just dictate text into the microphone and hope I don't use an obscenity to my sisterinlaw
I have some friends who text like this. After 25 years teaching first grade I'm almost always able to decipher with no problem.
If someone honks in the forest and there's no one around to hear it does it still honk?
Ok. So stage 3. I saw an article today about Pepperidge Farm doing a temporary rebranding of Goldfish crackers to appeal more to adults or some nonsense... They literally are the same thing, in the same packaging, but called CHILEAN SEA BASS. Cheddar flavor. 🤦🏼♀️ https://dailyvoice.com/ny/hempstead/goldfish-snack-crackers-now-have-new-name-heres-what-why/
The evil genius inside of me wants to invent fish flavoured swedish fish in order to complete the cycle.
Reminds me of a Tony Hancock sketch where he asks the librarian for all these weighty academic tomes so he can stand on them to get a potboiler novel from the top shelf
A friend of mine has a wine bottle holding up a shelf in her kitchen labeled, "This bottle in structural. Do NOT remove."
We had one like that for a while, only ours was under the bookcase. Despite multiple warnings from the rest of us someone had overloaded it and when my colleague tried to pull it out the wheel folded in half. It was right by the door so you'd get 'Why is this...' 'DON'T TOUCH IT!!!!'
Either that or perhaps the cat missed the carpet when coughing up a brain.
I prefer Léon Foucault. Pendulums are much easier for me to understand, and much more fun to watch.
While the spirit of Diogenes masturbates and throws feces at a hologram of Adam Smith
The more I’m hearing about Kafka, the more I’m starting to like him. Had no idea he existed till today
[cue Voltaire skipping happily on the background]
Load More Replies...Schopenhauer is still going to eat that pizza when she regains consciousness.
It destroyed me when I learnt why people are awful. It's not psychopathy, narcissism or anything like that. It's emotional immaturity. I'm surrounded by literal spoiled toddlers pretending to be adults. Five people, including my family, actively tried to to make me unalive myself.
Ninety percent of philosophy is BS, but it trains you to think and consider. Don't go to philosophy for answers, go to it for tools.
I read a peer reviewed academic paper recently in which one of the citations was (remember to cite) (or words to that effect). It got all the way through the whole reviewing process and no one noticed!
But God forbid you put a comma in the wrong place when you do remember to cite something. The Gods of the MLA citation guide shall smite you.
Load More Replies...As someone who works in the legal field and regularly deals with legal citations... yes.
my therapist once told me to stop 'collecting information' as it was always available on the internet. sorry to tell her, she was wrong, at least 80% of what i have safely saved is no longer available on the net. as times change, things get removed, for one reason or another. HA i was RIGHT....
I read once that that's a mistranslation. He supposedly really said desire is the root of all disappointment.
From what I understand, the original term, dukkha, translates more to "incompleteness", which for the Buddhistd is the root of all our suffering, disappointment, frustration and so on.
Load More Replies...And then there’s the people seeing this who are now thinking about thinking about thinking
Nah, most of them aren’t thinking about anything at all.
Load More Replies...Hmm. Are we bad people that we both recognized the bottle from very little visual information?
Load More Replies...For being the world's foremost linguist and language expert, he is extremely difficult to understand.
Load More Replies...That book and the Bible have something in common. The majority of people who own a copy haven't read it.
It's kind of ironic that so many pictures posted online are mirrored and this one isn't when it would help.
If you can't read that book title backwards I think you need some help.
Load More Replies...I sometimes make it a challenge for me to read some of the pdfs I dl. Then I practise my note-taking while reading them and I delete them after reading. I still have copies on my laptop, so it's not completely gone. But! I am slowly building a notebook filled with the best info from these pdfs and that is so exciting!!!
Can you explain this gap in your resume? I was unemployed. Duh.
Did you know, there were no spaces in English writing until Irish monks, drinking in a stars, planets, and moon themed pub, invented the "space bar".
Load More Replies...I was taking a break to heal after my last soul crushing job to get the energy to find another soul crushing job.
Little, I think that is the joke but I'm failing to understand why it is supposed to be funny.
Load More Replies...One of you intellectuals please explain what ODB and Camus have in common cuz im having no luck
Their ancestry was related to the place they were born in interesting and surprising ways?
Load More Replies...Some scientists actually tried this experiment. The monkeys typed a load of unintelligible c**p, and then broke the typewriters. Although to be fair, there wasn't an infinite amount of monkeys or typewriters.
If one monkey is able to type for an infinite amount of time or an infinite number of monkeys each type for a modest amount of time the result will definitely be all possible permutations of typewriter characters, because an infinite amount of something is *an awful lot* of that something. That said, The Comedy of Errors only has 14,701 words. I'm going to guess that works out to 140,000 characters when you include spaces and punctuation. If there was no duplication that would require about 36^140,000 keystrokes to randomly produce The Comedy of Errors. Other than being incredibly enormous I really haven't got the first clue exactly how big it is, but it's so vastly bigger than other examples of huge numbers that I can't even grasp the ratio. And yet it's incredibly small compared to infinity.
Load More Replies...Think how sad everyone would be if it typed " to be or not to be, that is the flerk"
We are primates, descended from monkeys, and have been on this rock for millions of years, and so far only one of us (maybe 2 - debated) has written the complete works of Shakespeare. Why do we need monkeys to replicate this achievement? Hasn't this theory already been proven?
Now, thanks to the comment sections on the internet, we know this is not true
You have no idea of the background of the people commenting here. Read what people write and judge it for its own value - either their points hold validity or they don't, no need for an 'appeal to authority' (or a critique of the supposed lack thereof). If you are unable to judge whether a point holds validity or not, that's a reflection on your level of knowledge, not theirs.
Load More Replies...Except all the typewriters would have worn out, and all the monkeys would have died before you got from "To be" to "there's the rub".It only works in the mind not in reality.
Load More Replies...I dealt with it by saying to my personal demon "OK, it's your turn to take over, it's now your job to deal with all the c**p that's being thrown at me". This terrified my inner demon so much that it headed back into the shadows and never bothered me again.
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This sets such a low bar for "intellectual" that it must be either irony or insult.
Because of my warped youth, every time I hear or read anything with philosophers, I think of the Professors Bruce at the University of Wallamaloo.
This sets such a low bar for "intellectual" that it must be either irony or insult.
Because of my warped youth, every time I hear or read anything with philosophers, I think of the Professors Bruce at the University of Wallamaloo.
