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[-] mossberg590@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

The improper usage of double quotes is reprehensible. There isn't even an ending mark for the quotation.

[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Everything following this post, including your comment and mine is also part of a quotation spoken by a very confused talking horse, who was attempting to quote Socrates, but didn't quite get it right." - A confused talking horse

[-] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Which will all get fed into a misquoting, fallacy-inducing, lying, hallucinating, LLM.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that also continued with: "

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I guess I don't spend enough time online then.

Wtf is "touch?" Wtf is "grass?"

[-] sga@lemmings.world 36 points 1 year ago

touch is a cmd to make (or update the mtime of) a file in unix like operating systems. I do not know much about the latter, it seems to be green scaline triangle like thingy earthlings used to grow a lot for not much reason. sometimes, it was also harvested, where some varieties of it produced some seed like thingies (not exactly sure what these seeds are, the seeds that i know of within my database is the starting precursor for randomness in some encryption algorithms)

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently grass is the command for the

geographic resource analysis support system

A powerful computational engine for vector and raster data management, geoprocessing, spatial modeling and visualization.

Reference grass.osgeo.org/learn/overview

[-] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 18 points 1 year ago

"touch grass" - diogenes upon hearing socrates

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Touch grass" and "rent free" are the most overused phrases on the internet. Rent Free always gives me the impression that the user has recently been the victim of the phrase themself, and have now started throwing it around at others at every possible opportunity.

[-] Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago

Sure sounds like that phrase is living rent free in your head.

[-] Palerider@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

You need to get out more and touch grass...

[-] zmrl@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To wield the phrase "touch grass" is to admit that you, too, must touch grass.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

proud to have never used the phrase "rent free" as it is utterly nonsensical

"touch grass" on the other hand is very useful advice!

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Viking longships keep raiding the village

"Oi, thems northmen is livin in your head rent free!"

[-] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago

touch grass means to smoke weed.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Torch grass.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

no. stop co-opting everything.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Shut the fuck up old man.

[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I tried to touch grass but now I just have a new file in my home directory

[-] JollyG@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Today on the train-ride into work there was a group of what looked to be men in their mid 50s joking about who in their friend group was “alpha”, “beta” or “sigma”. I think that if, at this point in history, even a near-retirement age group of commuters is using the lingo then internet culture is just culture.

I did have to resist the urge to tell them to touch grass.

In conclusion, putting the internet on everyone’s phones was a huge mistake and we should go back to the way it was in the before-times.

[-] marighost@piefed.social 5 points 1 year ago

Does this mean online phrases like "touch grass," "rent free", and even "skibidi toilet" could be considered cognitohazards?

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

I'd extend that to most internet memes.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Touch grass, Socrates

[-] realitista@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Grass or ass, nobody rides for free!

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free!

[-] realitista@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You don't need no gas on the internets, brother.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can only see ass there and its mostly free.

[-] mugthol@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago
[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Pureed mind

[-] Darohan@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Well then, come, let us touch grass together.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

sounds like someone told Socrates to touch grass and he got butthurt about it.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

Apparently given his own definition, even Socrates needs to touch grass.

I prefer clover myself.

[-] Palerider@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Creeping Thyme is good too...

[-] qarbone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Partial to hemlock myself. He should give it a try.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Would a fish say to touch water?

NO! They are touching water all the time. They have no concept of "no water".

The same with touching grass. You can only call it if you have known places without grass.

[-] multifariace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen this water claim before. It's just dumb. Do you feel it has any use?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Im in california, you wouldn't even recognize the grasses we should have.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

"Hey you sunza bitches! Get off my lawn!!!" - Nietzsche

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