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Thraeg t1_j6kcmih wrote

Credit where it's due for this "original" showerthought:

https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040

Frequently cited by Cory Doctorow, where I encountered it.

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ReaperEngine t1_j6kjqyc wrote

Yeah there's something very ironic about this being repeated on the subreddit, when the quote itself had made the rounds on each of the aforementioned sites.

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kounterfett t1_j6klv5f wrote

They literally talked about this on TWIT this weekend. I bet dollars to donuts OP had this shower thought while listening to them talk about this quote and the irony that they are just regurgitating here something they heard somewhere else is totally lost on them

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RedOrchestra137 t1_j6kukeg wrote

could also just be multiple people coming to the same conclusion independently, cause it's not such a leftfield thought i think. it's just the truth if you observe stuff honestly. i've thought about this as well, just never had the urge to make a post about it. same goes for a lot of stuff, people aren't that original most of the time

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santasbigolhelper t1_j6kyq45 wrote

Exactly. Like why would people even want to claim credit for this extremely obvious trivial bullshit?

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RedOrchestra137 t1_j6l04dp wrote

Because everything anyone says nowadays has a name above it, along with a number that is supposed to indicate the quality of the thing being said, or more like the amount of people who have read and agreed with the thing. That makes it seem like that thought is then somehow intellectual property of the person, while most of the time it's too trivial to have any sort of copyright law surrounding the thing. Yet people still want to enforce ownership, because it makes them feel good, and like it's them that contributed something to the public discourse and no one else. Ego and the need for social validation, which is something you can apply to almost every situation on social media that makes you question why someone said something. I must say I'm feeling kinda correct here, this may get validated and produce good feels for my primate brain

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slicerprime t1_j6l6fe3 wrote

You've actually defined - intentionally or not - what's left of the little bit on the internet once you've filtered out the five giant site orgy:

Trivial Bullshit

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SomePaddy t1_j6kuyu3 wrote

You could have shared this as a screenshot...

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