• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    Then we learned that if you wanted to get the right answer from people … all you had to do was confidently post an answer, any answer, especially if it was wrong … and so many people would jump on you so fast to tell you how stupid you were and give you the right answer.

    … and you also had to tie an onion on your belt which was the style of the time.

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      1 hour ago

      I learned to let you all squabble amongst yourselves and get the answer. Since every question is a duplicate, it stands to reason the question I have has already been answered.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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      I’m studying right now and I’m the lead for a group project. I’ve been having a hard time getting the team to actually talk with each other and come up with ideas. Someone told me the other week “pitch bad ideas badly”. So I tried that with the title of our project I put down a shit awful name, told everyone about it, and within 5 minutes the team came back to me with an actual title

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      4 hours ago

      Phishing legitimate answers out of people by exploiting their ego is still one of the most impressive things I haven’t thought of.

      Will try to keep in mind

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      all you had to do was confidently post an answer, any answer, especially if it was wrong

      so called murphy’s law…