In the UK our £2 coins have “Standing on the shoulders of giants” written around the rim, to remind us all that no, you wouldn’t have thought of that, you berk.
I’ll go further, i reckon i couldve done better than “featherless biped” as the definition of a human.
Honestly they mustve said so much bollocks that people were too embaressed to write down or copy and it was lost to time.
If I recall correctly, “fatherless biped” was an attempt to define a human in the simplest, most basic form, and as short as possible.
I guess they just forgot about gorillas and other primates. Are they classified as bipedal? I mean they don’t HAVE to use their arms to move around. It’s just more efficient for them…
Of course, I wouldn’t have plucked a chicken and presented it ad a fatherless biped, either… So what do I know lmao
I think that if I were intelligentsia in a different period of human development I would go and try to discover something. But that’s only because I’m in academia now so as long as I have the prerequisite material conditions my personal impulse for obtaining new knowledge would drive me
Just keep asking why to everything. My nephew was basically Socrates.
No you wouldn’t. All this stuff may seem obvious now but it only does so because somebody figured it out before.
I mean a lot of what Socrates and Plato wrote and taught are just self justifications for the ancient Greek ruling class.
That delusion is so common that I suspect it must have a name, but I don’t know what it is.
But the better a solution appears, the more a person who sees the solution believes it to be obvious, and therefore also believes that, had they tried to solve the problem, they’d have come up with this “obvious” solution straight away with no effort.
Meanwhile, the person who actually solved the problem could only come up with the perfect simple solution after a lifetime of study in the area to the point that you’d call them an expert or master, and after agonizing for a long time over this particular problem.
Teaching “common sense” is so hard because kids get so offended that you think they are stupid.
This is the Manosphere™ mindset. They suffer from constant Dunning-Kruger. Ask them about climate change and they’ll suddenly be smarter than climate scientists because they watched a few YouTube videos.
I don’t think this meme is about science, but rather about “thinking about thinking”
This is utter bullcrap. Must be funny somehow, but that I am sadly missing.
I admit I am old, but can anybody explain this meme format with an expressionless person making a selfie with a statement at the top? And do I need to be as conventionally attractive as this young man here or do looks not matter?
It makes me feel old too, lol. I think some people make them with streamers or content creators (maybe?) or just because they need an image, since people are more likely to share something funny if it’s not just text. It’s a little weird, but whatever.
I think you just discovered looksmaxing
I could also had put 3 sticks of the same size on one axis and 4 on another and see that between the ends you can fit 5 sticks.
Wat
a^2 + b^2 = c^2
Oooohhhhh
I guess you wouldn’t have figured it out on your own, lol.
