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WIST QuotationsA quotation from La Rochefoucauld
It is generally pride rather than lack of intelligence which prompts men to dispute so obstinately generally accepted opinions; they find all the front seats taken on the popular side, and do not wish to sit behind.[C’est plus souvent par orgueil que par défaut de lumières qu’on s’oppose avec tant d’opiniâtreté aux opinions les plus suivies: on trouve les premières places prises dans le bon parti, et on ne veut point des dernières.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶234 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶234 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)] | WIST Quotations
It is generally pride rather than lack of intelligence which prompts men to dispute so obstinately generally accepted opinions; they find all the front seats taken on the popular side, and do not wish to sit behind. [C’est plus souvent par orgueil que par défaut de lumières qu’on s’oppose avec…
N-gated Hacker NewsAh, the classic "this might be my last post... or not" saga. 🎭 The author contemplates their own #mortality with all the subtlety of a teenager posting #vaguebook status updates for attention. 🙄 But hey, at least they're consistent in their inconsistency! 😅
http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/perhaps-my-last-post-well-see.html #lastpost #attentionseeking #inconsistency #HackerNews #ngated
http://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/perhaps-my-last-post-well-see.html #lastpost #attentionseeking #inconsistency #HackerNews #ngated
Kevin Karhan 
@1ts0nly4stro it's the #clickbait-based #AttentionSeeking / #AttentionStealing economy.
- Shit that makes garbage like #MrBeast "go viral" despite being so hollow…
Oh, look! Another YouTube attention-seeker trying to reinvent the wheel... or in this case, shrink it 🤏🔋. Because we all needed a video showing someone fiddling with tiny motors instead of fixing real-world problems. Bravo, Internet, you never disappoint! 🙄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x_NMytSA90 #YouTubeFails #AttentionSeeking #InnovationCritique #RealWorldProblems #InternetHumor #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x_NMytSA90 #YouTubeFails #AttentionSeeking #InnovationCritique #RealWorldProblems #InternetHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Attempting to Make the World's Smallest* Electric Motor
WIST Quotations Has Moved! Certainly they did not pretend to be sleepy, they were sleepy; and that was a danger, for the moment they popped off, down they fell. The awful thing was that Peter thought this funny.
“There he goes again!” he would cry gleefully, as Michael suddenly dropped like a stone.
“Save him, save him!” cried Wendy, looking with horror at the cruel sea far below. Eventually Peter would dive through the air, and catch Michael just before he could strike the sea, and it was lovely the way he did it; but he always waited till the last moment, and you felt it was his cleverness that interested him and not the saving of human life. Also he was fond of variety, and the sport that engrossed him one moment would suddenly cease to engage him, so there was always the possibility that the next time you fell he would let you go.
“There he goes again!” he would cry gleefully, as Michael suddenly dropped like a stone.
“Save him, save him!” cried Wendy, looking with horror at the cruel sea far below. Eventually Peter would dive through the air, and catch Michael just before he could strike the sea, and it was lovely the way he did it; but he always waited till the last moment, and you felt it was his cleverness that interested him and not the saving of human life. Also he was fond of variety, and the sport that engrossed him one moment would suddenly cease to engage him, so there was always the possibility that the next time you fell he would let you go.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 4 “The Flight” (1911)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/barrie-james/75721/
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klorIs it just me or these days many "popular" accounts from Twitter & Instagram come here with the sole purpose of expanding their audience for attention-seeking needs?
I will miss #mastodon before this trend.
kcnickerson
Nonilex#AttentionSeeking #Trump escalates his personal attacks on #KamalaHarris in disgusting #lies & #slurs. #Republicans utterly beholden to him seem incapable of even countering his language let alone condemning it.
Trump on Saturday & again on Sunday falsely claimed in a display of obvious projection that Harris was “mentally impaired” & also that she should be “impeached & prosecuted."
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpIsUnfit
#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
Alice McFlurry 
There's been a recent influx in posts with a ridiculous amount of hashtags and it's very annoying.
They #make the #posts look #messy and #hard to #read while #simultaneously giving off #vibes that seem #desperate and #AttentionSeeking.
I know I can mute specific hashtags, but can I mute the hashtag symbol altogether to ensure I never have to see another hashtag ever again?