Alex Cox
Ken WhiteNormalize saying “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on”
Skrrp 
@Popehat but won't we have fun finding out.
Robin Bobcat@Popehat Being able to say "I don't know" is one of the strongest things a person can say. Right up there with "I was wrong."
Dylan Smith@RobinBobcat @Popehat best learning opportunity too. More often then not if you're surrounded by peers they'll teach you and if they dont know then you can all research it and find something new.
Baron Vonskinnback@RobinBobcat @Popehat I always use this strategy at work, cuts through the bullshit & everyone knows where they stand, also if the person I say it to gets angry or irritated this is an excellent sign you are dealing with a weapons grade libertarian bunglecunt, so proceed with caution...
si_iriniAnd it is important to learn and say this.
And you can learn it, I have also.
It is not an admission to feel inferior or to let others think about you that way.
It is a sign of greatness to say it.
Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Also, 'It's my fault, and I'm sorry, let me help to fix things.'
What a world we live in when sayings like this are considered a sign of weakness!
Bruno Girin@RobinBobcat @Popehat "I don't know but I will find out" was the most powerful phrase I learnt when I was doing a client facing IT job (of course, this only works if you really go and find out the answer).
ilmari@brunogirin @RobinBobcat @Popehat I like saying "I don't know, let's find out together!" when people ask me for help with something about which I have general knowledge but not the specific detail.
@ilmari @RobinBobcat @Popehat yes, that works in a team, slightly less so with customers who expect you to deliver a service 🙂
Hudson@RobinBobcat @[email protected] I say it if someone asks me a question that I’m not interested in answering.
Liggs17@Popehat sigh…you’re right. <closes multiple Wikipedia and Reddit tabs>
Oran Magal@Popehat Honestly saying “nobody knows” doesn’t get you a TV segment as a pundit.
chuckadeus kummerer@OranMagal @Popehat but "nobody knows, but as a totally-unrelated-job I think..." will
Phil Rees@OranMagal @Popehat It does if you demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Mark Hughes@Popehat I don't think it's hard or confusing.
Not expected but revealing false assumptions.
Steve Hersey@Popehat
I feel like replacing my normal email signature with a profanity-reduced version of this.
I feel like replacing my normal email signature with a profanity-reduced version of this.
VHaschBut that won't stop me from thoroughly enjoying sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong. 🫤
In Search of a Better World@Popehat Way ahead of you. I have been living in a permanent state of utter befuddlement for decades now.
George Liquor, American@Popehat Waht, that's been my normal since puberty
Rob HoneycuttAdmitting ignorance is always the best place to start learning.
Gabriel Pettier@Popehat well, i didn't spend most of my day on social media not to have opinions, you know! 😆
Patrick Berry@Popehat I have a hotkey for this in Slack
John Cutting@Popehat
I feel seen
I feel seen
🍸Pooka🥕Boo🍸
Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Official Audio)
That Anonymous CowardBut but but won't that shake peoples confidence in Congress?
Jack Graham@Popehat
"I don't know," scares the shit out of most people.
But I say, "I don't know" when I want people to know I'm a baller. The way our culture is changing, people would rather listen to someone who admits their limits than to a bullshitter.
That seems like a healthy change.
"I don't know," scares the shit out of most people.
But I say, "I don't know" when I want people to know I'm a baller. The way our culture is changing, people would rather listen to someone who admits their limits than to a bullshitter.
That seems like a healthy change.
Ian Tindale@Popehat particularly in job interviews
Pēteris Krišjānis@Popehat have done this today 10 times already
Joé McKen@Popehat But Ken if you don’t pretend you know what’s going on then you won’t be invited on TV and start a career as a pundit with a silly bowtie and then become the most prominent white nationalist on the biggest partisan news network until you get fired and then wind up with a dinky online show on Twitter dot com
John Appel@Popehat A+ to this. The unofficial motto of St. Johns College in Annapolis is "In order to know how little you know, you have to know a lot." I know just enough about some of the things going on to be able to shout "I don't know and you don't either, so sit down and let's see what actually happens."
John Robinson
John O’Donnell
Ian Cordingley@Popehat Not hard to do these days.
Flaming Cheeto@Popehat ... officer
Coyoty@Popehat It's more fun to smile cryptically.
Ashton@Popehat no clue what’s going on, but the chaos is kinda funny.
Ted Faber
Nathan@Popehat The hard part is detecting the bluff when other people say they know what is going on.
annie gray
HairyChris@Popehat My entire life.
Brian Beeler@Popehat Normalize saying “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on”
That's the most Zen thing I've heard all day.
"Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā" or "gone, gone, everyone gone to the other shore, awakening, svaha" means only when we can say regularly say "I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on” can we really start to understand "what the fuck is going on.”
Either that or the wifi is down.
Ricardo Harvin@Popehat Welcome to my reality, Ken 👍🏿
toxtethogrady@ricardoharvin @Popehat Just everyday life in America (Russia, Brazil, the UK, Israel...)
Anatisadalia 🐞🌺
ninavizz@Popehat Also, normalize: "Maybe I shouldn't die trying, because maybe that'll cause pain for people I really love—and, well, is just stupid."
Rocannon
katy ✨@Popehat normalise it? it's my motto
Ishan@Popehat I do this several times at work, nobody bats an eye!
wb x64@Popehat but Popehat it's so much more fun to just be a terminally online random person slash influencer bot who posts "analysis" nonstop from the safety of their Cleveland dining room! You too can flood timelines with the federated text equivalent of CNN daytime talking heads with this one easy step
Nathaniel Ohiare@Popehat ego issues
LPS@Popehat sounds accurate to a whole mess of things at this point in history.
JohnW@Popehat "Tomorrow's another day."
xs4me2Trust me, no-one has…
Laure@Popehat and we never will
Alfred R. Baudisch@Popehat I still don't know anything about the war on Ukraine, and as I live in Denmark, I turned blind eyes to the news from my country (BR), I mean, “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on” most of the time for any kind of news or sports or politics.
But I'm always aware of everything in my bubbles of interests (gamedev, games, programming, etc) and microcosm.
People have no idea how poisonous to their mental health (and how useless) it is to keep following the news.
@Popehat ah and of course mostly important, I have so much free time by not checking the news for example. It's a time sink that doesn't add anything.
MostlyTato@Popehat
I spent the nineties doing that. Seriously, what idiot put me in charge lol
I spent the nineties doing that. Seriously, what idiot put me in charge lol