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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 139 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 47 points 3 days ago

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

[-] nebeker@programming.dev 42 points 3 days ago

A Project Manager just earned their wings.

[-] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days 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

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

It's called Godwin's law

[-] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago

[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

So that's how I can get away with it! You just eradicated every last hints of remorse that I had in me.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago

“style at the time”

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones

[-] nebeker@programming.dev 8 points 3 days 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.