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Kern Dog said:
First off, I did not profess to be intelligent in some elevated level. I am simply a High School level guy that has enough pride to speak and write reasonably well.
I understood what he meant, I was questioning why he said it. My point is that it is lazy to just repeat what you hear without knowing what it means. It reminds me of TV news anchors that just read teleprompters like Ron Burgundy...simply speaking other people's words and not having the guts, integrity of curiosity to wonder what any of it means.
Weren't you disappointed in all the sheep that just wore masks and abided by the stupid government mandates during Covid?
I was. It put a bright light on the utter weakness and stupidity of many people that just bent over and took it in the ass without fighting at all.
THAT is how I feel when people as smart/dumb as me are too lazy to get things right.
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I will say "could care less" bugs me a little.
If you say "I couldn't care less" - well that's 100% logical when you map it out, but the former sloppy way is NOT. Whether it comes from the holler or the ghetto, IDK, it marks people who say it as trashy..
 
Rambler Racer said:
“It can’t be helped” is a phrase I learned about while working years ago in Japan.
An old timer at the place we were at used it to describe another worker.

What is the Japanese phrase nothing can be done?


Shikata ga nai - Wikipedia


Shikata ga nai (仕方がない), pronounced [ɕi̥kata ɡa naꜜi], is a Japanese language phrase meaning "it cannot be helped" or "nothing can be done about it". Shō ga nai (しょうがない), pronounced

“It is what it is” at least offers some hope, that at least with effort and some ability “what it is” can be improved somehow.

All hope is lost and one must just accept the condition once it has been determined “ it can’t be helped”
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Chinese it's "mei ban fa" - something like literally "I can't get there" - but more often it's an expression of being unwilling- it's a brush off. First Google hit:
"The common phrase “没办法” (mei ban fa, “it can’t be helped”). Unlike apathy, where one simply “does not care”, mei ban fa communicates that one is helpless to affect the situation. Saying it is thus a convenient way of shirking responsibility. Natalie Pang, a 29-year old Singaporean living in Beijing, explains this phenomenon of mei ban fa: “Sometimes it’s used not so much because a situation is difficult, as it is out of pure laziness. Mei ban fa is the catchall phrase to tell someone to fuck off, i.e. I can’t and won’t do anything else for you because the circumstances don’t allow. It lets you shirk responsibility.” In her experience, the Chinese whipped out the phrase like a magic wand to absolve themselves of all responsibility in certain situations. These included dealing with bureaucracy, deadlines, requests and, of course, circumstances truly out of their hands. “From wanting to know when my lost luggage could be returned, to my landlady telling me to suck it up with no electricity, to my HR department at work telling me I had to wait for my work pass for three months, I am usually mei ban fa-ed in a really deadpan manner that almost borders on boredom. There’s no real intense emotion,” she says. The phrase most often pops up among service staff, resulting in a lacklustre view of Chinese service, such as among expat blogs. Dealing with this deep-seated Chinese passivity can be tiring."
 
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Those are AI videos, get use to 'em. Not all AI programs are restricted woke garbage
 
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