What do you call the action of putting their grades together like this, without the sentences you put after it? (this is the most important question of this comment).

Why are you stuck on “cannot” when the point of the idiom is about the (repeat pun) fruitlessness of comparing things by inappropriate standards?

You clearly can come up with a way to score a math test by the standards of an art class, but that is not typically a useful endeavor.

I’ve never heard that expression before, but that’s pretty good.

Leadership are stupid assholes.

We should break google up and bury the current leadership in a deep hole somewhere.

Many people, perhaps most people, operate primarily on the emotional level. That’s one of the big problems facing humanity.

Microsoft should be broken up. A lot of problems go away if we just stop letting power consolidate.

Are you confusing “can’t” and “can, but is fruitless” (pun intended)?

Like, if someone says to you “you can’t put nails in with a screwdriver”, are you going to say “You totally can. Just whack the nail with the handle. I don’t see the problem”.

Or, like, “You can’t eat crayons” do you respond “sure you can. chew it up and eat it. i don’t see the problem. it’s just like a cookie”

You should be allowed to stand your ground and shoot dead anyone rolling coal. They’re assaulting you and everyone around you.

You could go down that train of thought, but you’ll find it impossible to make any decisions for fear of making things worse. “Should I put out this fire in my kitchen? No, what if the house has to burn down to stop double-mecha-hitler from being born??” is not a useful way of thinking.

“This orange sucks. I can’t just bite into it and enjoy it like an apple.” That’s not a sensible assessment of the orange. That’s applying the desired attributes of an apple to an orange.

I think that part of our problems come from people being too polite. Someone will say something completely stupid, and people don’t want to make a fuss so they let it slide. Peer pressure is like the only thing that changes minds.

The most reasonable interpretation is that you cannot use the standards of apples on oranges, nor the other way around.

You wouldn’t fault an apple because it doesn’t have a thick skin that needs peeling.

Many people are sad, cruel, little monsters that are happy those people are being hurt.

It’s really hard to change people like that so they’re better. You gotta get them to see you as in-group, and slowly re-socialize them. Lot of work. Might not even succeed. But it’s also apparently a whole bunch of crimes to round up the maga-hats and lock them in an underground vault somewhere.

Do you mean, like, for kids to play? For adults socially? Or like professional sports like the world cup?

If I saw a dude pop out of a time machine and shoot both of these fucks dead, I’d be like “yeah that makes sense”.

Microsoft will continue on inertia for years. but it’s basically a walking corpse full of parasites at this point.

I’ve seen a couple games that have the high res textures as a free separate download. That’d be nice. I’m not playing in 4k so I don’t need all that extra crap.

The fact that rich people stop paying into it is so stupid.

It should be progressive. The first $x you make aren’t taxed at all, then the next bucket at a small percent, then a larger percent, and so on.

Instead if you’re income-rich you just get a bump to your take home pay partway through the year.

Meh. I’m not going to pay for Netflix. Free media heck yeah or bust. My free public library has many options.

Fine. Consider your point made. I’ll use some other metaphor or allusion to express “don’t willy-nilly change systems you don’t understand”. Many people just do that, out of ignorance, stupidity, or hubris. I’ve seen a lot of software people delete “useless” code that caused problems later.

Humans are social creatures. Facts don’t matter. Emotions and social belonging matter. So people who are just immersed in trump-stuff are going to think it’s all normal and good, and reject contrary facts from the out group.

This is part of why right wing media is so dangerous. It feeds the in-group solidarity