No worse nor better than “10 stone, 8”.
No worse nor better than “10 stone, 8”.


I was going to lead with “Don’t assume that other people have it right and you don’t” combined with “Most people are sleepwalking through life, so be careful about asking random strangers for advice”; however, I like this list and hope more people will upvote it.


Thomas Dolby, “I love you, goodbye”.


For answering a question, no limit on elapsed time, as long as your answer can actually be helpful.


Idiots began to demand perpetual growth and other idiots began trying to make it happen. And then it became institutionalized. And then the idiots forgot they were idiots.


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It doesn’t.
Humans want information to be free. Hoarding information is like hoarding any other resources. It causes power imbalances. Free information means that power is more evenly distributed.


Some contestants phrase every question with “What is…?” Matt Amodio is well known for doing this. He won many times.
Ultra Edit 32 was excellent.


It made sense to scare people into being reasonable. That was the Old Testament.
Once they acted less stupidly, it became safer to let people be as they are. That was the New Testament.
I really love this reply and especially how it promotes genuine decency rather than coerced decency. I know I’m not exactly adding to the discussion, but I really wanted to recognize how warm this reply felt to me with something more than a mere upvote.