The improper usage of double quotes is reprehensible. There isn't even an ending mark for the quotation.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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Everything following this post, including your comment and mine is also part of a quotation spoken by a very confused talking horse, who was attempting to quote Socrates, but didn't quite get it right." - A confused talking horse
that also continued with: "
Which will all get fed into a misquoting, fallacy-inducing, lying, hallucinating, LLM.
I guess I don't spend enough time online then.
Wtf is "touch?" Wtf is "grass?"
touch is a cmd to make (or update the mtime of) a file in unix like operating systems. I do not know much about the latter, it seems to be green scaline triangle like thingy earthlings used to grow a lot for not much reason. sometimes, it was also harvested, where some varieties of it produced some seed like thingies (not exactly sure what these seeds are, the seeds that i know of within my database is the starting precursor for randomness in some encryption algorithms)
Apparently grass is the command for the
geographic resource analysis support system
A powerful computational engine for vector and raster data management, geoprocessing, spatial modeling and visualization.
Reference grass.osgeo.org/learn/overview
"touch grass" - diogenes upon hearing socrates
"Touch grass" and "rent free" are the most overused phrases on the internet. Rent Free always gives me the impression that the user has recently been the victim of the phrase themself, and have now started throwing it around at others at every possible opportunity.
Sure sounds like that phrase is living rent free in your head.
You need to get out more and touch grass...
To wield the phrase "touch grass" is to admit that you, too, must touch grass.
Exactly.
proud to have never used the phrase "rent free" as it is utterly nonsensical
"touch grass" on the other hand is very useful advice!
Viking longships keep raiding the village
"Oi, thems northmen is livin in your head rent free!"
touch grass means to smoke weed.
Torch grass.
no. stop co-opting everything.
Shut the fuck up old man.
I tried to touch grass but now I just have a new file in my home directory
Today on the train-ride into work there was a group of what looked to be men in their mid 50s joking about who in their friend group was “alpha”, “beta” or “sigma”. I think that if, at this point in history, even a near-retirement age group of commuters is using the lingo then internet culture is just culture.
I did have to resist the urge to tell them to touch grass.
In conclusion, putting the internet on everyone’s phones was a huge mistake and we should go back to the way it was in the before-times.
Does this mean online phrases like "touch grass," "rent free", and even "skibidi toilet" could be considered cognitohazards?
I'd extend that to most internet memes.
Touch grass, Socrates
Apparently given his own definition, even Socrates needs to touch grass.
I prefer clover myself.
Creeping Thyme is good too...
Partial to hemlock myself. He should give it a try.
Grass or ass, nobody rides for free!
Gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free!
You don't need no gas on the internets, brother.
You can only see ass there and its mostly free.
Mmh, yes, very wise
Pureed mind
Well then, come, let us touch grass together.
sounds like someone told Socrates to touch grass and he got butthurt about it.
Would a fish say to touch water?
NO! They are touching water all the time. They have no concept of "no water".
The same with touching grass. You can only call it if you have known places without grass.
I've seen this water claim before. It's just dumb. Do you feel it has any use?
Im in california, you wouldn't even recognize the grasses we should have.
"Hey you sunza bitches! Get off my lawn!!!" - Nietzsche