I watch this Zoe bee video a little over a month ago. Talking about how we use metaphors to grasp abstract concepts, how we use it in our daily life and how we use as map, in our politics and so on. Something imo she didn’t focus enough is the metaphor we forget were ever metaphors(fun fact: the word “metaphor” has the world “meta”). This use one here, its like the three fishes with water. You see it so much you forgot it ever existed.

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    8 days ago

    Flagship. The flagship is the ship that leads the fleet, but people use it to describe quality. When Nothing launched their first phone, it was a flagship because it was their only ship, but people argued it wasn’t a flagship because it didn’t use Qualcomm’s flagship chipset. People continue to refer to all of Apple’s newest numbered iPhone models as flagships, and recently looped the 16e into that group, but the Pro line is obviously the flagship line. The other models are other ships in the fleet.

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    9 days ago

    not exactly what you asked, but most people get “blood is thicker than water” wrong. It’s actually “blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb” which means it’s the exact opposite of what people think it means.

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    10 days ago

    The bible.

    It’s unfortunately been distorted a lot with translations over time, but it was originally a story about morales in a world of greed.

    If Jesus came back he would be crucified again for being too “woke”.

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        9 days ago

        Actually, I think he’s be on a street corner being generally ignored by everyone as he prophesied ‘all the read words’ like a looney. I doubt he’d be taken seriously at all.

        Sadly.