This is something tradesmen have said for a very long time. I think the original meaning has been lost online.
"It's not stupid if it works" is basically a tacit admission that something stupid is happening, we all agree that it's stupid, and we also kind of all know that there is a better way, but for some reason we're not doing that.
Usually it feels like the stupid thing we're about to do is the best option available to us.
I've been in hiring meetings, probably 12-15 of them, where we screened candidates by education level. It literally did not matter to the hiring manager what field their degree was in, where they went, or if they'd even graduated yet. He just wanted everyone to have or to be working towards a degree.
This was a call center. The job posting literally only listed high school diploma or equivalent as a job requirement. There was absolutely nothing about a college experience that would markedly improve your work at that job.
When that was explained to him, as only a handful of applicants during one round of hiring were even in school, he said, "if they haven't been to college they quit sooner."
That was it. The only justification for screening out people without higher education. He had a hard time keeping people at work and figured that people with worthless degrees would feel more stuck than people without them.
Cookbooks are, recipes by in large, are not. But for a cookbook to be infringed you'd basically have to take the entire thing, because the individual recipes are not protected.
Did you sleep through class? Maybe have a dream where the professor told you to make up missing money?
This type of discrepancy is, wait for it, accounted for. It's the point of bookkeeping. You know that money has been sent or received, you know how much you owe and how much you're owed. A check in the mail isn't going to cause a failed audit. 10,000 checks in the mail won't cause a failed audit. You can look back over thousands of transactions and know, "oh, we normally get that check on the last Friday, it's the last Monday, nothing to worry about yet." Any auditor would also look at the history of payments and not account for money that's not expected yet.
Several things happened. One, he picked the most vulnerable swing states and focused on those, and delivered exactly the message people wanted to hear. Second, Harris in those same states instead of telling people what they wanted to hear, told them she wasn't trump, and paraded out unpopular conservatives to try to swing right leaning voters her direction. Instead of finding a massage to give people a good reason to vote for her, she leaned pretty hard on "well have you seen this other guy??"
People crave motion and action. So in those few states she got her ass handed to her. The rest of the country largely voted along the lines it always has. Democrats learned nothing from Obama's victory or Clinton's loss, they thought they'd successfully turned the tide after Biden swept up a fucking disaster and then went on to make a half hearted attempt at badly needed though still unpopular debt relief. Then he took too much cold medicine before a debate and got his ass handed to him.
Most people aren't thinking much beyond the roof over their head and the food on their table. If Democrats can't make those two things easier, the guys with a bad plan looks better than the guys without one at all.
I played it as a kid, though to be fair the only progress was made when my dad played. It was mostly brute force, "ok, can't go any further here let's try another path." And eventually you were at the final boss. My dad eventually got to the end and thought he got lucky, that he'd just happened to go through the rest of the game first and collected everything he needed. I don't actually think it's possible to get to Ganon in the first game without going through all the dungeons.
This is something tradesmen have said for a very long time. I think the original meaning has been lost online.
"It's not stupid if it works" is basically a tacit admission that something stupid is happening, we all agree that it's stupid, and we also kind of all know that there is a better way, but for some reason we're not doing that.
Usually it feels like the stupid thing we're about to do is the best option available to us.