This is quite concerning

  • kae@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Don’t encourage the behaviour. As the saying goes… Give a man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day… Teach a man to fish and you’ve fed him for life.

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      8 months ago

      I literally rearranged the headline wording

    • philthi@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Or to quote Terry Pratchett:

      Give a man a fire and he’ll be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

    • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Fool me once, shame on me, but teach a man to fool me and I’ll be fooled for the rest of my life.