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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A tool of a person is a fool who is being used by someone else. They might not be useful to you, but to who ever makes the koolaid they're drinking, they're a very good tool.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

I think that's the basic idea, but in practice it's used for people who are just generally dumb as well.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Well, when was the last time you looked at a hammer and thought "y'know, you're pretty smart!"

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

Eh, people misuse terms all the time. It shouldn't change what it's meant to mean.