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minus-squareMagicShel@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up61·3 months agoIt’s frustrating that if you fight against a thing and beat it, folks think there was no need to fight it in the first place. No. We routed evil temporarily. Great victory; still needs to be defeated again every time it rears its head.
minus-squareChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·3 months agoI’ve been using the Death Star as an analogy for my nerd friends. Yes, we won a big battle, but the Empire isn’t dead. Gotta keep fighting.
minus-squareChakravanti@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoA little more like Serenity/Firefly than Star Wars
minus-squareTuxCat@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·3 months agoThere’s actually a term for that phenomenon: the Preparedness Paradox.
It’s frustrating that if you fight against a thing and beat it, folks think there was no need to fight it in the first place. No. We routed evil temporarily. Great victory; still needs to be defeated again every time it rears its head.
I’ve been using the Death Star as an analogy for my nerd friends. Yes, we won a big battle, but the Empire isn’t dead. Gotta keep fighting.
A little more like Serenity/Firefly than Star Wars
There’s actually a term for that phenomenon: the Preparedness Paradox.