Might have gotten more publicity as it was used in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a Starfleet motto. Boimler in Lower Decks also has a poster with the motto on it.
For the record, Deus ex Machina is more a specific literary device- literally a crane lowering a god to save the protagonist in Roman and Greek dramas.
To be fair they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story. But the whole hanging-actor thing was meant to say they were a god and could just wave problems away. (Apparently literally.)
More literally, memento mori is "remember you will die". There was a Roman ceremony called the Triumph when a successful war commander would parade on a chariot through Rome.
Allegedly, someone would follow them through the day telling them "memento mori" to... keep them humble, I guess? as they were basically showing off to everyone in a god costume.
Cute comic, but I'm starting to hate how people think that an insult is the same thing as an ad hominem. No. If I call you an idiot without attaching any propositions to that, it's just an insult and not a logical fallacy.
As the story goes, John Steinbeck was told by one of his professors that he would become an author when pigs fly,[...]
The accurate phrase is “ad astra per ALAS porci,”[“to the stars on the wings of a pig.”] which means that Steinbeck in his snarky revenge was demonstrating far and wide that he was a bad student after all – and thanks to his famous but inaccurate imprint, countless people are running around with tattoos which actually say “to the stars through other pigs.”[“ad astra per alia porci”]
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chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y
I fucking love this so much.
berryjam@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
You should check out this artist's other work!
Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah! Super clever and fresh.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 1y
Might need a couple of those to be translated
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 62 pts · 1y
BenReilly97@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1y
"Through adversity" is the translation I've heard.
GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Suffering, adversity, difficulty, hardship, seem to be what different institutions commonly translate it to.
Fun fact, it's also the motto of Kansas, where the artist lives.
ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
Might have gotten more publicity as it was used in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a Starfleet motto. Boimler in Lower Decks also has a poster with the motto on it.
yimby@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
I know it from the tribute plaque to the Apollo 1 astronauts who sadly passed in a tragic fire during ground tests.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Where I live it's translated as Through the thorns to the stars.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
For the record, Deus ex Machina is more a specific literary device- literally a crane lowering a god to save the protagonist in Roman and Greek dramas.
To be fair they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story. But the whole hanging-actor thing was meant to say they were a god and could just wave problems away. (Apparently literally.)
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
So.. Literally Netflix
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
🙇♂️
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Don't say you've never heard of Per aspera ad astra?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Nope, didn't ring any bells off hand like the others.
Had to look it up.
where_am_i@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 1y
So many upvotes, while so many botchered translations.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
Please feel free to correct any I "botchered."
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 19 pts · 1y
More literally, memento mori is "remember you will die". There was a Roman ceremony called the Triumph when a successful war commander would parade on a chariot through Rome.
Allegedly, someone would follow them through the day telling them "memento mori" to... keep them humble, I guess? as they were basically showing off to everyone in a god costume.
tal@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1y
There's some WP page I remember with common Latin phrases.
kagis
Okay, it's apparently now twenty WP pages, though there is one mega-page with all of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(full)
nieceandtows@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y
That "This farmer is evel" by the pig and the "sic" by the hen gives me a sensible chuckle
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
That's a
cockrooster.Hupf@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
What's this then?
Klear@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
Cute comic, but I'm starting to hate how people think that an insult is the same thing as an ad hominem. No. If I call you an idiot without attaching any propositions to that, it's just an insult and not a logical fallacy.
Vincent@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 1y
I suppose "revolt, because the farmer is evel [sic]!" is more of an ad hominem than "revolt, because the farmer will have us all slaughtered!"
General_Effort@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
https://sluggoonthestreet.tumblr.com/post/188811241794/as-the-story-goes-john-steinbeck-was-told-by-one
hogmomma@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Was this an animated gif that had no animation?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Boost always renders gif as an animation whether it's animated or not. Which client do you use?
hogmomma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Boost 1.0.14 for Android.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
Well, I need to take a cold hard look in the mirror, because I was waiting for the Pig to complain about
systemd.Edit: Context for my expectation - we're doing that over on Linux memes, today
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
For those who like Latin puns, there's: "Studiosus sine studio sus est".
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
ixnay on eht ingolay
Etterra@discuss.online · 0 pts · 1y
That's the name of an SCP, that's the name of an SCP, that's...