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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by skybrian on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:36AM (#34611948)
Before that, people were “experimented on” by viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Also indoor smoke, etc. And how do you think folk remedies were tested?

To fuck around and find out is not modern, it’s the human condition.

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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by twalla on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:47AM (#34612133)
To fuck around is human, to find out is divine.
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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by graeber_28927 on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:02AM (#34612388)
Is this a thing? Or did you just spawn a quote for future generations to attribute to anonymous and Mark Twain in the coming centuries?
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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by generalizations on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:13AM (#34612595)
It's known as the malapropism.
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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by throwanem on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @11:41AM (#34613128)
In this case specifically of "to err is human; to forgive is divine," which sounds to me like Johnson but I'm not going to try looking up the attribution because, in this context in particular, the universe's love for irony all but guarantees I'll get it wrong.
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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by throwanem on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:08PM (#34764512)
...it was Alexander Pope.
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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by twalla on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:25PM (#34614022)
Nobody uses those anymore, they're too popular.

English language stackexchange offered up "paraphrasing" and "snowclone", which I've never heard of.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292853/what-is-i...

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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by klyrs on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:58PM (#34615701)
Looks like a neopropism to me
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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by Joeboy on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:03PM (#34615790)
A snowclone? Not sure if it's allowed to be that if there's only one of it though.
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Re:Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eye... by danbolt on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @02:06PM (#34615834)
I've defs seen the quote used on the part of Twitter that likely has also used Tumblr in the past.
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