platitudinal

I love all the bland, platitudinal aphorisms and vague "x for y" explanations. It feels like a lot of startups do this without realizing.

It's platitudinal now but still true. Everything is dictated by the focus you apply over the next few months.

You're moving back and forth between enormous historical and current problems and sweeping the platitudinal meat under the rug. It's easy to point to those problems and say,"Yeah, but this is nowhere near what it used to be!"

Or maybe it annoys you that you didn't see some trite platitudinal disclaimer in my post about how how life is all about trade-offs and what works for Bob might work for Alice." The take away is clearly "things that work in the small often don't work in the large.

The idea as I now articulate it seems sort of platitudinal, but I'm nevertheless glad to have started paying attention to it in recent months.

If they and I arrive at different conclusions, I ask what I'm missing, not what they're missing -- and I don't say that in a platitudinal sense; I'm an arrogant bastard who thinks everyone is wrong about everything. In case you hadn't noticed.

Or maybe it annoys you that you didn't see some trite platitudinal disclaimer in my post about how how life is all about trade-offs and what works for Bob might work for Alice. It's like you're about to tell me that exercising doesn't pay off because it's hard to stick with a strategy."

People simply conflate fairness and equality and that seeps into the discourse because it makes for easy platitudinal soundbites. Of course, taken to its logical conclusion, equality looks like this[1].

You're moving back and forth between enormous historical and current problems and sweeping the platitudinal meat under the rug. The problems America faces are largely controlled by democratic systems.

This is the same dismissive, ignorant, platitudinal advice that the parent commentator was directly referring to. I find it supremely hilarious that you refer to the person's own body as an external factor.

It's interesting that you talk about people lacking rigor in their thinking, while your understanding of the leaks lacks rigor, and you use your lack of rigorous understanding as the foundation for platitudinal statements filled with repeated "probably"s. That, and you call VW an institution with integrity, despite their massive coverup.

Uh, perhaps the above commenter "ignores" said disproportionality because it's so beyond platitudinal that it doesn't bear repeating but rather is taken as a given starting point for any discussion on the matter.