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I'm not sure this taking pride in ignorance. It just seems like she has other things that occupy her time and thoughts.

Imagine if someone asked Linus Torvalds about the stitching pattern used on a shirt he wore in while giving a talk 10 years ago? If he said "I had no idea what you're talking about?" would that be taking pride in ignorance too?

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What if the pattern had some significance in some culture?

Anyway, something of that caliber actually happened. Torvalds addressed wearing socks and sandals in some interviews as him being not that into fashion.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-milleniu...

You guys find arguments and proof for everything. I love it.

Alternatively, it’s like the time some Star Trek fans asked William Shatner what the safe combination was on an episode of the show

I'm pretty sure that was a spoof. But still :-D

Yeah that's the joke

>What if the pattern had some significance in some culture?

Could you clarify this, because I can't tell if you're being woke, the questioner is asking because of the significance, torvalds is assumed to know or what.

I don't think that's entirely fair. I was once dismissive of stuff other people got deep into, things like horoscopes, or fashion, or sport. They wereen't relevant to my life. But as I've grown I realised how much this limited me, meant I was essentially choosing to dismiss those people and the things they liked as unimportant, indirectly insulting their intelligence.

I consider it to have been a character flaw of mine, and I have tried to work on it. It's not and never will be cool to take pride in not liking something other people like. They like it for a reason, and it turns out if you just shut up and listen enough you will probably start seeing the intricacies and come to like or at least appreciate it too.

No one has to like everything or try everything but everyone should be humble, gracious and kind when they admit that fact about themselves.

> Imagine if someone asked Linus Torvalds ...

Noone ever cared about the stitching paterns Linus wore. But if you asked him about his "fuck you" to nvidia, which was a "meme" too, hopefully he'd remember it.

I'm pretty sure it's her tone, together with the reaction of the other people in the studio that makes this feel like taking pride in ignorance.

But apart from that, an actor being asked about a scene they acted and reacting with "I don't know what that is. I don't know, I don't have a clue, I don't care" is a bit ridiculous. Everyone realizes that the phone and its messaging software is completely irrelevant to the movie, but we are used to great actors taking pride in details no layman would notice. Imagine a James Bond actor stating he doesn't care about the watch he wore, or Keanu Reeves mistakenly wearing the wrong type of belt for a suit and answering with "I don't know anything about belts, and I don't care"

I want to watch the Wick series only because I heard about how Keanu went all in training for the long cut fight scene choreography. I don't know if it is a carefully maintained image but he seems like someone who gains success but manages to still care about the right stuff and not care about shallow fluff.

Would "they told me to type on thing and I typed on thing" be any better ?

> but we are used to great actors taking pride in details no layman would notice. Imagine a James Bond actor stating he doesn't care about the watch he wore, or Keanu Reeves mistakenly wearing the wrong type of belt for a suit and answering with "I don't know anything about belts, and I don't care"

The phone type is completely irrelevant to the plot tho, could be typing on 3210 and it wouldn't make difference.

She's not an actor, she's a pop star. The watch James Bond wears is often considered an integral part of his character, but the internal part of a pop star is dancing/singing, not some piece of software that was used for a segment for a couple of mere seconds. That'd be like accosting a Bond actor for not knowing the name brand of a pen he randomly picks up to scribble a note really quickly - eg, stupid. Give her shit for not knowing the name of a dance move, fine, but this spreadsheet thing? Chill.

Ah damn, integral*, not internal.

Speak for yourself. I'm not used to any actors taking great pride in details no layman would notice. I 100% expect a James Bond actor to have no clue what watch they asked him to wear and same for Keaneau Reeves and a belt.

those are different though, as one is illogic (not making sense) and the other is merely opinion (fashion). but yeah, I get that that's just my opinion

Equally, some people would place fashion much higher than logicality.

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