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art degree save lifes (i.redd.it)

submitted 5 months ago by ooli2@lemm.ee to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

when do honorary degrees ever matter

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

When the university wants to brag

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

For anyone wondering why it took them so long to rescind the degree, it happened in December 2022.

[–] justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

~~Ronald Reagan?~~ Donald Trump? The actor!?

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 14 points 5 months ago

Honestly, if a Black US man convinced the racist Nazis in his country to go about killing in his name, that would absolutely impressive. They'd have to turn off even more parts of their brain to be controlled by a black man and at the same time hate and love him.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

who would he even genocide? could be anyone

[–] otto@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good taste

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago

Spit my drink

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

This post is like 2 years old. How is it this grainy???

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some Lemmy instances have very low file size cutoffs for image uploads. I feel that the natural loss of pixels that happens everywhere over time is acellerated here.

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago

I'm more inclined to think it was shared, reshared, and reencoded to hell and back.

Also,

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What does Mos Def think of all this?

[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Where is Ja?!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Am I not getting something? Why is it a bad idea or do I need the /s, lol

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

kanye's personal hero, hitler, got kicked out of art school

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! Insert "duh" meme.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I didn’t make the connection until I read a comment reply. Dropping out of art school is a bit different than have an honorary degree rescinded.

[–] strawberry@kbin.earth 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

what the hell is an honorary degree

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

It's a degree awarded by institutions to outstanding figures for achievements in a certain field.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Degree given to someone who wasn't a student. These are given all the time to singers, actors, writers etc.

Denzel Washington, for example, has honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jeremy Clarkson got an honorary doctorate in engineering from Brunel University. He can barely explain how a differential works.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

It's the most honorary degree... in the world!