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That or being relegated to Step-Mom roles (startrek.website)
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[–] RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because they don’t have to beat it afterwards? 🤷🏾

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[–] RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

“Beating a dead horse” is an old saying/idiom in the US meaning “that a particular effort is futile, being a waste of time without a positive outcome,” such as flogging/beating a dead horse, which will not compel it to do useful work. Maybe it didn’t land as well I thought it would.