• r.EndTimes
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    821 days ago

    There are always outliers and exceptions to rules, they are usually not who/what is being discussed lol

    • Libra00
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      421 days ago

      Yeah but people (on the internet and off) like to make blanket statements like ‘Anyone who doesn’t put the shopping cart back is a terrible person’, so sometimes they have to be reminded that the world is not as black and white as they’d like to imagine.

      • @[email protected]
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        821 days ago

        Nah man, language is messy and people are lazy. Language is messy meaning people generally don’t get so detail oriented and pedantic when someone says an absolute that clearly has some exceptions. People are lazy meaning most people aren’t going to care to hash out the specifics of the edge cases that don’t fit the generic statement.

        Your test seems to be more about how pedantic everyone is, and god I hope Lemmy loses that to reddit…

        • Libra00
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          421 days ago

          Yeah that was definitely a thing I saw a lot more on reddit than here re:‘shit human being’, so fair point, I’m with you in hoping that kind of thing doesn’t come over here/goes away.