• @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    I wish there was a way to automatically block any account that posts one of these super shitty tall images

      • Nima
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        52 years ago

        uh, what? I’m on jerboa and it reads fine.

      • @[email protected]
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        Same on Connect and Boost. They look like shit. Not to mention I think it’s just annoying to have to click multiple times (to read it at all) then scroll and bunch before needing to hit back.

        Edit: apparently I’m wrong on the more recent versions of Connect. Regardless, a weird content format that requires app developers to think about supporting is kind of annoying in general

  • @[email protected]
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    182 years ago

    Captain Picard as he finally exits Branson’s torture chamber: “Shark skin… is NOT smooth as hell!”

  • @[email protected]
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    972 years ago

    I’m completely baffled that these people couldn’t recognize the troll after two responses. Even worse, they continued after the book post. I have to assume they were also going along with the troll for a laugh. They can not be this incredibly dense.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 years ago

      Because it is a comedic reflection of what is happening right now with certain people insisting misinformation is fact and true despite all evidence to the contrary. (Eg: trump won, vaccines kill, ETc.)

  • IWantToFuckSpez
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    Twitter people are dumb, Tumblr people straight up suffer from dysfunctional autism. How can you not recognize the trolling in the screenshot?

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      I’m not sure what you mean by “dysfunctional autism” exactly, but this is a known trait of many autistic people. They often fail to pick up on social cues that most other people take for granted. It’s just because their brain works differently, they tend to take people at face value. And unlike what some have professed to believe here, their desire to explain or correct you does not come from a desire to “be the smartest person in the room”, but rather it’s their way of helping. They like to have accurate information, so they assume others do too. So yes, combine these two traits with a person who like to screw with them and you get conversations like this, which unfortunately amounts to a pretty nasty form of teasing.

    • @[email protected]
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      132 years ago

      Because apparently for dudes who’ve got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, “someone who’s wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they’re smarter than you” is their kryptonite. You can play dumb on almost any subject and their ego, their staunch belief that the masses are so far below them, will blind them to the fact that you’re just fucking with them, and as long as you don’t admit you’re fucking with them or acknowledge that there’s anything Off about what you’re saying, they won’t be able to stop themselves trying to get you to Respect Their Authority, and they won’t be able to see that will literally never happen.

  • @[email protected]
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    632 years ago

    This is why “/s” was invented, no matter how silly it might seem.

    Because human skulls are thick af.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        The fuck? This is completely messed up. I cannot agree with the bullshit “facts” stated in this article. 8 billion only netted 8 million terminated unborn lives? Almost $1000 per is definitely not “efficient.”

        Lemme know when you get below $100 per.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        So far I feel like people here are a tad more gullible than reddit ever was. Didn’t think it was possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      /s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        Well that’s a stupid little take, you must communicate in exhaustive detail while on the internet. It’s in the rules!

    • blivet
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      142 years ago

      I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Lack of nonverbal queues/tone and lack of context. It’s easier to convey sarcasm through text if you’re chatting with someone you know well. But online, you’re often talking to near strangers, and you don’t know if they’re the type to find this kind of thing hilarious among other beliefs.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 years ago

        It’s because sarcasm is usually indicated with vocal intonations, which is lost in text.

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          Sure, but for some reason there doesn’t seem to be the same difficulty in print. I don’t recall any warnings about the use of sarcasm or irony in style guides before the internet era, and no one seemed to feel the need for anything like “/s”.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            That’s a really good point. I would guess that this has to do with how the medium of the internet makes it more difficult to detect the author’s intent. Pre-internet, most writing was read from books, newspapers, and magazines. With each of these, the reader usually has a good idea of the author’s tone. Going in, the reader is usually familiar with the subject, and I’m guessing that longer texts give the reader more time and context to detect the tone.

            This is all pretty different on the internet, where shorter, user-generated content (mostly written by people who aren’t amazing writers) reigns supreme. When reading comments in a thread or flipping through posts, the reader switches between different authors with their different tones much quicker than in earlier mediums. It makes sense that people would get tripped up more often.

            That’s all just ideas, though. I’d love to see some scientific study on this kind of stuff.

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    32 years ago

    Everyone knows that sharks are the fastest animals on the earth

    Their skin is so smooth that there’s no friction between them and water

    Source: i’m an animal boiologist

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    282 years ago

    This proves two things:

    1. Internet arguments are pointless.
    2. Playing dumb on the Internet and refusing to admit the bit under any circumstances is hilarious.
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    I just don’t even know how they think this joke is suppose to work while explaining sharks skin is rough to the touch.

    “Smooth looking lions that feel rough when you touch them are eating me.”

    Like, wtf man, why not explain that you cant talk while under water while getting eaten by sharks.

  • @[email protected]
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    82 years ago

    Yeah, but shark skin is like sandpaper. Especially rough when rubbed “against the grain”

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      your app should zoom the img to fit the sides of your screen, and scroll down to see the whole thing. if not you either have a bad app or need to change a setting