“I might repeatedly demonstrate that I jump to conclusions and make shit up without taking more than a passing notice of what I’m replying to, but making fun of me for it is just plain arrogant.”

— You

It wasn’t me, and I sincerely doubt you’re capable of reaching understanding even if you weren’t bound and determined not to understand.

That’s not an unfair comparison, it’s literally the point. I swear, we need all internet access locked behind reading comprehension tests.

Their entire voting base is doggedly fixed on the idea of turning up to vote even if they hate the candidate or even the current party platform. At the other end you have people who who consider not voting to be a high-minded protest, who only turn up for candidates who are ideologically pure enough: in other words, voters who represent no threat at all and can be ignored. Is it any wonder that those who only care about having power cater to the people who will still vote for you while you piss on them?

Yes, I, too, understood the point of the comment.

It is, but keep in mind that if you don’t intentionally misinterpret things you know to be jokes, you won’t get to act smug about how awful they are. It’s good to see we have some people bringing the core aspect of reddit culture here.

Calm down.

Telling people “calm down” is a very unconstructive de-escalation tactic because it has no substance. People respond much better if you address specific conduct, explain a potential consequence, ask for something else, and then give space.
For example, when someone needs to calm down, I tell them “You’d better fix that attitude problem of yours before it gets you into trouble”, and then as soon as they begin to respond I interrupt with “Close your mouth” and I walk away. This makes people realize they’re overreacting and they calm down right away.

That’s it. It’s the illusion of fairness and it takes away reddit jannies’ ability to show off their powermod status, and that’s the only incentive they have not to use sockpuppets for every sub they mod.

Grok has clearly been instructed to defend Charlie Kirk in every context and to assert he “wins” in any given situation. Right-wing people like Kirk and Musk are obsessed with image and not losing face. Grok, like Kirk was programmed to simulate the kind of rationalizations and vernacular that appeal to right-wingers, and so it tries to spin-doctor Kirk getting capped as “actually he’s fine lol shut up nerd”. I think it’s hilarious, because it implies “Defend Charlie Kirk” is excruciatingly over-emphasized in the LLM’s instruction set to compensate for the fact that Kirk actually got humiliated regularly.

Microsoft is at this point made up entirely of technically inept people running fraudulent mechanical Turks.

Shut up nerd, go worry about a real problem.

Suck my Frances E Dec

Matrix exists to contain people whose schizo power level was too high for discord and it has no other function. You can safely ignore 100% of all activity on matrix servers and that percentage is not an exaggeration.

If you spelled it like Flo Rida you’d be spelling it correctly.

It’s a dig at people who think we can solve climate change with individual-level half-measures like using bugs as our protein source instead of just eating vegetables like people who aren’t completely fucking nuts.

Yes, among other scandals. That’s why it has been captured and is being debased. The Washington Post is now like Hector’s corpse being dragged and abused in grisly triumph, except there’s no Aphrodite to keep it from rotting.

If anything, this indicates that restaurants should be forced to print menus so it’s as annoying and inconvenient as possible to raise prices.

“lol. I’m so detached and yet bemused. Lmao. Lmao look how cool I am lmao lmao”

Boy if you don’t get off the computer

You’re on the bus, in a seat, but if the bus driver finishes the day and left his hat behind, his hat is in the bus on a seat. Active/private/static vs passive/public/transitory. You’re generally in buildings but on vehicles, unless that vehicle is both private and enclosed. It’s not much more complicated than in[side] vs on [top of]; just keep in mind that it’s predicated on whether or not the encapsulatory nature of the object is necessary to its identity. For instance, you could also ride on a flat parade float without walls or roof, and putting a box on it to make it a bus doesn’t change that, so it remains ‘on’.