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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoBluesky@lemmy.worldHilary isn't playing
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    5 hours ago

    Wow, guys. I don’t know her from whatever the shit Fox said, so forgive me for discounting the speaker for something you personally witnessed. I’d ask what she did other than be the target of the Bernie backstabbing, but it feels like COVID and 2 Trumps ago.

    So. She has a point.

    Remember when we didn’t kill the messenger because we remembered what Genghis did for that?





  • Survivor bias aside, I’m not sure the UI doesn’t make this drive-by trolling worse. The reddit UI (hi Lemmy) is threaded but disjoint, and the excellent response to one tree of responses isn’t useful to or seen in another tree – and those trees will develop in parallel in almost every discussion.

    I worry that quips and cheap takes stand out because they’re fast and block actual discussion more, so have that mock ‘finalising’ effect. Ending a discussion thread is not concluding it .

    … and we all have that cousin whom no one invites anywhere because he’ll argue the shit out of something like a jackal worrying a carcass, until people just give up and let him wander smugly off to his little corner in contrarian triumph.









  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldThe Future Is Now
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    14 hours ago

    people can’t handle not looking professional 😭

    For weeird definitions of ‘professional’, right?

    At both my jobs, I talk in points; I write in points; I rewrite their long-winded shit “just to be sure we’re clear,” in points.

    It’s not god’s work I’m doing, but it preserves my sanity when it’s distilled down to facts and goals like my technical writing prof recommended so many years ago. \shrug