I’m just having fun with the thing. It’s amusing

It’s a lighthearted joke about someone’s reading habits. It’s a pretty funny to get a roast and be upset that it’s about stuff you do. What else would it be lol

If you read mostly women then it could “roast” you by saying something along the line if a fella couldn’t catch a break. If it was mostly men, same joke but other way around. Simple, really. Find a habit, make a joke about it.

And there’s the point. Your very statement implies there are only two groups, white authors and not white authors, which would be a lot more obvious if you hadn’t replaced “white” with “(different colour)”.

Uhmm I was including white authors in that. If you are reading mostly white authors, you could suggest throwing in an author of some other colour. If you were reading just black authors, could joke about some other colour, including white.

Oh I thought because of what you said earlier

With the serious IQ drop some mention, I imagine it’s a wall they’re leaning against

The AI being black queer mother of two just seems especially egregious. It’s like they’re just checking boxes with that stuff.

It’s s topic that can definitely be upsetting to some.

This was supposed to be about reading habits. In that context talking about “hey throw in a (different colour) author too” doesn’t seem much like punching down

The more recent studies I’ve found (from 2024 or so) have put the risk much lower than 10%. The risk was much higher early on and has got much smaller over time. Not to mention the by far most common symptom was fatigue or dry cough lasting for a short time. Which, after having been sick, yeah.

It’s understandably not a risk that keeps many people up at night. At least not more than say influenza A, that can cause seizures and shit. Not at all often, which is why it doesn’t really worry people, unless they’re otherwise at heightened risk.

It’s one of those things were if you’re unlucky enough to get long covid and unlucky enough to get something severe out of it it really sucks, but also vast majority aren’t that unlucky so most aren’t that terrified of it.

And with how seemingly up to chance getting the whole covid is to begin with, it’s not something people are actively afraid of, imo for a reason since not much you can do, other than getting boosters maybe but even that doesn’t guarantee anything.

First time it sucked, I had my throat really sore for some days. Second time it was less severe than my regular flu though.

Read the source

No

I meant more that people care about it as much as other seasonal stuff

Your initial point was that if the app was supposed to be “roasting people” then it would mock anyone’s tastes.

No that wasn’t my point, just that people with diverse taste got roasted. Clearly it didn’t work in the other direction, but that doesn’t meant the roasts that it did weren’t jokes or roasts.

I’d say in Syria it was more militants and militaries doing the warfare rather than police, but that’s just my gut feeling, the police’s involvement might’ve been larger than I think

Something being a joke or funny to me doesn’t mean you have to laugh or find it funny, you know. You are your own person

I was just saying joking doesn’t require both siding it. If you’re making fun or racists it’d be silly for someone to come along and demand you make jokes about SJWs too or something. Some do it, but it’s not a requirement for something to count as a joke.

Syria’s numbers are literally from an active civil war

Doesn’t that make their numbers immediately questionable? Especially since what level of policing do you even have during a civil war

Your journey dives deep into the heart of Black narratives and transformative tales, leaving mainstream stories gasping for air. Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, okay?”

I mean this was pretty funny lol

And they can still be jokes if slanted in one direction. Humor doesn’t require both siding.

You absolutely can have one-sided joking though. Not sure what you think jokes are tbqh

Why couldn’t you joke about the reverse? If you’re looking for roasts you’d be silly to expect to be all aligning to your world view but just to be funny