Tarquinn2049

The worst part… they think that’s what they did with Elon… they are just so dumb that he seems smart to them. More of a problem with idiocracy, dumb people can’t actually identify smart people. They call it luck…

Ah sorry, guess I should have tagged it as sarcastic.

The microsoft store sells games? I thought that was only used to occasionally update your xbox for pc controllers by grabbing the xbox accessories app. Never seen the microsoft store otherwise.

This constant “asking the crowd if he is doing a dumb” kind of feels like on idiocracy, during monday night rehabilitation when the executioner is at first seemingly pandering to the crowd, and then you start to realise he actually needs their help to find Not Sure.

Yeah, kind of an empty threat. It’s just picking who gets to start not having federal funding first.

And the only way to make the protests “illegal” is to seed fake violence into them.

It’s just step one on a list of steps to get to schools not having any federal funds slow enough that people don’t get enough “up in arms” to actually stop it.

They know liberals have to be pushed pretty hard to actually be violent, so they are pushing 90% as hard as that, but constantly.

Oh weird, what a strange coincidence.

Wanting to be dead is usually a temporary goal. Not always, but usually. It’s unfortunate that with this situation, there was no way to find out if it was a temporary wish this time.

I can’t make it be -5 before I posted based on what I posted. Your edit obviously clarified what it meant for most people and turned around your negative. I’m not trying to be a jerk, I am literally defending myself from you.

Whether you knew what your post should have meant or not, it was obviously not clear, I wasn’t the only person who read it the way I did. Why did you feel the need to edit it?

This isn’t actually a big deal. I’m ok that it happened. Don’t worry about it.

Edit: I will add that there is a reason it’s a common practice to put “edit:” in front of any edit that might change the context of a post, especially if there are already replies to it at the time that will change their meaning with that edit.

So, you advocate for a generous reading of peoples posts. But, despite knowing what your original post contained, took me at my direct word instead of what I clearly meant… weird, why would someone do that? You knew I meant paragraph, and yet assumed malicious intent. While saying people shouldn’t do that…

And in your case it should have been even clearer I wrote the wrong word to convey my intended meaning.

In retrospect, with the added context, I can see what you originally meant. But without it, your post very much was just another person using the word as though it was fine to say and weird that people wouldn’t say it. And with it being at -5 when I posted, I wasn’t the only one that read it that way. You even felt you needed to correct it after I left.

His question wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t edit your post, though. As my post would have referred to your first sentence absent the second. And you’ll notice everyone read your post the way I did before you edited it. When I came along, you had -5. The only reason mine seems like a weird response now is because I responded to what was effectively a completely different post, even if the original post is still in there.

You were correct to edit your post. I don’t want to edit mine, but I will add context.

“You” knew what your original post was supposed to mean. But if every other viewer saw it as meaning what was written instead and you had to turn it around, are all of us readers really the ones in the wrong?

The post was edited since that reply, not alot of people go back and check if that happened.

They edited their post to be completely different from when I replied. I haven’t been back since. Everyone else that replied before the edit doesn’t make sense anymore either.

Kind of sucks that can happen, maybe we should be notified when something we replied to is edited.

It’s described in the article, got to it from one of the other links on lemmy. It’s the older tower of terror smaller carnival rides. The ones that are like 20-40 seats around a central pole and the seats alternate between going up and down the pole at as rapid a pace as that much weight can be cheaply moved.

The video in question is about someone falling off of it.

And indeed using the term engine retarding brake is still totally valid in that same context. You’re trying to apply one situation to the context of a different situation.

And when it comes to the word fat, let people around you know you are ok with it. But don’t just use it around everyone else assuming they are similarly ok with it. Unless you are ok with people using the word jerk or asshole around you. You don’t get to have it both ways.

Clinical terms will constantly shift to more neutral terms any time the current term has taken on more weight than it was intended to have. It can take a bit for the new neutral word to propagate, but it will come around sooner or later. Eventually, the stink of an old term will die down enough that it can come back into medical use.

When dealing with an individual you know well, behaving how they want you to behave… you are doing it right. When you assume everyone feels the same way and are wrong if they don’t, you are doing it wrong.

I advocate more for what they do to the person who uses them. If people tell you they are hurt by your actions, and your response is to say they are wrong to feel that way and you keep doing it, who does that make you?

Yes, it is… stop.

It’ll just be added to pile of hundreds of other invisible reasons why people are “too lazy to get a job”. So that the people suffering from them can be blamed instead of other people feeling bad for the situation they had either little or no control over being in. That’s the standard playbook response to this kind of thing. The sufferers are wrong to suffer, they should just be normal like everyone else. Not being normal is wrong. So they deserve to be poor or dead because they are the ones in the wrong.