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  • "Young people increasingly don't appear to be incredibly dumb, survey finds."

  • I made it very clear what I wanted to talk about in my first comment.

    Yeah I know, and my point this entire time has been that's not what the rest of us were talking about, so it's bizarre to see you ignore the topic at hand to divert discussion to yours.

    Ironically, you've kinda made my point by trying to fight me with zero information to go on.

    I find it interesting how much you don’t want to talk about those two subjects. Is that because you support blocking strikes and Israel’s genocide?

    Nope.

    Can't help but notice that you haven't mentioned you dislike child predators once this entire comment chain. I find that very interesting. Is that because you're on the Epstein List?

  • Yeah, I totally get it, you're trying to wrestle control of the wheel to divert the discussion into something you want to talk about instead. That's called a "Red Herring."

    But look at how red this herring is! How can you deny this?

  • (X) Shaun!

  • I've often seen it adjusted for things like Reddit as such:

    90% of users only view

    9% of users vote

    1% of users comment

  • Interestingly enough, old.reddit users are in the single digit percentages:

    Even if they weren't hostile towards old.reddit (the ads are far less invasive and effective), they could make a strong argument for not wanting to support a dwindling, tiny userbase.

  • Depends on your exit node.

    Also if you change the front page to be US-specific it'll force a login.

    As usual, people in the US get the shaft when it comes to privacy things.

  • It didn't seem like a good faith question so I didn't bother answering, but it seems at least one person in the shadows thinks it was, so I'll answer it:

    I was thinking of people who think the Uyghur genocide is fake news, the Holodomor was an accident and Ukraine ought to be a Russian territory again, and the DPRK is a wonderful place to live. If you disagree with that on the fediverse, there tends to be much gnashing of teeth from certain people who otherwise make sane political arguments about the biggest evils we currently face, at least in my country (e.g. Epstein Class Bad, Trump Bad, Fascism Bad).

    As for your two points, I haven't met anyone who supports genocide or the blocking of labor strikes, so I don't know why you thought those up.

  • It didn't seem like a good faith question so I didn't bother answering, but it seems at least one person in the shadows thinks it was, so I'll answer it:

    I was thinking of people who think the Uyghur genocide is fake news, the Holodomor was an accident and Ukraine ought to be a Russian territory again, and the DPRK is a wonderful place to live. If you disagree with that on the fediverse, there tends to be much gnashing of teeth from certain people who otherwise make sane political arguments about the biggest evils we currently face, at least in my country (e.g. Epstein Class Bad, Trump Bad, Fascism Bad).

    As for your two points, I haven't met anyone who supports genocide or the blocking of labor strikes, so I don't know why you thought those up.

  • A brief glance at their profile shows they mostly spend their time on the fediverse dropping incendiary comments in politically charged threads; we may never get clarification.

  • I feel like you over-specific'ed my meme into an apparent attack on me or my position(s)?

  • "Sorry, too busy attacking political allies for disagreeing with me on a point or two."

  • I'd never heard about the em dash until it was used to sniff out LLM-slop, but now I have one more thing I aspire to use correctly in my writing.

    I'm definitely not sure on how to use it yet.

  • Oh no! The police aren't busy with more serious laws so they focus on the only laws people are breaking at the moment!

    Why does this mean they suck, exactly? If you want to drive fast, drive on roads designed for fast driving.

  • No.

  • I understand your logic but I hate it (and am trying not to hate you).

    RESIST

  • It's also a snowball effect where they compete to escape the accusation of using ChatGPT or being "unc" or "boomer," self-policing to ensure everyone writes like garbage.

    I was once told "I write like someone who thinks they are good at writing." That was met with rounds of applause by the people who can't (or won't) spell, capitalize, or punctuate anything.

    To their credit, communication is a two-way street. If I'm writing such that nobody understands what I'm saying but me, it's not "good writing." But it does feel like we're nose-diving towards Idiocracy and I'm not happy about it.

  • That and all proper English writing gets you accused of using ChatGPT, because ChatGPT was trained on proper English writing.

  • Looks like everyone misread my comment. I guess I'll delete it before the algorithm punishes me further.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world

    Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?