Apologies. To clarify rather than being emoji snarky, it’s fine if you don’t understand what I’m saying, but I’m specifically stating that in face-to-face interactions the intent would be for the person to know you’re being sarcastic. It wouldn’t need to be stated. That ability tends to be lost in text forums, especially with strangers, which is why the sarcasm tag exists. And thus why I shall give no further quarter on this.
Urban areas tend towards D, rural tends toward R. Smaller population states have smaller, less populous urban areas, thus the discrepancy.
Why? My theory is that smaller communities can force out opposition, so they tend to have more uniform ideas (trends towards tradition) whereas larger communities have to compromise to make a healthy community, meaning more diversity of ideas and more empathy towards traditionally counter-culture groups.
Yeah, that would mean getting rid of the Reappointment Act of 1929 and implementing the proposed Wyoming Rule
This is a patent lawsuit, not copyright
Fair enough
Assuming we’re talking as OP, I think the community covers the intent.
No, there isn’t. Tone is inflection in speech and body-language. In text, you might reasonably think it could be inferred, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be conveyed. And if someone is missing the inference, piling on “evidence of tone” phrases could be misinterpreted as “more proof of conviction”.
Use /s. If you get downvoted because you didn’t, that’s on you.
Or they’re neurodivergent. Or they’re fucking nazis trying to gaslight new recruits, claiming that the OP isn’t actually being sarcastic.
Yeah, but the assholes will think you agree with them, which bolsters them. It’s much more fun to write out something they agree with to a T, and then add the /s tag. Completely deflating, utter devastation.
Sarcasm tag exists, it should be used. If you’re getting downvoted because you didn’t use the tag… good. We don’t need lemmy to breed nazis/assholes
The tag does two things. One, for people like me (ND ASD) the tag allows us to actually understand what you’re trying to say. Kind of a dick move to exclude people from the conversation. Two, and far more important, it’s no longer a question if you’re being sarcastic. That doesn’t sound important until you remember that 4chan literally brought back nazis because they thought ironic nazism was hilarious. And then all the closeted nazis used that to say “none of those people are being ironic, they all mean what they’re saying” to new, properly primed recruits.
Giving money to bigots saying bigoted things doesn’t mean the bigots didn’t mean the things they said. It means they got paid for being bigots.
Harris’ support of Israel isn’t “neoconservative”, it’s textbook neoliberalism.
Trump pardoned one of his friends. He’s not going to endorse him, but he will show him respect for that.
Putting humans in an extremely low atmosphere environment… underground. I let you think of the really bad accidents that could occur from that. I’ll start you off with, what if there’s a fire? What if there’s a leak? Or an earthquake?
It’s got all the terror of space, but you’ve also got thousands of pounds of earth overhead. Makes Oceangate’s Titan sub seem downright safe by comparison.
Thanks! Apparently I got banned for being a crypto bot. No idea why, I fucking hate crypto and would never shill any of that useless nonsense.
Random, but related, question. How do you pull up these lists? I’ve been banned from a community, but have no idea why
Oh no! Using sarcasm to create a strawman out of what I’m saying? Whatever shall I do? I suppose I must die, now and forever. Bleh! /s
Yeah, it’s all the ammo I got, but it’s better than endlessly arguing the need for the tag with an ever-changing cast of opposition. Cause that’s exhausting