I like how the image captions still refer to the balloon as “possibly on an espionage mission” and “the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon” lmao

I’ve seen literally one of those shows lol, definitely know the feeling

I feel like there’s something uniquely cringe about the way redditors seem to love more than anything to invoke the names of the fallacies. Like if someone’s argument isn’t sound it’s totally reasonable to point that out, but the redditbrain seems to only care about naming the fallacy rather than actually doing that. Of course there’s also just the fact they’re just wrong a lot of the time. Like yeah for sure believing in cause and effect is definitely a slippery slope fallacy you got me

Not knowing the context, the case in the screenshot just seems like bad communication tbh and I think that would have gone over a lot of neurotypical people’s heads. It’s conceivable that there might have been some context where that meaning was more clear, but sometimes people also just communicate things poorly

These gentlemen think that when we have given names to things we have created the things themselves. This is how these profound thinkers mock at the whole world.

‘I’ll eat lab-grown meat when it’s available’ is pretty much the ‘future carbon capture technology will solve climate change’ of animal welfare anyway (actually climate change too because it definitely affects that too)

I’d probably go with 10 just to be safe but you’d probably be fine a bit earlier as well

I’m not necessarily anti-tone indicators (and I’d certainly not call them cringe) but I feel like they’re often not amazing at actually solving the problems they intend to solve. You can certainly put a /s after something to indicate sarcasm, which might help a little, but knowing that what was said wasn’t meant literally doesn’t necessarily help to know what actually was meant. Sarcasm can have some pretty different intended implications which aren’t conveyed by a single indicator. In the case of /hj it’s even more ambiguous, because something being ‘half a joke’ could mean many different things. It can be that it’s somehow kind of exaggerated but at its core somehow true, that an unspecified part of what was said was a joke, or even that it’s literally true or a genuine statement but presented as a joke or entirely a joke but someone judges it’s funnier to imply part of it isn’t somehow, and probably many more things.

Does it really harm you so much to ask a clarifying question to determine if you understood correctly before jumping to attacking a user’s message?

Certainly not, but I don’t think this is really where the problem lies. If I genuinely don’t understand someone’s message I will ask what they mean and I think most people do so as well. It’s when you think that you know you’ve understood the message and that it’s worth attacking that you attack them. In theory I guess you could do that literally all of the time, but it’s still possible your clarifying question isn’t interpreted as you intended it for many of the same reasons you may have misinterpreted theirs in the first place, and people who are acting in bad faith are unlikely to respond in good faith. It’s also just seems kind of tedious to have to respond to every bad take by basically echoing the bad take back to them to hope they respond and tell me they indeed have this take so I can actually respond to it, and it gives people acting in bad faith a lot of breathing room.

Canada literally has pretty much a straight line across flat land which is home to about half the country/20 million people in the form of the Quebec City-Windsor corridor and somehow doesn’t have HSR which is wild

I think this is true a lot in NA, but it doesn’t feel like it’s the case here. Especially with the buttons for cyclists, after pressing it there’s often a sort of count down wait timer on the pole that appears and while it sometimes counts down all the way normally at others it will sometimes jump down a bit, seeming based on other factors. They also just don’t feel like they’re just on a set timer, so yeah

Not 100% related but one thing I’ve noticed here is that it seems to have some trouble differentiating between places where you can cycle and places where you can walk. So if I’m trying to get walking directions in a place where for whatever reason the bike path doesn’t have an accompanying sidewalk it will just tell you to walk in the bike path. Conversely it seems to not realise that certain streets/areas aren’t for bikes at certain times and will try and have you bike there

I was top level tankie even as an anarchist. True left unity concentrated in my person

or was it the other one?

Yeah he was in the Pandora Papers

(i.e. when it comes to casualties and many other things)

Obviously this is just kinda coming out of my ass, but I’m almost certain that 100,000 people have already died. Can’t say what the exact number is obviously, but I imagine it’s the kind of thing that the lib media would rather not release because it would dampen people’s enthusiasm for it

Unfortunately I could never really get that into playing and practising solo and although I continued for a while regardless I eventually dropped my lessons, something I now kinda regret, but being part of an orchestra was always my favourite part of playing the violin.

Lack of knowledge in linguistics (or languages in general) is also what stopped my conlang project in its tracks.

Yeah I’ve had this issue too, but it hasn’t stopped me trying. I do try my best to understand the linguistics stuff enough to make sure my language is making sense, but it feels like a never-ending battle as there’s always more you can learn and add. I’m kinda fine with that though, and if it weren’t for conlanging I wouldn’t have realised I was into linguistics and started studying it at university.

Four actually

Had to do this just earlier this week. Got back by train at like midnight and I had to bike back to my appartment. I was really tired especially in my legs, so you’d think that would maybe be a bit annoying, but it was actually really refreshing. It was nice and quiet, and the air was cool. Definitely wouldn’t have taken a car even if I had the option.

Reminds me of the person in the row housing thread complaining about a lack of parking, like yeah we can actually improve society in multiple ways believe it or not

L’internationale sera le genre humain