You can't just listen to what they say. You have to listen to what they mean. For many people, and I think especially conservatives, the emotional level is the real one. Words exist to promote this hazy dreamscape of feelings.
So they say free speech but they mean "follow my standards of speech"
I was on some website the other day and I opened the browser console for unrelated reasons. They had a giant message there that was like "STOP. If someone asked you to paste something here, you are probably going to be hacked. Do not do anything here unless you know what you're doing."
Which, admittedly, is probably good advice.
I'm about 95% certain this is a joke but Poe's law is dead. In addition to the name being on the nose, the footer has
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I never thought this would need saying, but the point of writing essays in school is not the final product.
Surely people don't really think that? I say that, and then I think about some of the colossally stupid things I've heard people say and say about education.
Yes.
Primarily, too much fear response. Fear makes you stupid.
Secondarily, too much in-group loyalty. They'll do and believe anything if that's what the group believes.
Im going to go make some toast right now
My elderly father thinks "workers don't know how to run businesses", which is funny to me considering how many bone-headed decisions I've seen management make. Plus pointlessly cruel ones, alongside selfish and short-sighted ones.
This is an amazing metaphor. Bravo.
Do you live in such an area?
If you were make an ordered list of things that destroy a community, where does "petty theft of groceries" fall on the list? What other things are included?
One of my old bosses complained I asked too many questions about requirements. They'd give me poorly defined tasks and I'd be like "what do you want it to do when the user has no name in the system?". Then they'd get annoyed.
But if I just made a decision, like sorting my ID, they'd be like "that's stupid why didn't you sort by sign up date?"
I've been using Linux with Nvidia for a few years now without any problems. I don't play the most cutting edge stuff at high resolution, but like path of exile 2, elden ring, expedition 33 all ran just fine.
I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don't realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don't know why anyone would choose to do it.
You won't find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.