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Cool email begging for what we used to call "spoon feeding". I'm taking you really seriously and about to start following your instructions, but I have one condition: you tell me the last book you read. Just the title is fine
Whatever you used to call it, we usually just call it discussion. Funny thing is, you've written pages and pages worth yourself in this thread, you could have easily saved yourself a ton of time with one brief paragraph yesterday.
Anyway, I just don't believe you, I think you're still just trolling. So, no, I'm uninterested in your conditions about me as a person or my habits. Either address the topic or do not.
Why don't you ask an AI chatbot to summarize the books for you? It would clearly be more your speed.
I don't use LLMs. Besides, I'm here because I enjoy discussing history with other people in history communities. You apparently are here for an entirely different reason, which I think is obvious to everyone.
Yeah you enjoy "discussing history" in the same way someone's dad who got into Dan Carlin does. You've got nothing but bluster when challenged to think for yourself, instead of playing liberal trivia contest, because you don't read. We both know you don't read. History is in books, did you know that? There's no "everyone" here lil bro
You really have no evidence for your insults, so they come across as very shallow. It's pretty juvenile. All you really know is I've told you I won't read your source, which I do understand upsets you.
Regardless of your holier-than-thou, elitist attitude, it doesn't matter. Either people discuss or they don't. You could discuss if you wished, but hiding behind this obvious cover of "you're not good enough to bother with", you won't discuss history, while in a history community. This makes it very obvious you don't really love history, you just want to use it as a tool for your own ends. It's a political tool for you. This is extremely common, anyone who spends any time with it has encountered the phenomenon hundreds of times in both the present and a historical context.
There's nothing beneficial about discussing history with somebody who is incapable of conducting a historical investigation. I think that most people should be able to answer a question such as the last book they read, their favorite color, what year it is, who's president, where they are, and why it smells like toast. Do you catch my drift
Of course I could answer if I wanted, I simply choose not to. They're pointless distractions. I'm more interested in staying on topic, while you seem hell-bent on making this have nothing to do with history and only about me personally and how I'm not good enough for you.
I wonder why...?
Anyways, the purpose is in the love for history. Most of us are here for enjoyment, only you are here to sell something.
No you couldn't.
The only way that would be possible is if I had never read a single book in my entire life. While a common hyperbolic claim, we both know that's a little unrealistic, don't you think? Would be very difficult to make it through schooling without doing at least some reading, after all.
This is a very silly argument to hang your hat on. Might want to think it through a little more.
Oh yeah I would be totally owned if you divulged that you had read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
It doesn't matter, still fully meets the requirements you laid out. It does illuminate the silliness and irrelevance of your "condition" though. It's clearly just a shallow distraction.
Wow I can't believe it was that easy to guess the last book you read
You can pursue this cheap bait for as long as you want, but you're not exactly "owning" anything. This is pretty weak stuff you know.
The Lorax is really going to blow your mind when you get to that