[-] wesdym@mastodon.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

@Warl0k3 If your goal is to be useless and annoying to others, you've succeeded. Bye-bye.

[-] wesdym@mastodon.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

@Warl0k3 What I've learned from decades of being online is that many people are just kind of pointlessly tiresome, essentially just producing meaningless noise that benefits no one, though maybe it helps them in some way, I don't know. There's a vast over-abundance of this kind of online noise, and it's always disposable.

Even many total assholes online have something useful of interesting to say. But useless noise is just that, and I have no problem blocking such people.

[-] wesdym@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@Grimy Get over yourself.

And goodbye. There's plenty of hopelessly tiresome people online already, and no one needs more.

And grow the fuck up already.

[-] wesdym@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@Grimy Canadian English is a dialect. So is US English. And both have sub-dialects, as well as registers. These are real differences that really do affect how specific words are used and understood.

[-] wesdym@mastodon.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

@Grimy You are relying on a rhetorical device called an essentialism: an assertion of fact without evidence, a claim asserted as established fact without supporting argument or proof. Put another way:

Things aren't true just because you say they are, no matter how sure you are.

Essentialism isn't merely poor forensics. It's very literally gotten millions of people killed.

We always want to make every effort to use good forensics in arguments.

I don't believe you actually KNOW the facts.

[-] wesdym@mastodon.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

@Grimy Maybe. But unless you can produce a source, it sounds to me like you're only guessing, and forming an essentialism from your feelings and assumptions rather than from evidence.

[-] wesdym@mastodon.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

@Grimy Believe it or not, different dialects may have different meanings for the same words.

wesdym

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