Comment by Nition

Comment by Nition 3 days ago

A lot of clickbait headlines have the same problem. "You're using too much washing powder!"

Everyone's replying to you as if you truly don't understand the sign's intention but I'm sure you do. It's just annoying to be doing everything right and the signs and headlines are still telling you you're wrong.

There was a driving safety safety ad campaign here: "Drive to the conditions. If they change, reduce your speed." You can imagine how slow we'd all be going if the weather kept changing.

We might have OCPD.

recursive 3 days ago

Yes. You have understood precisely the spirit in which I intended it.

In advertising: "Treat yourself. You deserve it!"

Me: What if someone who didn't deserve it heard this message. How can you possibly know what I deserve? Do all people deserve to treat themselves? Is the notion of deserving or treating really so vacuous?

Normies: jfc

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Nition 3 days ago

There's a mental health awareness campaign going on around here at the moment with all the generic messages like that. "You're doing great" is completely devalued by the sign giving the same message to everyone, and the best one says something like "Don't push yourself too hard. If you want to rest, rest." Wondering if I can tell my boss the sign told me it's okay not to get any work done.

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elzbardico 3 days ago

Humans are supposed to deal with this kind of ambiguity. Actually, that's one of our nicest abilities.

I hate when people pretend to be smarter than everyone else by pointing this kind of utterance and insisting that someone, somehow, will parse those statements in the most literal and stupid manner.

Then there are the ignorant misanthropes that can't waste a chance to repeat their reductionist speculations about human cognition. Just like the idiot Elon Musk that wasted billions in irrecoverably fucked self-driving system based on computer-version because he underestimated the human visual cortex.

Fucking annoying midwits.

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recursive 3 days ago

Sorry I made you mad. I wasn't trying to seem smarter than everyone. Maybe dumber.

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- shwaj 3 days ago
  
  A very kind response to such a grating lack of self-awareness.
  
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