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Sorry if I wasn't clear, I don't think Twitter users need to comport themselves as school teachers. Twitter (and also Hacker News) requires you to conduct yourself to a certain lev…

It may be obvious to you, but for someone not familiar with this person's type of humor, it might not be so obvious. Please consider that if you find yourself making sarcastic joke…

I think there is some confusion here, it's not that there is assumption of ill-intent. It's just the possibility that it could be interpreted that way. From the perspective of a mo…

>This appears to be the slippery slope of freedom of speech we spoke about when people on Twitter were clapping when various people got banned. Enjoy the bed you made for yourselve…

Just from my own experiences on the net as a teen where jokes about self-harm and suicide were extremely common -- One of those reasons could be because social media is not doing e…

I don't understand, there's no pretending -- On Twitter, you are effectively talking to the whole world. Anyone in the world can click on your tweets and see what you're saying. If…

I don't understand why you are saying that or what that has to do with the conversation. Please imagine a schoolteacher going into a classroom on the first day of school and saying…

And yet, all of those could be misinterpreted by someone who is not familiar with that. >I'd be careful before invoking misunderstanding with theoretical groups of non-english spea…

I understand what joke you are trying to make, but I would say the real problem here is the exact opposite: a lot of tweets that I see end up being more ambiguous because of the br…

Sure, but that is not made clear from the joke.

I believe children ages 13-17 are able to use twitter.

Sure. Have you learned a new language recently? If you haven't, it's an illuminating experience -- usually you don't start with the idioms until you have a really strong grasp of t…

I can't answer that question because I am a native English speaker, but I can say, I would probably not use that phrase around non-native English speakers. It's confusing and could…

Please avoid making these type of snarky comments with (incorrect) assumptions about me. A better way to phrase it would be to ask which persons I know like this, to which I could …

Yes, the thing is that Twitter is also accessible to people who are not everyday English speakers.

As usual with these posts, I don't really find this convincing, that joke is not obvious to someone who doesn't know this person. The tweet can very easily be misinterpreted by som…

>There is no unified 'will of the people.' I don't think this is a useful thing to say, it seems to suggest that a given group of people can't reach consensus, when this is not rea…

>If you don't want Gnome theming, don't use libadwaita This is not accurate, the current plan seems to be for libadwaita to gain a new theming API. Additionally, apps can still loa…

That's generally the problem with theming, if some app does not support the theme (e.g. legacy apps that were not designed with theming in mind) then it will be in a broken state. …

>Humans made these policies. Yes, but my point is that those policies were only made in response to the virus. They were not made for no reason, and of course different groups of p…

I commented on this before, but GNOME is not preventing theming. The Solus developers have made their decisions based on missing and/or false information, and this article has unfo…

If you mean GTK3/4 supports system themes, then no, that's false, it has never really supported doing that. The theme was meant to only be changed by the app, users changing the th…

That's really interesting, I feel like I've experienced the opposite, most people I know have had some kind of interaction with the "hand of government" in some way, if not themsel…

How is there asymmetry of information? AFAIK there have been just as many tech advances in police accountability as well, such as the prevalence of body cams, or the ability to see…

I'm just curious: What exactly is seen as being new or remarkable about the failure of some leaders during this pandemic? I share the frustration about these failures, but are your…