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I don’t want to be an internet person

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Re: I don’t want to be an internet person

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Post by a1369209993 »

fleddr wrote: post #109

A great way to test the difference between the online and offline world is to boast about something you accomplished in a family gathering, say thanksgiving. "I scored 3 goals in last weekend's game". That's wonderful! (nobody truly cares, but it's still recognized and celebrated.) "I got 40 likes on my last tweet" ??? "Wait, it gets better: 20 people watched me play a game. Had to stay up until 4AM but still, worth…

> A great way to test the difference between the online and offline world

Nitpick: this is great way to test the hypocrisy in how people treat/view the online and offline world. It's not a inherent difference between them.

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Post by pdntspa »

H8crilA wrote: post #208
pdntspa wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just sick of seeing everyone have these obxious, stupid "extra" personalities. Nobody can be calm or cool, nobody ever wants to channel any kind of zen, everything has to have the energy of an episode Pee-Wee's Playhouse. It's like we never advanced past 3 years old.

FWIW it's a normal part of growing up (teenage angst). Looked different but not really when I was younger. The key question is "so what?", for example "so what they all have these fake personalities", which somehow takes years to understand.

It's not the fake personalities that's so bothersome, it's the energy level. I hated it then and I still hate it now. People need to chill the fuck out.

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Post by throwaway346434 »

hacym wrote: post #169
coldtea wrote: post #79

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Because I don't like reading shallow hit jobs, and I think it's not just sloppy writing, but reflects to their authors too.

How is an opinion piece a shallow hit job? If you’re reading this as some credible news… stop?

Picture this article being written a vi/vim user; about all of those "freaks who use emacs".

At some point you realise the writer is doing the same kind of thing as the people described, their criticisms make a low effort to understand and declare the "other side" wrong, for reasons that are basically "I didnt like it".

From other comments here, I've since learned there is plenty to criticise about the speech, actions, behaviour of this individual, which is trivial to discover.

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Post by mikeyouse »

rhacker wrote: post #180
ryandrake wrote: post #144

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There are sub-cultures and there are insular sub-cultures that form someone's entire identity. These Internet people would be a fish out of water anywhere, whereas the Silicon Valley entrepreneur might just be able to blend in, socialize, and find some common ground in that Idaho roadhouse. You need to have at least some kind of personality and be capable of a little flexibility. The subjects of the article were neit…

Head higher up North. There's still some right leaning stuff, which for some reason SF newspapers like to call Far-right extremism. But when you're actually here, it's probably exactly like your rural rifle-range town.

Then again, some of the leadership of those towns are so far gone that they take obviously nonsense Facebook posts, have their sheriff hold press conferences lying that they've verified the posts, and then expend a ton of time/money/energy looking for "antifa busses" while passing around far-right newsletters encouraging the police to prepare for attacks on officers by these same mythical antifa adherents. Also going so far as to express support for the Washington militia that terrorized the random family of campers who made the mistake of visiting their shitty little town.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/23/revealed-cal...

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Post by notpachet »

kwyjibo1230 wrote: post #145
zmxz wrote: post #26

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> they're uniformly boring in every conceivable way This is such concise and brutally accurate way to sum it up, I salute you for this brilliant description. I could not agree more, such a spot-on assertion!

Your comment sounds almost Seuss-like somehow. Partly that description and assertion is a slant rhyme, but it also feels like there's some kind of (un)intentional pentameter going on

"I am the very model of a modern Major General!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXf0o2d-W5w

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Post by joe_the_user »

Ensorceled wrote: post #158

I grew up a geek in a rural area, learning how to filter conversations for your audience was a critical skill. Topics and conversational style amongst my D&D group was very different than amongst my other high school classmates and very different than when at my summer jobs. This is just an article about people who never learned that skill. I'm reminded of a few moments in my life that drove this home ... A coworker…

This is just an article about people who never learned that skill.

Is it? I read part and skimmed part, admittedly, but I got the impression this was just an article portraying a particular subculture, one the author wasn't not at all fond of. The author seems to actually take the opposite of your tolerant view that people naturally can use multiple "topics and conversation styles" in multiple social context. I would agree with you but it seems For the author, the topics and conversation styles of the people at this event are the primary evidence that they couldn't be normal in any other context. That and one guy having "shifty eyes".

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Post by vitaflo »

Ensorceled wrote: post #158

I grew up a geek in a rural area, learning how to filter conversations for your audience was a critical skill. Topics and conversational style amongst my D&D group was very different than amongst my other high school classmates and very different than when at my summer jobs. This is just an article about people who never learned that skill. I'm reminded of a few moments in my life that drove this home ... A coworker…

Yup, also a nerd that grew up in a poor rural area. Some of my friends struggled with this but for me it really taught me how to be a chameleon. It also taught me to keep an open mind. While I wasn't into sports (like most nerds) I did find I really liked bowling and was on a league with many of the other redneck kids I wouldn't normally hang out with. I learned I had more in common with people than I thought, even if I really only opened up with my small nerdy crew of friends.

It's paid dividends as an adult because in most situations I can guess there's at least something I have in common with others even if it doesn't seem obvious at first. I can go most places and feel (or at least look) like I fit in. It's also allowed me to have a broad range of interests as an adult that I may not have had had I stayed more insular.

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Post by throwaway346434 »

fleddr wrote: post #105
throwaway346434 wrote: post #48

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I found the author's pointed lack of bothering to ask about pronouns when the subject of their investigation posts under different ly gendered pseudonyms; use of the words "normal people" and infiltrating a group only to neg them to be more problematic than anything. The subject of the article might be a real shitheel. But the author doesnt do us any favours by cloaking themselves in being a Voice of the Normal while…

Outside a college campus in California, nowhere else in the world do people ask for pronouns when they meet a person. It's not a normal human interaction.

People who use different pronouns are about 5% of americans:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/07/about-5-of-...

Similar rates in other countries:

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_depart...

You might not do it when you meet someone. But think about the sheer number of web forms, systems or standards that are about to have to go down a rabbit hole of whether they are modeling biological sex (medical systems), terms of address (people focused systems), etc.

Would you turn away 5% of your customer base because you didnt add a third option (ie: i prefer another term) when capturing someone's details?

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Post by [deleted] »

ahoy wrote: post #116
woodruffw wrote: post #10

I thought this sounded familiar, and sure enough[1]. Edit: To make it explicit, which Palladium notably fails to do: this person is a reactionary and has a history of encouraging young girls to commit suicide. [1]: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=founder-of-milady-nft-proje...

Palladium is a Thiel-backed rightwing propaganda outlet that insists it's "non partisan". It's a shame to see t shared here

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