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I’m completely baffled that these people couldn’t recognize the troll after two responses. Even worse, they continued after the book post. I have to assume they were also going along with the troll for a laugh. They can not be this incredibly dense.
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No, I am pretty sure they are soft no matter what angle you are touching them from
I think you mean smooth
I don’t get it. His trolling is pretty good but it’s not exactly top notch comedy just to say “no you’re wrong” a hundred times
The bottom image is pretty much why it’s funny to me.
Apparently for dudes who’ve got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, “someone who’s wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they’re smarter than you” is their kryptonite.
Tons of people keep trying to convince him even though he’s just saying “no you’re wrong” over and over again.
The point is that when you’re an adult and talking to a child, you can’t talk to them like an adult. When you’re dealing with someone without the faculties or desire to engage in informed debate, just save your breath.
Actually incredibly instructive to US readers at the moment given our horrific levels of education and high levels of misinformation and bias in media.
I like this take
His trolling is top notch, like the smoothness of a sharks skin.
His trolling is obvious, yet so many people take it seriously.
They were baited alright
Baited like sharks, normal smooth sharks
Like how some people refuse to admit that Hamas is evil.
It’s not obvious lots of people make these kinds of claims all over
It brings engagement to his page.
This is why “/s” was invented, no matter how silly it might seem.
Because human skulls are thick af.
They’re actually quite thin, like a shark’s smooth skin.
It’s the brain that is smooth tbh, not the skin
I believe it’s actually very scratchy. Like sandpaper.
No no you’re wrong, every surgeon I know said it’s smooth as silk.
I use human brains to finish off my woodworking. They’re very coarse, like sandpaper
Skin as thin as their skulls are thick.
No, they’re thick from all angles.
It’s funnier this way.
After a commentor stated that Planned Parenthood only uses a tiny bit of their budget for abortions, I linked this:
https://www.theonion.com/planned-parenthood-opens-8-billion-abortionplex-1819572640
The number of lemmings who thought I was serious… jesus.
The fuck? This is completely messed up. I cannot agree with the bullshit “facts” stated in this article. 8 billion only netted 8 million terminated unborn lives? Almost $1000 per is definitely not “efficient.”
Lemme know when you get below $100 per.
So far I feel like people here are a tad more gullible than reddit ever was. Didn’t think it was possible.
I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.
It’s because sarcasm is usually indicated with vocal intonations, which is lost in text.
Sure, but for some reason there doesn’t seem to be the same difficulty in print. I don’t recall any warnings about the use of sarcasm or irony in style guides before the internet era, and no one seemed to feel the need for anything like “/s”.
That’s a really good point. I would guess that this has to do with how the medium of the internet makes it more difficult to detect the author’s intent. Pre-internet, most writing was read from books, newspapers, and magazines. With each of these, the reader usually has a good idea of the author’s tone. Going in, the reader is usually familiar with the subject, and I’m guessing that longer texts give the reader more time and context to detect the tone.
This is all pretty different on the internet, where shorter, user-generated content (mostly written by people who aren’t amazing writers) reigns supreme. When reading comments in a thread or flipping through posts, the reader switches between different authors with their different tones much quicker than in earlier mediums. It makes sense that people would get tripped up more often.
That’s all just ideas, though. I’d love to see some scientific study on this kind of stuff.
“Oh sure, that’s a great idea.” he said sarcastically.
Lack of nonverbal queues/tone and lack of context. It’s easier to convey sarcasm through text if you’re chatting with someone you know well. But online, you’re often talking to near strangers, and you don’t know if they’re the type to find this kind of thing hilarious among other beliefs.
/s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.
Well that’s a stupid little take, you must communicate in exhaustive detail while on the internet. It’s in the rules!
I’m pretty sure that /s was outlawed by the internet elders in 2021.
Smuuth like your brane?
Even smuuther. I believe they’re approaching the ideal frictionless surface.
Smuuuve, bruv!
This is an interrogation technique: make a presumptive statement, and try to be wrong about it. People will jump out of their skin to correct you, even when they’re coached to not answer questions (but honestly it’s really hard for people not to answer questions).
Cunningham’s Law states “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer.”
No that’s Godwin’s Law!
Case in point
I thought that was about things you did not see coming?
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Am I in Risa?
I’m convinced! Sharks are smooth
Smooth like brain
This proves two things:
- Internet arguments are pointless.
- Playing dumb on the Internet and refusing to admit the bit under any circumstances is hilarious.
You forgot one more point:
- Sharks are smooth.
Duh, everyone knows that.
I promise you, sharks are as smooth as freshly shaven legs of a plastic doll, or my name isn’t Margot Elise Robbie.
So you admit it?
your app should zoom the img to fit the sides of your screen, and scroll down to see the whole thing. if not you either have a bad app or need to change a setting
So my app just arrived, it’s mozzarella sticks.
Can you run doom on them?
I’d query the server, but he just 404’d
mozz stix are for normies and if you browse lemmy on a desktop then ima make unfair assumptions abt you
This made me laugh SO hard, I just… I don’t know even why.
Because it is a comedic reflection of what is happening right now with certain people insisting misinformation is fact and true despite all evidence to the contrary. (Eg: trump won, vaccines kill, ETc.)
I wish there was a way to automatically block any account that posts one of these super shitty tall images
Literally can’t read it in Jerboa. Never loads in high enough resolution.
I’m on Jerboa and I can read it just fine.
uh, what? I’m on jerboa and it reads fine.
No you can’t
Would you say it’s not a smooth experience?
Same on Connect and Boost. They look like shit. Not to mention I think it’s just annoying to have to click multiple times (to read it at all) then scroll and bunch before needing to hit back.
Edit: apparently I’m wrong on the more recent versions of Connect. Regardless, a weird content format that requires app developers to think about supporting is kind of annoying in general
…my connect can read it fine? I just read the whole post.
Yeah connect works perfectly well for me
Looks fine on my connect
Maybe my connect experience is out of date. I haven’t used it as much the last few weeks. I remember it being an annoying experience though
Captain Picard as he finally exits Branson’s torture chamber: “Shark skin… is NOT smooth as hell!”
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I have a feeling that I’ve just lost several hundred braincells
Now your brain is smooth as a shark, as they say
Post of the century.
Twitter people are dumb, Tumblr people straight up suffer from dysfunctional autism. How can you not recognize the trolling in the screenshot?
I’m not sure what you mean by “dysfunctional autism” exactly, but this is a known trait of many autistic people. They often fail to pick up on social cues that most other people take for granted. It’s just because their brain works differently, they tend to take people at face value. And unlike what some have professed to believe here, their desire to explain or correct you does not come from a desire to “be the smartest person in the room”, but rather it’s their way of helping. They like to have accurate information, so they assume others do too. So yes, combine these two traits with a person who like to screw with them and you get conversations like this, which unfortunately amounts to a pretty nasty form of teasing.
Because apparently for dudes who’ve got a compulsive need to be the smartest person in the room, “someone who’s wrong in a really stupid way who has unshakable confidence that they’re smarter than you” is their kryptonite. You can play dumb on almost any subject and their ego, their staunch belief that the masses are so far below them, will blind them to the fact that you’re just fucking with them, and as long as you don’t admit you’re fucking with them or acknowledge that there’s anything Off about what you’re saying, they won’t be able to stop themselves trying to get you to Respect Their Authority, and they won’t be able to see that will literally never happen.
