richieadler 🇦🇷 @ richieadler @lemmy.myserv.one

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What you call "pedantry" I call "minimal command of a language to enable proper communication". If I can handle it in a language that's not mine, so can you.

You may not care about communicating properly. In that case, feel free to block me.

I'm not saying go around and insult people.

You're not communicating well, then.

You can tell by my parent comment I have good intentions.

Actually, I can't. I don't know you. Your insulting and condescending tone in those parts contradicts your purported attempts to help.

There is no context whatsoever In which the very loaded and insulting word "weirdo" is acceptable. Just because you have trained your family members to accept insults as information, that doesn't mean it's OK.

So for instance if a neurodivergent or non-social person acts in a way you disapprove, it's OK to bully them, according to you? Just so we're clear.

Seconded.

Fix yourself.

Phrases like this or "stop being a weirdo" are aggressive, insulting, and only work for you to feel superior to the OP.

Even something like "you have a lot of unsolved issues, you should see a therapist before attempting to befriend your ex", though equally blunt, is less deliberately insulting.

For some strange reason that's used in Argentina also. Not sure why here the ground is the same length than the others, though.

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PLEASE.

Yup. Paraphrasing an old IT saying, you cannot grep Youtube videos.

One can debate if is better to create good, indexable articles that can reach a moderate number of people, or run-of-the-mill videos that reach millions but are less useful.

Not everyone has the attention span required to read through a Wikipedia page.

I contend that such lack of attention span makes difficult to learn anything in any way.

get involved for real, in the three-dimensional world, and trying to change all these awful things we’re all posting stories about all day

Well, more power to those who do, but in many places doing that gets you killed.

I hate the number of people teaching useful things using videos instead of writing articles.

Well, you're convinced that the whole world is against you, so I'm sure you don't sleep.

Work is not high school. A few instances of you getting your phone and saying "Do you mind repeating that while I record you, so I can discuss with HR how you're creating a hostile environment?" should at least curb some of those attempts at bullying.

A well placed label is no insult.

Flip phones.

Ah yes, stargates, the rotary phones of interstellar communications.

Only on Earth. Everybody else uses touch tones.

wow. You are really thin skinned, friend. I wasn't lecturing you, that was advice, gentle.

That was pure mockery of the style of the person you're answering to.

Did you really want advice? Are you willing to accept it even if it contradicts some deeply ingrained notions you may have? Are you willing to compromise somewhat?

That your actions, if not harmful, shouldn't be based on societal approval.

It is if you assume that someone is from somewhere else because they don't look like you.