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Cake day: November 2nd, 2023

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  • This isn’t Reddit, in case you hadn’t noticed.

    Do you read fortunes? There isn’t enough context in our brief exchange for you to know anything meaningful about me. You really like the shadowbox with straw men.

    I’m so mad! This is just awful. Some Dunning-Kruger University graduate is schooling me in how awesome his life is! Make your money writing whatever bullshit you want. Even trolls have to eat, especially when they’re bad at bridge guarding. Tell Chat GPT I said hi next time you “write” an article.


  • Is sealioning mentioned in the rules? I hadn’t checked.

    I think this is hilarious. I’m talking to someone who acts like a kid who thinks they just invented being obnoxious on the internet.

    If you don’t want respect then you’re terrible at acting like it. People who don’t care what others think don’t brag anonymously and call randos jealous when they don’t know anything concrete about you to be jealous of other than your weak trolling.

    I’m guessing if you have an ex-wife, she probably complains about you. This is literally the first time I’ve commented in this community but you think I’m a regular. You’re great at reading people. Keep it up! You’ll get there someday…maybe…









  • The thing trolls never seem to understand is that it doesn’t matter if you’re being facetious or serious. Nobody cares whether you’re actually serious about whatever absurdity you spew. The function of a troll is not to communicate or convey anything worthwhile. It’s just humor below the level of a fart joke where you try to piss people off and laugh at them for being pissed off. And it’s not even clever. It’s just stupid. An effective troll would be nearly undetectable and ride the Poe’s Law line so well that others retain at least some amount of doubt.



  • People don’t want to be around others (the fear aspect), so they drive their own bubble around.

    You say this like it’s a bad thing. It doesn’t have to be fear, it can just be preference. There are introverts and asocial people, neurodivergent people, people with social anxiety, and any number of other reasons that they don’t have to justify to you as to why they would prefer not to be around a mass of other people. Social interaction in cities tends to be of an impersonal gesellschaft nature anyway, so it’s not like you’re missing out on a genuine social experience most of the time. It’s fine to just interact with those you personally vet and invest in.


  • This is less of an issue if you judge everything that isn’t first hand from a known friend or family member as suspect or at least just a waste of time. Facebook used to be a place to talk to people you knew in the real world. You could ignore anything they reposted and still engage with the actual examples of their own experiences that they posted. But now it’s so flooded with ads and listicles and clickbait and video clips that it’s not even worth trying to keep up with the people you actually know.


  • It’s still not stealing. It’s plagiarism or fraud or any number of other terms, but stealing necessarily requires the deprivation of a limited, rivalrous thing, like money or property. You can’t steal fame or exposure or credit, except poetically. And by that point, the word becomes so watered down that it’s meaningless. You might as well say I’m stealing your life seconds at a time by writing this extra sentence.

    The purpose of using the term stealing here is only to borrow the negative moral connotations of the term, but it doesn’t communicate clearly what exactly is happening.

    It’s perfectly valid to say you consider it morally equivalent with theft, but it’s not stealing.