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[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 68 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I'm only a stranger until you read my manifesto on the Oxford comma

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You didn't provide a link for the manifesto.

Or say whether you were for or against.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 14 points 3 days ago

Not judging. Just trying to provoke you into a multipage rant that expounds your position on the comma.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

What about the Westminster Period?

[–] homes@piefed.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My opinion of the Oxford Comma:

[–] 5765313496@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never gonna give you up, let you down, run around, or desert you.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You cannot just stand there at the hibachi grill and look at your watch while I’m sitting here.

I’m hungry.

Fuckin’ cook something.

Show me that manifesto!

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 3 points 3 days ago

You cannot just stand there at the hibachi grill and look at your watch

Please, please, please.

"Chronometer."

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I've decided to help you out with the manifesto. Here is a working copy for you to edit as you wish.

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/Industrial%20Society%20and%20Its%20Future.pdf

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Strangely enough, this comment forced me to read this for the first time. Took a bit. He was certainly no dummy. I take issue with some of it, but it's certainly a compelling read.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kaczynski was right.

Maybe not in the whole bombing aspect, prolly not that, but this manifesto is worth its weight in gold.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Published in 1995. Kind of strange all these years later to read it and say, "Oh shit, he was right".

Meanwhile, ai turns the world into a giant turd, ruled by the nerd reich.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah. Probably not the bombing part, though. Probably…

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IMO anyone sympathetic to this CIA op trash is much better off reading Bookchin or Kropotkin. Not just good premises, good conclusions too.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I think you’re my cult leader.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not sure how much longer it needs to be than "It improves clarity uaing a single comma and therefore is necessary."

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I personally use the Oxford comma but I do agree with the people who think the sentence should probably just be rephrased to not need it.