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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)

Don't you judge me, stranger

[–] 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.

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[–] 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 2 days ago

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

Please, please, please.

"Chronometer."

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I think you’re my cult leader.

[–] 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

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[–] aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Going on the internet used to be fun, in the before times.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Conspiracies used to be ironic things people did satirically (Birds are not real) and not actual belief systems with entire media spheres built around them (UFOs, Flat Earth).

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

They never were.

People repeating them on the internet used to do it ironically. But conspiracies always were actual belief systems and have always brought groups of people together to reinforce each other idiocies.

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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It can still be fun, just nurture your delusions till they become hallucinations. Then the world is your oyster.

[–] aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If I could nurture I'd be raising possums not dreams

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You just need to relax and let go, then embrace the possum bilities.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I prefer the term “distressed eccentric friend you’ll never meet” 🥲

Anyways, how about those sports teams/political parties/abortion rights?

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Aww I like this, it’s wholesome

[–] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I remember in the early 2000s when I got Internet at home, one of my relatives kept telling me about forums and how great they were. And my thought was "Why would would I want to know what the average dumb fuck thinks about things?" I might have forgotten this wisdom.

[–] GenChadT@infosec.pub 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

In the old days, every village had one or two idiots. Thanks to the internet, the idiots have created their own village.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dude, if your posting here, you are one of us.

Resistance is futile.

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[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I will travel to this village and with my slightly superior intellect become king of the idiots!

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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hey! I'm not mentally ill. I've even got proof. They gave me a certificate when they let me out of the hospital.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

One of these certificates?

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, those are just souvenirs. This one had a judges signature on it, and was given to me along with a copy of the restraining order.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whoa, fancy. Was the order for you or against you?.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a tough one to answer. Because it was for me never to go near several businesses and people and homes ever again. So is that a "for" or and "against".

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd say against, but I'm not a lawyer.

Also, sorry to hear that. I hope things are better now.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

Oh everything's fine. I never let some paperwork get in the way of life.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 5 points 3 days ago

You know what they say about a man with big ... certificates.

[–] pageflight@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago

15 minutes later: OK now I feel frustrated about the world instead of about work, time to take a real break.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

And watch them spout irrefutable logic that somehow completely contradicts each other.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Did you know some local municipalities are passing laws to make golf carts and UTVs legal on surface streets, yet China cars are banned? lmao

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Literally every single day for me. I am lucky enough to have been blessed a job that is both easy and boring (literally just scan documents all day), which gives me plenty of downtime to find some people on the internet to stress me out since my job doesn't. (Only took 20 years to find such a job.) Hell, I'm doing it right now!

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

I'd rather relax reading hundreds of pages on a few different topics from one unusually entertaining or informative stranger, more often than not dead for decades at least.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You can tell it’s Twitter because they’re no acknowledgment of talking to bots.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

She didn’t mention neet, so I’m good.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Luckily it's hard for me to hold a phone and put a gun in my mouth at the same time.

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