I’m not gonna go looking for scans or anything, but KnowYourMeme lists the popularity of this one as starting between 2013 and 2015, and I definitely remember seeing this phrase in a textbook around 2010 or 2011. So honestly, I might blame Pearson or McGraw Hill.

No problem, yo!

And to be fair, communication is always two-way. It"s not like I don’t want the public to be more thoughtful in their disagreements.

Have a good one.

Okay so, this is a rhetoric problem.

This phrase here:

I disagree with the premise, the Holocaust was unique.

You lost the crowd immediately. The thrust of Walz’ position is that people should be more aware of the ubiquity of genocidal thinking, and in your first sentence, you put yourself in opposition to him.

Even though you agree with Walz later in spirit, the immediate impression is that you’re downplaying other genocides by over-fixating on the shock and horror of this one in particular, and it takes you way too long to clear up your position.

If you had phrased this as “added context” or “an additional fun fact” or “some ways in which the holocaust was unique,” it becomes much harder to disagree with you. Your audience isn’t primed immediately to be angry, and you beget much more charitability, at least from those who aren’t insane.

During the third or fourth time I was mad that 3D hadn’t taken off like technicolor, I though “fine! I’ll just look at trees and hallways in real life then!” And yeah, it kinda works.

There’s a lot of beauty in the world if you just, you know, look at it.

I think it’s funny you talk about revenge porn like it’s just so tiresome and tedious to think about.

“Oh, a hurricane struck Florida again.”
“Oh, there’s revenge porn of my neighbor’s daughter again.”
“What a terrible saturday.”
“Anyway, I think my toast is done.”

Imaginary grenades.

Having porn made of you is imaginary?

At some point the “it’s just a game” also stops holding water…

The video game doesn’t produce anything.

AI is not the cause for generating deep fakes,

DUIs can be reduced with public transportation. What do you propose reduces… porn fakes?

Ain’t it interesting how coming up with a consistent framework, makes it applicable to different areas of life?

Fucking lol.

My problem with machine learning porn is that it’s artless generic template spam clogging up my feed of shit I actually want to see. But you know, to each their own.

I had a job that was kind of like this. I spent pretty much all of my down time writing a web game that later got me a software job.

I wasn’t bored, though. I miss working on that thing.

Subscription services still get worse. The arrogance Cable TV must have to show us ads—cable was the ad-free service back in its day. The same is happening with Netflix. The same will happen with Spotify. This thing is a snake eating it’s own fucking tail.

I want something without perverse incentives. Donations, maybe. Taxes, possibly. I get free roads, why not a free search index.

I think it’s funny you have to keep explaining this.

People have such a strong reaction to votes mattering that they’ve forgotten it does actually measure something.

Yeah, I wish sometimes that software would stop trying to be so god damn helpful. I find Emoji to be kind of loud where emoticons aren’t, and at the very least I know which one I wanted. JUST. STOP. FIXING IT. :p

I’m almost of the opinion we’ve reached “peak human” and are now backsliding.

🙄

WE WERE ALWAYS AT WAR WITH EURASIA

Oh hey, there’s the relevant bit. This is literally what you’re suggesting.

I already knew making any criticism of uaw or workers

Right, but is this because you’re a based freedom fighter or because you’re wrong? Hrm.

Saying they’re lazy because they want a 4-day work week does raise an eyebrow, to be clear.

This is true, but I also think a rise in auto prices will present a problem that more infrastructure can fix? Like, it’s a pressure that public transit can release. You’d probably want a gradual change if that was the angle, though. Hm.