Tbf it says sauerkraut-inspired, not sauerkraut outright. Regardless if Hitler makes apple pie I’m still gonna eat apple pie provided he didn’t make it

It’s less about you not agreeing with me and more about your opinion being based on false presumptions. You’re entitled to thinking that sarcasm and the ability to detect it is associated with intelligence; I would agree with you on that. But assuming it’s as simple as that without taking into account the method of communication is misleading.

Okay even then the point still stands. You don’t just shun people because they can’t recognize social cues, and you don’t assume they’re any less intelligent for it. It’s just presumptuous.

Not only that, but most cues for the intent of a message are either through tone of voice or body language. It’s disingenuous to assert that there’s no hindrance in the efficacy of communication when being done through a strictly written format. Something your first source lines out explicitly:

Other research has show[n] that sarcasm can be easily misinterpreted, particularly when communicated electronically. In one study, 30 pairs of university students were given a list of statements to communicate, half of which were sarcastic and half of which were serious. Some students communicated their messages via e-mail and others via voice recordings. Participants who received the voice messages accurately gleaned the sarcasm (or lack thereof) 73 percent of the time, but those who received the statements via e-mail did so only 56 percent of the time, hardly better than chance. By comparison, the e-mailers had anticipated that 78 percent of participants would pick up on the sarcasm inherent in their sarcastic statements. That is, they badly overestimated their ability to communicate the tenor of their sarcastic statements via e-mail. What’s more, the recipients of the sarcastic e-mails were also decidedly overconfident. They guessed they would correctly interpret the tone of the e-mails they received about 90 percent of the time. They were considerably less overconfident about their ability to interpret voice messages.

Given the risks and benefits of sarcasm, your best bet is to keep salty remarks limited to conversations with those you know well, lest you offend others—even as you potentially help them think more creatively.

That last argument I quoted can be directly overcome through the use of tone indicators, regardless of “how intelligent” the recipient is.

I guess that title could maybe be construed as fine if only strangely implicative for the platform, but that sentence under it? “Women who always say yes”? Yikes. Not sure how that can be anything other than plain disgusting.

The joke is that those games suck so bad that even having the option to play them on any form of Linux would make said OS worse

They both kind of suck tbh. The first looks like a nightmare to acid trip in and the other looks like a wizard sucked all the colour out of it.

You know tone indicators are used by neurodivergent people who struggle to understand intent, right?

Jesus dude, why so hostile? There’s nothing inherently wrong with not knowing enough about something.

where is our international solidarity partners?

Solidarity with the nation currently being aggressive toward various instances of its “allied” countries? I can’t see how it’s reasonable to expect any one citizen of those countries to give any amount of support to the nation currently threatening their home’s stability. There’s no practical reason to do anything more than reduce its interactions with said country for the sake of its own citizens’ livelihoods. Global relations are a matter of give and take, and right now all the US is doing is taking.

Had to double-check that I wasn’t having a stroke because of this headline

Primary elections for candidates are a thing aren’t they? I’m Canadian but that seems to be pretty widely practiced.

Kinda wish I didnt just re-buy FO3 and NV a bit ago.

Don’t feel too guilty, you’re already better off than most for caring about it.

It’s just a shame how prevalent that kind of behaviour is. It’s to the point where you pretty much have to scour the backgrounds of all the businesses you buy from to see if they’re hateful/extremist. Like they always have something to hide.

you should be thanking the US for providing a stark enough warning to Canada not to elect Poilievre.

Yeah… your government said something similar to Zelenskyy so forgive me if I find that a laughable if not downright stupid notion. While it’s true that Trump’s second election had an important role in enabling the Liberal party to maintain their majority, to even suggest that it was the sole reason is just insulting.

The US has nothing to do with the actual function of the Canadian election process, that being citizens voting of their own will. Included with that is the fact that the Liberals also wouldn’t have won if the election process hadn’t been started in the first place, as you literally quoted, by Trudeau resigning independently of any US-caused factors. There’s nothing to thank any of you for, especially with the way things are with your hellscape of a country and how it’s treating us. You can infer where to shove it.

Funnily (if not infuriatingly) enough, they’re also begging us to stop the mass boycott on US goods and services, particularly liquor. Rules for thee but not for me, as they say.

You’re getting downvoted but they still haven’t given a coherent response to that whole Nazi newsletter fiasco. It’s so dumb how people on Lemmy/Piefed will gladly shun any far-right bigotry until it regards their favourite video game platform.

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Whichever outcome makes him most miserable is preferable

Not hard per se. While being physically healthy was obviously more of a blessing than a common possibility in the past, most had no qualms putting in the work if they knew something to be necessary or desirable. That goes for now too, albeit with a new set of obstacles.

The main problem comes with the sheer ubiquity of incentives throughout the “civilized” world to practice a sedentary and physically low-effort lifestyle. Add in the typical work schedule, and many have barely any time to exercise while still having more than the slightest margin of consistent free time, if they even have that privilege. Not saying laziness can’t be a factor, but it’s less of a trait that’s inherent to people and more so a result of what someone was taught or experienced.

They absolutely suggested that this attack is because of the west.

Yeah? Assuming you’re not just being disingenuous, that’s entirely unrelated to your original accusation. You said, and I quote:

And please tell me how ramming a car into a pride parade is somehow fighting the good fight…

Ascribing a direct material cause to a terrorist attack is nowhere near the same as claiming it to be “fighting the good fight”. You’re attacking a view that doesn’t even exist here.

Anyway, since the rest of your replies here, including this one, are riddled with anecdotal bias, false equivalences and arguments from personal belief, I doubt I’ll be able to have anything comparable to a productive conversation with you, at least when it comes to this topic. Hopefully you’ll be able to get to the top of the hill with your boulder eventually and somehow manage to have a good interaction solely through the use of fallacious if not outright irrational reasoning.

Where did I say Europe hasn’t been at war with itself for centuries? Get you’re Whataboutism the fuck out of here.

It’s not a whataboutism, it’s a necessary comparison to make it clear that the Middle-East is inherently just as violent as any other part of the world. Though seeing as we’re all predominantly from European/Western countries, the comparison to Europe is especially relevant, considering the rampant bigotry and misconceptions toward the Middle-East and the Arab peoples.

You suggested the middle east was at war and violent because of western powers. I provided facts that, that’s bullshit…

You linked to a super long Wikipedia page without even bothering to quote any relevant information. Regardless, as I and the person you’re replying to mentioned, all you’re really proving is that the Middle-East isn’t any more violent than Europe, Asia, Africa, etc.

And besides, the original point brought up was about the modern Middle-East, not its past. As it stands now, the Middle-East wouldn’t be even remotely as chaotic as it is now had the West not taken such gratuitous advantage of it. You can spin the facts any way you want, but you can’t get around that.

There are multiple states in the middle east that are using said oil to be more prosperous…

And why do you think said states need oil to be prosperous? The economies of those nations aren’t happening in a vacuum. Globalization has been a thing for centuries now. Western countries need the oil, and the Middle-East has the oil. Add capitalist greed into the mix — a western product — and there you have it.

And please tell me how ramming a car into a pride parade is somehow fighting the good fight…

What was that about whataboutisms again? Because you’re literally doing the exact same thing here. Completely unrelated. Not only that, but nobody here ever even insinuated violence like that is a good thing. What a weird thing to fabricate.

Well they aren’t teaching themselves. They’re learning from their predecessors like every generation before them. You think they’re all struggling academically by choice?