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ishouldstayaway commented on Because Algospeak   tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/zdw
SunshineTheCat · 3 days ago
'cause is a contraction, cause is completely different word with a completely different meaning.

You are just not correct.

ishouldstayaway · a day ago
Christ. Here's a tip for your own mental health: do not pretend to be stupid.

Do not pretend that when - for whatever reason, be that laziness or brevity or typing-on-a-phone or character limits or whatever - people leave out something as trivial as an apostrophe especially in informal writing that you somehow suddenly became illiterate. You did not. And neither did they.

ffs this attitude is insufferable

ishouldstayaway commented on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans   news.ycombinator.com/news... · Posted by u/usefulposter
skort · 2 days ago
I'm not quite sure what the correct term is for this scenario, in which LLMs are being forced upon people in many places that previously had human-to-human interaction, some of it coming from YC backed companies, while HN tries to insist that it's discussions should continue be human-to-human.

Having your cake and eating it too? NIMBYism?

If anything it reeks of privilege. It says that it's okay to spread slop on the world at large, just so long as it doesn't soil the precious orange website.

ishouldstayaway · 2 days ago
> Having your cake and eating it too? NIMBYism?

Hypocrisy.

ishouldstayaway commented on Because Algospeak   tbray.org/ongoing/When/20... · Posted by u/zdw
SunshineTheCat · 4 days ago
I know this is going to sound like an "old man yells at cloud" moment, but I cannot get over the number of people using "cause" as a replacement for "because."

Maybe it was my time spent in the book publishing industry, but it causes me pain every time I see it.

The horror: https://x.com/search?q=cause&src=typed_query&f=live

ishouldstayaway · 3 days ago
> I cannot get over the number of people using "cause" as a replacement for "because."

This is ... very old. I'm not sure why you would think it's not, honestly.

It's just a plain old contraction.

ishouldstayaway commented on Facebook is cooked   pilk.website/3/facebook-i... · Posted by u/npilk
zadikian · 22 days ago
Same. Idk how college communication work now; we had class groups and planned everything over FB events/pages back then.

For friends, I started a few text group chats to stay in touch. It's really annoying because someone has Android and RCS is broken on someone's end. Some also use FB Messenger, but nobody 2 years younger or older than me is on that.

ishouldstayaway · 21 days ago
> I started a few text group chats to stay in touch.

This is the space that WhatsApp fills, for better or worse.

ishouldstayaway commented on Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification   kotaku.com/discord-altern... · Posted by u/thunderbong
thefz · 25 days ago
They are not fleeing age verification, but surveillance capitalism of the evil kind.
ishouldstayaway · 24 days ago
> surveillance capitalism of the evil kind.

Is...is there another kind?

ishouldstayaway commented on CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC   nbcnews.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/theahura
tialaramex · 25 days ago
Technically doesn't Trump also spend a lot of time golfing, and attending events where people praise Trump - admittedly for broadcast on TV but not necessarily while watching TV?

I see that it's become harder to track because the White House doesn't disclose what he's doing as much, but yeah, lots of golf still.

ishouldstayaway · 25 days ago
HN's penchant for pedantic literalism will never cease to amaze (and dismay) me.
ishouldstayaway commented on CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC   nbcnews.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/theahura
wildzzz · 25 days ago
Colbert is not a CBS employee. He runs Spartina Productions which, along with Busboy Productions, produces The Late Show for CBS. It's a coordinated project of the three companies, he's not their employee and likely can't just cancel the show except for very specific circumstances.
ishouldstayaway · 25 days ago
> likely can't just cancel the show

Because they already have?

ishouldstayaway commented on CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC   nbcnews.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/theahura
ishouldstayaway · 25 days ago
And you're accusing us of jumping to conclusions without evidence? Get a grip here dude.
ishouldstayaway commented on Privilege is bad grammar   tadaima.bearblog.dev/priv... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
ishouldstayaway · 25 days ago
You aren't being nearly as clever here as you think you are.
ishouldstayaway commented on Privilege is bad grammar   tadaima.bearblog.dev/priv... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
stronglikedan · a month ago
There's also:

- No signalling: I dress more formally than everyone else because that's been my style since forever and I'm not going to change for a role that doesn't require it.

ishouldstayaway · a month ago
I find this kind of funny, since you say your not signalling anything, and then in the second half of the sentence describe for us a very signal you claim you aren't sending:

> I'm not going to change for a role that doesn't require it.

Whether you like it or not, whether you meant to or not, you are communicating something here. You don't get to opt out.

u/ishouldstayaway

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