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wesdym WesDym @mastodon.social

Cranky armchair wonk and word nerd.

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Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @Warl0k3 If your goal is to be useless and annoying to others, you've succeeded. Bye-bye.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @Warl0k3 What I've learned from decades of being online is that many people are just kind of pointlessly tiresome, essentially just producing meaningless noise that benefits no one, though maybe it helps them in some way, I don't know. There's a vast over-abundance of this kind of online noise, and it's always disposable.

    Even many total assholes online have something useful of interesting to say. But useless noise is just that, and I have no problem blocking such people.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @madcaesar There are plenty of people I block just for being needlessly tiresome, on the logic that they will probably never say anything that will make anything better for me or anyone else, but will still fill up the world and my life with pointless, irritating noise.

    You're today's winner.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @Grimy Get over yourself.

    And goodbye. There's plenty of hopelessly tiresome people online already, and no one needs more.

    And grow the fuck up already.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @Grimy Canadian English is a dialect. So is US English. And both have sub-dialects, as well as registers. These are real differences that really do affect how specific words are used and understood.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @Grimy You are relying on a rhetorical device called an essentialism: an assertion of fact without evidence, a claim asserted as established fact without supporting argument or proof. Put another way:

    Things aren't true just because you say they are, no matter how sure you are.

    Essentialism isn't merely poor forensics. It's very literally gotten millions of people killed.

    We always want to make every effort to use good forensics in arguments.

    I don't believe you actually KNOW the facts.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @Grimy Maybe. But unless you can produce a source, it sounds to me like you're only guessing, and forming an essentialism from your feelings and assumptions rather than from evidence.

  • Montreal shopping mall plays “Baby Shark” on repeat to prevent unhoused people from loittering
  • @Grimy Believe it or not, different dialects may have different meanings for the same words.