What is your most lukewarm take?
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Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used, and I would probably agree with many of them, but you went with:
There's no incentive for showing compassion online, apart from virtue signaling.
If you believe there is NO other reason to be nice, other than virtue signaling, that means that EVERY time you see someone being nice online, you assume that they are only doing it to create the illusion of being a nice person.
This is where phrasing comes in.
If you said many or most people are only nice for this reason, we could debate the quantity, but for the most part I'd agree with that.
But you said there is no other incentive. I have no interest in virtue signaling, but I do like to be compassionate online. I can think of various reasons why I personally show compassion online. Since you can't think of a single other reason, it must be because you've never experienced them. I must assume that any time that I see you showing compassion, it must be because you are virtue signaling, because that's the only reason you've ever experienced, and you assume that everyone else is doing the same.
Perhaps you didn't mean exactly what you wrote, but based on the words you used, that's what you told us.
Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used
This implies you knew what their intent was but being a pedant was more important.
The irony of doing it in this thread with this comment from @[email protected] is too perfect.
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Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used
This implies you knew what their intent was but being a pedant was more important.
The irony of doing it in this thread with this comment from @[email protected] is too perfect.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Not at all. I was open to the possibility that they didn't mean that, but I wrote my response under the assumption that it was their position.
That was essentially my way of saying, if this isn't what you meant, let me know.
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Not at all. I was open to the possibility that they didn't mean that, but I wrote my response under the assumption that it was their position.
That was essentially my way of saying, if this isn't what you meant, let me know.
Seems a lot more expedient to say "if this isn't what you meant, let me know".
No need for multiple paragraphs of pedantry about language on an AskLemmy post inquiring about people's opinions.
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My girlfriend prefers her water room temp, and as someone who loves ice cold water, it's so weird to me. So I think I'm gonna start thinking of this as her lukewarm take.
Your girlfriend scares me quite a bit!!
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A great realization that I had was that many of my language pet peeves were really preferences and not hard and fast rules. Language constantly evolves, regardless of how any one person feels. Clinging to my pet peeves was really just a form of elitism.
Grammar is descriptive, not prescriptive. <- The fancy way to say what you said.
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Seems a lot more expedient to say "if this isn't what you meant, let me know".
No need for multiple paragraphs of pedantry about language on an AskLemmy post inquiring about people's opinions.
Still not my intent there, but maybe you just don't get my tone. No worries.
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Still not my intent there, but maybe you just don't get my tone. No worries.
maybe you just don't get my tone
Ahh, blame the other person for your poor communication. That says a lot about you.
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Except for Nazis
That's with cause.
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You can't just make up words like that
wrote last edited by [email protected]Today is your lucky day!
Ingredients:
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5 green cardamom
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1/2 black cardamom (or more but it can be overpowering)
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a bunch of ginger, chopped a lot (idk how to measure ginger)
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5 peppercorns
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2ts indian black tea
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water
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3% milk (enough to equal the amount of water because I love milky chai)
Ingredients but optional:
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1 edge star anise (or fennel or smnk)
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a bitta cinnamon
Directions:
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put spices in mortar
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pulverize with pestle
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but in water with ginger on stove
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simmer 20 minutes
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add tea leaves
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simmer 10 minutes
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add milk
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simmer 10 minutes
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let cool
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strain
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enjoy!
Can be simmered for longer but I don't have time for that in the morning. Smells great tho
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
I am convinced beyond contestation that carpeting a bathroom is an exceptionally stupid thing to do.
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I am also a woman of room temp water preference, I'm glad to know there is hope for me in finding a boyfriend
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
People who are always the hero of their own stories are not trustworthy narrators.
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Something that's not super controversial, but you still really stand by it.
Bleu cheese is the best cheese.
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I am also a woman of room temp water preference, I'm glad to know there is hope for me in finding a boyfriend
Room temp water guy here, but already happily married lol
There are dozens of us!
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I am convinced beyond contestation that carpeting a bathroom is an exceptionally stupid thing to do.
This is not warm, this is cold hard facts
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Bleu cheese is the best cheese.
To each their own, I think a good parmesan is my favorite, but blue cheese is pretty up there
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Pizza is one of the best food forms we've ever come up with. I don't even care if you use wildly nontraditional toppings, like a chicken vindaloo pizza or a chili dog pizza. Just put the shit you wanna eat on a giant dough, cook it, then cut it up and eat it. Genius.
I once made a seafood and butter sauce pizza for a highschool gf. Hated it myself but she still talked about it years after we spit. Pizza and Sandwiches are the peak of human civilization
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From a technical standpoint and a legal one, piracy is copyright infringement, not theft. It's a similar behavior but fundamentally different altogether at its core, largely because the victim of piracy does not lose anything tangible, only a perceived opportunity of a sale (which can be argued as not having been an opportunity in the first place depending on who is performing the piracy).
Both are bad, but people calling piracy theft have a terrible misunderstanding about it.
Studies consistently show that piracy increases sales.
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This is not warm, this is cold hard facts
The assignment was "not super controversial, but I still really stand by it."
My bathroom was carpeted. By my direct ancestors. They built the rest of the world I live in, too.
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Room temp water guy here, but already happily married lol
There are dozens of us!
I didn't know I had to put this on my tinder bio, you have changed my life
