potustheplant

joined 2 years ago
[–] potustheplant 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] potustheplant 4 points 2 months ago

You're missing the forest for the trees. It's one thing to have your phone stole but it's another completely and unrelated thing to have someone force you to do something on your phone at gunpoint.

How the hell is any type of security system ever going to be able to help you in the scenario you described?

In case you don't know what your type of comment is called, it's "moving the goalpost".

[–] potustheplant 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There's a significant difference between your phone being stolen and this random scenario you just made up.

[–] potustheplant 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you don't need permission from the company to model your own replacement parts. It's nice if they provide the models but it's not necessary.

[–] potustheplant -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That may be true from your perspective but it was not my intention. If you make a small effort, you might see that you too can misunderstand someone else's words.

[–] potustheplant -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

what was the purpose of your statement?

To point out (what I thought was) a needlessly condescending response.

Your statement lacked context.

It did not. I think it was quite clear how I interpreted the comment I replied to. I mean, you got it. Even if you disagreed.

I rely more heavily on context to fill in the gaps in my knowledge

Again, I was not lacking context. Having "context" doesn't mean that a sentence does not negate the fact that a sentence can still be ambiguous. I think this is perfectly exemplified in this thread.

My point stands. People are way too eager to be aggressive/mock other people when they get the chance instead of considering that the other person might A) just have a different opinion or B) they misunderstood something. When I first started using Lemmy this did not happen so it's a shame that it seems to be attracting the same crowd that made virtual interaction so unappealing in Reddit.

[–] potustheplant -5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I really don't see how "lol" would mean that in this context but ok. Even with the context to me I was more like "idc" or "this isn't important". I mean, if they wanted to say "whoops", they could've said "whoops".

Could I be the one that misinterpreted what they intended to say? Of course, I'm not a native speaker and (being the human that I am) I can make mistakes. However, the general response seems to be more aggressive than communicative, which is one of the reasons why I started to really dislike Reddit and the interactions on that platform.

[–] potustheplant -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (9 children)

implying some form of wrongdoing?

Well, it kind of is. It basically equates to saying "whatever" or "who cares" when I'm pretty sure the author of the comic would care. They could've just said "my bad, just fixed it" and that's it. But no, they made the conscious effort to communicate that, even though they fixed it, they don't really care about it. Which is, in my opinion, kind of a condescending/patronizing/childish/petty/douchey/whateveryouwanttocallit thing to do.

But hey, fuck me, right?

[–] potustheplant -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For a moment there I thought you were talking about PC.

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