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I don’t want to be a Debbie downer, but in this case they’re right. It’s literally impossible to argue. Look at the rape rates of enlisted women to see what we do to our own, let alone the people we’ve dehumanized.

Imma be honest… It’s hard to argue with this one.

Americans (i would type it your way but my autocorrect) like to have their cake and eat it too. We typically say, “We don’t agree with this thing” when somewhere around 50% of the country or more agrees with that thing.

There’s a really old episode of South Park called I’m a Little Bit Country about the Iraq war and the dichotomy of political groups. Conservatives and proggressives realize they are giving eachother cover.

Even though America always seems to do the worst thing in the world at the time, there are so many people in the country who audibly and visually don’t like it, that they get to feel like it’s being done to THEM as well.

We Americans are both the perpetrators and the victims! We are powerless, but our voices matter! It’s all a part of the golden handcuff package that keeps most people comfortable enough to do nothing.

It’s legit offputting, but when you’re on YouTube it makes sense to play that game. Following a thumbnail meta will get your video more engagement, they even allow A/B testing of thumbnails to find the best performing one. YT is as much a thumbnail platform as it is a video one, and I’m only being slightly hyperbolic.

It’s still occasionally used, but man it’s an archaic reference!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner

You’ve moved my opinion on this definitely, I have never been inside that world, but I engage with it all the time because of my work.

Rather than being something strange and wrong, it’s just a thing that works, and that’s why you guys adopt it. Like rubber duck programming.

Oh no, I’m the first person who told you this behavior is weird huh. I’m sorry.

Sure, I might even give those people some grace over the people who use it cause they want to be Jared Leto, or one of Jared Leto’s sex cult friends in the book.

It’s actually still a red flag, unfortunately. The only people who use Grok have a terrible understanding of other people, like the dude in this article. That’s part of the problem. Either you’re jumping off the same bridge as your weirdo colleagues, you identify with the nudist-cult Martian, or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.

It’s like people who use Na’vi, you can make up anything and say it’s anything and people who have trouble with reality will identify themselves by using that nonsense in normal conversation. You’re never gonna make fetch happen, it’s just tedious.

There is no problem with having read the book, there’s no problem with liking it. I did both, the first time i read it I thought it was cool. I’m more taking about people who made the nude sex cult book part of their personality enough to use the word grok unironically.

People using the word “grok” has always been a red flag. The people who read stranger in a strange land and identified with it so much they started using the word are fucking weirdos. The book is about a child adopted by Martians who inherited their reality-bending mind powers, comes back to earth as an adult and creates a nudist sex cult. Basically Jared Leto. I’m not joking, that’s the book.

It was always elder developers who didn’t wear shoes and had trouble with personal space.

It’s like looking in a mirror.

No I’m mad, I’m just mad all the time at everything!

We don’t even know we are propogandized, it’s on par if not better than any other totalitarian system in history

Cause your insults are meaningless to those of us who had no choice on where we were born and hate ourselves and our countries as much as you hate us.

There’s not a single thing you can say to me that i haven’t said to myself like 1 inch from a mirror. Welcome to capitalism.