• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      that isn’t such crude reductionism;

      On a website most people make posts that are barely two sentences…

      It never surprises me how often people bitch that I didn’t cover ever single facet of an issue after typing paragrpaghs.

      Like, my comments are already usually long enough people don’t read it all, but I still always get these (incredible short) comments mad that I didn’t spend two hours writing and sources my social media comments.

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        8 months ago

        If you always get that kind of comment, maybe you have a habit of phrasing things in an unnuanced manner

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          8 months ago

          If I tried to explain quantum mechanics to my dog, it wouldn’t matter how good of a job I did.

          And even if Roger Penrose or another expert spent years, they’d get the same result.

          So it’s just a question of how much time someone is willing to spend on a task almost guaranteed to fail.

          Like going into details in the hopes every idiot online understands every part of what you said.

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            8 months ago

            Of course communication is a two way street.

            However it’s not merely transmitting information. The manner in which one speaks, what words one chooses, attention to detail, et cetera.

            If people commented on my style of driving on a regular basis, I’d say least entertain the idea that there was something about it I could improve upon.

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              8 months ago

              Depends where you are. If you are on Itsly or Portugal the people commenting on your driving style would probably be in the wrong.

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                  8 months ago

                  Not really, the point being “the fact that many people share an opinion does not make that opinion correct”.

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                    8 months ago

                    Your former comment beside the point because that served as an example.

                    This comment is besides the point as I didn’t claim that the people would be correct, but that it would serve as a reason in order to entertain the idea that three might be something could be ameliorated about the style of communicating/driving/whatever.

                    If a couple of people told you your breath smelled, you’d probably check, just in case, no?

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            8 months ago

            You didn’t include the underrepresented African Americans in your comment, thus making it invalid. /s

            I thought it was a great summary, and have no problem understanding your comments. FWIW

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            8 months ago

            Imagine thinking summarizing quantum mechanics to dogs is the equivalent to summarizing the Revolutionary War to Lemmy users. We’re all people here, and I promise you there isn’t such an intellect difference you need to dumb it down that much.

            You’re unfair, inaccurate, misleading, and biased in your explanation of what happened while attempting to sound authoritative, that’s why you’re criticized.