"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down.
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@evacide IMO it became easier when, years ago, foul men living in the USA posted sh*t about me (“How dare an Australian woman start a zine without our permission and mentoring?!”) and I learnt that they WANTED an online fight and to be named. They were FURIOUS when I took all identifiers & links to them off my website. Many ppl are like that: they want the engagement. The best punishment you can mete out is to ignore and even block.
@DarkMatterZine @evacide Kind of like the Naughty Step
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide The hard part is not letting anyone be wrong on the Internet, that happens naturally, all the time. What's difficult is making anybody conscious to be wrong, on the Internet.
Once, communication with a wide audience was driven by entities with some authority on that media. Somebody authoritative, some other authoritarian, but whatever the narration always showing to be "right".
Hence, anybody writing on this media (like I do now) feels to have inherited that power to be "right". G'd lk -
Omg. The irony of this meme considering Chalamet’s recent problematic comments.
@JoBlakely @alienghic @evacide Wasn't he was commiting to being his character in Marty Supreme IRL, similar to Andy Kaufman's performance art/comedy
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
Put your hand into the box @evacide
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide
Remember when they said, "wow some random strangers on the internet has changed my mind about x. thanks!"Me neither. Most of the time the convo will only turn rage-bait-y and ruin everyone's day.
I don't get paid to put my energy correcting some randos & trolls.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
The main issue being it's now automated and at scale with multiple tools available for generating and publishing wrongness.
Correcting such is a task at least an order of magnitude bigger than the problem
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide Taken me several decades to (mostly) work that out of my system (and various other things too.) Wish I'd been quicker about it but happy that I eventually (mostly) got here. -
"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide Nah, you're wrong.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide What's wrong with not letting people be wrong
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
@evacide In extreme cases I type out what I think of any “wrongness” then delete the draft.
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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
But what if they think they are right, but they are wrong.
Maybe you can change their mind with just a little bit of information.
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@evacide for everything there is an xkcd
@darkuncle @evacide, and in this case it's no. 386.
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@evacide Gandalf was captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise during the early years until his encounter with the Balor, upon which the elf Spock reigned for a while.
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@darkuncle @evacide, and in this case it's no. 386.
@lp0_on_fire I almost linked it but assumed @evacide knew exactly what I was thinking of
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@lp0_on_fire I almost linked it but assumed @evacide knew exactly what I was thinking of
@darkuncle @evacide, hmm. It doesn't seem right to me not to provide a link.
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@darkuncle @evacide, hmm. It doesn't seem right to me not to provide a link.
@lp0_on_fire sometimes it's a judgment call on the audience and a nod to their awareness
