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@makyo It might have been done for that reason, to help track shrinkage. A kind of trouble-shooting.

@Entropywins Yep, that’s what I expect from childish people.

You need to grow up.

@Entropywins I feel ya, and I agree with you, but here’s a friendly tip: Any argument made in text will be more persuasive if you write it like a thoughtful, educated grown-up instead of like a drunk high school drop-out.

It’s one thing to be ‘casual’ in discourse. It’s another to come across as incompetent, inconsiderate, or lazy.

Online, all anyone sees are the words you type. That’s a huge part of how others will perceive you – and everything you say – and you should mindful about that.

@hdnsmbt I would expect actual, literal toddlers to be better.

@sumguyonline You do understand that non-votes aren’t counted, right?

Choosing not to vote at all, when you could, is one of the dumbest choices you can make. SOMEONE is going to win. They’re not all going to lose, or feel bad, because you stayed home.

Your civic duty is to help guide your society through the choices you CAN make. At least decide who you hate more, and vote against them.

@Warl0k3 If your goal is to be useless and annoying to others, you’ve succeeded. Bye-bye.

@Warl0k3 What I’ve learned from decades of being online is that many people are just kind of pointlessly tiresome, essentially just producing meaningless noise that benefits no one, though maybe it helps them in some way, I don’t know. There’s a vast over-abundance of this kind of online noise, and it’s always disposable.

Even many total assholes online have something useful of interesting to say. But useless noise is just that, and I have no problem blocking such people.

@madcaesar There are plenty of people I block just for being needlessly tiresome, on the logic that they will probably never say anything that will make anything better for me or anyone else, but will still fill up the world and my life with pointless, irritating noise.

You’re today’s winner.

@Grimy Get over yourself.

And goodbye. There’s plenty of hopelessly tiresome people online already, and no one needs more.

And grow the fuck up already.

@Grimy Canadian English is a dialect. So is US English. And both have sub-dialects, as well as registers. These are real differences that really do affect how specific words are used and understood.

@Grimy You are relying on a rhetorical device called an essentialism: an assertion of fact without evidence, a claim asserted as established fact without supporting argument or proof. Put another way:

Things aren’t true just because you say they are, no matter how sure you are.

Essentialism isn’t merely poor forensics. It’s very literally gotten millions of people killed.

We always want to make every effort to use good forensics in arguments.

I don’t believe you actually KNOW the facts.

@Grimy Maybe. But unless you can produce a source, it sounds to me like you’re only guessing, and forming an essentialism from your feelings and assumptions rather than from evidence.

@Grimy Believe it or not, different dialects may have different meanings for the same words.