I, too, have done the “all communication is manipulative”, but in the same way as one would do a bar trick:

all communication is manipulative, for any words I say/write that you perceive instantly manipulate (as in the physical manner / modifying state) your thoughts, and this is done so without you requesting I do so

it’s a handy stunt with which to drive an argument about a few parts of communication, rhetoric, etc. because it gives a kinda good handle on some meta without getting too deep into things

(although there was one of my friends who really, really hated the framing)

lemmy’s own post-formatting code

oh but see, it has at least 2-if-you-squint representations of things (and possibly more? it’s been a while since I read the code). it’s got “raw”, which represents semi sorta whatever the user input

iirc it broadly takes that for a local render (as in on the site frontend)

and then it also makes a $something for the thing it sends out over ActivityPub

I do want to make it clear that I’m not carrying water for lemmy here, fwiw. this’d be a legit cool thing to add to things (whether the spape it took was “renders latex locally, and ships images remote” or whatever). just saying it might be hairy

I’d pipe up and go “uhhh hey prof, aren’t you being paid to, like, impart knowledge?”

(I should note that I have an extremely deficient fucks pool, and do not mind pissing off fuckwits. but I understand it’s not always viable to do)

yeah lemmy’s got some real weirdo choices

off the cuff, this feels like a "don’t cross the streams’ thing

(there is that webfont or whatever thing for html latex, but having looked under the hood on lemmy’s post handling I uhhhhhhh yeah)

neat idea though, maybe that should be a thing that philthy can do better

the terrible tryfecta

jesus fucking christ do you even understand where you’re posting? how are you this goddamn oblivious?

you do not, under any circumstances, have to “give it to them”

there is no requirement to carry water for this awful shit

do not surprisedpikachu when someone calls out your weird posts

my my, those boots sure must be tasty

objectionally calculated numbers

The nerd/jock thing always felt like an American thing

similarly, I never got to see the “school bully” thing even nearly as much as it seems to be an issue US-side. not that we didn’t have (or that they didn’t try with me[0] on occasion), but it seems to be quite extreme in the US?

looks like the autoplag bullshit is causing a “fun” new frontier in the hellscape of youtube copyright fuckery

dunno, it’s definitely up there. maybe not a recent one, and I could understand people sub-25 perhaps not knowing the name, but across a fair bit of the foss space the name is household

unfortunately

2real

hmm so I guess mali is the next to be screwed by tld hype bullshit

there may not be punishment enough for versace bedouin

goddammit now I want a taco, and there’s no great options near me

curse you, average of extremes!

is the s in esrtweets for “shitty”? because holy fuck are they shitty

I first heard Bush’s Chemicals Between Us from a neighbours soundsystem during a party one weekend in the early 00s, and then it took me well over a decade to find it (while still hearing other Bush songs over the years)

yep I know exactly what you’re describing there