An old post from Caroline Ellison’s tumblr, since deleted.

  • maculata@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    WTF is an “EA”?

    Didn’t people learn in high school that if you use Initials or an acronym you need to define it after the first use?

    I’m seeing more and more of this sort of sloppy writing with little or no consideration for the reader without intimate knowledge of the writers’ niche wank genre.

        • David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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          i would say in that case “sucks to be them” and “their refund is enclosed”

          it’s not a dot less pointless and obnoxious in that context either

      • maculata@aussie.zone
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        7 months ago

        And I’m right here!

        So a post appears in ‘ALL’ and I click on it. I’m not an aficionado of ‘sneer club’ so I don’t know what it’s about.

        I’ve now gone through to the sidebar and I’m left rather uninformed due to the purposely opaque cliquey in-joke nature of the text there. I mean, those are definitely words, I’ll give you that.

        The link at the top doesn’t help because i don’t have time to parse a whole article when a 10 word summation of the community would do.

        But thanks.

        • self@awful.systemsM
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          The link at the top doesn’t help because i don’t have time to parse a whole article when a 10 word summation of the community would do.

          you sure did have time to write a 150 word micro-essay about why you’re a bannable dickhead though

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            7 months ago

            for anyone else who stumbles on our threads from all and is (justifiably) confused: please for the love of fuck lurk before posting a demand that we do labor for you

            if you’ve lurked and searched TESCREAL and Eliezer Yudkowsky and other shit from the sidebar and you still need clarification, maybe posting a shitty rant in the style of someone’s dad about how kids these days don’t stop and explain themselves to their elders in a random thread is the wrong move

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                7 months ago

                It’s a lousy bit, because if you’re going to do a goddamn “crocus” joke about hundreds of people being shot at a concert, you should obviously make the pun about Swiss heavy metal legends “Krokus.”

                • self@awful.systemsM
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                  7 months ago

                  a deeply shitty joke??? observation??? about how a crocus is a flower and therefore how could it be the subject of a terror attack?

                  completely indistinguishable from all the other posts in their history, all of which were made by reading the title of the thread and posting the first garbage that came to mind

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                    7 months ago

                    It’s not like if Russian artillery pieces aren’t named after flowers, so maybe there’s another tradition in play here.

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          so in effect you went to some random forum you had never heard of, read one post in it, didn’t click around or anything, and replied “I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON. DO BETTER”

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      I’m going to take a guess and say it’s “effective altruism”. Maybe???