ooh then don’t miss !garfieldism@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !imsorryjon@lemmy.world…

Is there like a specific instance of her doing something?

I’ve read the following arguments:

• her humor is bland, Cathy-level stuff. I like !garfield@lemmy.world so I’m not exactly an expert on humor, but fwiw I like her art style and I find her strips funny more often than not. That sort of thing’s subjective anyway.
• she had reddit comics-strip mods delete any critical comments about her. Yeah, reddit sucks, that’s why we left, I dunno if it’s fair to blame her for that.
• she supported reddit during the API protests. I kinda disliked her for a while because of this, HOWEVER since then she’s done a lot of anti-MAGA comics (most recently like this, this, and this) so I think she’s cool bc that’s a far more important issue, and I’m not gonna be hung up on reddit forever.
• in her strip she sometimes makes fun of people who criticize her. I see this kinda like a stand-up comedienne dealing with hecklers, i.e. it’s part of the show, and good on her for not taking shit from people. But some people apparently think this is inappropriate. Others assume that her “hecklers” are sexist, insecure, etc and that creates even more defensiveness. Not sure if there’s an easy solution to this.

see here:

• !internetisbeautiful@lemm.ee
• !smolweb@slrpnk.net
• !retronet@lemmy.sdf.org

also, as you kinda hint at, the fediverse in general is aimed at giving us a space away from corporate social media.

Yeah, or if the car had a sticker on it saying “award - safest student driver” on it, it might be ironic.

That song (which is insipid and bland) gets a bad rap for that. I’d argue that the song is indeed using irony effectively. irony is subjective: it tells you what the speaker believes to be a contradiction. the song says: these things are ironic; the implied presupposition is something like “everything turns out well like in a romance movie.”

• STATEMENT: rain on your wedding day is ironic
• PRESUPPOSITION: it should not rain on your wedding day bc that is a magical time
• CONCLUSION: life is not ideal

I mean, it’s not a very deep conclusion, but it is logically defensible. anyway, if you’re in high school and you need an English paper topic, there you go.

Those cats were all mortal enemies until they were brought together by catnip.

I vaguely remember from grad school that “copresence heuristics” were a workable solution, but I don’t remember the details.

“What does THIS button do?”

Getting the Aztecs is pretty good bc then you get to read up on the Tlaxcaltec too! (one of the reasons the Spanish were successful in Mexico was bc the Tlaxcallans decided to use them against their rivals the Aztecs instead of just killing them - they ended up joining the new nobility.)

here you go:

Lemmy is like a cafe, not like a stadium.

Fam’s a bear, right? Make it with honey!

If you dig industrial, check out

• Youth Code
• Light Asylum

well… the enemy general is kind of a disappointment… coulda just sent his least favorite platoon forward to scout (and capture, in this case).

On the bright side, it probably wasn’t AI-generated.

There are a couple abilities involved:

• knowing something
• modeling a learner: understanding someone else’s current level of knowledge and the nature of their lack of knowledge such as misconceptions.
• instruction skill: having the ability to remedy the learner’s misconceptions and build upon their existing knowledge to transmit the knowledge/skill

The last two are nontrivial. You ever told someone the answer to something and they just didn’t get it? Even though it was stunningly obvious to you? The last two are why.

Anyway, to your point: a lot of times the best action is just to point someone in the right direction.

ikr sounds like that thing where Socrates’ wisdom was realizing that he was not wise.

Socrates then sought to solve the divine paradox—how an ignorant man also could be the wisest of all men—in effort to illuminate the meaning of the Oracles’ categorical statement that he is the wisest man in the land. After systematically interrogating the politicians, the poets, and the craftsmen, Socrates determined that the politicians were not wise like he was. He says of himself, in reference to a politician: “I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not.”(21d).[15] Socrates says that the poets did not understand their poetry; that the prophets and seers did not understand what they said; and that the craftsmen while knowing many things, thought they also had much knowledge on things of which they had none.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_(Plato)#Part_one:_The_defence_of_Socrates

OK, then you got my upvote!

you’re right… it is fake, and yet it is true. so is it true or is it fake? and if it’s fake, is it a less or more genuine greentext?

But here’s the real question: did OP convert a TIFU to greentext themselves, or did they use AI?

It’s always a joy to do that, especially if the door is frequently used. All of a sudden your surroundings get a lot nicer.