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Never say anything that isn't entirely bad about Elon Musk.

Poe'e law states that there's no such thing as satire, and that every post that could be considered a joke is actually a display of incredible stupidity

All hail Stamets, Lord of the meme.

AI hate or get downvoted

Pretend ai is insignificant

Make sure to keep an escape rope handy as the rabbit holes have rabbit holes

Everyone here is old.

5. liberalism > conservatism
6. firefox > chromium based and yes, i found it the hard way.

Never mention you don't use Linux or Firefox otherwise the neckbeards will come at you.

I'm a half step away from being a normie and I hate it here

Rule 34. Doesnt exist here

You're either a lib or a tankie.

My aside:

In every community I see this. There are always folks trying to narrow the community to some cut and dry descriptors—which for them are always obvious.

Sometimes the jab is perhaps intended as a joke. But to my reading it's always a trope, namely the tired fallacy of taking a part as the whole.

Either way, it's myopic. In any internet community, we're always bound to narrowly see what's happening. Because:

• We can only see the posters, never the lurkers—which far exceed the former;
• Posters, by virtue of taking the time to post, are most often than not highly opinionated;
• Our reading is always selective. We're either misguided by the way the comments are sorted, by our mood at the moment, by chance, or simply because we're really bad at reading;
• Our reading is always biased. Either by our mood, our current situation in life, our upbringing, our milieu, whatever;
• the list goes on and on and on.

This results in a very reductive view that, although very teasing because very personal and idiosyncratic, is ultimately an exercise in futility. To those already biased, it simply supplies them with fodder to confirm what they already believed.

From afar, it's just noise. Any view on what the community is is but a poor reflection of what the community ultimately is.

Don't comment on anything related to any conflicts immediately East of the Mediterranean lest you wish to be in an ad hominem "debate".

This problem drives valuable content away from the site, unless the lurkers up/down vote based on the value of a contribution (and not their personal opinion) or the mods step in, which is still seemingly rare.

If we wrote it here they wouldn't be unwritten!