Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy?

• cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you not research the phenomenon a bit? Google it?

  One hypothesis is that they didn’t touch the stuff that the doctors touched.

  I mean I’m getting that your question is rhetorical. Which is to say it doesn’t get to the point quickly.

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  • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re an ass, go away

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    • cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sorry, did I shatter your dream?

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  • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was nothing rhetorical about the question. He asked a question. Rhetorical doesn’t mean anything about getting to the point quickly. It means a question that doesn’t need an answer.

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    • cameron_vale@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A rhetorical question avoids getting to the point because getting to the point is not the point of rhetoric. The point of rhetoric is emotional effect. Therefore when swift and easy arrival at the point is eschewed (a moment’s google), and an emotional effect is clearly evident, then rhetoric is clearly the point.

      Tangentially, consider the phenomenon of “smugnorance”.

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      • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And his question wasn’t beating around the bush. He literally just asked a question. It wasn’t rhetorical. Just because you say it’s rhetorical doesn’t make it rhetorical. Rhetorical.

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  • irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What the actual fuck is your problem? Completely insufferable.

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