Comment on Biden discussing the border during the SOTU

• mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just curious, that's all. I do something like that whenever I notice that the answers I'm getting have a notable disconnect as compared with the things they're answering.

  In multiple messages now you've told me that I "agree that they suck" when I keep telling you, no, they don't (at least the Biden administration doesn't), and listing extensive reasons why. That to me is sort of bot like behavior, and I was curious. Sorry if I gave offense with it, but out of four times I've asked that sort of thing, you are literally the first one who answered the question; some continued talking to me without responding to the fact that I was asking math questions.

  Anyway. Picking out one example of the ones I gave: Can you share with me what your estimate is of the total reduction in emissions as a result of the climate bill? Or some estimate of what its ultimate results will be? I've looked into it a little bit, but I'm interested to know what you've found out on closer inspection.

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    some continued talking to me without responding to the fact that I was asking math questions.

    Because it’s weird and condescending, and the kind of thing people will just ignore. A bot would try to answer everything and fail. They’ll try to solve the reimann hypothesis if you ask.

    What these people - and they were almost certainly people - were doing is likely “blanking” you. They noticed an inappropriate social behaviour and ignored it in the hopes that you would get the hint that it was inappropriate without any need for a confrontation.

    Frankly I don’t have any patience for that. Have you ever asked that question and gotten a wrong answer? That would be a bot. If the answer is no, that’s because you haven’t found any bots. I answered to prove to you that you’re a paranoid weirdo, and also because fuck you.

    I’ll also note that you ignored me telling you to stop talking to me. Does that make you a bot?

    Don’t answer, I certainly won’t any more.

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    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I figured you probably wouldn't be excited to be able to tell me all the details of how Biden's climate agenda isn't real when I specifically asked for them. Oh well. I'll have to go on having my weird mistaken beliefs on it. If only I'd been more polite, maybe you'd have been open to share your wisdom.

      Have a good one. I will aspire to be more socially skilled in the future. God bless.

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