This shit happens far too often. Between the YouTube links that “prove” their bullshit, to the thousand-word copypasta essay that doesn’t contain a single original thought.
Yeah. I’m not doing that.
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This shit happens far too often. Between the YouTube links that “prove” their bullshit, to the thousand-word copypasta essay that doesn’t contain a single original thought.
Yeah. I’m not doing that.
Professional whinging is so hard
Or, worse, the essay doesn’t support their argument at all. Because they didn’t actually read it in the first place.
I see we have all independently encountered the same individuals.
I’ve had people link articles to me for their argument that actually substantiated mine.
Your loss, you would just have to educate yourself on basic shit, here’s a short one for your attention span.
You know links are shown in thumbnails, right?
Only video that’s ever made sense to me.
Yeah that’s right, disregard the rock solid evidence they laid out!! /s
plot twist: it’s a Jenny Nicholson video
Fuck it, I’m in!
I watched/listened to her rant about some Star Wars hotel that I didn’t know existed, while it existed, for 4 hours! Wish I had gone to Disneyland while she was a guide.
Sometimes I back up my argument with wntire books lmao. Its not usually for the person I am arguing with. Its for the people who see the argument and are curious
You should be able to explicate your own argument, though. “Read this book” isn’t convincing on its own.
Oh for sure, I don’t just say, “you’re wrong read this book” lol.
Yeah, you need to take specific portions of the book to support your argument. I won’t just say “read Fanon” but will give a a specific example from the book in addition to the more general example of the entire work, plus encourage them to read more.
Einstein said if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it.
Also drag likes your name.
I would’ve loved to hear him explain general relativity to an elementary school kid. No bowling ball on trampoline nonsense either!
Agree with that 100 % I have a degree in Philosophy and that’s a reoccurring dynamic I saw with people trying to baffle with bullshit rather than make a cogent argument
Honestly such a power move
Just point to the dictionary. “Draw your own conclusions, bro”
Did we just discover a fundamental force of the internet?
Oh hell yes! I also feel that people who can’t summarise their argument likely don’t understand it
I love everthing about this.
That’s brutal.
Perfect response.
I got a YouTube link to a 30 minute mumbler.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
This is my reaction anytime I Google virtually anything. Stop fucking recommending videos, Google. We’re not fucking interested.
Tja@programming.dev 1 hour ago
You are not fucking interested. We, as Google’s customer base, want everything in video format because we are allergic to reading. If it pisses off 1% of users (which is ten of millions of people), so be it, still profit.
orcrist@lemm.ee 59 minutes ago
If only there were a way to search specifically for videos. That would be convenient.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
I’m with you. This shift over the last decade or so to everything being in video essay format is infuriating. Especially when I’m trying to look up instructions for something that could just be a five item bulleted list or a single image but instead is stretched out into a ten minute video.
There have actually been a few times I’ve given up on finding some piece of information or instructions I wanted because I could only find video sources.