• SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    They’re letters arranged in a sentence and people assume you can here the emotive voice in their head when they wrote it. This is why the /s exists. Without it sometimes people can’t tell and rightly so. Not using and /s and thinking you’ve wooshed someone can be ironic

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      8 months ago

      I’m invoking Poe’s Law. I’ve met people, family friends, who would flip between Climate Change not being real to Wind Turbines causing Climate Change. The posted image is absolutely possible to have come from a true believer.