Tony Bark@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoRepublicans shut down House floor to avoid Epstein votewww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square114linkfedilinkarrow-up1932arrow-down15
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minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up175arrow-down2·2 months agoDear diary, Today someone was sarcastic on Lemmy and people liked it. Big day for the fediverse.
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up47·2 months agoI literally looked at the upvote as I was reading and had to question if it was sarcasm because it hadn’t been downvote into oblivion…
minus-squareSteve@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoMe too! Its a handy satire indicator
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·2 months agoI had to check if I was in a hexbear thread.
minus-squaremrgoosmoos@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-22 months agofr. I’ve actually been surprised by how little people around here seem to understand sarcasm
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·2 months agoWe’re a pretty neurodivergent crowd. I thrive in sarcasm, but a lot of us come with different care instructions
minus-squareLavaPlanet@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoThat’s not the only blockage to noticing sarcasm, there are so many people who say these / the things and actually MEAN them. We need differentiators, because the crazy levels are too high to wade through.
minus-squareBrave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoThat is a difficulty. Sometimes you take a risk with a joke, and if people don’t like it? Guess what, they’re right. Humour is subjective.
minus-squareSoup@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoThey were clear about it. Most people just write a bad take that reasonably suffers from Poe’s law and call it satire when everyone else gets mad.
Dear diary,
Today someone was sarcastic on Lemmy and people liked it. Big day for the fediverse.
I literally looked at the upvote as I was reading and had to question if it was sarcasm because it hadn’t been downvote into oblivion…
Me too! Its a handy satire indicator
I had to check if I was in a hexbear thread.
fr. I’ve actually been surprised by how little people around here seem to understand sarcasm
We’re a pretty neurodivergent crowd. I thrive in sarcasm, but a lot of us come with different care instructions
That’s not the only blockage to noticing sarcasm, there are so many people who say these / the things and actually MEAN them. We need differentiators, because the crazy levels are too high to wade through.
That is a difficulty. Sometimes you take a risk with a joke, and if people don’t like it? Guess what, they’re right. Humour is subjective.
They were clear about it. Most people just write a bad take that reasonably suffers from Poe’s law and call it satire when everyone else gets mad.