Comment on Get to work, crackheads

• yuriy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People get too embarrassed about publicly being wrong. I went in on someone recently in a comment thread, typed up like a whole paragraph tearing down what I thought was an indefensible point.

  Homeboy replied like “hey you misread my comment”

  Rather than edit everything away to hide my shame, I just replied with “you’re right, I’m drunk on a cruise!” and it was honestly a highlight of the voyage. Maybe some randys can get the same enjoyment out of rereading the interaction, and that’s way more than anyone would get out of “edit: whoops”

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The amount of times I’ve seen the “oops, you’re right, sorry/thanks!” equivalent on Lemmy makes me think this place really has attracted some good people.

    Disclaimer: yes we have trolls, shit posts, hot takes, etc.

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    • wewbull@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Enjoying messing around doesn’t mean people aren’t good. Shit posts in particular show a level of awareness, otherwise it’s just a post.

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True. In fact, I just came here from a shitpost community!

        That was the wrong term for sure. I quickly added that part at the end after I envisioned the first reply being “if you don’t think the Reddit trolls came over then I don’t know where you’re looking” or similar.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it was honestly a highlight of the voyage

    Bruh if getting politely corrected on social media is the highlight of your holiday, you gotta find a better type of holiday.

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    • yuriy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      replies like this are why it was a highlight 💖

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean it sincerely. It sounds like the cruise itself wasn’t super enjoyable to you. Which is totally fine. Maybe you’d enjoy going on a guided tour, or self-guiding yourself around another country or region. Or maybe you’d get maximal enjoyment out of just spending a week at the beach. Different people have different sorts of ideal holidays, but if a mediocre social media interaction was the highlight of your cruise, I’d be inclined to think cruises might not be yours.

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  • jeremyparker@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s honestly a really great approach. I’m going to do that next time I fuck up at work. Boss: “The production server is down and the database is hosed!”

    Me: Omg I’m so sorry! I’m drunk on a cruise!

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I was embarrassed I would have deleted the post.

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