Clarence Thomas Gifted Luxe Trip to Putin’s Hometown: Dems
www.thedailybeast.com
The allegedly secret gifts were disclosed in a letter from two Democratic senators that accused Thomas of potentially committing tax fraud.
  • Klear@sh.itjust.works
    122·
    5 months ago

    no one currently alive on this planet with access to the internet should be able to misunderstand it.~

    Average Lemmy user: hold my bear

    • luciferofastora
      11·
      5 months ago

      Okay, I’m holding your bear, what now? It looks fluffy, can I pet it? Is it cuddle-safe?

    • Drusas@kbin.run
      41·
      5 months ago

      I do find it rather odd how we Millennials and Gen X had little trouble understanding sarcasm on the internet, overall, but over the last couple of years there’s suddenly this huge push that we need to use ‘/s’ to make it extra super obvious. Does Gen Z not use sarcasm?

      • Klear@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 months ago

        Hmm, it never occured to me it could be a generational thing. It was a thing on reddit, but there was also a lot of pushback and ultimately good sarcastic comments tended to survive. It feels much worse here, which I attributed to demographics.

      • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
        21·
        5 months ago

        It’s for neurodivergent people imo. I sometimes have trouble with it. Plus. I’ve seen some shit on the internet. It’s hard to know these days 😆

        • Drusas@kbin.run
          1·
          4 months ago

          Lots of neurodivergent people learn and enjoy sarcasm. But it does stay a little hard to recognize, yes. Adding the ‘/s’ kind of ruins the joke, though.

          • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
            1·
            4 months ago

            Oh. I love and enjoy sarcasm. I do not pick up on it well in text because you are all strangers so the nuance for me is cloudy if that makes sense. I also browse /all and uh im generally really stoned. Lol