• nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org
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      3 days ago

      Oh, the qurstion was rhetorical – the function was a relevancy check. The Hill may think all of those names are important but only half are making it out of the political wonkosphere.

      (wonk is an mid 20th century word for nerd)

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            I will kill Poe’s law or die trying. I hate the idea that we share so little context as a culture that every joke needs a signpost. I fight it my way, but the real war will only be won when global society has enough shared culture for us to make each other laugh without honking a bike horn and giving an exaggerated full-body wink.

            Edit: I know I’m being grandiose, you don’t gotta point it out

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            Comedians have been using the written word for eons. Some jokes don’t land when written, and the real solution wasn’t invented this decade.

            My personal policy is that if the joke needs a laugh track, a rimshot, or any big sign that says “Joke” being waved, the joke doesn’t work.