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[–] zombiewarrior@techhub.social 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

i figured it was but everyone responded so serious i thought i must be missing something lol. glad i trusted my gut and asked

[–] zombiewarrior@techhub.social 2 points 2 days ago

@Quill7513 no no, its 2025, it was foolish of me to assume that would obviously be a joke since 90% of our news is indistinguishable from satire

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are people that do that and be completely serious. Lemmy gets astroturfed too.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

oh i know. there was something about the phrasing though that was a little too meme-y and unserious. but it was still like… shit. this still might be what they really think. let's check

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's a lot of neurodivergent folks on here and we can sometimes take things too literally.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

In this case you could use "/j" as well