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@hollie Non-sequitor sidebar: Newton wasn't gay, was he? (You see, because there aren't any Fig Turings, are there?)

@mandaris @odd @annahavron @UndamnedOne What @rickcogley said, and ”...especially as ignorance will normally suffice as explanation as to why.”

And, yes to the absence of non-verbal cues making things harder for humans. It‘s worse when folks try to compensate or work around it with gimmicky ways of talking.

Also, a sort of tokenization thing happens in American english and the web accelerates it. Easy to set off someone's alarm system by saying, say ‘discriminating’ rather than ‘determining’ or other noise like this.

And mood, as @odd mentions, has a lot to do with what we allow ourselves at any given moment. I know if I'm looking for an opportunity to snark and point and pat myself on the back I'll find one. Sigh.

I have no advice. I try to type like I talk, or would talk if I could stop interrupting myself...

@jtr This hot sauces are not kidding around. Just one drop in the sauce for fun, and now the whole party feels like they all won.

@baldur OG groove machine par excellence! I remember hearing Aqualung in its entirety on a reel-to-reel. Where's that minidisc player, tho? 😜💽

@rickcogley that I was a spam bot for an open source project OR that I am a human suggesting a way to stream your text to select others live as you edit it? 😄👍😗🤙

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