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[โ€“] Val@anarchist.nexus 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go full robot: "Estimated timescale for the completion of this task?". I doubt they'll get annoyed at that, might just find it funny, or weird. no, definitely wierd.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes ! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ (I don't know where I fit in all this, but) I have been opting more and more for sentences that mimic my mental model of things- with added sugar to make it palatable to most. My intentions are less often mistaken, I think. But more importantly I am happier. Because that's a whole "abstraction layer", so to say, shed off my mind