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Murdered by Words

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Since when was 28 "older women"?

I feel like super old and I'm only in mid-30s

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The original post was a tongue in cheek joke by the girl, she does not really think 28 is an older woman.

Can people just not parse jokes or read nuance anymore?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the internet.

No matter how many examples you can pull to show us why we should know it's a joke/satire, there are 10,000 examples of someone being completely serious.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You know.. I was going to write a joke that 'you can't fool me, you all only exist on my phone.'

Then I thought there probably will be AI-run forums running just for one user, and responding to their posts and comments with positivity and praise to stroke their egos, and I made myself sigh.

And now you have to read my deluded thoughts - which is dragging me back to reality, yep.. this is the internet.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

this is the internet.

Don't catch you clickin now

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

Ah fuck, now I want a Donald Glover/Bo Burnham collab on this.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, took me awhile to adjust from reddit where the default is sarcasm. You gotta remember where you are, neurodivergency abounds on the Fediverse.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm pretty new here personally and I feel way more comfortable in two weeks than I did in 12 years on Reddit.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I feel much the same way and have been here quite a while now. And just in case you haven't read it yet: welcome to Lemmy.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Thank you! ☺️

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Literacy has basically never been worse

[–] teft@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A good number of us on the fediverse are autistic so nuance doesn’t alway get parsed properly.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Completely fair, I didn't consider that.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They don't know what jokes are?

[–] teft@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Autistic people sometimes process humor differently than neurotypical people. But autism is a spectrum so to say "all autistic people don't understand jokes" would be an overstatement.

Here is a site if you'd like to read up more on it.

https://www.autismworks.com/blog/understandinghumor

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He’s dating a twenty-seven year old right now because his PR team told him to.

[–] hushable@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

early 40s and I don't feel old at all. Yet my younger zoomer coworkers behave like life is over at 24-26. Last time I asked my parents (boomers), they told me they started feeling old in their early 30s. Might be a generational thing.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I finally feel like an adult but I think that's less to do with my age and far more to do with my family, career and financial status. Physically I'm in far better shape now than I was a decade ago, so I've got that going for me at least!