...they would press their temple to the cold barrel of that gun and look you straight in the eyes and say, "I'd rather die than ever look anything up myself. So either you look this up for me or you pull the trigger mother fucker!!!"

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[–] Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Buncha you saying it's illiteracy, but I run into plenty of people who refuse to look anything up on discord, where they're gonna get answers in text anyway.

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

A lot of these "people are illiterate" takes, I often find my coworkers pulling illiterate shit in the breakroom reading trash novels. Customers suddenly become literate when there's something in the fine print that means I need to give them their money back for a thing they broke.

These people's literacy level is situational. They don't want to read when it's boring, but when it's fun or it means they get a goodie suddenly they can decipher advanced philosophical texts.