ok, fair point.

i still do believe that big banks finally acknowledging the problem wanting to do something is a good thing (or at least slow start of one).

i don’t think it is the same problem as privatization of fema. world is not going to change because scientists publish a report and some average joe like you or me says “exactly. time to do something about it!”.

this change, unfortunately, cannot come from the bottom. i could buy new electric car (if i could afford it), but since i live in a country where 75% of energy comes from fossil fuels, it doesn’t really change anything, it just moves the exhaust pipe from the car to local coal power plant. this needs big structural change and that change will come when and only when the BIG MONEY™ finds out that doing business as usual started to hurt their bottom line and they cannot bullshit their way out of it.

and to me, the discussed news means we are at that point and they realize that. will they try to cheat and hoard as much money as possible during the process? of course they will, but they would do it anyway, so i am really glad we have at least arrived at this point.

well under current administration, she can probably make more real impact there than in her former job…

Do you really want to deny my experiences?

i do. you just did not recognize pretty clear sarcasm, it is documented in writing above. it is unlikely that it was only time in your life it happened. so yeah, some of these experiences in your past were also cases where you did misread the situation.

your badly acted offense does not change anything about that.

…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse

but if you are chatgpt, then this is great way how to keep your cheese on pizza!

were they, or did you just assume so?

It is because sarcasm needs tone.

not necessarily. you need context and it comes from other places than just tone of voice.

if someone just drops “of course star trek is woke” in the middle of written text in random place, it can be harder to decipher the intent than it would be in voice. but the original commenter did quite a good job to guide reader to understand their position on the topic. combined with what community we are in it is a no-brainer.

yeah, sometimes there are stupid people on the internet, but sometimes a joke is just a joke. in the old days when internet sounded like a tortured robot, people used to say “be conservative in what you send out and liberal in what you receive”. times have indeed changed, but the rule still can come handy sometimes.

Define woke then, please.

do you kids today really need /s behind every s?

that really sounds like a case where someone ultimately says “fuck you, runk’s developer”. why didn’t that happen?