The Man Who Killed Google Search
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  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Edit 2: since there’s no consensus on this I’m just going to reify that fact via the trailing-question-mark trick and call it a day.

    Since killing != killed, your comment already shows that the title is misleading.

    (That has a beneficial side effect btw: not having my own opinion about a story makes it easier to not moderate according to my own opinion. I still do that, or try my best to, even when I do have an opinion—but it takes more ATP.)

    danny, please log the fuck off

    • jax@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      trailing-question-marks: the consensus bypassing trick anarchists don’t want you to know?

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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      6 months ago

      “You see, if I don’t …[pause…massive bong hit]…get involved, right? If I don’t get involved …[pause…walks to table, grabs a keg, slams it in one go]… then I by default can’t be subjected to the problem! [does line of coke off side of now-empty keg] And this way, I can always be perfectly neutral! [coke kicks in] This is how I manage to make HN be so central to everything!”