lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"



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NireBryce
@NireBryce

[updated 2023-08-27 2040h EDT]

Before the internet, people wrote letters. When a letter was needed for business, they'd hand off their notes to a secretary, who would create a letter from it. The secretary did a lot of the connective tissue work -- the diplomacy, routing, wording things to be heard, etc. Everyone else wrote handwritten (or hand typed, eventually) letters, with the implication that it was more informal, because it didn't look as professional.

The internet came around, and now your doctor and your boss use email. Email looks like a memo or a Correspondence. It's parsed as formal, or at least semiformal.

If they didn't grow up with email, they probably sound a bit rude writing professional letters. Everyone hates email. No one should have to write it. But now everyone did. But with it came the same expectations as the old forms of correspondence, without the realization that the invisible layer had been stripped, a literal whole other person or two involved in the process. And now everyone writes bad emails, because, well, no one remembers how much effort it took to write a good one -- they only remember that every email they ever see sucks.


[edit: this was added 2023-07-27 2040h EDT, posts before that may not agree with this]

It takes a lot of work to write well, to express yourself clearly -- work that most people aren't going to put into a post. It's good to remember that even with the longposts, people are speaking informally and in generalizations -- they don't have secretaries to write posts for them, nor are most of us hobbyist writers. The thing about not assuming bad faith has to go both ways -- people can come off a bit brusque without it being targeted or malicious, and meta-discussion may mention an OP but not actually be about them -- that's how shorthand works.

If we can't hold this particular 'suspension of disbelief'-adjacent thing, let's call it a Supposition of ...Faith, then all that happens is everything becomes twitter again.

People can disagree with you! Even "catty" disagreements! Even about a thing you think is really important! Without it becoming a schism. But only if someone in the loop decides to put down their metaphorical guns instead of reacting with disproportionate response to further escalate it.

Let's not pretend this is a thing there's a 'good' side of. The norms are long-rotten and vestigial, but people keep falling back into them.


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