April 8th, 2021

some good stuff from visakanv here:

kinda relevant, though half of it is sorta missing the point from my perspective, and it seems optimized for ipad? which...

"I'm not sure he isn't awake" is clearly not simply the same as the thing with the two negatives removed "I'm sure he is awake"

though I suppose you could try instead saying it as "he might be awake, I don't know"

"of course" and "as far as I can tell"

I'd just been talking for a whole day with a friend about a thing that we both had a ton of shared understanding about, and then later I went to send a message about the same topic, into a DM group, and I almost said "ofc XYZ" and then I was like "whoaaaa wait I do not know this group has anything like an ofc around this" and so I switched it to "afaict XYZ"

if I'd gone and tried to say "ofc XYZ" with a group for whom that wasn't also obvious then that would have invited a whole frame battle

but also if I were to only say "afaict XYZ" with someone that I supposedly have common knowledge with about the thing, that would also be sus

#2tweet dialogue between bull and china shop