Look.
-
Look. If you're going to go to the trouble of replying to a thing, please also go through the trouble of Reading The Thing before you reply. The entire thing! All the parts! On here that includes the Alt Text, which will often contain more explanation and specifics of what you're looking at. I already went through the trouble of writing the thing, I don't want to go through the trouble of going it over again for your benefit because you didn't read or use reading comprehension the first time!
This isn't something that is terribly troubling me today, but it was something I was reminded of. If there is Alt Text provided, and it contains something written by a human, it's there for a purpose. Just for the love of socks skim through it if you're thinking of commenting, replying or asking something that very feasibly will already be mentioned or explained.
Spoon asterisk
: If your brain is mushy today, that's fine, everybody gets tired and you may be low on spoons. But so am I! -
This isn't something that is terribly troubling me today, but it was something I was reminded of. If there is Alt Text provided, and it contains something written by a human, it's there for a purpose. Just for the love of socks skim through it if you're thinking of commenting, replying or asking something that very feasibly will already be mentioned or explained.
Spoon asterisk
: If your brain is mushy today, that's fine, everybody gets tired and you may be low on spoons. But so am I!One of the most flagrant examples of this I've ever seen was this dude who wrote his thesis about the creative use of sampled materials in the public sphere, like old songs etc. that are technically still copyrighted but the original artists are dead etc. The person reading it was like: "So you are proposing that people use sampled materials in their creative work, sometimes from technically still copyrighted works?"
His reaction: "READ MY BLOODY THESIS, DID YOU 🤬"Please, just. Please the words, read them
-
One of the most flagrant examples of this I've ever seen was this dude who wrote his thesis about the creative use of sampled materials in the public sphere, like old songs etc. that are technically still copyrighted but the original artists are dead etc. The person reading it was like: "So you are proposing that people use sampled materials in their creative work, sometimes from technically still copyrighted works?"
His reaction: "READ MY BLOODY THESIS, DID YOU 🤬"Please, just. Please the words, read them
@sinituulia Men will even go to therapy before reading the words
(I've had people ask me stuff that I did write in the alt text)
-
@sinituulia Men will even go to therapy before reading the words
(I've had people ask me stuff that I did write in the alt text)
Reading, it's such good technology, if only we all used it
-
Reading, it's such good technology, if only we all used it
@sinituulia Greg House: "Everybody lies"
Me: "May be. May be. But I know for sure that Nobody Ever Reads" -
@sinituulia Greg House: "Everybody lies"
Me: "May be. May be. But I know for sure that Nobody Ever Reads"@sinituulia As a software developer, "nobody ever reads" I've found is a stronger law than even Murphy's.
-
@sinituulia As a software developer, "nobody ever reads" I've found is a stronger law than even Murphy's.
-
-
@sinituulia @catsalad Little known fact, corvids are sometimes more intelligent than the average computer user.
-
@sinituulia @catsalad Little known fact, corvids are sometimes more intelligent than the average computer user.
@sinituulia @catsalad I now remembered Douglas Adams's
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
-
J jwcph@helvede.net shared this topic
-
This isn't something that is terribly troubling me today, but it was something I was reminded of. If there is Alt Text provided, and it contains something written by a human, it's there for a purpose. Just for the love of socks skim through it if you're thinking of commenting, replying or asking something that very feasibly will already be mentioned or explained.
Spoon asterisk
: If your brain is mushy today, that's fine, everybody gets tired and you may be low on spoons. But so am I!@sinituulia "for the love of socks"
I'm going to use that liberally -
@sinituulia "for the love of socks"
I'm going to use that liberally @jwcph Non-denominational AND whimsical
