• irmoz@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    By talking about the effect (enshittification) instead of the cause (capitalism). One could read your initial comment and conclude that the only problem is enshittification, and not even think about capitalism as the cause, since you didn’t mention it.

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      23 days ago

      I’m giving the name of a process. When someone asks for the title of a book, I don’t start with Guttenberg’s printing press.

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        23 days ago

        You weren’t asked for anything, and this certainly isn’t the equivalent of book titles and the tools to make them.

        It’s more like interrupting a discussion about someone who was just shot dead by police to say, “yeah, it’s called being shot”, then getting all pissy when someone tells you that actually, the broader issue is police brutality in general.

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          23 days ago

          Do you commonly criticize comments that don’t issue a historical paper on the background of a meme?

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            23 days ago

            Do you commonly interpret criticism as a request for a thorough academic study?

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                23 days ago

                If that seems “smartypants” to you, your intellectual standards are set pretty damn low.

                Mixing up cause and effect isn’t some minor goof. It’s the difference between eating bread and eating fire.

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                  23 days ago

                  If that seems “smartypants” to you, your intellectual standards are set pretty damn low.

                  I’d appreciate it if you didn’t insult me. The smartypants part was that you "um-actually"d me. Not that you stated something too “intellectual”.

                  I never said “that’s because of enshittification”. I said “that’s enshittification”. My statement didn’t contain any description of causal effects.