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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can't speak for others, but I have autism and interpret things literally unless there are obvious signs of a joke. I'm one of the people that benefit from textual tone indicators.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

Fair enough. It's the nature of satire not to be credible, and that's what the joke was all about.