CraigOhMyEggoAlt

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)
 

This is for those who know what "death of the author" means or who is willing to look it up, but in short, it can summed up to mean "whatever a work of fiction means is up to the people to decide on".

Question inspired by an incident the other day where I saw someone one day cite "death of the author" when asked why he went into the womens' bathroom, saying "you keep saying the symbol on the door is a stick figure in a dress, but I look at it and see a stick figure in a cape, and so I entered because I'm super."

 

This is for those who know what "death of the author" means or who is willing to look it up, but in short, it can summed up to mean "whatever a work of fiction means is up to the people to decide on".

Question inspired by an incident the other day where I saw someone one day cite "death of the author" when asked why he went into the womens' bathroom, saying "you keep saying the symbol on the door is a stick figure in a dress, but I look at it and see a stick figure in a cape, and so I entered because I'm super."

 

One day I asked what someone’s relationship status was, and they said “I have a girlfriend but she’s been missing and is presumed dead, so I don’t know if getting another GF would be cheating”. It’s at that moment when I realized how complicated relationship statuses can get. Like that Seinfeld episode where the guy is in a coma so he lends his girlfriend to another guy.

 

One day I asked what someone's relationship status was, and they said "I have a girlfriend but she's been missing and is presumed dead, so I don't know if getting another GF would be cheating". It's at that moment when I realized how complicated relationship statuses can get. Like that Seinfeld episode where the guy is in a coma so he lends his girlfriend to another guy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

They aren't complete messages we are doing for each other. Typically they're parts of messages, and then we try to work around those.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Let's say you asked someone "is this your car" and they responded "I acquired it for the time due to urgency, yes". Then a week later you ask them for a ride, and they respond that it was a rental vehicle and that they don't have it anymore. Are you going to take it out on them?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Whatever the case, it's there in response to those times when people express doubt over one's point of view without being able to look into things without aid. The burden is on those who come to make a judgment without being called biased to read it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Someone showed me that the art was traded. It wasn't stolen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Unless you mean "air parentheses" which is often what that means, without them, "nested nested parentheses" would be impossible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I just mentioned you as an example of something. Dragging you into the conflict itself was not my intention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Well shit.

hides in corner

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All the instances I've been on have freely accessibly modlogs. If you don't have access to modlogs somewhere on your instance's home page, ~~your mods have abandoned you~~ you have been cheated.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's what I was just saying.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Unreadability is a circumstance. Nobody owns that. It can describe several of us. And yet it's not all that objective.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here is my answer to the question: I learned that my city tried to fine NASA for property damage caused by a rocket in the 90's.

This doesn't have to be revealing, you know. Hence the "obscure" part.

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