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‘Glib’ Replies at City Meetings Spark Backlash From Small-Town Councilman (reddthat.com)
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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (11 children)

My name is Robert Wolfram, and I approve this message.

Though I would point out that my position on leashing was taken out-of-context: I posit that the problem is that we have created a system by which animals have to be leashed in order to not be a danger to others. We should not be supporting systems which commodify living things, especially entities which are dangerous and intelligent enough to warrant the necessity of physical restraint to control them.

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  • [+] [S] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    I will only support those ordinances and enforcements which are conducent to completely removing grass lawns, and replacing them with landscaping choices which are sustainable to maintain without excess water use, and support native pollinators and wildlife in the world we have Terraformed into this, our urban hellscape. As such, I will say this: I support subsidising Ms. Hennings, and any others who wish to follow suit, in her efforts to make a more sustainable lawn which would not require mowing, and which contains only native plants, such as clover and other flowering groundplants.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Councillor, I live at 124 Creative Fiction Boulevard. What are you doing about the rabid monkey situation??? Specifically, we don’t have any. I pay my taxes, councillor, and am frustrated at the councils lack of due haste in this matter.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Well, you see, you've stumbled on a hot-button issue there, because you live right next to the new factory on C.F. Boulevard, and they're using an infinite number of rabid monkeys to staff their typewriters. I personally think their "Ape Intelligence™" business model is harmful to local small businesses. I fully support levying fines against the factory (owned by Grossly Productive Typewriters, Inc.) sufficient to make it financially untenable to remain in our town.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    (In case it is unclear to anyone, this post is a tongue-in-cheek response to my criticism of the OP's practices in creating a community devoted solely to creative writing exercises to produce fake news. Those news articles are, I contend, harmful to the Lemmy community, as they are too-easily misconstrued as real by any user who was directed to them by their feed. Additionally, I criticised the glib, flippant nature of their responses to criticism.

    As such, I wholeheartedly stand by "Robert Wolfram's" take. Except the leash thing. For some reason they made that up, but I do stand by the comments I've made here, even if they are similarly tongue-in-cheek responses.)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    I think these posts are a wake up call. We all learned in school how to evaluate a source of information, yet we've gotten used to just accepting whatever we see online without any proof at all. In the grand scheme of things the fake news being spread is harmless, and if it teaches people to be more alert I say make a bunch more articles.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    If there were something here to actually create that discrepant moment, something at the bottom of the text or in the comments from the OP which says "you've just eaten the onion" or similar, then I would have no problem. Then, it WOULD be educational, and an excellent reminder as you say. However, there is no such indicator from the OP. That means that people will not actually get the learning experience unless someone points it out in the comments. Hence, I point it out in the comments.

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