The fact that I don’t feel 100% confident that this is a shitpost is making me realize I’m not even close to being ready for parenthood.

I’m going to make a bad-take-liker alt specifically for lurking so that people know to feel a deep sense of shame when they see that I have liked their post.

edit: alt account #2 will like at most one other user’s comment every day, you will have to find them all in chronological order to read my manifesto. Skipped days are paragraph breaks.

It’s fine if you’re working with things more abstract than numbers. You see O used in computational complexity notation all the time, and O is often used for a structure sheaf which will vary based on context, like in algebraic geometry. I think in general really it’s not an issue as long as you’re not discussing functions where the reader might consider that zero could be a possible input, like trigonometric functions for example.

brb researching that one guy’s arguments so I can state them in a reply and say “he wasn’t a debatebro he was right”

I missed the outdoor cats things when it happened here and ever since it’s felt like the hexbear version of the noodle incident.

This is so humbling. I’m an arrogant American myself and didn’t think I needed an outside perspective on this issue at all until that user asked.

Dude Looks Like a Lady is horrific and I hate hearing that come on the radio but I had no idea it was Aerosmith. I’ve heard Jamie’s Got a Gun too but not enough to have a reaction, also did not know that was them. I might recognize the others too but not by name and I’m now thinking maybe I’ll keep it that way. Dream On is still pretty good though.

There’s a band I listened to in high school with a really good song (not really rock though) that heavily sampled the opening riff from Hell’s Bells. AC/DC grinds my gears in general, but Hell’s Bells still hits for me. I’m like 50/50 on whether I’d still have any appreciation for the song if I hadn’t heard that great pseudo-cover.

Isn’t Aerosmith a one-hit-wonder? I actually do think Dream On is a good song, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a single other thing they’ve done.

Especially because he was a power user, so he would often get a lot of support, while the person he was accusing of doing something would be alone.

I think this is the thing. If a guy goes off on how much you suck and then you see him being somewhat celebrated, it becomes a reminder that this is another place where you don’t really fit in.

And honestly, I’m extremely awkward and don’t fit in perfectly in a lot of places and can still find joy, I just don’t like having reminders.

edit like 40 minutes later - my posts in this thread are extremely hyperbolic and make it sound a lot worse than it actually was, the dialogue would be 100% normal on pretty much every other website. Stewing on something so small is not a normal person reaction and I really don’t like what it says about me that I still think about this today. Sometimes it’s just helpful to speak my bad emotions out loud.

edit again just to get it out: The interaction was in a thread about the gameplay of the Harry Potter game. I commented that I didn’t understand why so many people here felt the need to give personal opinions trashing the gameplay of the Harry Potter game because that’s irrelevant to the meaningful reasons for avoiding it. I said that any person who did want a serious gameplay critique wouldn’t look to get that from a group people who, due to a negative opinion from the outset, are very unlikely to have invested much time. It comes across as sour grapes and waters down the legitimacy of the actual criticisms (namely that it promotes a horrible author).

He quoted a couple bits that I did not feel were the core of my argument and said I was indistinguishable from a kid defending Jordan Peterson and then added in a Jordan Peterson emoji. Seeing that post get upbeared really got under my skin, I never got an explanation that actually made sense to me of what was wrong with what I said. I made a reply but it was entirely ignored.

I’m not really a prolific poster anywhere because I have this unhealthy thing where if someone is angry at me online I actually feel bad and spend time introspecting. Your post actually makes me feel less alone, I generally am on hexbear to de-stress and I only remember his handle because no one else has given me an angry reply. People here have generally been polite in correcting my idiot opinions.