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For more information, I wrote this post that reports on the situation ^[1].

I read the first panel as: "Take that, right leg".

[…] Me: "I don't work here"

This gives me big "ok boomer" vibes. Instead of this, imo, snarky response, could you not simply politely say that you prefer a human cashier?

Remember the human.

Neat! Reminds me of Geryuganshoop from One Punch Man ^[1]:

1. Type: Article. Title: "Geryuganshoop". Publisher: ["Fandom". "One Punch Man Wiki".]. Accessed: 2025-08-09T06:12Z. URI: https://onepunchman.fandom.com/wiki/Geryuganshoop.
2. Type: Image. Title: "Geryuganshoop Profile Picture". Author: "Pyaasa". Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "Geryuganshoop". Publisher: ["Fandom". "Top-Strongest Wikia".]. URI: https://topstrongest.fandom.com/wiki/Geryuganshoop.]. Accessed: 2025-08-09T06:17Z. URI: https://topstrongest.fandom.com/wiki/Geryuganshoop?file=Geryuganshoop_Profile_Picture.jpg. :::

In B.C.'s defense, imo, most of the land to its North is either too mountainous ^[1][2.1] or has too harsh a climate ^[2.2] to be realistically inhabitable. I think it's also worth noting that 15.4% of B.C.'s lands are protected ^[3].

::: spoiler References

1. Type: Document (PDF). Title: "BC Fact Sheet". Publisher: "Super, Natural British Columbia". Accessed: 2025-08-09T04:10Z. URI: https://www.hellobc.com/content/uploads/2019/04/TM_BCFactSheet.pdf.
   • Type: Text. Location: [§"The Land". ¶2]

     Ten mountain ranges push west from the Canadian Rockies in the east to the Coast Mountains and the Vancouver Island Ranges in the west, and ancient temperate rainforests hug the coast. In between are rolling grasslands, lush valleys, tens of thousands of lakes, glacier-fed rivers, and even semi-arid desert. Mountains cover 75% of the province.

2. Type: Article. Title: "British Columbia". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published: 2025-08-08T03:18Z. Accessed: 2025-08-09T05:48Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia.
   1. Type: Image. Filename: "BC_Elevation.svg". Author: "Awmcphee". Published: 2024-04-27. Location: §"Geography". URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BC_Elevation.svg.

      

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   2. Type: Image. Filename: "British_Columbia_Köppen.svg". Author: "Adam Peterson". Published: 2016-08-12. Location: [§"Geography"§"Climate"]. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Columbia_K%C3%B6ppen.svg.

      

3. Type: Article. Title: "Protected Lands & Waters in B.C.". Publisher: ["Environmental Reporting BC". "Ministry of Environment". "British Columbia".]. Published: 2016-06. Accessed: 2025-08-09T05:59Z. URI: https://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/land/protected-lands-and-waters.html.
   • Type: Text. Location: ¶1.

     […] Protected lands and waters cover 15.4% of B.C.'s land base and 3.2% of B.C.'s marine areas. […]

How so? It wasn't my intent to misrepresent your words. That being said, I do apologize if I've accidentally (and potentially carelessly) misinterpreted what you said. I'll gladly fix my comment if you help me understand where my interpretation went wrong 😊

[…] read how to read a book […]

Thank you for the recommendation 😊

I look at any individual’s history when they post anything sketchy and contextualize. […]

I am concerned that this would distill down to argumentum ad hominem.

[misinformation] is hardly an issue on this platform […]

In my opinion, that statement of yours is, ironically, responsible for why there may be an issue with misinformation. You state it with certainty, yet you provide no source to back up your claim. It is my belief that this sort of conjecture is at the source of misinformation issues.

What concrete steps can be taken to combat misinformation on social media? […]

Regarding my own content: I do my best to cite any claim that I make, no matter how trivial. If I make a statement for which I lack confidence in its veracity, I do my best to convey that uncertainty. I do my best to convey explicitly whether a statement is a joke, or sarcasm.

Fundamentally, my approach to this issue is based on this quote:

Rationality is not a character trait, it's a process. If you fool yourself into believing that you're rational by default, you open yourself up to the most irrational thinking. ^[1]

Regarding the content of others: If I come across something that I believe to be false, I try to politely respond to it with a sufficiently and honestly cited statement explaining why I think it is false. If I come across something of unknown veracity/clarity, I try to politely challenge the individual responsible to clarify their intent/meaning.

For clarity, I have no evidence to support that what I'm doing is an effective means to this end, but I want to believe that it's helping in at least some small way.

What concrete steps can be taken to combat misinformation on social media?

[…] Pronouns are a thing that harms nobody […]

This feels like a hasty generalization. For example, if one is experiencing gender dysphoria, we could assume that misgendering them with their undesired pronouns would cause them psychological distress ^[1] — ie harm.

Why not seed while downloading? I feel like it's rather uncommon for one to have a network connection where one's download rate is limited by their concurrent upload rate.

Why?

[…] I feel like the line of questioning is a trying to head down a reductio ad absurdum path…

I'm just trying to clarify your position.

If a child is still legally the responsibility of its parents or guardians then the guardians would be responsible for making sure they vote in the best interests of the child. […]

I agree with this, but, for clarity, the parents aren't the only ones that could vote for the best interests of the child: For example, a stranger, unrelated to the child, could vote in the best interests of the child.

[…] Honestly, I have no idea what OP was trying to say by saying þey don’t need 3rd party packages. […]

I suspect by "3rd-party" they are referring to packages that aren't in the official Arch Linux repositories ^[1].

Thanks […]

You're welcome 😊

Thanks! 😊

[…] I hear OP saying all of ðeir computing uses only ls, grep, sed and awk.

I'm not sure that I follow what you mean.

Thank you! 😊