i find that using tone indicators was a good habit to get into, they're a bit clunky yea but sarcasm is hard to parse by itself, let alone through text and god forbid if you have some neurodivergence on top of it all. if two characters are all thats needed to save a collective 5 minutes of human life i see no reason not type them.
[David Attenborough voice] And here we see the average lemmy user, whose hatred for microsoft is so great as to overpower their ability to parse basic metaphor, Truly a remarkable creature.
They will spend the rest of their day tweaking config files and contemplating distrohopping. /j
they say they provide a service, one most would agree is useful to society. they then use that power to gain immunity over their actions, to the tune of hundreds if not thousands of people justifying their violence one way or another.
switching cops out for some other professions is meant to show how ludicrous it is that police brutality is a thing is. because if literally any other group of people had the same problems it would be assault.
at this point i'm starting to believe that the reddit format just rots people's brains.
i don't know the reason behind this decision, maybe it was taken in bad faith or something, but the amount of people shitting and pissing themselves over this when there are already other communities better specialized for it is mind numbing.
specifically characters that are pooltoys, as in made of air-filled smooth squeaky plastics