• nyctre@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah, I know, I agree. But it’s a joke, ofc it’s exaggerated. Nobody is seriously saying it’s that much effort to play with a cat. At least I hope not

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      5 hours ago

      Well, on one hand, I am Autistic, I default to literal concrete meanings without fairly explicitly clear context indicating otherwise.

      On the other hand… seems to me that just sort of broadly, generally, everyone is kind of… a combination of losing their minds and becoming hyperbolic as a default (due to massive stress of hypercapitalism collapsing living standards)…

      …while also there is a massive trend that… basically the post-irony language/humor style of Zoomers has imploded, and nobody can really tell who is or is not joking any more, everything is a Schrödinger’s shitpost whose ‘true’ meaning is nebulous until it is observed and commented on.

      I used to be able to tell what were jokes, irony, satire… took me a long time to learn all the nuances.

      And then basically that all just collapsed in the last couple of years.

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        3 hours ago

        Yeah, you’re probably right… And I know what you mean, got an Asperger’s diagnosis as an adult and while that’s relatively mild on the spectrum, it still makes things difficult sometimes.