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Andrewism on left unity or the lack thereof (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Video is a fundamentally different form of media than text and so the goals it achieves are also different. Text might be more useful for getting ideas across because words can be reread but you cannot replicate tone in text and tone can be crucial to understanding the message.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, thanks for telling me something I've known for years. I only care about tone when talking to actual human beings in person. When I want to learn something, I want it in plain text.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    So does tone not enhance your learning experience in any way? Because for me some concepts are a lot easier to grasp when I have someone explain them to me. Also listening is a lot less effort and can be done passively while for me reading requires a lot more of a conscious effort.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    So does tone not enhance your learning experience in any way?

    No. Tone is generally irrelevant, especially when I'm reading technical documentation. Having a manual page for a UNIX system function read to me isn't helpful. If it's read by a man, it'll bore me. If it's read by a woman, and she sounds attractive, I'll be thinking about disappointing her in bed instead of keeping my mind on the job.

    Also listening is a lot less effort and can be done passively while for me reading requires a lot more of a conscious effort.

    You might find that a point in favor of listening, but I find that conscious effort that reading entails improves retention. There's are reasons we have idioms like "in one ear, out the other", and I'm one of them. Besides, and as I mentioned before, audio and video are shit for reference. You can't grep audio and video and search by keywords. Audio and video generally don't come with indexes where keywords are connected to timestamps for easy access to relevant sections.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I understand and actually agree with the points you've raised. I just like using different mediums for different experiences and wanted to balance the conversation.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fair enough. And maybe I'm just old and autistic.

    But because of the way I was thinking of further belaboring the point while I was pissing, I've got this image if my head of the works of Max Stirner and Emma Goldman hand-copied and illuminated by anarchist scribes after the end of the world (as we know it).

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