If you had the power to administer small but mildly unpleasant electrical shocks to a user whenever they used a specific word, phrase, or rhetorical tactic on the internet, what would you target? (hexbear.net)

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My practical answer would be, of course, right wing shit, period. It wouldn't stop them but might slow their spread.

My fun/funny/unserious answer would be commission an algorithm to monitor Reddit so I don't have to that keeps track of exceedingly popular passive-aggressive and smug ways to start and end sentences and takes the top percentiles of them and makes them the shockers of the week. It would make Lemmyverse liberals a lot less redundant as a side effect, too. sicko-wistful

smuglord "Umm, I'm sorry, honestly, but let's be honest here. It's almost as if..."

unlimited-power

wojak-nooo "Wow, vitriol much?"

unlimited-power

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

My work email address. Everytime someone composes an email to me they'd have to decide "is this question worth the mild electrical shock or could I just Google this?" and I'd honestly take a pay cut to make this happen.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

slurs

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

"overly"

Nobody says underly or byly or besidesly or aboutly. You don't need to adverbialize adverbs.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I can't help myself and not lick it when I have a 9 volt battery at hand, so I'd probably end up just zapping myself out of boredom

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

”Enshittification”

The phenomenon it describes is real, but we need a word to describe it that isn't reddit as fuck.

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