I'm not necessarily anti-tone indicators (and I'd certainly not call them cringe) but I feel like they're often not amazing at actually solving the problems they intend to solve. You can certainly put a /s after something to indicate sarcasm, which might help a little, but knowing that what was said wasn't meant literally doesn't necessarily help to know what actually was meant. Sarcasm can have some pretty different intended implications which aren't conveyed by a single indicator. In the case of /hj it's even more ambiguous, because something being 'half a joke' could mean many different things. It can be that it's somehow kind of exaggerated but at its core somehow true, that an unspecified part of what was said was a joke, or even that it's literally true or a genuine statement but presented as a joke or entirely a joke but someone judges it's funnier to imply part of it isn't somehow, and probably many more things.

Does it really harm you so much to ask a clarifying question to determine if you understood correctly before jumping to attacking a user's message?

Certainly not, but I don't think this is really where the problem lies. If I genuinely don't understand someone's message I will ask what they mean and I think most people do so as well. It's when you think that you know you've understood the message and that it's worth attacking that you attack them. In theory I guess you could do that literally all of the time, but it's still possible your clarifying question isn't interpreted as you intended it for many of the same reasons you may have misinterpreted theirs in the first place, and people who are acting in bad faith are unlikely to respond in good faith. It's also just seems kind of tedious to have to respond to every bad take by basically echoing the bad take back to them to hope they respond and tell me they indeed have this take so I can actually respond to it, and it gives people acting in bad faith a lot of breathing room.

Montréal has a fair amount of these and they're pretty cool. Also variations of this ofc, like sometimes it's not fully connected, but in groupings of four units with little passageways between the buildings, or they might have little yards or be 3 units tall, really depends on the area.

The story of some of these is actually pretty funny

So basically in 2017 the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) together won the elections by a landslide, and a year later in 2018 they decided to merge their parties into one party called the Nepal Communist Party, so they did that and merged. However, in 2021 the Supreme Court decided the merger was invalid because the name was already taken by a different party, so they split back into the two original parties. But that's not all, right after the Nepal Communist Party split back into the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) had some infighting and so some people decided to split off and form a third party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist).

Edit: Oh I almost forgot, a fourth party showed up in 2022 when the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity National Campaign) also split from the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)

Most of them still do if you bring it up lol

The thing is, that's not what actually happened. They basically made a post where they suggested that we were talking too much about trans stuff and this was somehow contributing to the right's obsession with trans people

4. The Ukrainian language comes from the oldest language in the world - Sanskrit, and still has many common words.

I know this person is literally being a Nazi and doing Holocaust denial, but other people have already pointed it out and I'm into linguistics, so I'm going to be enraged by this instead. Just what the fuck, like you were just talking about the ""Aryans"" and apparently you don't know about Proto-Indo-European??? And how is Sanskrit the oldest language in the world? If this had been some weird Hindu nationalist this would make more sense to me but they're not so what reason do you have to just say dumb shit like this. You could at least have made up some bullshit about how since the Proto-Indo-Europeans originally inhabited Ukraine, the Ukrainian language is closest to theirs and least tainted by foreign influence but nooo.

As has already been pointed out, the US senate average is still (a little) lower, but anyway for reference Brezhnev was 75 when he died as leader, Andropov died at 69, and Chernenko at 73

Tbf 8.7% of IUD insertions would still have Xinjiang dramatically overestimated

They aren't sending their best

The most important election of our lifetime so far

One of them just straight up said monkeys even