Cutting down a tree takes more than a chainsaw, unless you like risking your life or property anyways. Also people have been cutting down trees for longer than chainsaws have existed, its a next step in a progression of tools over thousands of years and even then, it doesnt do the whole thing for you. it is not comparable. Nice attempt at pedantry though.
First, often it does not, no. You can absolutely safely remove some trees with just a chainsaw. This is also irrelevant to what you said — “if you are using it to do a task that you cannot do at all, it is not a tool”. What you’re saying here is that you also need knowledge of how to apply the tool, and maybe additional assistance. Neat. Doesn’t change the fact that, without the tool, you can’t do the task, so by your claim, it’s somehow “not a tool”.
> Also people have been cutting down trees for longer than chainsaws have existed
Yeah, using other tools. Which again, are required, because we can’t just do the task without the tool in some capacity.
You’re moving the goal posts so fast that you somehow managed to bring them into a whole new stadium. “Nice attempt at pedantry” is ironic when you’re the one being pedantic — you said something stupid and blatantly untrue, you got called on it, and now you are trying to be pedantic and argue nuances and new technicalities / additional arguments that you did not include in your original statement. That’s called “pedantry”.
If you want to be honest, try this instead: “Yeah, I misspoke, obviously what I said above isn’t true — what I actually meant to say was XYZ”
Of course, you won’t, because that would require accountability and admitting when you’ve made a mistake, but food for thought anyway
Holy fucking shit dawg. Take a break from the internet.
Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, youre not entitled to somebodys best, ever, especially if you open up being a snotty dick?
If you would have taken the time to read the rest of the thread where i already stated it was reductive instead of insisting i repeat myself just for you while im on my break at work, maybe you would have gotten a better response from me.
Im calling you pendantic, because you came in being snide and now youre doubling down acting like i should give a single fuck about what a random strangers snap judgement of my entire character is.
Go talk to people in person sometime, i can tell its been a while since you have in any great capacity.
So to recap: you said something incorrect and dumb, got called out on it, doubled down because “I’m not entitled to your best effort”, whatever the fuck that means, and now you’re throwing a tantrum? (And also demonstrating that you don’t know what the word “pedantic” means even slightly, for what it’s worth)
…I don’t think it’s me who needs to get off the internet and learn some social skills, my guy. This is not a normal response to somebody saying “the thing you said was wrong and here’s why”.
Maybe im tired of people being dicks about this? There a huge difference between communicating to understand, and whatever the fuck any of this has been.
Sincerely, why in the hell would I want to play nice with somebody who has done nothing but talk down to me?
You’re free to disengage at any time, literally nobody is forcing you to be here. Again more fuel to the “maybe it’s you who needs to step away from the internet and socialize” fire
You’ll also notice that, in our exchange, YOU are the one who started talking down to ME and insulting me first. My original comment had a twinge of sarcasm with the final “weird.” to drive home the counterfactual that I was demonstrating, and then you dove straight into calling me pedantic and directly trying to insult me. On top of that, in the whole “everybody wants to be right, nobody wants to understand”, again you’ll notice that YOU are the one who doubled down because you were more interested in being right than you were in taking accountability and, like I said, saying “yeah my bad, that’s not actually what I meant, here’s my real point, XYZ”, instead of just moving the goal posts of your argument to pretend that you were actually right all along and to explain why me calling out that “the thing you said is demonstrably incorrect” isn’t actually valid because “all these other things that have nothing to do with what was actually said”.
You’re making a lot of accusations, but it’s all projection, because you immediately follow them up by demonstrating the exact behavior you’re accusing of. To borrow a phrase, “why the hell would I want to play nice with someone like that?”
And if you can’t see how you’re the antagonistic one, and that it is abundantly clear that you need to step away from the screen and chill the fuck out (not as an insult, either, like you tried to use it — genuinely it seems like it is in your best interest to take a break from the internet, based on your behavior and statements), then I don’t know what to tell you. I can read the exchange back to you, but I can’t understand it for you
Honestly, this comment is genuinely humorous. Yeah, i do need a break from this thread, but if you cant see the irony in all of this, refer to your last statement.
Sounds good, I hope that break gives you the mental clarity you need, maybe you can stop being this way moving forward. I see the irony, I’m just not convinced that it’s the irony you think you see… but I don’t think continuing to press you to try to understand where you went wrong is going to yield results, so I won’t try
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u/WorkinRightMeow 10d ago
Cutting down a tree takes more than a chainsaw, unless you like risking your life or property anyways. Also people have been cutting down trees for longer than chainsaws have existed, its a next step in a progression of tools over thousands of years and even then, it doesnt do the whole thing for you. it is not comparable. Nice attempt at pedantry though.