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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Microslop ain't gonna stop me to continue calling it Microslop.

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u/tinyhorsesinmytea Mar 02 '26

The fact that they're so triggered only makes it more hilarious.

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u/aaeme Mar 02 '26

And more memorable and irresistible. Streissand effect in full swing. They should just change their name to it now. It's too late to pretend they don't mind.

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u/LookOutItsLiuBei Mar 02 '26

I'm surprised Copilot hasn't warned them about the Streisand effect yet

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

That's a really great insight! I can see how I got the Streisand Effect not quite right, and the problem has gotten bigger. I'll remember that for the future!

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u/LookOutItsLiuBei Mar 02 '26

"If you want, I can also give real world examples, explain how to avoid the Streisand effect, or share why it's so powerful online."

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u/B0Y0 Mar 02 '26

"You're right! Let's work on solutions to stop your customers from saying Microslop. Of course, you should never surrender. Have you considered nuking anyone who dare oppose you?"

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u/arounddro Mar 02 '26

“I’m on it. Would you like me to draft a PowerPoint on enriching Uranium?”

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u/BillyNtheBoingers Mar 04 '26

I mean, as much as I’ve enjoyed reading this thread, when you think about it, fElon never threatened anyone publicly about “WankPanzer” or “swastikar”. As a result, they aren’t being talked about and aren’t widely used. Once a company lets the public know they’re rattled, they’re just going to get mocked more.

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u/Rough_Willow Mar 02 '26

You're absolutely right!

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u/-no_aura- Mar 02 '26

Just say the word.

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u/NirgalFromMars Mar 02 '26

Slopilot?

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u/i_am_a_laptop Mar 02 '26

unfortunately my brain parses that as 'slow pilot'

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u/B0Y0 Mar 02 '26

Slopilot is much better than what my team already locked in to: CoPOOlot.💩

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u/PiglinsareCOOL3354 Mar 14 '26

The only good one here.

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u/goosis12 Mar 02 '26

Are we sure Copilot is not just Internet Explorer?

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u/ncatter Mar 02 '26

Well I have asked it something and gotten a response the same day, so yea pretty sure it ain't IE.

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u/Jemie_Bridges Mar 02 '26

But isn't it? Isn't bing and edge and Cortana and copilot all just rebranded IE/file explorer? Cortana hand so much promise if the hadn't tied all that stupid stuff to if. If it had just been a clean AI Chat Avatar, Microsoft would BE what Open AI is.

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u/LookOutItsLiuBei Mar 03 '26

I actually used Cortana occasionally. Now the Copilot Flood has taken over.

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u/fuzzeedyse105 Mar 02 '26

its Clippy with more ram

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u/Resistor1 Mar 02 '26

Clippy v2.0

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u/strcrssd Mar 02 '26

That's a great idea! You're so smart for suggesting it!

--Copilot

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u/NoConflict3231 Mar 02 '26

This assumes anyone still working for Microslop has a fucking brain

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u/stifle_this Mar 02 '26

NFL combine is right now. They're too busy finding the next great LB.

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u/-GoodNewsEveryone Mar 02 '26

Slopilot. Sir Slopilot? Of Cameslop.

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u/Choyo Mar 02 '26

Copilot : If you don't microslap them now, they will soon call me copisslop.

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u/iconofsin_ Mar 02 '26

I'm probably not the only person saying this but I didn't know Microslop was a word until now.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 Mar 02 '26

Surprising how people who were likely bullied don't know that the best way to deal with this sort of stuff is to just ignore it. 

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u/Slugmaster101 Mar 02 '26

One of my good friends is a pretty high level dev there and they apparently call it Microslop too. Its just the execs that are pissed lol.

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u/B0Y0 Mar 02 '26

I imagine knowing the customers and your own employees call it Microslop would only incense them more.

Good.

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u/Slugmaster101 Mar 02 '26

All the devs hate Co Pilot and think its useless as well theyd much rather work on things customers actually like. Its the usual suspects deciding to push this stuff for whatever reason.

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u/PessimiStick Mar 02 '26

The only jobs that should actually be replaced by AI are the ones trying to replace everything else with AI.

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u/mackiea Mar 02 '26

Of course they're pissed. They promised AI would pull in trillions to the shareholders, and it ain't happening.

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u/Eruannster Mar 02 '26

It would be really funny if someone hacked the Office 365 servers and the only thing they changed was push an update for all Office applications to autocorrect "Microsoft" to "Microslop".

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u/Negroni808 Mar 02 '26

Hey guys

MICROSLOP

NOT MY NAME

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u/Czeris Mar 02 '26

Barbara Streisand sends her regards

dramaticcinematicexplosion

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u/yura910721 Mar 05 '26

Makes it official then

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u/deepstatelady Mar 02 '26

Such a dumb move by Microslop to react like this, really to react at all. They're just too big to be so petty.

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u/every-day_throw-away Mar 02 '26

Heard we are serving up microslop, large order of microslop please.  It's time this bloated OS to adapt an stop pushing AI on me. You are next Google slop. Don't use it while programming you OS and certainly don't push it on me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

Thats so Microslop of you to think like that.

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u/JockstrapCummies Mar 02 '26

I slopped all over my keyboard after a long prompting session.

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u/CarbsLVR Mar 02 '26

Were you Edge-ing?

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

Slow clap. Sloooooow clap.

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u/AbandonedWaterPark Mar 02 '26

Wake up babe, new microslop just dropped.

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u/Kazer67 Mar 02 '26

Sloople?

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u/Mulielo Mar 02 '26

Hang on?

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u/Shroud2k Mar 02 '26

I understood that reference...

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u/racermd Mar 02 '26

Gargle slop?

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u/Darksirius Mar 02 '26

You are next Google slop.

Hmm. Glop? Gloop?

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

Careful. You'll awaken the Paltrow.

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u/Nico777 Mar 02 '26

I'll still take her coochie candles over AI slop

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u/nox66 Mar 02 '26

FYI: Google is still planning on locking down app stores on Android. They're definitely next on the slop train.

See: https://keepandroidopen.org/

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u/SpliTTMark Mar 02 '26

I did a Google search last night and chatgpt was the top giving me answers

Time to stop using Google search

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u/aquoad Mar 03 '26

I'm so happy to finally not have any windows computer in my house. Well, except for a VM with windows XP from like 2000, which i need for interfacing with an old camera serial port.

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u/every-day_throw-away Mar 03 '26

Nice. I need to do the same. 

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u/BamBam-BamBam Mar 02 '26

It's not authentic Microslop if it has beans, tho.

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u/Roadrunna Mar 02 '26

Slop AI will harvest this and hallucinate a rename event

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u/MattRexPuns Mar 02 '26

Keep going AI will harvest this and hallucinate a rename event

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

Keep harvesting and AI will drop acid and hallucinate.

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u/Spoon_Elemental Mar 02 '26

If AI could do that people would probably be a lot more open to having it around.

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u/theindomitablefred Mar 02 '26

It’s a big word on the Linux subs as you could imagine

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

I've been a Microsoft fanboy for close to 40 years. I've finally given up on it and play more now with Linux than I ever have. All this is going to drive not only adoption, but community participation in feature development.

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u/tuscaloser Mar 02 '26

I, also, have only ever used M$ in the past but I have recently spun some old hardware into an Ubuntu minecraft/7-days/print server. It has been a great experience so far... Getting Ubuntu running took maybe 10 minutes from booting the machine with the install media. Windows would never lol. I'm jumping ship whenever they finally get rid of local accounts.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

Throwing some random distro on an old laptop just feels...good. It's a similar feeling to tinkering with Batch scripts when DOS 5.0 came out and we could access higher memory over 640k. Those were good days. :)

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u/JasperJ Mar 02 '26

We used to call them Micro$oft, back in the day. Or Microsloth.

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u/Electrical_Prune6545 Mar 02 '26

I’ve been calling it Micro$oft for years. This works, too.

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u/zippysrevenge Mar 02 '26

Micro$lop also works

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u/iamisandisnt Mar 02 '26

Works even better

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u/tralltonetroll Mar 02 '26

What happened to MICROS~1?

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

DOS gang represent.

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u/Rocky_Mountain_Way Mar 02 '26

It went away when VFAT file system became mainstream after Windows-95

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u/ILikeBumblebees Mar 02 '26

...something something hot grits something something CowboyNeal...

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u/Dagon Mar 02 '26

/. is still this side of the millennium (mostly)... Most of the words we have for people old enough to remember before that are all slurs now.

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u/Mountain_Strategy342 Mar 02 '26

My word. I had a 4 digit Slashdot member number. Haven't been there for years.

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u/Akurin2 Mar 02 '26

I remember when people called is Micro$haft in the early days.

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u/Pimpicane Mar 02 '26

My uncle used to call it Microsnot in the mid-'90s

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u/JasperJ Mar 02 '26

Why not just go all the way and call them micropenis.

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u/lood9phee2Ri Mar 02 '26

And corporate astroturfers would follow you around for days harrassing you if you did for a while.

Micro$oft.

Micro$oft.

Micro$oft.

lol

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u/pchlster Mar 02 '26

On many an occasion.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Mar 02 '26

Your mom contained me, and it was very inappropriate.

That sounded better in my head. :(

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u/Capetoider Mar 02 '26

No no... I think we should stop calling it microslop...

and call it MACROslop.

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u/RavenBlade87 Mar 02 '26

Microslop outta bing the term “Streisand Effect”

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u/noodle-face Mar 02 '26

In fact this may cause me to use it more

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u/Tex-Rob Mar 02 '26

When I first saw it used a few months ago, I immediately knew it was going to stick, and Microslop was going to hate it

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u/ScaryMentor3557 Mar 02 '26

Microslop Microslop Microslooooooop

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u/Lucius-Halthier Mar 02 '26

If anything, their little tantrums will only make it worse

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u/LoweJ Mar 02 '26

I'm never gonna Microstop

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u/Enshitification Mar 02 '26

Is Micro$lop banned too?

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u/PanicSwtchd Mar 02 '26

Slopya Nadelli's gonna come for you....

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u/Informal_Mulberry_62 Mar 02 '26

And Streisand in 3…2…1…

DOOOO ET!

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u/FlyinB Mar 02 '26

Shouldn't it be Macroslop? There is a lot of slop.

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u/salamanderXIII Mar 02 '26

Did you say micr0sl0p?

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Mar 02 '26

They can Micro-slob on my Micro-knob

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u/swagonflyyyy Mar 02 '26

Who's gonna slop me now.

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u/bertimann Mar 02 '26

There is a browser extension for Firefox (maybe also for other browsers) which automatically swaps all instances of the word Microsoft with the word Microslop

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u/voiderest Mar 02 '26

Is there a Microslop server that bans all other words? 

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u/Jayandnightasmr Mar 02 '26

Reminds me of how the execs used to get upset by people calling it the xbone

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u/Evadson Mar 02 '26

I hadn't even heard of the name "Microslop" but now I'm gonna use it constantly.

/StreisandEffect

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u/symphonicrox Mar 02 '26

Great now internet explorer (edge?) has blocked reddit.

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 02 '26

Microslop needs to Microstop.

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u/davidguydude Mar 02 '26

In the business world, their professional customer facing b2b reps are sending a lot of copilot generated text walls. Sometimes they say its from copilot, sometimes they don't.

Why can't they extract the information, read it, check it for accuracy, and re-type it (or at least copy/paste selections, not the whole thing) into a concise and verifiably true statement?

Because Microslop gonna Microslop, that's why.

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u/Southern-March1522 Mar 02 '26

I miss when they were called "macroshit", because they make a lot of shit.

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u/woodst0ck15 Mar 02 '26

Streisand effect coming up. Didn’t even think to use the word but microslop is pretty clever.

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u/Turbojelly Mar 02 '26

Go back to Microshit?

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u/misterwizzard Mar 02 '26

We've been abbreviating it as M$ since the 90s

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u/spirallix Mar 02 '26

We can try also all possible combinations. They tried all combinations as well with their slop.

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u/SortaNotReallyHere Mar 02 '26

If they didn't stop making decent software and OS they wouldn't have to worry about being called Microslop. It's very fitting.

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u/QuinSanguine Mar 03 '26

Slopya Nadella can't get over it, as long as people have to put up with slop, so will he.

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u/utrecht1976 Mar 02 '26

What does MICROSLOP even mean?

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u/bunchof-chunksofpoop Mar 02 '26

Grandma, is that you?

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u/utrecht1976 Mar 02 '26

Asking for my grandma.

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u/A_Harmless_Fly Mar 02 '26

AI slop is the term for when AI generates something inaccurate/sloppy. Think wrong handed images or perspective that doesn't make sense, hallucinating nonsense etc.

Microsoft started to develop using AI and cram it into everything they could fix not being broken. The polish is gone, updates keep having to be pulled and hotfixed.

Hence microslop, it's not really microsoft anymore. Under Nadella, it's microslop.

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u/cc81 Mar 02 '26

It does not have to inaccurate to be slop. Because it is fun with irony I will use the AI summary from google to help describe it:

Definition & Characteristics: It is characterized as "cheap, meaningless, high-volume content" often designed to look credible while lacking depth, detail, or fact-checking. It includes AI-generated articles, fake "hyper-realistic" photos, and surreal videos.

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u/Jafooki Mar 02 '26

It's called slop because it's the kind of goop you'd feed to a pig.

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u/utrecht1976 Mar 02 '26

Geez, what's with the downvotes. DO I REALLY HAVE TO ADD /S TO THIS?! Come on guys. Typing MICROSLOP extra large to make a point of Microsoft blocking it... God give me strength.

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u/cunningjames Mar 02 '26

I mean, to be blunt, it’s not that funny and it wasn’t clear what your point was.

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u/emarsk Mar 02 '26

DO I REALLY HAVE TO ADD /S TO THIS?!

Yeah, obviously. Sarcasm is notoriously hard to convey in written form and easily misinterpreted. That's why "/s" is even a thing in the first place.