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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by lovelle on Monday October 29, 2018 @01:38AM (#18325295)
Yeah sure, and if you like I can also clean the bathrooms because I know how to do it... Off-time is for your own not for your company regardless off what you do with it.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by ganomi on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:28AM (#18325438)
The /s stands for sarcasm
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by skrebbel on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:43AM (#18325652)
No it doesn't, it stands for "This used to be sarcasm but I ruined it by telling you"
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by MaxBarraclough on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:26AM (#18326046)
People use it for a reason. Intended tone does not carry reliably over text.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by kbenson on Monday October 29, 2018 @02:42AM (#18325478)
I've always wondered whether /s predates, was a concurrent development, or is an evolutionary shortening of </sarcasm>.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by mcbits on Monday October 29, 2018 @04:53AM (#18325928)
The history went something like this:

    jk
    </sarcasm>
    <sarcasm>...</sarcasm>
    </sarcasm>
    /sarcasm
    /sarc
    /s
    \s
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by iddan on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:20AM (#18325577)
⸮ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by izzydata on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:40AM (#18328365)
This punctuation is very ironic.
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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat by joejerryronnie on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:46AM (#18325661)
It also stands for "hitting over head with hammer"
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