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Re:How Long it takes to know if a Job Is Right for You or Not by n4r9 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:24PM (#44391575)
So... what are you trying to gain by using hyperbole?
Re:How Long it takes to know if a Job Is Right for You or Not by throwanem on Friday June 27, 2025 @10:13AM (#44396957)
What would you like to suggest I would gain by acting otherwise? No comments on this website are private, other perhaps than in orange-name backchannels, and none here are flagged. Those provisos notwithstanding you can see exactly the same discussion I can, and if you felt you could argue other than that it has progressed exactly as I describe, I assume by now you would have essayed the attempt.

Even where it would have offered an advantageous contrast to my supposed hyperbole et al, where do you see sweet reason having told? - when, that is, it comes to the substantive technical critiques of the sort I'm meant to be taken at fault for declining to provide. Those critiques are still being ignored, while you sit here days later still not yet disabused of the idea you are equipped to bandy words with me.

I am not, in short, arguing here with even remotely serious people, and I show them the treatment condign upon their behavior. To do otherwise would serve only to lampoon myself, instead of them. It isn't something I expect to see appreciated by my interlocutors, including you. Its audience, if any, lies elsewhere.

Re:How Long it takes to know if a Job Is Right for You or Not by n4r9 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @06:15PM (#44449419)
Do you never take a step back and wonder whether all this talk about "seriousness" is just a deflection?
Re:How Long it takes to know if a Job Is Right for You or Not by n4r9 on Thursday July 03, 2025 @04:01AM (#44452711)
P.S. AFAICT your comment boils down to "I'm being inconsiderate because I think you're idiots". If so, at least you're honest, though you struggle to speak plainly.
Re:How Long it takes to know if a Job Is Right for You or Not by throwanem on Sunday July 06, 2025 @07:53AM (#44479927)
I'm being inconsiderate because I'm dealing with people who mistake their opinions for facts and their aesthetics where present for morals, behaviors both well calculated to attract my interest without my respect.

I don't think you're an idiot. I think you're a smug, self-satisfied, deliberately ignorant ratiocinator who rarely understands why he succeeds and never why he fails because he does not really know how to think, although he is very sure that he does. This is the only conversation you and I can have on this website that is interesting to me, at least until you demonstrate some potential otherwise, which by now you seem as unlikely desirous as capable of doing.

If you want to boil all that down to something easier to swallow, then you're welcome. And, yes, I'm well aware that "no u" is as available a response here as previously. Do you think it will avail you more now than then?