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This is why "/s" was invented, no matter how silly it might seem.
Because human skulls are thick af.
/s takes any grain of humour of of everything. Ambiguity is an important part of communication.
Well that's a stupid little take, you must communicate in exhaustive detail while on the internet. It's in the rules!
I’m old enough to have been an adult when the internet was first opened up to the general public. I remember guides to writing email that stressed that you should be careful using irony or sarcasm, that the tone was very difficult to convey. I don’t know what it could be, but there seems to be something about online communication that makes it next to impossible to use such devices.
They're actually quite thin, like a shark's smooth skin.