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> Not all. Look at the rest of my comment. When I said "all" I was clearly talking about people I know, not everbody everywhere. Specifically people that I kno

> Not all. Look at the rest of my comment. When I said "all" I was clearly talking about people I know, not everbody everywhere. Specifically people that I know. > Not wasting my life on commuting has made a huge difference in my life. That's fair but it's also again quite clearly not what I was talking about. Read what I've actually said: I'm talking about leisure and social activities. Seriously: stop picking random out of context fragments out of peoples' comments and building strawmen out of them just for the sake of being disagreeable.

klyrs 6y ago
> Read what I've actually said: I'm talking about leisure and social activities. My life is already normal with respect to social and leisure activities. We only keep a lil more distance and do more outside, the former being fine, the latter being an improvement.
- bartread 6y ago
  Well, you're very fortunate.
  - klyrs 6y ago
    I am. It helps to be grateful for what you've got, and focus on simple pleasures.
nitrogen 6y ago
Seriously: stop picking random out of context fragments out of peoples' comments and building strawmen out of them just for the sake of being disagreeable. Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored. This is how conversations work in person, too, where a small fragment of one point can lead to a tangent just based on that fragment.
- bartread 6y ago
  > Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored. Then you can start a new thread, or reply to a more directly related comment. > This is how conversations work in person, too, where a small fragment of one point can lead to a tangent just based on that fragment. I know, and in the wrong context that can be pretty annoying as well.
acituan 6y ago
> When I said "all" I was clearly talking about people I know, not everbody everywhere. Specifically people that I know. That wasn’t clear to me at all. This is an important distinction because tastes of people we socialize with tend to be more similar to ours than not, and our tastes are rarely representative of the general public. Especially when public health decisions are concerned, some tastes happen to be more impactful, so it is inevitable that some section of the population will be disproportionately pissed when their favorite activities are restricted. Gun or motor vehicle related hobbies, even having a pet have always been subject to restrictions when it comes to ensuring public safety. Turns out having a pandemic now renders new activities with a higher risk profile, well tough luck, we have to put up with it.
Stratoscope 6y ago
I took a communications class many years ago, and the one lesson that stuck in my mind was this: "When someone misunderstands what you said or wrote, who is responsible for the miscommunication? You are. They didn't misinterpret you, your communication was unclear." I (mis)read your "all" in the same way as the other commenter, as a reference to "all people" (including, but not limited to your group of friends). There have been many times when I've said something that others "misunderstood". It was a hard lesson to learn, but it has served me well to take responsibility myself for the miscommunication, apologize for being unclear, and try to state things in a less ambiguous way.
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klyrs 6y ago

> Read what I've actually said: I'm talking about leisure and social activities. My life is already normal with respect to social and leisure activities. We only keep a lil more distance and do more outside, the former being fine, the latter being an improvement.

bartread 6y ago
Well, you're very fortunate.
- klyrs 6y ago
  I am. It helps to be grateful for what you've got, and focus on simple pleasures.

nitrogen 6y ago

Seriously: stop picking random out of context fragments out of peoples' comments and building strawmen out of them just for the sake of being disagreeable. Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored. This is how conversations work in person, too, where a small fragment of one point can lead to a tangent just based on that fragment.

bartread 6y ago
> Sometimes people are replying for the sake of everyone else reading, rather than just the specific comment to which their words are anchored. Then you can start a new thread, or reply to a more directly related comment. > This is how conversations work in person, too, where a small fragment of one point can lead to a tangent just based on that fragment. I know, and in the wrong context that can be pretty annoying as well.

acituan 6y ago

> When I said "all" I was clearly talking about people I know, not everbody everywhere. Specifically people that I know. That wasn’t clear to me at all. This is an important distinction because tastes of people we socialize with tend to be more similar to ours than not, and our tastes are rarely representative of the general public. Especially when public health decisions are concerned, some tastes happen to be more impactful, so it is inevitable that some section of the population will be disproportionately pissed when their favorite activities are restricted. Gun or motor vehicle related hobbies, even having a pet have always been subject to restrictions when it comes to ensuring public safety. Turns out having a pandemic now renders new activities with a higher risk profile, well tough luck, we have to put up with it.

Stratoscope 6y ago

I took a communications class many years ago, and the one lesson that stuck in my mind was this: "When someone misunderstands what you said or wrote, who is responsible for the miscommunication? You are. They didn't misinterpret you, your communication was unclear." I (mis)read your "all" in the same way as the other commenter, as a reference to "all people" (including, but not limited to your group of friends). There have been many times when I've said something that others "misunderstood". It was a hard lesson to learn, but it has served me well to take responsibility myself for the miscommunication, apologize for being unclear, and try to state things in a less ambiguous way.

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