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Another excellent hack is to mentally prefix “I think “ in front of almost everything people say. “[I think] Democrats/republicans are idiots!”, “[I think] Micr

by e1g 4y ago

Another excellent hack is to mentally prefix “I think “ in front of almost everything people say. “[I think] Democrats/republicans are idiots!”, “[I think] Micro-services/monolith is the best!”, “[I think] This PR is good/bad” “I love you” is a tricky one.

ge96 4y ago
[I think] I love you [I think]
- dylan604 4y ago
  'When you respond to me the first and last words out of your mouth are "I think"' just doesn't resonate the same
- athenot 4y ago
  "...today"
corrral 4y ago
"I think" can usually be inferred from context and isn't needed, but bad or adversarial (hard to tell the difference) reading & online forums have encouraged everyone to write worse, in order to defend against flames from poor readers and assholes. You have to try to cover every stupid way your words could be read if you don't want other posters to pounce on you, like by throwing "I think" in front of things that are obviously opinion or otherwise not being advanced as absolute, indisputable truth. [EDIT] Point is, yes, making that assumption is a normal part of ordinary communication outside the "well akshually" Web.