• Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    3 days ago

    I see these type of comments a lot and I have a genuine question for you because there is something I do not understand.

    Why do you care?

    That’s not meant to be hostile or anything. Just… what difference does it make? What is it that makes you actually have a genuine interest in the veracity of some random anecdote before you can be amused or not? Because I don’t get it.

    This sounds kind of bitchy, reading it back, but it’s legitimately not meant to be. Read this whole thing in a tone of genuine confusion. Because like… do you enjoy stand up comedy at all? Movies? TV? Or do you only watch documentaries?

    I’m so confused.

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      3 days ago

      Some people genuinely seem to think that nothing ever really happens unless it’s on the news.

      I would hate to have lived such a boring life to have that outlook.

      They’re the beige people that just exist, meandering through life, until they don’t.

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        They apparently also don’t understand that both true and fictional stories can be entertaining.

        Hell this story is plausible and I didn’t even consider whether it was true or not, it reminded me of things that have happened during my life and therefore it was funny whether it was true or not.