@Pat That last sentence looked a bit off to me. Isn't it "I didn't look any of this up, it's all from memory so I can't guarantee its accuracy."?

@freemo

@trinsec @freemo

Yeah, I kind of scrambled my plurals/possessives on the "it"s.

Dyslexia seems to be acting up at the moment for some reason, I 'm making all kinds mistakes in my writing...

@Pat

Hmmm dyslexia. I wish i had that "excuse" :)

@trinsec

@freemo @trinsec

A lot people have undiagnosed dyslexia. I've noticed that you often confuse things like "your" and "you're". You may have it and not know it.

@Pat

I use your by default mostly because I type to fast and dont review what I write. Couple that with the fact that i got into the habit by typing on my phone where an apostrophe is a bit tedious. That particular error, as most of my errors, are largely due to not caring and typing as fast as I can since i dont find the medium to be critical for correctness.

My formal writeups, as well as my blogs, tend to have very few errors since I proof read them.

That said my natural rate of errors has been unusually high the last 2 years since my injury and COVID largely due to the extremely high levels of stress I've been under which seems to effect the prevelance.

@trinsec

@freemo @Pat

Oh man...

Ok the real challenge here is to find a sentence without mistakes. ;)

@trinsec

hahaha valid. Honestly if i could actually edit posts on here there would be a lot fewer of them. At least on matrix i will occasionally correct my mistakes. Here I see them but usually after i already posted and only once i reread it when going over replies.

@Pat

@freemo I do tend to delete and redraft in the first minute or so, and if nobody's replied yet. Otherwise it is a 'oh shit, oh well, move on, next time better'.

@Pat

@trinsec

I used to do that but with 20K some followers it pissed off a lot of people, way more than just keeping the typos.

@Pat

@freemo Heh... valid point.
That said, I tend to take like 10 minutes per email just to make sure my answer makes total sense and contains no mistakes. I tend to do the same for my initial toots often as well.

@Pat

@trinsec @freemo

When spell-checkers came out, it was a godsend for me. If I left my spelling mistakes in my writing, you wouldn't be able to make out half of what I was saying, it's so bad.

A lot times I can't find the words in the dictionary because I can't spell it close enough to find it. I use Google a lot now because they have AI/phonetics algorhtms.

(I left that last word misspelled, just so you could see how I tried to spell it unassisted so you get a feel what I face with this issue. It's a real pain.)

@Pat

I dont use spellcheckers. I dont need that kind of negativity in my life!

@trinsec

@freemo @trinsec

Is that everyone gets pissed off at me when I try to correct their grammar?

@Pat I appreciate the correction if it's informative. I mean, how else are you gonna learn?

But I know people who absolutely hate to be corrected in any way possible. Can't always win, I suppose.

@freemo

@trinsec

I hate to be corrected. If I am corrected I cant say I'm always right anymore. Why would anyone want to be wrong!

@Pat

@freemo @trinsec

So you can be right the next time.

@Pat You don't get his thinking pattern... he just wasn't wrong to begin with. ;)

@freemo

@trinsec

I'm starting to think you might be the smartest person on this server :)

@Pat

@freemo @trinsec
>That would still make me right only 50% of the time. If I am never corrected then I'm right 100% of the time.

This is why Trumpian delusion has so much mass appeal.

@Pat

Delusion? Trump is the best president we ever had. Just ashame the election was rigged and they illegally deposed him with Biden.

(That was painful to say, even ironically)

@trinsec

@freemo @trinsec

Deposed him? What do mean? He's still the president.

#sardonic

@Pat

What you didnt see the video where they stored official ballots underneath a table thus definitively proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the election was rigged?

@trinsec

@freemo @trinsec

>What you didnt see the video...

What I saw was a narcissist whose ego was so fragile that he was willing to take down the country rather than face the reality of his own failure.

@Pat

Yea, thats an accurate description for Biden, that bastard! :)

@trinsec

@freemo @Pat You both are just terrible at faking Trumpism. ;)

@trinsec

Fake? ::injects some cow dewormer as he recites the pledge of allegiance::

@Pat

@freemo @trinsec
>where everything will kill you if you are within 5 feet of it.

Sounds like social distancing at a crowded grocery store during a pandemic.

@Pat

Pretty much, just replace COVID with super-ebola and you will be in the ballpark :)

@trinsec

@freemo @trinsec

Yeah, covid just seemed that way. Ironically, the more deadly contagions are less of a pandemic threat because they kill off the hosts before they have a chance to transmit the disease, thus keeping the spread in check.

@Pat Actually the idea that more lethal viruses are less of a thread isnt actually true. For example if a virus kills 100% of victims but takes 30 days to do it it will still spread quite a bit if it is contagious enough.

I debated this some months back and if you look at a comparison between R0 and morality they arent really strongly correlated at all.

@trinsec

@freemo On the other hand, if a virus kills 100%, social distancing might actually be followed more tightly, lessening the spread (and thus the threat).

Unless we're talking about Americans... ;)

@Pat

@trinsec

I carry a fork around with me and just stab anyone in the eye who comes within arms reach. I havent had much problem with people refusing to socially distance :)

@Pat

@freemo Wait, your arms are 5 feet long?

@Pat

@trinsec

There is usually a stick attached to the base of the fork :) When i dont have a fork I always have my gun as a last resort... god bless america.

@Pat

@freemo @trinsec

> carry a fork around with me and just stab anyone in the eye who comes within arms reach.

https://qoto.org/@Pat/106236177669666721

@Pat

At the time I think i missed the hashtag that said joke honestly. Or I think you posted a less joke-like statement that was similar in the days prior.

@trinsec

@freemo @trinsec

I think I was still kind of new here and folks didn't understand my humor yet.

@Pat

That too yes :) I recall we talked it through and ultimately found your opinion acceptable. You were also a bit more angry than usual at the time since mask mandates had just been lifted which seemed to rile you a bit.

@trinsec