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by Dylan16807 157 days ago
You are making unwarranted assumptions here. I read the comments in order.

tomjakubowski joked about the mechanical turk. anematode recognized the reference, you recognized the reference, and I recognized the reference.

But you didn't reply to tomjakubowski as a general explainer to the audience. You replied to anematode. You replied to anematode in a way that suggested they needed the joke explained, even though they not only understood it, they expanded on it.

That's what I didn't comprehend. Why did you reply there and phrase it like that. And you still haven't explained.

Your claim that [["Amazon Mechanical Turk" does not involve hidden people moving the pieces with the help of levers and magnets and has nothing to do with chess bots on Turkish airlines.]] makes it sound like you still don't understand anematode's joke. Amazon's mechanical turk is named after the original mechanical turk. It has very much to do with turkish chess bots.
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jibal 156 days ago
> That's what I didn't comprehend. Why did you reply there and phrase it like that.

This is so dumb ... I responded to "sounds like" ... duh.

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Dylan16807 156 days ago
I know you responded to "sounds like", I'm asking why.

When they said "sounds like", they were acknowledging the mechanical turk joke, and extending it. Your response looks like you're calling them wrong, like why are they talking about amazon, it's actually about mechanical turk! Which would be a deep misunderstanding of their comment.

Could you just say yes or no: When you first replied, did you realize they understood the mechanical turk joke?

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jibal 155 days ago
> I'm asking why.

You never asked anything, rude boy. All the misunderstanding is yours. I said I wouldn't respond again to your sealioning ... I'll stick to it this time. Over and out.

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Dylan16807 155 days ago
It's true that I technically didn't ask. I said "you did x or y" and thought "Could you clarify?" was implied if you wanted to reply.

And then you wrote so many words without ever making it clear if you understood anematode's comment.

Weird for you to call me rude after the insults you sprinkled around...

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jibal 151 days ago
The sealioning j-a pretends that "Either you're playing around by extending a joke to the point that I can't follow it, or you forgot to read the first sentence of your own article" and all of the rest of his comments aren't rude while playing the "no you" game.
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