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by wormius 158 days ago
The rise in illiteracy rates is really fucking disturbing and this attitude (the parent) is part of what's to blame.

Looking at the examples in the comment above, I really hope it's not that bad.

It's like the stupid "ROFL"/CLOWN by political fighters, and the (handclap) 500 times in a row, like. Or the ROFL by people who are trying to make their shit seem "funnier" than it every could be and only makes it more obnoxious.

There's a difference between "making a powerpoint at a conference and using emojis as bullet points" and throwing emojis every other word to be cute and getting papers published, or medical records with that.