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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/32623894

On vaporware as an ideological product.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's a riff on an old meme I don't quite remember. But the idea is like,

  • people are doing an innocuous thing
  • something declares that they thus must hate dubiously related thing

Like, someone playing checkers. Someone says "oh you're playing checkers because you hate chess!?". You can kind of see how they made that leap through several errors (view chess and checkers as mutually exclusive opposites)

So the person in the quote thinks banning whoever is a non sequitur, I guess.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

I can see the original quote being either about a logical fallacy as you're explaining or about entering spaces to confront people about unrelated things. That doesn't bring me any closer to understanding the "checkers" / "waffles" reply though. Is she saying "stay on the topic"? I really don't know.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 15 hours ago

Non sequiturs is how humans operate.
No technology will fix that.
Jay is the CEO of BlueSky.