April Fool's Day is the worst and stupidest tradition we have about the calendar. "Ha ha, we'll have a day where everybody lies and tries to trick everyone else, and it'll all be a big laugh and no one will get hurt."
It's bullshit. Most AfD jokes (see what I did there?) are cruel and mean-spirited, making fun of people for trusting you. Is that really how you want to be known?
Needless to say, you can trust there will be none of that shit coming from this account on Monday. I'm always up for actual fun, you know, the kind where people are invited to take part and enjoy, rather than some of them singled out for mockery.
Yep, I'm the mayor of Nofunnington. As everyone knows, I never do anything remotely fun or funny. That's why I hate this day. Sure.
@oldladyplays
The problem is most people are not truly creative in their jokes, and often they are crass in their demeanor.
For the internet, April fools day their big holiday, and has been for many decades. Especially for those who design and run it. I remember both of these RFCs coming out.
The way I decided to celebrate April Fool's is to tell people a puzzle that causes confusion (because two contradictory things seem to be very obviously true), such that they learn something nontrivial by resolving that confusion. An extremely nice property of that is that it isn't spoiled by first asking them whether they want to partake.
See, that's not a prank as such, but a conundrum, which I think is, again, the kind of comedy that invites the audience to partake, rather than springing a trust violation on them.
@oldladyplays And I'm not willing to kill satire, parody, or sarcasm. Being incurious and credulous is what makes dis- and misinformation work so well.
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