Forgive me, but why do climate discussions invariably feel the need to point out that the planet will survive just fine when we're gone? Are we supposed to take solace from the fact Earth will continue as a toxic boiling lifeless rock once the biosphere collapses? What do you want: a "Hooray for the rock"?
It always feels like a glaring piece of "Well, actually...." disconnected from the point of the climate discussion: the unfolding tragedy of billions of sentients exctincting themselves.
It's like pointing out that metal is unconcerned because it alone will survive the immiment car crash.
When people make a joke, and you just happen to know an exception to the joke, there is no need to make a "well actually" post. Yes, we all realise you can use a search engine. Here, have a cookie.
For the record, I understand the urge to "well actually" jokes if you're the pedantic type, like I am too. I have probably done it myself from time to time, and have had it done to me several times.
Just ... don't.
It's very annoying for the person who wrote the post, and it is very annoying for people who read it. It does not make you look smart. It makes you look like an ass.
@jon@PGLux@walsonde@Elektrotier@amyisard#WellActually: Looks like that last train shortly before 11 only runs on Fridays and Sundays. Always irked me back in my Bahncard 100 days that the last train was before
ten.
@gothnbass@mikemathia she’s not going to see much looking through the scope that way either. Rifle scope optics are calibrated to be looked through from a distance, it’s referred to as ‘eye relief’.