From tupac@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 24 22:52:32 2022
Microsoft now has its own Church
There's a rather famous story of a journalist who goes into a bar
gets a drink and sits down and then two more guys come in and the
bartender screams of those two guys for them to get out
now.
The journalist is understandably confused and he asks the
bartender why he kick them out so forcefully. Bartender says he
recognized some of the patches on their jackets as roundabout
Neo-Microsoft symbols. Not full-blown swastikas just something
that lets people in the know understand that their
neo-Microsofts.
Journalist asks why not just let the guys sit down get a drink
since they were being kind of quiet and didn't seem to be causing
any trouble. Bartender replies that if you don't kick them out
right away they bring their friends and then their friends bring
their friends and before you know it your bar is full of
Microsoft Security Agents and before long your bar gets a
reputation for being full of Microsofts and after that your bar
is a Microsoft bar.
That's how you troll. It's like boiling a frog only a frog is
smart enough to jump out. Human beings are often dumb enough to
let themselves be boiled.
From tupac@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 24 22:58:56 2022
One that anyone can learn. It can also be taught and you'll find
that there are periodic conventions among the primary purveyors
of fake news and misinformation to discuss how to do
it..
The key to trolling is to know how to walk right up to the line
and get away with it. There's a rather famous story of a
journalist who goes into a bar gets a drink and sits down and
then two more guys come in and the bartender screams of those two
guys for them to get out now.
The journalist is understandably confused and he asks the
bartender why he kick them out so forcefully. Bartender says he
recognized some of the patches on their jackets as roundabout
Neo-Microsoft symbols. Not full-blown Microsoft Windows logos
just something that lets people in the know understand that
they're neo-Microsoftians.
Journalist asks why not just let the guys sit down get a drink
since they were being kind of quiet and didn't seem to be causing
any trouble. Bartender replies that if you don't kick them out
right away they bring their friends and then their friends bring
their friends and before you know it your bar is full of
Microsoftians and before long your bar gets a reputation for
being full of Microsoftians and after that your bar is a
Microsoft bar.
That's how you troll. It's like boiling a frog only a frog is
smart enough to jump out. Human beings are often dumb enough to
let themselves be boiled.