Well, similar to your "why must I mean all that" reaction to my past attempt at 
some kind of state space reconstruction of a pithy post from you, I can 
construct *many* generative models for your "Matters to what/whom?" post. But 
if it'll simply end with another pithy rejection of whatever I reconstruct, it 
feels like a waste of time. It's safe to assume I'm never on the same 
wavelength. The problem with communication is the illusion that it exists.

I could make yet another post to the mailing list asking "what does that mean?" 
... but that's not optimal because: a) you don't retain message threading and 
don't quote much of the prior content and b) email fora are not chat, as I've 
argued a lot before and don't need to argue again. So, chatty posts to fora 
like FriAM exhibit a misunderstanding of what email fora (or usenet etc) are 
and what they're fit-to-purpose usage patterns facilitate.

I feel like it might be appropriate to have a Discord or IRC channel for pithy 
chat. It might be appealing to those who also like the Zoom meetings or maybe 
even the in person meetings at the coffee shop. But those are less interesting 
to me. I post here because I like contextually laden posts. I give SteveS a lot 
of guff for his bloviating posts. 8^D But I like them. Both he and EricS make 
full posts and tend toward less chatty, witty repartee.

On 10/12/21 12:12 PM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> "Bah. I understand it can be fun to troll. But if you can't make at least
> an attempt to avoid blankface pithiness, I can't respond."
> 
> Sorry, I thought we were one something like the same wavelength there. Care
> to expand? Feel free to call me if you imagine that I am in anything but
> good faith chatting with you now.


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