I find myself tapping Ctrl+A -> backspace faster than I can react to it myself. Life is too short for waiting for the little cursor to travel all the way back.
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Yep. Me sometimes. Like you know the answer. It's simple and logical. The other person is obviously wrong and defending their position badly... But then you realise it's stupid to try and waste your time on a subject you don't even care about, to a person who cannot be educated.
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Writing about it for 20 minutes kinda proves you absolutely do give a fuck about this. Lots of fucks, actually.
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Yeah this is why I try to avoid arguing on the internet. I never feel better for it and I'm fairly certain that I've never convinced anyone to change their position on anything.
Same on Lemmy
Actually it's a keyboard shortcut to close the browser tab.
I do this, and I have a "graveyard log" file where I paste my discarded posts and replies.
deletes his own comment without posting it after realizing he was wrong after defending what he now no longer believes in, for seven paragraphs
Me but the post got deleted.