that is part of the joke, but i think the main part of the joke is that they’re responding to your comment asking if your comment federated in the negative, despite the fact that by being able to read and respond at all from another instance, it is clear that your comment did federate.

“He resisted his homosexual urges, and remained faithful to his heterosexual wife until the very day he shot himself.”

that doesn’t mean you refuse to treat us though, it just means your treatment might take the form of giving a referral to a specialist. you don’t refuse to treat a patient with glasses just cause you aren’t an optometrist.

wow, that led me down a fuckin rabbit hole into the wee hours. Marcus Garvey was, uh, some piece of work.

i’m 35, took AP us history in high school in california, and i’m pretty sure i’d never heard of the scopes trial before just now. It seems like a somewhat esoteric thing to teach about to me? idk why he would be expected to know about it.

just get yourself a UV flashlight, or bring some flowers to your nearest laser tag arena. this is just how stuff looks under blacklight sometimes (which isn’t to say it isn’t cool, just that you don’t need fancy tech to see it),

i’m using thunder. it’s a fairly old version as well, but it works.

clearly he got squashed by a giant anvil, looney tunes style

slop was a thing way before LLMs

possibly your client gets confused because its a mastodon, not lemmy, account? i was able to look him up just fine on his instance (but i wish i hadn’t).