A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

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          1 day ago

          Yeah, sure, you just claimed that I strawmanned their argument… Cmon.

          EDIT: Also, who’s doing the strawmanning here? I said that “phones are useful devices that people rely on, while [smart glasses] are not”. Then, you went on a tirade how I said that smart glasses are “marginally convenient” instead of “literally useless”.

          Did I say that they are literally useless? Or rather, implied that they are something along the lines of “marginally convenient”, thus not being “useful devices that people rely on”?

          Also, I did not say anything about equivalence. I said “more akin to”. Which you took as literal equivalence.

          This is the wildest pedantry I’ve witnessed in a while.

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            20 hours ago

            You literally sound like a boomer complaining about Smart phones, describing them as “useless toys”

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                12 hours ago

                Oh, I did win the argument. You’re objectively wrong. You hating smart glasses, or them being massive walking invasions of privacy, doesn’t make them “useless toys”. A thing can be bad without being useless. That’s a literally childish understanding of concepts.

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                  11 hours ago

                  See my previous comment about strawmanning, mr. “I learned about logical fallacies 5 days ago”

                  EDIT: So mad you come and check the replies within 5 minutes just to downvote?

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                    11 hours ago

                    I never claimed you strawmaned their argument, I stated you strawmaned the function of smart glasses by comparing to a “useless toy”. Which you objectively did. That isn’t up for debate. That’s a fact.

                    Smart glasses are, objectively, not useless. Calling them that IS a strawman, and it does very much seem to be based on a childish belief that if the thing you’re talking about is overall bad, then EVERYTHING about it must be bad.