a popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly
@betafish Maybe it’s bc :) automatically turns into an emoji in many programs. And they’re like I WANT TEXT DAMMIT hence (: (I am both An Old and a computer nerd)
@ywgdana The FedEx bot tried to do this to me, when I pressed 0 it would just send me back to the menu, but I kept doing it three or four times and eventually it gave up and let me have a human