Poe's law. This doesn't seem completely absurd because there are plenty of jerks on planes who don't dim excessively-bright screens much less reduce the volume of crap music.

I've flown close to a million miles and can't recall a single time someone played music out of their speakers.

At least once or twice so far this year, for me.

Anecdotal evidence. We'll just have to agree to disagree.

If you have to explain that it’s a joke, then it wasn’t funny

What's the bar, though? If out of a million people reading a joke, 80% find it funny, 20% find it meh, and one solitary person needs the joke explained to them, I think it's still fair to call it a funny joke. There are multiple comments in this thread missing the satire so it's obvious the percentage is a bit higher than that, but I'd wager the majority of people didn't need the joke explained to them.

To you.

This doesn't apply to satire. Your lack of media literacy is not evidence of bad satire.

There’s enough people in this thread saying the same, to prove I’m not an outlier in my interpretation

HN is not a representative sample of normal people and has a long understood inability to recognize satire, or even just particularly strong sarcasm. HN not getting a joke is not evidence of it being a bad joke.

I've never seen an online community fail to grasp sarcasm as badly as HN. I deliberately make one out of 50 posts ultra-sarcastic (to the point where no normal person could possibly believe I'd hold whatever view I wrote), and they always, always go straight to -4.

Autism is a spectrum disorder and I'd say that spectrum is quite biased around here.

Coming from a family with several people “on the spectrum,” I want to point out that _some_ people with ASD have trouble with sarcasm.

I would also contend that HN, like my workplace (university math department) skews towards folks with ASD.

Usual caveats of “when you met one person with autism, you met one person with autism…” etc etc.

Hell, even jokes that have been properly marked get downvoted and flagged here.

It was obviously a joke, and not a bad one.