So pedantry it is then.

Agree to disagree. If you see something online or hear about it via a text message do you say "I heard" because then you're wrong by your metric.

Perhaps the discussion I have with my friends are very different from the discussions you all are having with yours, but for my situation they are functionally identical.

So if someone asks me "have you read x" you're saying that you expect me to respond with "oh no, but I have listened to the audiobook." Instead of just saying, "yeah" and getting into the actual conversation? Seems dumb. Whats the functional purpose of differentiating between the two in a conversation?

Then your a pedantic ass. No one cares how you consumed the book, they want to talk about the story you both are familiar with.

The right to say "oh yeah I've read it" when someone wants to talk about a book that I've listened to.

With how detached most of society seems to be from very real, existential issues that we're rapidly approaching, I'd say we've done a pretty good job of mass-inducing a dissociative fugue state already.

Turns out having the net worth of a small country makes you a target for harassment from state actors.

Hoarding wealth is a mental disorder.

Is this the new line for Muskrats? The CCP is trying to smear the poor billionaire?