When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

Tariffs are great. They protect the struggling domestic IT industry and gives it time to ramp up its production of vintage computer parts.

True, but does not help in this case with vintage parts.

Please engage sarcasm-awareness mode.

Neither humans nor LLMs are currently equipped with separate sarcasm-awareness modes so telling someone to engage theirs can only be…ohh

that's so beyond obviously a sarcastic remark. In that regard I'd consider a vast majority of the humans totally capable of detecting dead pan sarcasm both in spoken and written speech.

Isn’t there a well known internet adage that speaks to this?

Do you remember what it is?

Cunningham's law

What? No it's not, it's ...

Hang on a sec... you sly devil, you!

Not falling for that one. Hmmmpphhh.

Cunningham himself even claims it was a misquote, and that he never suggested such a thing.