Look, I have looked up what those characters mean every time these comments come up, but no one else cares or uses them. Including me. So I forget what they are, because it’s not important to me. Then it comes up again in a comment on here and nowhere else and I just can’t be fucked to bother looking it up again. So I don’t read those comments anymore.

I’m not mad, or stupid. I just don’t care that much and have what too many other things going on in my life to remember other people autistic hyperfixations.

This is likely the most common way people intereract with your comments. So if you want to turn every interaction into either a fight over those characters or only have it read by other etymology autists then sure, Have at it. I, however, want to be understood when I talk. It bothers me when people don’t understand me. To me the point of language is to get ideas across through any means necessary. By that standard I really don’t see the point in putting any effort to bringing these characters back. They do not help language to be better understood or clearer and that’s all I care about.

And in my experience, trying to force changes like that through use will just get tiring and not actually change anyone else. This kind of change in language would take tremendous effort. Even if I thought there was a point to it, I would call it a pipe dream to make it standard.

But it’s not a lesson if it doesn’t explain itself. It just turns their comment into a puzzle that they know most people won’t know how to read.

It’s gate keeping in the same way as intentionally using technical jargon when common parlance would suffice. It’s a bit insufferable.

If I need to Google what your letters mean then you better have something real damn interesting to say, otherwise I’m going to be annoyed. Especially since I don’t have anywhere else to use that “skill”.

But the game treats the portals as holes in reality. If a whole falls on you do you suddenly pop up out of the other side? No.

It would plop. It would only fly up if the platform the cube was on moved up towards the portal.

I always find these groups suspicious. Even police and ice are full of overweight gravy seals. The ONLY groups of this many dudes that look that in shape are sports teams and the military.

That’s not enough to jump to conclusions, but these are not normal average white supremacists.

100% it’s all in the emphasis. It’s subtle, but just different enough that you can tell if someone is from the area based on their pronunciation.

Oh God,I had an ex from Georgia that would hit me with these. Let’s go with “verse-ay-lees”.

But you forgot, we also have to mispronounce it then get mad if you don’t mispronounce it the right way.

-someone that was born in New berlin, not “new berLIN”, But “new BURlin”.

Yeah, a lot of my journey of growing up was learning to just let things go.

Especially things that I felt justified at being upset over, but knew there was nothing to accomplish by holding on to that feeling. All I was doing was making myself feel bad, so the only real available goal was to try and remove that feeling.

Like, as a teenager, Going and getting into an argument with my step father about the way that he decided to talk to me was only going to serve to make us both more upset. I wasn’t going to make this 55 year old man be less of a snarky asshole. It simply wasn’t going to happen. I was also stuck living with him for at least a few more years.

So just let it go. It’s just a source of toxicity to drag me down and make me depressed every time I sit there and stew on it for hours and hours.

Exactly lol. The rest of the scene had clear context that the image was overexposed and the white balance was too warm.

Anyone that understands photography instantly understood what was happening in that image. I’ve had people try to fight me and tell me I’m wrong about that, but I’ve been a professional photographer/videographer for over 15 years. Quickly identifying a technical issue with an image like that is like breathing to me. I do it every single time I take a picture, so over 10,000 a day on average. All I can say is trust me. that image was overexposed and too warm, You can tell by the way it is in the background, and if you can’t see that then my words won’t help you.

Are co guns really that much more gentle on a projectile? I would have thought the force of the expanding gasses would be similar. It’s basically just a pressure explosion vs a chemical one, no?

This is why we need mythbusters…

Maybe some YouTuber that was inspired by them can help.

Hell, I’m actually a videographer I shouldn’t really need help with that. I’m just not motivated to make big projects for my own sake most of the time. So, If you make an ice bullet and fly me out to you we can be mythbusters lol.

That actually did this one lol.

Not urine, but ice, as depicted in… Some spy movie I think?

In today’s age they’ll fill 95% of that supply chain with robots and automation. Even if it’s 40% less effective at retrieving the material, that will still probably result in better overall profit margins.

The one thing capitalism has proven to be excellent at innovating is wealth extraction. Giving more to one person in every way possible. By the time we have this infrastructure built blue collar workers will be largely redundant.

It happened to my industry (broadcast television)

It happened to my father’s industry (animation)

It happened to my step father’s industry (biotech)

It happened to my brother’s industry (manufacturing)

My sister and brother in law just saw their industries stop receiving funding (librarian and environmental scientist)

Don’t count on new fields creating news jobs anymore. That’s the way of the old world.

Whatever benefits having more gold would bring will only be given to the ultra wealthy who control that gold. Even if it brings the cost of phones down by 15% it won’t make a difference in how much the average person struggles. In fact, the resources consumed in retrieving and processing the gold will probably end up hurting most of our cost of living.

We need to work on our social sciences before any other science can bring anyone real benefit anymore…

sure, it won’t help them recruit, but it will help them hold their existing members. when they have evidence of the “persecution” they face it makes it easier for them to discredit the negative info online.

i know for certain that this is at least the Mormon playbook.

i mean, it’s meant to have meaning. it makes sense in a way.

part of the idea behind palantir is that they’ve collected basically every picture on the internet to be used in ai facial recognition. that includes your tinder profile. Trump also recently bragged about using palantir in some way to kill people in iran.

so it’s supposed to make you aware of that fact that if you put your politics on your tinder profile, Trump may one day use palantir to hunt you down.

i didn’t say you should be centerist lmao. i said that extremism is real and something to watch yourself on. I’m very far left, that why I’m on this forum you goof. that doesn’t mean leftist extremism isn’t real.

when i said father i meant in pursuing a specific goal or idea. not “father left”.left vs right is just defined by vague political goals and ideas. to say anything is more or less of that is impossible because the scale is undefined. that’s not what matters, the point is that if you don’t police your own beliefs you are likely to fall down dangerous rabbit holes.

it’s more about power balance. a mod on a forum has no real meaningful power over anything that matters.

“the government” is too narrow of a term, but it does need to be a person with power and control over others. right now corporations are the real centers of power in this world. they are largely authoritarian.

people saying they don’t want to hang out with you is not that.

authoritarianism is when the government that has real control over things that matter and uses it to control up. when a private citizen kicks you out of their club it’s just called a disagreement.

the farthest extremes on either side are unrealistic and deluded. just because you like one side doesn’t mean they dont get crazy when you go far enough. it’s VERY important not to lose site of that.

yes a communist utopia is unachievable. yes there are people who are actively pursuing that impossible goal. that does not make them unleft.

sadly more and more sites are rejecting many of the easily accessible mail forwarders and temp email services.

hmm, while I’m doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn’t occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.