nuloom.bsky.social
Person of character and identity (but not of courage or integrity). You’re welcome to
bask in my excellence. Long live me.
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the Contrapoints video on envy surmises this well in case of the type of (mostly) incel you’re describing; the point is not to solve an issue, the point is the malignant moaning they get to engage in. Their own solutions are unrealistic and they know it. It’s all just for the sake of complaining.
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Imo what’s icky is that it’s often only used for non-caucasian skin. ‘His skin was pale, like toast bread.. that hadn’t been toasted yet.’ is fine and hilarious also.
I don’t think comparing to food vs dyes vs anything else is fundamentally problematic, it’s the (broader) context that makes it icky
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You just have to get it out of your head that this is an argument about physical truth rather than about how words are used. It’s about words, which are abstractions of physical truth by default. The two things aren’t and never will be 1:1.
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But that doesn’t mean we can’t use one word to refer to both when they’re close enough. We use most words like that already, e.g. ‘hear’. You might say you ‘heard something’ if you saw it on the internet even if you just read it. Still yet society stands, uncollapsed.
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Doesn’t this remind you of someone? Maybe of flat earthers saying they dgaf what scientists have to say, with their full confidence of flat earth? Anyway, I don’t necessarily disagree. Listening and reading are still two different actions.
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breaking news: person who ‘dgaf what linguists think about anything’ doesn’t understand how language works, but is certain of their language takes. And with a tinge of phantasm, to surprise of no one. I don’t have a degree myself but—good idea, maybe one day.
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If you treat linguistics with the rigidity of a physical science rather than a social one, you’re bound to produce a bunch of unreasonable takes. Linguists can’t even define what a syllable is. Semiotics and semantics meanwhile are worse monsters than that.
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I think this definitively proves you’re missing the forest for the trees. This use of the word is not an epistemic violation of material reality, it’s just a specific wording someone can use as a shorthand because it’s close enough. Get a grip.
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I don’t find myself upset. Perhaps you are upset about people referring to listening to books as reading and are projecting?
I’m a descriptivist, so I just think your view is narrow minded. I put a small explainer thread on my profile if that’s interesting.
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We use the word ‘orange’ for a million different hues, and ‘rock’ for a million different materials, but society is somehow not fucked yet. Things that share similarities can be easily grouped if the similarities are the only relevant thing. here, that’s having consumed a book
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Using the word ‘read’ for e.g. insta captions and scientific journals is a bigger gap in outcome than looking at vs hearing the same novels.
Don’t lose sight of reality in face of made up categories. Meaning is meaning, everything is different, and there are no correct interpretations.
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Also don’t be a bitter prescriptivist. Language changing is beautiful. If people use the word like that, congratulations; that’s the correct current meaning. Need objectivity? Idk pick up calculus. Being used to one meaning doesn’t mean it will stick around.
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Perhaps you’re missing the forest for the trees. We don’t use dictionaries when we speak, we speak to express ideas. If the outcome in knowledge is the same, making an irrelevant distinction is pedantry. Every now and then it is relevant, but only in self-referential discussions.
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This post really summoned the global panel of prescriptivists with that ‘count as reading’ bit lol
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Reading is a verb. But verb is a made-up category, and so is the concept this one signifies. All language changes always, all categories fail sometimes, and increasingly this is used. Language changing is beautiful. Watch it change without prescriptivist bitterness for the best viewing experience.
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I wonder what you think a biological male is. HRT makes a person basically indisputably intersex. I wonder if these grown adults are also biological newborns…? Things about people change.
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‘prompt engineers’ have spent the last 3 years training hard to reach 6th grade writing level and achieve the incredible skill of rewording and recontextualising things
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Thesopodes is surely the correct form. Just how octopus can be pluralised to octopi or octopodes (from greek), thesopodes is the future of english pluralisation!
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err and err and err again, but less and less and less~
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What do you mean? Solving ethics with AI is a great idea. Remember all the times we already solved it with new technologies?
Tune in next week when we try to solve metaphysics with an air fryer and in 2025 when we expect to solve epistemology with an iPad
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taxation is the price tag for civilisation.
Countries with high taxes host some of the happiest populations on earth. No taxation is theft, it robs people of positive freedom which is far more valuable than the negative freedom that comes from no taxation, it’s just control freak bait.
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sorry to disappoint but animal cannibalism is extremely common in nature. Slugs, polar bears, frogs, hamsters, many snakes, and more, eat members of their own species
what’s different about humans is we’re stupider about it; we do it gratuitously, then rationalise it, and some celebrate it
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Hey God. I’m an excellent all-round human being.
I’ll be waiting for blessings in the mail.
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It reminds me of the demons in Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. They learnt how to use words as a tool to trick and kill humans, but they didn’t understand them. They were just tools of deception, nothing of substance
These people wouldn’t recognise a real echo chamber if it was marked with a huge X
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I mentioned I have a portfolio website a year ago in a conversation so they know about it, if they’re interested they will surely ask-
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Well there’s one particular bird we’re all watching burn from a safe distance
but anyway, crows and ravens are pretty neat
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“Public servants? Why yes, the public are my servants, what about it?”
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I’m not arguing with you on the effectiveness of masks, just your rhetoric. But on this I disagree. Face masks came about in the 19th century, not during COVID. We knew pretty fast how it spreads, and we knew for a LONG time what face masks do. It was rudimentary, not some ground zero new science.
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If everyone wore masks, it really wouldn’t make a difference if they were protecting you from others or others from you. What they do is bring results, is about all the average person needs to know given how uncommitted some people are to knowing things in general. Better that than denial~
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lots of good stuff on Dropout. The last two seasons of Game Changer especially.
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silence is a beautiful thing. I listen the music almost every day because I practice almost every day, but I grow most on the silent days. The silence is enlightening, it grants perspective. Although, sometimes my ears grow lonely!
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Everyone thinks they’re right. But a reasonable person just can’t give the same validity to the group that proudly disengages with the academic literature as they do to the group which works to develop it. Just as how you don’t give the same validity to a flat earther as a physicist.
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no alt facts! We have fields of study and research on this. The average person doesn’t know much about physics, so they should probably keep quiet on a physics conference. Likewise, if they know nothing of gender, biology, etc , they should keep quiet on related human rights. Simple as.
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to be fair, they’re not anywhere for a constructive purpose!