I only heard about it because of an article about them trying to find a French word for “e-mail”
Did that become of thing? Did it catch on?
I’m curious because in English once something has a “name” it never changes. Hell Donald trump tried to rename the Gulf of Mexico. I’m in Texas, no one is changing the name. It’s the Gulf of Mexico.
Once something is established it doesn’t change.
Did they change email into something more French? Does that work like that?
Oh and it literally worries me when people use one word to mean the exact opposite. That isn’t advancement it’s degradation.
And ten points to grifendor for the word “obfuscate “ it’s one of my favorites.
Sorry for the tripple reply. This is one of the things I get excited about.
Excellent example of how names work. It’s not about if I’m annoyed or not. If you want to get my attention you have to flap your meat together and blow air thru it this way (the meat people story if you haven’t heard that. It’s great)
I reply with classical works of the philosopher Monty python
“Is you wife a goer, know what I mean, I bet she does I bet she does”
Language has always fascinated me. Clown too. Not party but the ones who don’t talk but communicate ideas thru body language and face make up. Yes the makeup serves a practical communicative purpose.
Omg I just realized my money concept also applies to sex.
“My wife and I were slapping the banker last night, she got to keep the change”
Knock knock
Who’s there
To
To who?
It’s to whom actually.
Yes as long as what you’re saying makes sense that’s all that matters. Language is just the sound you make to communicate the idea in your head to someone else.
The opposite tho is names. I’m Michael. Not Mike. It doesn’t offended me to be called Mike but that’s not the sound your face needs to make to get my attention. It’s a different sound.
But for just talking… “I stop speak right but you can hold it, then where’s the rub?”
I actually would play around by calling “money” different things. See how weird I could get. “Bucks” fine. Doodlyfranks? In context it works just fine. You can call money anything. Since fallout I regularly say “I’m short on caps” no one’s ever questioned it.
Obligatory “technically correct, the best kind of correct”
That’s how English works. It’s usage. I think the French have a council that decides but English moves a lot faster.
I get having a pet peeve. I for one hate that ignorant means uneducated when it should be someone who is willfully ignoring. That’s just not the way it played out.
I love dictionaries and word usage. “Healthful” is a clunky word, I’m not surprised we moved to “healthy “
Edit: I just realized “helpful” sounds just fine. But if someone said to me “thanks for being so helpy today” I would be a full of seething hatred lol
Do you want a bioshock? Because that’s how you get a bioshock.
Not quite as good as “I’m not a cat” but funny
Okay so this is the second time he’s done that right?
He’s confused a dementia test for an IQ test… twice…
Is that not a sign he might have dementia or something? He should at least remember us making fun of him for it the first time right?
This is an honest question btw. Am I’m missing something? It’s happened twice now?
You lost me after the word brown. I thought you were talking about actual people.
(I’m joking obviously)
At Disney we called vomit “protein spill”. The product we used wasn’t cat litter exactly… but it was essentially cat litter yes.
When I managed dollar trees we also used cat litter when someone spills a whole bottle of soap. It’s impossible to mop up shit tons of soap.
If it was any more “on the nose” I’d get a sinus infection
we used to have a system that broke up monopolies and with current hatred of these large businesses we will be going back to that very soon. Btw we are right now in that few choices stage. We’ll pass that by the time the tech is perfected.
lol. How dare I limit people to only: walking, biking, sailing, flying, skipping, horse/camel riding, electric scooter, electric bIke, piggy back rides, surf, skateboard, crawl, pogo stick, Tobagon, dog sled, horse carriage, astral projection…I’ve taken exactly one option away. You can’t drive yourself because it’s dangerous. You can’t eat human meat how dare they limit you to only a few options of meat! C’mon man I’m not buying that.
I don’t know, why DO we constantly give corporations more control over our lives? Why do you want to fix that by stopping something objectively good? That’s like saying you want more free speech but you’re starting with the n-word. It feels disingenuous. If you don’t want them to have that power… BUILD YOUR OWN. Btw we are currently in the step. “Lock it doors and drive yourself where you don’t want to go” that happens all the time in people driven cars as well. Maybe we should make laws against kidnapping people… oh wait it is already illegal.
People flee war zones now without the aid of cars, highways get clogged with traffic… which would be impossible if the cars drove themselves! It would be easier to evacuate people with self driving cars.
I’m not buying your arguments.
Edit: forgot a few
Trains, monorails, Zipline, parachute, Segway, subway, moving walkways… I might be back with more
I never said Tesla or google. Only self driving cars. Tesla didn’t invent the concept nor do they own it.
then don’t get involved with self driving cars. Just walk, problem solved.
companies are a thing. It’s who we buy stuff from. You’re going to have to get used to that.
“Yet” - you
Let’s explain it this way.
You are driving not on the road and our confused about why you are. You are now stranded even though you are driving yourself.
See. The argument of “well the computer could get confused” people get confused all the time.
And again you said “yet” and that’s my whole point. It’s getting there. It’s only a matter of time before the computer can get to your buddies house quicker and better than you. And will probably be able to scan and avoid loose mud and snow so you don’t destroy your buddies lawn when you get stuck.
If I was that buddy of yours it would only be a matter of time before I make you park your personal driving car at the gate and walk up like how people don’t wear shoes in thier house. Don’t destroy my yard with your messy personal driving skills. Let the computer find you a place to park.
We ban dangerous things people like all the time.
Want to know what I like? Cocaine. Lots of people loved cocaine. They banned it.
People threw a fit when they made drunk driving illegal too. They still made it illegal.
People loved asbestos as well, they banned that.
You can’t even sell milk directly from a cow in most states because of the dangers. Raw milk is banned.
People are fighting tooth in nail to try to re-legalize weed lol and it’s a huge uphill battle.
We ban old things all the time regardless of how well liked they are.
“Too many emergency situations require a human” not really as it would relate to driving… computers have much faster reflexes than a human. They will drive better. So what emergency are you thinking of? Car breaking down? Most people can’t fix thier own car anyway. The only change will be the car calling a tow truck instead of you.
Btw we aren’t going to waste our time pushing for more speed cameras lol we are going to sit and wait and gather our energy.
The moment self driving cars are safe enough we are going to ban human drivers entirely, because humans suck at driving cars.
That’s the future for you guys. You flat out refuse to drive safely so we just won’t let you drive at all.
In my town murder is perfectly fine. Every time someone tries to make a law changing that we just murder them. So murdering people is the only reasonable solution.
Btw you mentioned one of the deer and one of the car crashes. That means you are at least up to 4 on your body shop count. I once again have 0 wrecks.
You talk about shitty drivers but it’s you bro. You speed everywhere and keep getting in wrecks that’s are “totally not your fualt“
If you’re going to eat a hamburger eat the hell out of it
If you want to speed because you want to just say that. “Fuck you’re safety I’m in a hurry”
Don’t try to convince me it’s actually YOU who is the safe driver when you keep getting in wrecks.
Don’t waste your time with seatbelts. Those other driver need to learn to drive but that’s a different problem. Just don’t crash and you won’t need a seatbelt.
Would you rather be hit by a bad driver going 35 or a bad driver going 70? It’s the same right? It’s the acceleration lol
I stopped. I was very pro Israel back in the day. Even said “well Israel wants to divide the country while hamas wants all Jews dead… I have to side with the Jews”
But then they did a genocide and it’s like “well there goes that theory”
No one likes to be wrong but what’s worse is continuing to be wrong after you know.
I don’t know the solution but I’ve changed my mind on the problem.