Indeed

Oh, read some Octavia Butler then! Brilliant and, well, kinda what you just said. The Xenogenesis series.

It’s a bullshit argument from a linguistic standpoint, not just political.

Like imperial/metric and fahrenheit/celsius, we just use the z vs s variably. Some people even switch between spellings for some words. I’m not sure there are even idiomatic or de facto rules about usage, since it seems to be an area of uncertainty for many.

I guess foggy there means it’s “mildly” xenophobic when you don’t bother to get someone’s name right.

A lot of names got changed during immigration due to wilful xenophobia last century, for example. Xenakis to Johnson, etc.

Structural linguistic problems like not having notation for foreign pronunciation isn’t necessarily xenophobic, but failure to address the problem might be.

RTFA, FFS

Idiomatic usage of ‘intuitive’ regarding interfaces breaks down into

1. ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or

2. ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.

It’s the underlying crux of the entire series, and even Foundation too. The Zeroeth law requires a massive war to develop it and still doesn’t solve the problem.

Usually just air quotes right. Well since people caught on to the ‘echo’ dog whistle of 3 brackets some racists moved to quotes too. I was just checking, so nvm, don’t let them try to steal that the way they did with the ok hand gesture.

Ah, OK then someone needs to tell you that the 3 quotes lately has been used by white supremacists as a dog whistle for jewishness, especially referring to economic control.

OK Richard, I will bite. Why three (3) quote marks?

WHY THREE, RICHARD

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Clown dystopia, that story.

Dude, now you’re making it personal with totally the wrong person. What a dork.

Yes, this is all self-evident to anyone who recognizes overconsumption and premature or planned obsolescence.

My point is that advertising and other misinformation makes it extremely difficult for the average person to make rational decisions about technical issues when making purchases, so blame lies much more with companies, governments, and culture than the teeming hordes you look smugly down on.

Oh yes, advertising doesn’t work, which is why it’s fucking everywhere

This is a good time to mention how we have been propagandized about the Luddites.

This is precisely the issue they had with the newindustrial tooling up they were facing, it wasn’t the tools, per se, that they objected to, but the de skilling and Disenfranchisement of the way those tools were being deployed by industrialists.

Being a luddite was and is about ownership of the tools and abuse by capitalists on skilled workers, and the disruption of our important knowledge base and skill sets.

Back in the ‘90s, my grad student roommate was studying how tanzanian chimps use certain plants only for antiparasitic effect. Quite effective and too small in quantity to be food. Medicine.

Sit the fuck down.

lol at 7:10, a presentation slide in the background reads:

JOE ROGAN

CODE NAME: Uncle Fester

BRAIN SMOOTHNESS: warm pudding

What others have mentioned here, plus seagrass and kelp. There is a lot of recovery to do of these once massive ecosystems, thus a lot of carbon to tie up.

One shitpost meme video in your downloads folder = hundreds of Word docx files. Pick the low hanging fruit.