Well, you have a choice in how you deal with it. You could just let it chain you down, or you could develop strategies to deal with it.

That doesn’t mean it’d be easy, or that you can remove it entirely… but it’s better than ignoring it and hoping it goes away.

I found this after a quick-ish google. Looks like occasionally people do, but they mostly get laughed at as the native cultures seemed to find it a sign of respect. And actually felt hurt when a helicopter dropped the naming convention.

Or, like their entire business model for the last decade or two, they’re focused on competing at a service level rather than trying to push everyone out of the market by force.

Microsoft has made sure to make their library of games available on Steam for a reason. They know they can’t… or won’t compete at a service level.

Playing by someone else’s rules means they dictate the conversation. You have significantly less power. If you want people to act like adults, like reasonable people, try treating them that way.

It may not work, but it’s far more likely to do so than constantly talking down to them.

The problem is you’re going about advocating moderation in such an extreme way. It’s kind of hypocritical. You’re not going to shout people into agreeing with you, at least not for any reasonable positions.

Do you habitual judge people entirely on their fuckability? I mean, I have little opinion of Asmongold except what I see other people saying about him on the internet, but that seems like a weirdly sexualized take on things.

There is definitely a hyperfixation focused on Trump that he both adores and needs, and there definitely needs to be more focus on his cohorts (the ones that actually wield power, not pseudo influencers like Musk)… but ignoring him for four years won’t do anything better. And trying to call people out like you’re trying to do is not helping. It just helps further the divide between those on the left (or at least further left than the fence-sitters and “centrists”), which is exactly what Trump and his ilk desire most. Discord between the people who can hurt them most.

One might say it’s their defining trait

I dunno, sounds pretty shitty to me.

Suburbia, or whatever that Matt Damon movie was, was kind of like that. I don’t know how subtle the background plot was, though.

In the same way boomer hippies were “fighting” against their progenitors, sure.

Wearing flannel and complaining about the status quo does not make you a freedom fighter.

The top labels are reversed. I doubt a lesbian icon would be something boomers would appreciate.

Not to mention her capacity for change.

Which one?

Literally means figuratively now.

Yes, language changes, that is why you don’t rely solely on individual words to define your argument.

The reason people might argue despite agreeing outside semantics is that they never bothered to go beyond a very basic explanation of their argument. If your sole disagreement comes from a differing interpretation of a word… then do your best to define your argument better. Otherwise you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing.

If you like one loud shrill unchanging tune, sure.

We’re always redefining words, that’s how language works. This isn’t even close to the most egregious within the last couple decades.

Don’t worry, they’re doing their best to replace society with LLMs.

They seem to have a pretty good stranglehold on it in the mean time, though.

This is indistinguishable from satire for me. I honestly can’t tell if it is or isn’t.

Provided he would even be willing to trade that. His entire business seemed to depend entirely on Anakin (who was taken from him), so holding on to the one slave he had left, even if just out of spite, was probably more important to him than a little bit of bling that would be fleeting.

And I’m sure he wasn’t a bitter resentful fuck who’d keep the slave just to spite the person who took his livelihood from him…