People call left wing podcast discourse to be terminally online but god damn how did these right wing become such soyboys crying about shooting at ones and zeros.

I hope someone makes a game where if you shoot a cop in the game, a cop magically dies irl.

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    Also ‘morals’ and ‘ethics’ are used interchangeably in general too often, being a linguistic percrisriptivist is always gonna be a lost battle, but I don’t like when a language evolves to lose words or to make two words synonyms when they weren’t before. Like precise word choices because I know precisely what is being said, don’t be a vibes based language any more than necessary

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      11 months ago

      I mean, prescriptivism in technical terminology is good IMO. We need consistent definitions to discuss technical subjects, and people who study and discuss the technical subjects should be familiar with the prescribed definitions. Like, you’ll have a difficult time understanding theory if you think “materialism” is used as “driven to acquiring material goods”

      In general conversation, prescriptivism is shit and should be avoided