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I am phenomenally excited about that. I hope it becomes a universal thing.

Ah. The Superman loophole.

Same episode that gave us the amazing, “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.”

Being bi is literally the best of both worlds. It’s the sexual equivalent of being born wealthy.

The coastal mathematicians are just into math to screw you and take your money. The geniuses at πzo really captured the spirit of the math.

(I had to go a long way to get to πzo but I’m glad ai got there.)

I would like to add to this conversation, “I’ve talked it over with myself and I’ve decided I’m going on strike,” is an extremely powerful thing to say.

…I didn’t promise my addition would be valuable.

That’s the beauty of the internet. There’s always a competitor. I don’t have to use someone who had a bad reputation at one point but is fine now. I can just use someone else.

I can’t really comment on the European experience though, so I said American, which I am, and which I am qualified to talk about.

Oh, also I have an exceedingly rare hereditary disease, so it feels like a certainty I’ll need it for myself someday.

I believe every American knows someone whose life is made substantially worse because of a lack of access to healthcare.

I want to set this up and learn to use it. I want to keep it and maintain it and wait. Because I’ll inevitably hear from someone that they can’t afford their life-saving medication.

The New Text Document makes this.

Should be butterfly pasta! We’ve been robbed!

I really do love convenience!

We claimed it is erasure first, and now here’s our flag.

I worked for Walmart in the mid 2000s.

It’s not classist. That place is a hellhole. There’s a reason so many people who work there are on food stamps.

It’s classist to be mad at people who live in food deserts and can’t shop elsewhere. It’s classist to be fine with the system that puts people in jobs that don’t actually support them. It’s classist to look down on folks who get stuck in those jobs. It’s not classist for someone to be unhappy that they got stuck in such a job.

Fuck Walmart.

(I worked there and was a CSM before being able to move to a better job in 2010.)

“Indians” don’t merely exist as a cultural concept in spaghetti westerns, and even if they did, fantastic racism is still racism.

Buuuut for fun, I’ll engage with your pivot to definition, and I’ll just add this quote for context that appears in the link you provided. Juuuust below your listed definitions.

Dictionaries are often treated as the final arbiter in arguments over a word’s meaning, but they are not always well suited for settling disputes. The lexicographer’s role is to explain how words are (or have been) actually used, not how some may feel that they should be used, and they say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word, much less the significance it may have for individuals.

Isn’t that amazing? “They say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word.” Your authority explicitly states that they shouldn’t be used as an authority in this context! Remarkable…

And now, in addition, I’ll provide the rest of that passage, which is also the absolute end of me interacting with you in this manner.

When discussing concepts like racism, therefore, it is prudent to recognize that quoting from a dictionary is unlikely to either mollify or persuade the person with whom one is arguing.

Not only not meant to be used as an authority, but also unlikely to settle any dispute you might have about the word.

I’ll take their advice. You can reply however you like- my interest in this conversation has vanished. Hopefully someone more patient will come along.

Racism doesn’t have to have intent. Racism can’t exist in a vacuum- that’s true- but the only context it needs is the concept of race.

A fantastic example would be rolling up all the Native American tribe into one group. Or attributing anything, even conceptually, to that group.

You don’t have to be aware that this is incorrect for it to qualify as racism, and you don’t have to have an intent about making that attribution to be wrong in doing so.

This argument holds no water.

The idea that it’s exempt from accusations of racism because it’s unaware that it’s being racist just doesn’t track.

Anecdotally, I’m seeing a lot of parents with kids as old as 10 in carts at the grocery store, and those kids are sitting there staring at a tablet or a phone.

As young as 2, also.

It’s constant and nonstop and they don’t look up for anything.

I’m concerned.

Jesus, that’s good.

My new goal is to use this in casual conversation sometime this year