"Oh, I'm not a sapiosexual myself, but I am a know-it-ally."
xantoxis
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We've been at war continuously for the last 20 years, actually. That's not an exaggeration, it's a literal fact about the way post-9/11 America structured the powers of the presidency to declare and then just maintain a state of war.
Of course you understand some dog barks, you just don't think about it because humans process language innately, we have specialized brain structures for it.
I'll bet you can recognize "I see a threat" and 'I'm in pain" when you hear them. Maybe even distinguish them from "happy excitement"
and i figured you'd read what i actually wrote instead of arguing with someone who didn't exist
Yes, I know all that. The argument I was replying to was that you run out of trees if you use them to make paper without recycling. That argument is false. You're arguing with points I didn't make.
No, this isn’t solved by having a whole forest available when you scale up the consumer side too.
You're seriously underestimating how many trees there are. The only reason we're losing forest is because of grazing land. That's clearcutting, where you remove the tree and just destroy it or just burn the whole forest. As a vegetarian I'm obviously not here to defend grazing land, but if you look only at wood and paper production, we absolutely can replace the trees we use with enough time for them to regrow completely.
Doing so devastates ecosystems by turning them into monocultures, but you're only talking about the replacement rate of trees. We don't have to worry about the replacement rate of trees, we have to worry about greed for land and environmental impact.
Oh jesus christ. Powerful men do not need weird nerds jumping in front of their bullets. The guy is a fucking shitshow.
Stopped reading at the uncritical use of the word "transgenderism" and the unanalyzed repetition of the falsehood that Budweiser suffered financially from the Dylan Mulvaney thing (it didn't).
Not sure what fence the author is trying to sit on, but I'll take my opinion fluff pieces from people who aren't actively aiding the conservative culture war.
why not just let lose of this crippling desire to align ourselves with some historical identity
Fair enough. Counterpoint: It doesn't freaking matter what word we use. No matter what the word is, the right will attempt to poison it and stir hatred of it and assign meanings to it that aren't real. Look at what happened to "woke". It will keep happening, because the modern right is Fascism, and poisoning language is a fascist tactic that goes back to the very beginning. You call yourself an Anarchist; where on Earth do you live that nobody has negative associations with "Anarchist".
Use whatever word you want, just use it consistently. Don't expect it to stay free of propaganda, because they do that to our words on purpose.
Not the plant you think, though.
Ideas for the new logo? I think he should go with a black-red motif, with lots of right angles.
Because as a society we've forgotten how to throw bricks at bad people