“op is a morally corrupt pervert” ok 💖 yay +follow
come on guys let’s all go on the wide path that is headed towards hell together
I work as a programmer for $35 an hour.
They once forgot to pay me for 8 extra hours that they needed me to work on Thanksgiving weekend. They simply needed me to be present for 8 hours in order to quickly fix any problems that happened during their busiest weekend, and no such problems ended up happening.
When they saw the mistake and paid me for it, the gross pay for that day was $420 (base of $35 x 8 hours x 1.5 for overtime).
The first thing I noticed was how that compared to what I got paid at my warehouse job before I became a programmer. When I started the job at the warehouse, I got paid $10 an hour. For a full time week, I got paid $400.
I got paid more for that one day of doing practically nothing as a programmer than I did busting my ass at the warehouse for a whole week.
So enough about this "I work harder than them so I deserve more pay" bullshit. You're all the working class. In our fucked up system, hard work does not equal more pay. If you want more pay, you need to fight back against the rich assholes who profit off your labor and pay you jack shit, not fight with other people who are underpaid about who deserves to be more underpaid.
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Linguistics question for uou: How does your stance re: changing of a word apply to the instances where a layperson's misunderstanding of a word *does* change its meaning?
One that comes to mind is "nimrod." Originally meaning a skillfull hunter, its sacrastic use in Bugs Bunny cartoons to mean "idiot" or "buffoon" when describing Elmer Fudd caused it to shift to an almost opposite meaning.
Thoughts?
I’m not a linguist, and I’m all for language evolving.
“Nimrod” is a cute case study. If you think about it in terms of evolution, there were NO pressures on keeping “Nimrod” reserved as a legendary Biblical hunter. It wasn’t being used for a specific working purpose; it wasn’t preserved in communities, anchored to practical duties, part of people’s living vocabs. It was able to drift because it was a literary reference, and found a funnier purpose.
“Favouring an injured limb”, on the other hand, is a descriptor actively being used by communities that talk about injured limbs. It has material utility and meets a need. It has a clear definition and rationale. It’s under continuous practical use. Flipping the definition, or claiming that it has another definition in YOUR head, just isn’t the same linguistic pressure as all the people using it correctly for material purposes. Just because the public aren’t familiar with its use, and are assigning it vibes based on other senses of the word, doesn’t mean that the word is up for drift.
“Teehee, I think it should mean the opposite thing!” is not hugely helpful or useful given the pragmatic gap between “active use” and “misreading”. People are USING it to mean something else. In fact, claiming that “the opposite meaning is just as valid” is clearly causing a lot of confusion in the notes of that post - is this helpful when talking about limb injury?
Further, “Language evolves” means that language evolves.
I do not believe that “language evolves” means:
- Illiteracy wins wherever it secures a majority.
- Vibes-based readings are just as valid as genuine literacy.
- Misunderstandings matter more than material usage.
- Laypeople’s confusion can and should change the meaning of a technical term that a community are actually actively using in a different sense.
- Being genuinely wrong, with sufficient confidence, means you get to declare yourself correct, because of your own personal feelings, and further,
- that this extra-special-double-down wrongness is ESPECIALLY allowed, suddenly, when it comes to processing information, because “it’s how language works.”
- The apparently unchallenged genuine belief that this is how language functionally works.
- The belief that language works on Internet-points rules and “language evolves” is a magical backdoor to making “both sides” arguments.
- The belief that a grandma doing this confers additional respectability, and that respectability is the same thing as being correct.
- That a “definition” of a word that meets no useful criteria for a definition - a vibes-based interpretation that is not defined, observed, recorded anywhere, agreed upon, serving any purpose, or meeting any need (because it’s just vibes and people being wrong) is really BASICALLY the same thing as the existing definition, which actually meets those criteria.
- Because vibes.
- That it doesn’t matter if your personal interpretation is materially unhelpful, not useful, more confusing, directly contradicts the technical use, and is generally materially worse than if you just used the existing word properly - because it’s YOUR personal interpretation.
- That “I feel like this should be the case” is equal to things actually being the case.
- That, in general, “vibes” are as important and valid as actual material professional diagnostic use of a word.
- Both sides of a directly contradictory argument are equally valid and correct - even in a case where one side is bringing evidence, and the other is bringing a misunderstanding based on other definitions of a word.
Those are all things that people on this post seem to think are included in things like “language evolves and meanings change 😌”. I do not agree that they are included. I know that people feel they do. That’s where my stance diverges.
My stance is that I literally don’t approve of the sentiments embodied in those bullet points. I don’t believe they’re rooted in good judgment, or a clear understanding of linguistics. I don’t believe they improve communication or clarity, or meet a material need, or plug a communication gap. I don’t think that “favour” is THAT confusing, when the limb-injury definition is freely available on the same public internet that people are on right now. I don’t believe that “that’s just how language works” is a super-special case where everyone ✨ magically gets to be right ✨ because it’s how their grandma used it, when we recognise that nothing else operates like that. I don’t generally think that being loudly wrong is just as correct as being quietly right.
And I have never seen any evidence that “language evolves,” used by people who work with language, genuinely means ANY of those things. “Language evolves” is stuff like “nimrod” and “chaise lounge.” It is not “myeloma and melanoma are the same thing” or “misreading is just as valid as reading.”
I don’t really have a horse in that fight. but I do think that people who believe in those bullet points are quite dreary, and I do not invite them to my dinner parties.
When I was a child, I thought "the test was positive" meant you didn't have cancer or whatever scary disease the doctors were afraid you might have. Right up until I said something about it out loud and my parents corrected my understanding.
Imagine refusing to update my internal dictionary and running around telling people they don't have cancer when they do, or vice versa, because "that's what the phrase sounds like to me."
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I would be such a good high priestess in a fantasy world. I would be great at walking about in veils and only speaking loudly during important ceremonies, otherwise whispering short sentences into the ears of my holy attendants to speak for me. I'd be awesome at holding aloft a chalice of blessed water and/or blood and maybe even guarding a dark secret about how the god we all worship is actually evil and we're totally gonna sacrifice that wounded hero we just nursed back to health after finding him in the forest surrounded by thirty slain wolves.
I would still do all my unhinged Tumblr posting but it would be in a secret diary hidden within the walls of my holy bedchamber, undiscovered until the temple collapses when the sacrifice goes wrong. So no worries there, you'd get my posts late and all at once is all.
If I got isekaied I would immediately check out the local religious scene. See if there's an in. For a lot of them you have to be rich or nobility or whatever to get a really good priesting job but not all of them, and there might be a way to leverage my mysterious alt universe knowledge, especially if I develop Cool Fantasy Powers with the dimension jump. "Oh you need to go on a world-saving adventure" no I don't. Nearest prosperous city. Coolest looking temple that doesn't forbid my age/race/gender/whatever. I'm locking the fuck IN.
I like that you are completely ambivalent about whether the god you serve is evil or not, you just really like the job.
That's the god's business.
I think I've been playing too much Inscryption. I saw a good post by a a moot and went to reblog it but was like "wait, that's a two-blood post. I don't have enough squirrels for that"
hoooly shit
@muddy-pawprints-on-my-mp3-player I have no idea how Inscryption works so hopefully this is funny to you
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My laptop has different games on it than my desktop (for obvious performance and input reasons), so when I'm trapped in a procrastination cycle late at night and just endlessly scrolling Tumblr I tell myself that I should go to bed where I would be warm and play my Laptop Games. Don't I want to play my fun Laptop Games?
Now, here's the trick. About a third of the time, I do pull my laptop out, and either play a Laptop Game or go back to Tumblr, but crucially I am now warm and comfy and in a position to put it down and go straight to sleep when I get tired, which is much easier to do than deciding to go to sleep from outside bed. But two thirds of the time, I don't open the laptop at all. I lie down and realised that I am sleepy and now I have gone to bed and don't even want the Laptop Game any more.
I have tricked myself, and I didn't even notice. Shhh, do not tell me.
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"boil him in oil" fuck off you're frying him. You expect me to believe you're getting that oil above its boiling temp? That much of it? By heating it with fucking charcoal? And you're not melting the cauldron?
That oil is NOT boiling, you are not boiling that man. You are frying him.
"I'm not boiling the oil but I'm boiling him because the water in his body -- " SO DOES THE WATER IN A CHICKEN WING WHEN I STICK IT IN THE DEEP FRYER, BUT WE DON'T CALL IT DEEP BOILED CHICKEN WINGS, DO WE? Have some fucking linguistic standards. Fry That Man.
the thing about "just say you have a boyfriend to make that guy leave you alone" and "just say you are a couple so you can get that apartment" and "just marry your friend for tax benefits" is that they aren't actually solutions to any of the underlying problems, and I'm tired with the discussion always ending there. No please keep going and explain why being in a relationship would solve these issues and why you think that isn't actually a problem?
saw a radfem post about how there's no female version of emasculation. bestie yes there is
"masculinity is empowering and dominant and femininity is degrading and restrictive. there's no humiliating way of being stripped of chains" i want you to look women of color & disabled women in the eyes and tell them this. that there is no humiliating way to be stripped of your womanhood.
people are reblogging this again so I wanna add that on top of women of color and disabled women you can also just talk to trans men&mascs and nonbinary and intersex people raised female about this.
it's very funny to me whenever people who insist they are the final voice for Trve Feminism and have such an accurate understanding of misogyny, also completely ignore how much the cover-up of the violent policing of failed womanhood plays a role in patriarchy. babe stop believing everything the patriarchy says!!!!! IT IS LYING TO US CONSTANTLY!!!!!!!!
