dezmd

dezmd, 2 days ago

Not being corrupted is just too darn expensive.

dezmd, 3 days ago

“I don’t suck teets, I lick boots” ;)

dezmd, 3 days ago

You do know the two overlap rather consistently from the context of the females’ choice in most cultures where it persists, right?

dezmd, 3 days ago

It means they are conflated, even if you don’t like that they are.

dezmd, 3 days ago

Projecting one’s denial of rational semantics is a comprehension problem on its own.

dezmd, 5 days ago

RIP Mitch

dezmd, 4 days ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Welcome to Microsoft.

dezmd, 7 days ago

Dope is 100% also used for weed. Maybe just less common for the younger gens.

dezmd, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Obviously it was all just God’s will for him to become an antifa deep state false flag actor.

Edit: /s. Just to be clear.

dezmd, 9 days ago

Lol yes, editing now, fogot what year it was.

dezmd, 9 days ago

Maybe he’ll be teaching them that trying to force enshittification on people in the first place has repercussions.

dezmd, 10 days ago

After January 2015 it was a downhill slalom.

dezmd, 10 days ago

Explain in detail how you associate Israel in a debate of the unrelated context of correlating American corruption to corporate greed.

Is this just some underhanded antisemite sort of bullshit invoking Israel but really trying to associate Jews with corporate greed? Cuz thats what is seems to infer.

dezmd, 9 days ago

That wasn’t at all in the realm of rational supposition for what OP said.

dezmd, 14 days ago

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dezmd, 14 days ago

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dezmd, 14 days ago

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dezmd, 16 days ago

As a mod of the sub, I can’t ethically support this path of discussion and advise that you tread carefully as to not run afoul of various possible interpretations of Rule 1.

As a Floridian, I upvoted that shit before I walked in the room.

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dezmd, 16 days ago

Perhaps we could all just use he/her for everyone because its less typing (e and r right next to each other vs im on him or he on she) and less space taken up on screens and paper? It would end run the haterade bigots looking to stir shit up and the self serving jackasses that inject themselves as the main character in every else’s life choices and experiences.

In my own case, I only really take issue with the singular vs plural pronouns because they/them implies multiple people. Declaring they/them as your pronoun feels like an awkward adjustment to force on everyone else, not at all from a gender fluid or gendered language position, just from a logical expedience of exactness of language position.

We make all this shit up anyway, so let’s just collectively define a shortest pronoun to represent individuals universally. Equality of respect among peers.

dezmd, 16 days ago

I mean, my only real argument is about efficiency and language exactness for the sake of clarity of meaning. Here’s a version based on my suggestion:

“This person understands pronouns, if everyone was like her then no one would use they are them to refer to one person.”

I’m not attacking pronoun users, I’m advocating for more efficient pronoun usage rather than arbitrarily requiring others to redefine their pronoun usage for every single individual that wants to use a different unique pronoun. Why, you ask? A pronoun is a shortened identifier than can be used in many different instances to represent a noun, in general, individual pronouns are a substitute for individual names.

Your name is the actually unique identifier more-so than any pronoun is or needs to be.

dezmd, 9 days ago

Yes and languages evolve. I also worry that your same sort of historial logic can be used in favor of preserving gendered language and traditional gender definitions that is contrary to the goals here.

I’m arguing for a standard usage, he/her for everyone covers always having a singular standardized pronoun so that they/them can be used as plural pronouns without the potential confusion that you may be talking about more than one person in the same literal contextual frame of a discussion. Preciseness of language improves the quality of communication.

Even in that example, and perhaps the modern English translation is just incorrect in its wording, “Each man hurried… til they drew near” is still a plural representative form of usage, as ‘each man’ is an implied amount of more than a singular man.

To say “Each man hurried… til he drew near… where William and his darling were lying together” creates a confusion of singular subject and does not work since ‘each man’ and ‘they’ represents more than a single self identifying entity.

dezmd, 8 days ago

No, not cool. Languages do in fact change over time, regardless of what you or I may think, do or want.

I never demanded others conform to what I want, I argued in favor of an idea that has evolved over time from my own personal growth and life experiences, and it’s a suggestion that is certainly open for discussion.

This was shared as a thought out consideration meant to improve on existing language in several ways, including:

1. as a compromise and simplified solution on pronoun gendering,
2. more exactness when discussing single individuals or multiple individuals,
3. and as a pronoun that is inclusive of everyone without having to talk down to people you disagree with.

I don’t know if you just constantly see red when you go to reply on certain thread topics, but not everything is or needs to be a reactionary agitative internet fight. Have a nice day.

dezmd, 8 days ago

That’s exactly how things work.

Ideas affect change.

Not every idea brings change, but exploring new and different ideas is always worth pursuing.

Our entire civilization is built from, on, and around ideas put into actions.

dezmd, 17 days ago

If you know what HTTP means but not PvE, that’s a you problem then. HTTP is a common term among tech circles, and if I read it on tomshardware or even on slashdot 25 years ago and didn’t know for sure what it meant, I wouldn’t feel compelled to hop on a discussion board to complain about them not defining a common term on a site that caters to tech circles that are familiar with it.

In 2024 we are literally a ‘highlight the text and right click’ away from figuring out what something means.

My point is that your complaint is redundant. And now even has me commenting in a redundant and needless manner.

Maybe a less derisive version of your comment without all the superfluous externalities would be “I wasn’t sure what PvE was, and just for anyone like me that wasn’t sure, it means Player versus Environment, which is just another way of saying playing against the computer.”

Perhaps the problem was the implied tonality of your initial post. Your edit on the top level comment claiming downvotes are from unwelcoming people is entirely off the mark and as equally adversarial as the original comment’s flavor.

What.

dezmd, 17 days ago

It’s much more of a question that requires perspective and thought to address beyond just drive by hand waving one liners.