Don’t you mean base 10 ;)

I’d argue we do have proper words for 13-19, but don’t have proper words for 11&12

Left-communism refers to philosophies such an anarchism, council communism, platformism, and other left wing thoughts that do not advocate for an all encompassing and powerful worker’s state, and instead believe in achieving a communist system (stateless, classless, moneyless) through means of democracy, consensus, councils, or other means that put the actual people impacted by a decision in charge, or at least in the conversation, of making the decision.

And of course not. Because we do not live in a society where that happens. The topic is not “does gift economy work” or “do we live in a gift economy.” The topic was explaining a micro-economy that existed around mutual aid and gift economics.

While I agree this is probably just a made up funny joke, if you you’ve ever actually lived in a gift/barter community, it’s pretty much this. Hung out pretty much exclusively with anarchist and various left-communists for years, and this was my life. You do things for folks, they do things for you, and along the way you end up with stuff like a shit ton of honey, and you end up giving that honey out in exchange for something else, and you end up meeting someone with a weird skill, and it all just spirals into this weird and glorious community.

The difference is that in real life, you’re not saying “I’ll give you this honey for a bird corpse” you say “hey, man, can I have your bird corpse, I know a girl who loves macabre art, and it would be a really cool way to honor your beloved pet,” and then you either give them honey as a thank you, or just later on when it comes up that they want some honey, you give them some because you happen to have some.

I once had a friend who straight up gave this guy his Prius, that same dude ended up giving a mutual friend a place to stay for over a year. Original Prius owner never got anything directly for the Prius, but he was within the little gift economy, and ended up receiving lots of things and services from various members over the years. I doubt he feels like he was not repaid for it.

It’s a pretty great way to live. It’s a shame we all could never work out a way to get land and built the cohousing community we dreamt of.

Was that actually canon, though?

his webs are actually semen

Fucking what

Pretty much, yeah. I’ve only done imax a few times, but back of the theater was the only way to watch. Even a normal theater I don’t like being in the front, but imax? I wouldn’t go if that’s all that’s available

I’ve been a long time proponent of renaming Uranus to Caelus, to bring it in line with the rest of the planets in using the Roman name.

But honestly, this seems to be an indication from the universe that Uranus is the more correct name…

Iirc, it began that way, but it’s used now as like a softened ellipses.

Life would be different if we threw out babies at predators when startled, like quokka

According to Google, yes. :(

Too cool! Thank you!

Have… Have y’all considered not marrying partners that you don’t share interests with? Like, I know I’m an edge case in that I’m 35, gay, and have never had a live in partner, but it’s really not that scary being single until you find someone you actually enjoy being with. Either it’ll happen or it won’t, but I’d rather be single and able to enjoy my hobbies and passions than be with someone who shares none of them.

Fundamentally disagree. Look at how often people use emoji, AlTerNaTiNg CaSe, and other tricks to convey meaning online (and mainly from their phones). English is not losing complexity, it’s not being dumbed down, or becoming simpler because people are typing on a touch screen. It’s evolving in real time because the methods of communication are evolving. 300 years ago we capitalized nouns in English for emphasis on important nouns, some people capitalized all nouns like in German, we used punctuation quite differently. Before that, we used these big, chunky symbols to indent our lines and make them more readable (and then we got rid of the symbols, but kept the indents, and that’s why we indent the first line of a paragraph). We used to use 3 little stars (an asterism) to break paragraphs apart. Emoji, alternating case, ellipses made of commas, weird punctuation uses, capitalization forgone to convey a flat tone, periods missed at the end of a sentence to give it a friendlier tone, all of these things are living, real grammar rules. They’re just not the same ones as in the text books. Much like how AAVE is not taught in schools as correct or proper English, but it has its own grammar rules that are consistent among its users, the way people type now is fairly consistent, and follows a series of rules that have been agreed upon in the same way that any language agrees upon its rules.

English got frozen in time because of the printing press, and we all just assumed it had been the way it was for so long that that’s the way it was, English was set. But languages are constantly evolving, and there’s really no such thing as a correct way to write a living language. There is only the way we currently write it, which is constantly changing. Normally that change is fairly slow, but we with virtually every other aspect of humanity, the computer, the Internet, the smartphone, and other rapid technological changes increases the speed at which we adopt new cultural norms exponentially.

It’s also worth noting that we write more now that we ever have before. In the past, you may occasionally write letters, jot something down on a postcard or a birthday card, have a weekly shopping list, or a note from a phone call, but apart from secretaries taking short hand, stenographers, and other specialized careers involving writing specifically, the average person did not write anywhere near as much as the average millennial or Gen z, who may communicate exclusively through text, email, discord, whatever, with their friends on a daily basis. With more writing, it follows that the language will evolve faster. A short lived species will often demonstrate more mutation and variation than a longer lived species. There are just more generations to work with. Every email, every Facebook post, every text message is a potential for a random mutation in the language, and without the strict confines of previous generations telling us that something must be written in a certain way, because the primary purpose of writing in the past was much more professional and academic, much less casual, those mutations are given a chance to survive and to flourish.

Yeah, sometimes it is genuinely hard for me to read posts made by younger Gen z or Gen alpha, and it is especially hard to read posts that are trying to mimic the gen z/alpha posts but from older generations, but I am legitimately excited to see how English evolves without the confines or academic interference. I can almost imagine a high/low English split coming, and that’s exciting.

How do I type shavian? Is there an android keyboard? That’s so cool. I’ve read about it, but never actually considered if it was typeable realistically.

Iirc, there’s a church (I think in Italy, but I may be completely wrong, and I’m far too lazy to Google it right now), where the priest blessed the pipe that carries the water, and the church has a spigot outside for adherents to come to and get holy water whenever they want it.

<3 I lost my mom last year, and her favorite son (a Dachshund) is in my care. He’s my bestest little boy, and 15 years old. I was my mom’s care giver, so he’s been my dog, too, the whole time. It’s so hard knowing I’ll lose him eventually, especially after losing Mama. I genuinely don’t know what I’ll do. He’s the only reason I’m still here. Someone had to be there to care for him, and if I hadn’t had that, my grief last year would have ended me.

God, we really do not deserve these creatures. They’re wonderful.

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I’m not crying, you’re crying

I love the idea of two grown ass adults in their 50s standing on the side line as their 80+ year old dads charge at each other with their walkers/walking frames/rolators.