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  • Not necessarily in opposition. But I find it funny that the words you chose are all still words used in a medical sense before the new millennium, with similar ableist connotations - just ones further removed by time.

    Dumb meaning mute, as in "deaf, dumb and blind", and with moron and idiot meaning "mild" to "profound" intellectual disability respectively. Similar words like "imbecile" or "cretin" held similar connotations. All of which the r-word was once adopted to get around, until it was picked up by the public in the same way,

    The Wikipedia rabbit hole led me to the "euphemism treadmill", which in turn led me to the "List of disability-related terms with negative connotations", many of which replaced each other in "formal" usage at different points in time.

    Again, not against trying to avoid hurting people. It's just that trying to get ahead of this sort of thing is amusingly circular when viewed in the abstract.

    What exactly are you trying to say when you say "dumbass" or "moron" or "idiot"? You obviously can't mean "mentally deficient" in any measurable sense, certainly not a "low IQ". You must therefore mean something like "foolish" or "stupid", acting unwisely or impulsively, or without reason. But is that how you're using them? Is that how they're used generally?

  • What are your must-haves for bases?
  • I always beeline the metalworking fab grind as soon as I have enough food to spend the time. Going from a few boulders, some wood, and a smashed car to a full set of metal tools is just satisfying to me.

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  • virgin pog hog vs chad bovine explosion

  • Why were early humans so fit if their diet pretty much only consisted of meat?
  • Keep in mind that there is no such thing as a tree. They are tall and sturdy and woody and have a bunch of leaves on top, it is not unreasonable to call a banana plant a tree. Hell, the Wikipedia page for "Tree" goes back and forth on broader and narrower definitions and whether bananas and bamboo and so on count within them.

  • Thoughts on Lemmy sorting options?
  • My best guess from the way it looks is that Active is like a forum or imageboard sort, where new comments "bump" old threads to the top. Hot appears to be more like "rising", new posts that are interacted with more than others. Both probably make more sense with greater volume, but neither seem perfect for the structure of the site. I would also think "tuning the algorithms" is probably in the "when we get around to it" bucket for most of the people who would be handling that.

  • Sol Reader is a VR headset exclusively for reading books
  • I wish people used the term HMD (head mounted display) for stuff like this. It's not VR, there is no motion tracker or interaction with a "reality" that is "virtual". It's just really small screens really close to your eyes.

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  • Are you really an internet user if you haven't fractured yourself into several distinct personalities?