Better than the alternative

God I wish discord just stuck to being a straightforward app without any of the fancy fluff that’s just not needed. I hate the super-flashy things that obscure visibility and divert your attention so much

But it’s what they sell to people, and a minority seems to really like so

points

Noita

The point is that that’s the end conclusion of TDS if things keep progressing

I definitively suffer from hypervigilance, yeah, you’re correct lmao

I definitively can back that up from personal experience. I tend to be quite good at detecting what emotional state people are in, but not why

Due to certain mental faults I tend to assume or believe that ita because of some error on my part, but that’s often not the case, and I’ve been wrong about it many many times. Assuming I did something wrong when in reality it was something else

Yeah ita like, you got a sex friend, why stop it artificially?

Humans have a natural tendency to develop slang. Even in the internet age new slang and in-group languages/dialects are constantly formed

What might happen, is that, if people try to keep up with it, you’ll end up with older people fluent in dozens of various internet dialects

It’s not as simple as “only security through obscurity”. You could say the same thing for an encryption key of a certain length. The private key to a public key is still technically just an obscurity, but it’s still impractical to actually go through the entire range

IPv6 is big enough where this obscurity becomes impractical to sweep. But of course, as you said, there may be other methods of finding your address

It’s definitively something along the lines of “knows just enough to be dangerous”

Like, sure, I’ve also broken my Linux system, but I’m deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.

If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low

Thet tell on themselves so bad

It’s probably not a stretch to say that our aptitude at language is a major major part for our evolutionary success. It was probably bound to happen that one among the first few species that got as good at language as we are, would eventually dominate the world

Oh jesus christ, sure, go ahead, keep doing just like you’re doing, I’m sure it will keep working out for you

And so, okay, instead of discussing like this, or rather arguing, I want us to take a step back and ask, “what is it that we’re actually trying to achieve here?”

Is the goal to “win” the argument? Is the goal to look at a different perspective? This isn’t a debate club, there is nothing to gain here, except our personal knowledge or understanding of something

And so, on that note, you said how this is exactly how leftists shoot themselves in the foot with arguments like this, but like, who is trying to argue here? And for whom? As far as I can tell, you are the one trying to win some argument, I’m just trying to have a discussion about terms in a, presumably, left-leaning environment where we’re all already roughly on the same page. From an external point of view, what people see is you mostly going off on others

When you say I’m chastising you, that’s literally your imagination, it’s not what I’m trying to do at all. So please don’t put words in my mouth, okay?

The point others were trying to make, is that it’s useful to talk about the working vs the owning class. And I further tried to get across that it’s useful to have this sort of knowledge, and that using terms loosely isn’t helpful for one’s understanding of a topic. This is something that I speak from personal experience. It’s basically just an argument for political literacy

But if I didn’t get that across properly, then I apologize. I could have spent a bit more time explaining myself

Fine, let’s play your game

A mayor from almost 100 years ago is irrelevant to this discussion. I don’t know about you, but I was talking about contemporary times here

Is this really how you wanna discuss?

I ignored it because I’m not American and I had no idea what you were referencing, sorry. I got my own qualms with American terminologies but that’s a different discussion

But that’s the issue, I disagree that “we manage to get the point across”. A lot of the times we simply don’t

Do you think Nazi Germany was ‘Socialist’ because of National Socialism

And you bring up a great point here, about why it matters to have proper understanding of terms. Otherwise you’d be likely to lump in Nazism in with socialist ideologies. And that has happened a lot. People have used this exact line of reasoning to demonize socialism

This website might not be a college essay, but it is a forum, where ideally you go to to see different perspectives and learn something about something. So I think this discussion perfectly fits here, why should you limit gaining knowledge to an essay or legal writ? There’s no rush to get your point across

As for the rest, no you do not need to know the specific differences between AC or DC… but you better know there is a difference, lest you’ll blow a device up if you try to do anything non-standard (like, say, plugging a computer up to a backup power supply. You need to make sure it’s an UPS that outputs a proper sine wave, lest things will go wrong with your PC’s PSU expecting one, but getting a DC input instead). And you might not need to know every single detail of you candidate… but I hope you do actually know what their positions are, yes

No, but a majority either supports it or doesn’t care enough to even vote against it. Trump won the popular vote

If you don’t use proper nomenclature or explain what is meant in detail you have no hope of truly being understood. People’s ignorance of what things actually mean is used as a weapon against further understanding, like the good old fashioned “socialism is when the government does stuff and is also evil and any hint of it will introduce satan” or whatever

Being hostile towards proper understanding of a subject is not going to help you actually comprehend it

Everything is political, that’s why you shouldn’t shy away from discussing it or ignore it. Or not pay attention to power structures or the inherent bias in the status quo