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  • “Shit” has always been a swear word. Would you let your toddler walk around saying “This is shit!” while pointing at random things in public? It’d be a funny online video, but I wouldn’t want to be the parent in the video. Just because you casually say to your friends, “I gotta take a shit.” Doesn’t mean it’s not a swear word in most cases. “Poop” isn’t even close. That’s a word we intentionally teach toddlers to say.

    I’m actually curious. Would you be 100% ok with your (hypothetical) toddler doing that? If so, then you really don’t see it as a swear word. I feel like the vast majority of people in the USA would say it’s a swear word.

    A swear word is just a “lowly” word with a bit more gravity than normal words. Consider how even “This is trash!” Doesn’t carry the same weight as “This is shit!”.

    You can insult things and people with any words… “naive, ignorant, uneducated, slow, ineffective, disabled”, etc. But if a person were actually any of those things, and you spoke those words with tact, they aren’t necessarily mean. “I’m sorry to say this, but disabled people do not have a good time on this ride.”

    Now replace “disabled” with “shit” and tell me that could ever be gentle in any context. 😂 That’s what makes it a swear word, that’s it. It’s a word that has no chance of being “nice” in any way.

    These are just my own thoughts, and I’m certainly no linguist.






  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubtoNiceMemes@sopuli.xyzi think, therefore i am
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    7 days ago

    literally the only thing he could be sure of was that he was doubting, not that he was thinking,

    He literally said, “I doubt, therefore I think”, and you say he was not thinking? I feel like maybe you’re not thinking.

    If you’re sure of one thing and the conclusion of that surety is believing another thing then you are sure of both things.




  • Thanks for the recommendation. However, the UI of this proprietary app does look nice.

    The first paragraph is kind of ironic considering this is closed source software.

    Lately, there’s been a growing unease around software, and not just among security folks. With governments and big organizations starting to rethink their reliance on foreign-controlled tech, a pretty uncomfortable truth is getting more attention. If a vendor controls updates, it can push whatever code it wants onto your machine, whenever it wants, with full privileges. Most people know this on some level, but it’s easier not to dwell on it.

    Software that listens to every internet connection on your PC has the potential to be pretty invasive if it’a malicious.