I don’t think it can ever be that thin. There’s too many constraints: needs to block other light, needs to be at a comfortable focal distance, needs power and a processor, not to mention the input and audio components…
Augmented reality glasses, yeah I can see that.
It’s just pointing out that your position isn’t consistent and seems to be related to how close the subject is to your own experience, while providing examples of the phenomenon of turning a derogatory generalization into a broadly understood concept that isn’t necessarily attached to its root. (Barbarian is a fun one since the word was making fun of the way foreigners talked. I don’t know of a direct contemporary comparison because people would rightfully point out that “chingchonger” is wildly offensive.) “Mansplaining” is a behavior specifically called out as a self-assured-man-assumes-ignorance-in-woman-and-condescendingly-explains-a-thing. It’s not just dudes talking, it’s not all men, and it doesn’t hurt men that the behavior is identified. Mansplaining is a particular tone and context, it’s hyper-specific language critical of one facet of patriarchal dominance and the assumed value of masculinity.
Alright well the key difference is that males are not a historically disadvantaged class and that makes a big difference.
Do you rail against “Karen” as an insult? What about philistine, Luddite, or barbarian? Do you fight this hard against “eat the rich” or ACAB?
The word is formed from an experience common enough that the word caught on overnight. We don’t need to get #notallmen about this.
(Also, “I’m struggling to think of examples”: thinks of several examples)
I’m sure that will be very comforting to all the people who still live in places where they can be executed for crimes like “sodomy” or “heresy”.
He didn’t even have to be a shit person to get rich! Just turned out to be one anyway.
And English is a very contextual language so something can be a slur in one use and not in another.
“Language changes and evolves over time, so we could also make a new word for this phenomenon.”
We did, you just don’t like it.
That’s some professional-grade entitlement.
The whole Anglosphere is pretty fucked thanks to Rupert Murdoch and easy cultural exchange. I’m not super up-to-date on European politics but I haven’t heard anything bad about Finland lately.
I’m the wrong guy to ask for that, sorry. Blue cheeses aren’t something I reach for.
This isn’t about what’s available in Europe (also, hyperbole makes a terrible argument. I can just point to something like Reykhólar) You’re specifically complaining about cheese availability in the United States and I think you’re way more invested in hating the country than actually trying to fix your problems.
There’s a lot more than one “American Cheddar”, it’s a big damn country with several distinct dairy regions. (Wisconsin, California, New York, and Vermont being significant but not exhaustive) And the cheese culture is just a fork of the various European colonizers/immigrants that brought cattle over, combining old techniques with new resources.
Cream cheese, Humboldt Fog, and Cougar Gold are some highlights of American-developed-and-produced cheeses.
If you can only find Cheddar and Colby Jack (which are real cheeses) then you’re doing a very bad job shopping for groceries.
One of the best reasons to keep cats indoors, but yeah I said “likely” because exceptions do exist.
I just don’t see something intrinsically immoral with killing an animal for food. Circle of life and all that. I don’t think anything should suffer unduly so factory farms are a real problem, and there’s an arbitrary line of intelligence/sociality that decides whether an animal is close enough to “personhood” that other principles are involved for me, but taking from nature with reverence and respect does not preclude hunting in my opinion.
You should be aware enough of traffic around you to know if slamming the brakes on presents a significant hazard. (And if you can’t react to an animal appearing in the road you’re likely driving too fast for the visibility and conditions)
Ooh, blanket “fuck communists”? We really are gearing up for another world war.
I was working night shift when COVID lockdowns started, fucking everything was closed when I needed food.
Brain damage is a consequence of of other sports as well, but the braindead hand-egg meme already betrays that you don’t actually want to think about it.