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That’s the beauty of the internet. There’s always a competitor. I don’t have to use someone who had a bad reputation at one point but is fine now. I can just use someone else.

Should be butterfly pasta! We’ve been robbed!

I adopted my cat because he was born angry. He wasn’t even fully weaned before he began attacking his own mother.

He loves his people as long as they don’t dare smell like a different cat. He just hates cats!

I really do love convenience!

We claimed it is erasure first, and now here’s our flag.

I worked for Walmart in the mid 2000s.

It’s not classist. That place is a hellhole. There’s a reason so many people who work there are on food stamps.

It’s classist to be mad at people who live in food deserts and can’t shop elsewhere. It’s classist to be fine with the system that puts people in jobs that don’t actually support them. It’s classist to look down on folks who get stuck in those jobs. It’s not classist for someone to be unhappy that they got stuck in such a job.

Fuck Walmart.

(I worked there and was a CSM before being able to move to a better job in 2010.)

“Indians” don’t merely exist as a cultural concept in spaghetti westerns, and even if they did, fantastic racism is still racism.

Buuuut for fun, I’ll engage with your pivot to definition, and I’ll just add this quote for context that appears in the link you provided. Juuuust below your listed definitions.

Dictionaries are often treated as the final arbiter in arguments over a word’s meaning, but they are not always well suited for settling disputes. The lexicographer’s role is to explain how words are (or have been) actually used, not how some may feel that they should be used, and they say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word, much less the significance it may have for individuals.

Isn’t that amazing? “They say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word.” Your authority explicitly states that they shouldn’t be used as an authority in this context! Remarkable…

And now, in addition, I’ll provide the rest of that passage, which is also the absolute end of me interacting with you in this manner.

When discussing concepts like racism, therefore, it is prudent to recognize that quoting from a dictionary is unlikely to either mollify or persuade the person with whom one is arguing.

Not only not meant to be used as an authority, but also unlikely to settle any dispute you might have about the word.

I’ll take their advice. You can reply however you like- my interest in this conversation has vanished. Hopefully someone more patient will come along.

Racism doesn’t have to have intent. Racism can’t exist in a vacuum- that’s true- but the only context it needs is the concept of race.

A fantastic example would be rolling up all the Native American tribe into one group. Or attributing anything, even conceptually, to that group.

You don’t have to be aware that this is incorrect for it to qualify as racism, and you don’t have to have an intent about making that attribution to be wrong in doing so.

This argument holds no water.

The idea that it’s exempt from accusations of racism because it’s unaware that it’s being racist just doesn’t track.

Jesus, that’s good.

My new goal is to use this in casual conversation sometime this year

I just got a job at a place that does batch interviews. You go through the process, then they tell you they want to do an interview. You get a text or email with slots available and you and every other applicant fights for one of 50 interview slots available.

It’s a competitive job so you have to click the link within 5 minutes or you don’t get a slot.

I missed the first one (slots were all full) but I got the second round. Came in with all the other applicants, did the interview, got hired.

It’s certainly degrading and dehumanizing to go through this process, but for companies who have tons of applicants, they can get away with it.

I’d like to throw out there that (penis size notwithstanding at all) getting good with hands, mouth, and toys is way, way better than just owning and using a penis. You wanna be fantastic in bed? Max multiple skill trees, not just the one.

Definitely half Bengal. My kitty’s daddy was a Bengal and yours has the same brown/orange around the white and the same round and not round spots among the stripes. If he has spots on his tum it’s a done deal.

They’re still SIC at this point but they get some interesting personality quirks, like enjoying pulling themselves up by the front paws on furniture and perching on their front legs on the edge of stuff.

She just likes weed.

This is my boy. He scratches all his posts, his scratchers, everything and is very good about it, but at a certain length he’ll do his usual routine where he’ll gently hook the edge of a blanket and lift it, and drop it to ask someone to tuck him in, and the blanket won’t drop.

He also might catch a claw on the sofa or something. Time to clip claws!

Dammit.

Back to contacts I guess.

I was thinking rabies.

A person who looks wrong.

But are you self-sealing?

You can’t get ye flask.

I needed to read this yesterday morning (I quit yesterday afternoon). Anyone reading this now, put it in your back pocket and remember it when your time comes. Don’t miss your opportunity!