Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers

20cello@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  (While I get what you’re going for, I think it might possibly be not all that flattering to consider this an uncommon word…)

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  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it might be even less flattering to suggest they only know it because of sportsball lol

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t quite see how, but thats fine I suppose.

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      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Who said it reflects on you?

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  • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We call them bye weeks. Never heard the term in context of football.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Different but related concept! Moratorium weeks are institutional blocks of time (generally in college and depending on the schedule in highschool) where you’re not allowed to engage with your sport - no coaching, no practice, etc. Generally these are for things like finals/midterms.

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• ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  As a socialist I think it is a bad idea to use “advanced” words. Do we only want intellectuals, academics etc? Or should we appeal to the masses?

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You raise a good point.

    I’m not that smart myself — I just look up words I don’t know and then I… know them.

    But I suppose we aren’t all motivated by the same desires. Like I still suck at directions despite living here all my life

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not that smart myself — I just look up words I don’t know and then I… know them.

      That makes you smarter than most americans…

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      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Less lazy, maybe. “Smart” seems like a bit of a nebulous term to me. I remember seeing some utterly ingenious posts in the r/redneckengineering sub, and then there are intellectuals who can’t cook spaghetti.

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    • impairedimperator@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One thing I found out recently is that the reading standards for American schools almost explicitly discourage that. They literally teach kids to guess what the word means based on context, or just skip over that word and move on.

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      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That must be more recent because I most certainly was encouraged to look things up in school. But then I’m Gen X.

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  • 20cello@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ignorant masses is what capitalists want

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    • ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, which is why we should prioritize educating peoole about politics, not needlessly “complex” words.

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  basically all adults

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That‘s incredibly optimistic.

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